Sindhu Tipirneni is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Computer Science. Her advisor is Chandan Reddy. Her research focuses on extending attention-based transformer models to non-text domains like time-series, heterogenous graphs, programming language codes, etc.

Esther Robb was a master’s degree student in the Bradley Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering.  Her advisor was Jia-Bin Huang. Robb’s research interests are computer vision, neural architecture search, and facial recognition.

Chen Gao was a Ph.D student in the Bradley Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. His advisor was Jia-Bin Huang. His research area is computer vision.

Shih-Yang Su was a master’s student in the Bradley Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. His advisor was Jia-Bin Huang. Su’s research areas are machine perception, visual representation learning, and reinforcement learning.

Liuqing Li was a Ph.D. student in computer science. His advisor was Edward Fox. Li’s research interests are information retrieval, digital library, and Twitter analysis.

Deepika Ramasubramanian was a master’s student in the Department of Computer Science. Her advisor was Tanushree Mitra. Subramanian’s research interest predominantly lies in social media analytics. She is currently working with Reddit’s rules and moderation practices but intends to expand her focus to work with forced migration and how to aid refugee movement through computational methods and […]

Dhruv Sharma was a master’s student in the Department of Computer Science. His advisor was Chandan Reddy. His research interests are deep learning and medical imaging.

The Discovery Analytics Center is pleased to announce that five of their Ph.D. and four of their master’s degree students celebrated graduation from Virginia Tech last weekend at Commencement ceremonies in Blacksburg and in the National Capital Region. “It is always bittersweet to bid our students farewell, but we wish them all the best. We […]

Xinfeng Xu, a master’s student in the Discovery Analytics Center, received the Computer Science MS Research Award at the CS Awards Banquet last night. The award recognizes the best MS thesis in CS with consideration to novelty of idea; quality of resulting publications; effectiveness of writing; and contributions/impact to the field overall.

Why would a recommendation engine not suggest computer science classes to a female college student interested in that field of study? According to Bert Huang, assistant professor of computer science in the College of Engineering and a faculty member at the Discovery Analytics Center, there are a few reasons. The engine may have trained from data representing the existing […]