In her Ph.D. research, Ola Karajeh is investigating efficient solutions to process social media such as Twitter for monitoring public health. She is particularly interested in the brittleness of these systems, e.g., how non-informational tweets can lead to failure of public health monitoring systems. “Since many institutions report success from building supportive decision making systems […]

DeepOutbreak, a team of researchers from Virginia Tech, Georgia Tech, and the University of Iowa, has taken first place in the COVID-19 Symptom Data Challenge. The competition explores how Facebook symptom survey data can enable earlier detection and improved situational awareness of COVID-19 and flu outbreaks that can help both public health authorities and the general public […]

Virginia Tech’s growing impact in the greater Washington, D.C., metro area will receive a significant boost thanks to a multimillion-dollar gift from Octo founder and CEO Mehul Sanghani ’98 and his wife, Hema Sanghani ’99. The couple’s $10 million gift primarily supports the newly renamed Sanghani Center for Artificial Intelligence and Data Analytics, which will […]

Ziqian Song was a Ph.D. student in the Department of Computer Science.  She was advised by Edward Fox. Her research interests lie at the intersection of machine/deep learning and business Intelligence.

What was Jason Wang’s most important takeaway as a research intern at the Discovery Analytics Center last summer? Reflecting on his experience, Wang, a senior at Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology in Alexandria, Virginia, said that the two most valuable things he learned are first, while some of the approaches you try […]

Palakh Mignonne Jude was a master’s student in the Department of Computer Science. She was advised by Edward Fox.   Her research focus is improving the classification of Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETDs) that enable other researchers to better utilize this information. 

Among the graduates at Virginia Tech’s 2020 Fall commencement are five Ph.D.’s and six master’s students at the Discovery Analytics Center. “This year has certainly been a challenging one but our students have persevered. Remotely, they completed required courses and successfully finalized and defended their research,” said Naren Ramakrishnan, the Thomas L. Phillips Professor of Engineering and director […]

Maanav Mehrotra was a master’s degree student in the Department of Computer Science. His advisor was Edward Fox.   His research involves developing automated techniques to convert question answer pairs into their canonical/declarative form to aid in extracting insights from the given document and assist in summarization. 

Amr Aboelnaga was a master’s degree student in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. He was advised by Edward Fox.    His research is in classifying detected Ultrasonic vocalizations to help autotomize the classification process for other domains such as neuroscience.

Saurabh Chakravarty was a Ph.D. student in the Department of Computer Science.  He was advised by Edward Fox. Chakravarty’s focus is in the area of Text analytics that relates to comprehending the information contained in a text and processing/summarizing/classifying it for other downstream tasks or use cases.