Arjun Choudhry was a master’s student in the Department of Computer Science. His advisor was Naren Ramakrishnan. His primary research interests are in the field of Natural Language Processing (NLP) with a focus on extracting useful information, patterns, and causal relationships hidden in text snippets as well as generating dynamic smart narratives from graphs that incorporate […]

School rezoning decisions often cause emotional stress for families and communities for a variety of reasons. Parents worry about continuity of programs and activities at a new school, the toll it might take on their children’s friendships, and modes of transportation. School officials, administrators, and staff want to ensure that all students have equitable access to […]

Payel Bandyopadhyay is trying to understand the role of 3D immersive environment (an artificial, interactive, computer-created scene or “world” within which a user can immerse themselves) for sensemaking in textual data. According to Bandyopadhyay, prior work at Virginia Tech by her advisor Chris North and others has shown the part that 2D space plays in […]

Lulwah AlKulaib was a Ph.D. student in the Department of Computer Science.  Her advisor was Chang-Tien Lu.   AlKulaib’s work focuses on social media analysis, machine learning, and Natural Language Processing (NLP). She has a special interest in Arabic.

While a master’s degree student in computer science at George Washington University, Lulwah AlKulaib would look for published papers in high impact factor journals and highly respected, top rated conferences matching her field of interest, machine learning. “This is where I first learned about the Discovery Analytics Center, the research being done there, and that […]

Protests are an increasingly common occurrence, but only a small percentage of them turn violent. In a collaborative study led by the Discovery Analytics Center with the University of California, San Diego, and George Mason University, a team of researchers set out to uncover triggers that foretell violence by crowds. Gathering data from thousands of […]

The spring semester has brought some good news for Tyler Chang, a Ph.D. student at the Discovery Analytics Center.  In June, he will begin a six-month appointment at Argonne National Lab in Washington, D.C., where he will continue to work on his dissertation while applying his work to a new set of problems relevant to […]

A three-member student-driven team that includes Arjun Choudhry, a student at the Discovery Analytics Center, has won first place in the design phase of the Virginia Tech Blockchain Challenge led by the Department of Computer Science and made possible in part through a generous gift from Block.one, a leader in providing high-performance blockchain solutions. The […]

Shuo Lei was a Ph.D. student in the Department of Computer Science and her advisor was Chang-Tien Lu.    Lei’s research focused on few-shot learning and robust model learning. 

A Ph.D. student in computer science, Shuo Lei is focusing her research on few-shot learning and robust model learning. She is advised by Chang-Tien Lu. “The aim of AI is to train machines to do some of the work that people were needed to do previously,” said Lei. “The training process requires a large amount […]