Congrats to C.T-Lu and his students

embers copyCongrats to C.T-Lu and his students whose paper on finding the breadcrumbs of civil unrest on Twitter has been picked as a Jan 2014 highlight by the IEEE Special Technical Community (STC) on Social Networking! For more details visit here


Congratulations to DAC PhD (CS) graduate Feng Chen

22eb386Congratulations to DAC PhD (CS) graduate Feng Chen (advisor: CT Lu) who has accepted a faculty position at SUNY, Albany! Feng joins in Jan 2014.


Congrats to Dhruv Batra on Amazon Web Services in Education Grant

dhruv_batra_200Congrats to Dhruv Batra who has received an Amazon Web Services in Education grant for developing CloudCV, a cloud-based computer vision platform for processing big visual data. CloudCV provides APIs for MATLAB and Python as well as a web front-end, and will benefit both experts and non-experts who desire to analyze image data. For more go to CloudCv


Congratulations to Aditya Prakash on NSF Grant

badityap-portraitCongratulations to DAC faculty member Aditya Prakash for his new NSF award entitled: “Immunization in Influence and Virus Propagation on Large Networks”! Aditya is exploring the question: given a graph, like a social network or the blogosphere, in which an virus (or meme or rumor) has been spreading for some time, how to select the k best nodes for immunization/quarantining immediately? The work has several applications in public health and epidemiology, viral marketing and social media like Twitter.


Congratulations to DAC PhD alumnus Alex Endert

COC Faculty/Staff portraits at Klaus.

COC Faculty/Staff portraits at Klaus.

Close on the heels of DAC PhD alumnus Alex Endert winning the outstanding dissertation award in the CS department, he is designated the recipient of the first ever annual IEEE VGTC Best Doctoral Dissertation Award! Congrats Alex and advisor Chris! The award was presented at the IEEE VIS Conference in October 2013.


DAC PhD student Ji Wang and DAC alumnus Sheng Guo are Round One Winners of the Yelp Dataset Challenge

Yelp_Logo_No_Outline_ColorCongratulations to DAC PhD student Ji Wang (advisor: Chris North), and DAC alumnus Sheng Guo who, along with U. Toronto grad student Jian Zhao, Round One Winners of the Yelp Dataset Challenge! They are in good company: other winners are from CMU, Stanford, and Berkeley.


DAC student Huijuan Shao wins Best Student Paper Award in the Computational Sustainability Track at AAAI’13

huijuan-updatedCongratulations to DAC PhD student Huijuan Shao for her Best Student Paper Award in the Computational Sustainability Track at AAAI’13! She receives $750 from CRA/CCC.


Dhruv Batra received a Google Research Award for his work in natural language processing

dhruv_batra_200Dhruv Batra’s research, with Chris Dyer, Kevin Gimpel and Greg Shakhnarovich, won a Google Research Award. Congratulations Dhruv!