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Edward Fox receives Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award

Posted on February 5, 2018 at 7:39 pm.

Edward Fox, Professor of Computer Science

Marquis Who’s Who, the world’s premier publisher of biographical profiles, has presented Edward Fox with the Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award, in recognition of outstanding contributions to his profession and the Marquis Who’s Who community.

In an announcement, the organization said, “An accomplished listee, Dr. Fox celebrates many years’ experience in his professional network, and has been noted for achievements, leadership qualities, and the credentials and successes he has accrued in his field. As in all Marquis Who’s Who biographical volumes, individuals profiled are selected on the basis of current reference value. Factors such as position, noteworthy accomplishments, visibility, and prominence in a field are all taken into account during the selection process.”

Congratulations to DAC graduates!

Posted on January 22, 2018 at 9:00 am.

Ed Fox (left) with Yinlin Chen (right).

Ian Crandell (left) with Scotland Leman (right).

Virginia Tech graduates celebrating their achievements this fall included seven Ph.D. students at the Discovery Analytics Center.

Edward Fox named 2017 ACM Fellow

Posted on January 19, 2018 at 8:53 pm.

Edward Fox, Professor in the Department of Computer Science and DAC faculty member, has been named a 2017 Association for Computing Machinery Fellow for his contributions to information retrieval and digital libraries. Click here to learn more about about his history of service at ACM.

NIPS Conference 2017 showcases work from DAC Ph.D. students

Posted on December 14, 2017 at 8:23 pm.

A group of Ph.D. students from the Discovery Analytics Center headed with their faculty advisors to Long Beach, California, last week to present papers and posters at the 2017 Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS). One of the workshop papers was distinguished with a Best Paper Award and two of the students received NIPS Travel Awards.

2017 marks the 31^st year for the international multi-track machine learning and computational neuroscience conference includes invited talks, demonstrations, symposia, and oral and poster presentations of refereed papers, and workshops.

The Discovery Analytics Center enhances strengths with four new faculty

Posted on December 4, 2017 at 4:38 pm.

Left to Right (top), Mark Embree, Tanushree Mitra; (bottom) Srijan Sengupta, Jia-Bin Huang

The Discovery Analytics Center welcomes four new faculty this fall who will help lead Virginia Tech’s big data research and education efforts on campus.

“Data analytics is inherently interdisciplinary and our new faculty bring expertise that will bolster our strengths in matrix computations, statistical methodology for network data, computer vision, and information credibility as we strive to find data solutions to modern problems,” said Naren Ramakrishnan, the Thomas L. Phillips Professor of Engineering in the Department of Computer Science and director of the Discovery Analytics Center.

DAC has strong presence at ICDM 2017

Posted on November 27, 2017 at 9:49 pm.

DAC Ph.D. student, Zhiqian Chen, presenting his paper at ICDM 2017.

The Discovery Analytics Center was strongly represented at the IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM) in New Orleans, Nov. 18-21, with a number of accepted research papers by DAC faculty and students and DAC faculty serving on committees and panels.

Brian Goode recognized with Innovation Award from the Fragile Families Challenge

Posted on November 20, 2017 at 3:48 pm.

Brian Goode focused on data-driven and process-driven approaches to create predictive models for six outcomes of 4,242 participants. He presented his work at the Fragile Families Challenge Scientific Workshop at Princeton University last week. Click here to read more about Brian’s award.

Elaheh Raisi and Bert Huang awarded ACM/IEEE Best Paper Award at Sydney conference

Posted on August 18, 2017 at 3:42 pm.

Elaheh Raisi, a computer science Ph.D. student in the Discovery Analytics Center and her advisor, Bert Huang, assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science, were recently honored with the Best Paper Award at the 2017 IEEE/Association for Computing Machinery International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining (ASONAM), in Sydney, Australia.

Center for American Progress report cites Discovery Analytics Center collaboration with commonwealth of Virginia as example of improving workforce data

Posted on August 15, 2017 at 5:56 pm.

People walk through the Oculus at the World Trade Center in New York, June 16, 2017.

A Center for American Progress report on using open data standards to enhance the quality and availability of online job postings has highlighted the Gov. Terry McAuliffe’s Commonwealth Consortium for Advanced Research and Statistics (CCARS) and its work with the Discovery Analytics Center at Virginia Tech to develop the Open Data, Open Jobs Initiative. The goal of the pilot was to capture and publish a real-time structured data feed of all online job postings in Virginia that would serve as a proof of concept.

DAC Ph.D. student Rupinder Paul Khandpur invited to speak at CyCon

Posted on June 8, 2017 at 6:03 pm.

Rupinder Paul Khandpur, a DAC Ph.D student in computer science, was invited to speak to a group of analysts at the 2017 International Conference on Cyber Conflict (CyCon). The conference, held in Tallinn, Estonia, focused on the fundamental aspects of cyber security with a theme of Defending the Core.