Sneha Mehta, a Ph.D. student in computer science at the Discovery Analytics Center, was in New York City this week to present “Simplify-then-Translate: Automatic Preprocessing for Black-Box Translation” in a talk and poster presentation at the main AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence. The paper represents her work on novel methods to improve machine translation for […]

Abdulaziz Alhamadani’s path to computer science is somewhat atypical. Having already earned a bachelor of arts degree in English language from Umm Al-Qura University and a master of arts in English literature from King AbdulAziz University, Alhamadani made a decision to combine his knowledge of linguistics with computer science. That resolve led him to the […]

Abdulaziz Alhamadani was a Ph.D. student in the Department of Computer Science.  His advisor was Chang-Tien Lu. Alhamadani’s  research interests mainly focus on developing efficient and applicable methods of training machine learning models for real-world applications such as pandemic prediction, drug overdose crises, and crisis management in various industries. His additional research areas include natural language processing, […]

Gopikrishna Rathinavel was a master’s degree student in the Department of Computer Science. He was advised by Naren Ramakrishnan.

                    Jinwoo Choi will be heading to Snowmass Village, Colorado, in March to present “Unsupervised and Semi-Supervised Domain Adaptation for Action Recognition from Drones” during the 2020 Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision. WACV is a premier meeting of the IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee […]

Virginia Tech’s Fall Commencement ceremony was held on Friday, Dec. 20. New summer/fall alumni include four Ph.D. students and one master’s student at the Discovery Analytics Center. “We are very proud of our graduates and the impactful research they have undertaken at DAC while pursuing their graduate degrees,” said Naren Ramakrishnan, the Thomas L. Phillips […]

              Urban computing plays a large part in Anika Tabassum’s research at the Discovery Analytics Center as she attempts to answer questions related to critical infrastructure systems: Which power grids/substations are most vulnerable and need immediate action to recover during a hurricane? Which regions are highly affected during a […]

Wei Wang graduated with a Ph.D. in computer science in 2017 and joined the Language and Information Technology (LIT) group at Microsoft Research, Redmond, Washington, as an applied scientist. Recently, he was promoted to senior applied scientist. Did transitioning from academia to industry hold any real surprises for you? For the most part, problems that […]

Sirui Yao studies the biases of recommender systems. “A recommender will often suggest different courses to male and female college students because based on historical data, there are differences in course preference between these two groups,” said Yao, a Ph.D. student in computer science at the Discovery Analytics Center.

Interested in data mining and machine learning, Taoran Ji, a Ph.D. student in computer science, said he was drawn to the Discovery Analytics Center because it plays an active role in these fields. “There are so many projects at the center that provide great opportunities to practice these techniques in real world applications,” Ji said. […]