Vartan Kesiz Abnousi is a Ph.D. candidate in economics in the Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics. He is also completing master’s degrees in computer science and in data analysis and applied statistics. His advisor is Edward Fox. Abnousi’s current research focuses on the investigation of misleading online news in social media. He has also […]
Anika Tabassum was a Ph.D. student in the Department of Computer Science. Her advisor was B. Aditya Prakash. Tabassum was also a NSF Research Trainee in the UrbComp program. Her research interest is broadly on data mining, graph networks, and time series. Currently, Tabassum is focusing on critical infrastructure networks to simulate and identify vulnerabilities in the […]
Fanglan Chen is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Computer Science and her advisor is Chang-Tien Lu. She is also working on a simultaneous master’s degree in Urban and Regional Planning at Virginia Tech. Chen was an NSF research trainee in the UrbComp program and has earned the graduate certificate. Chen’s research interests include […]
Amit Naik was a master’s student in the Department of Computer Science. His advisor was Chris North. Naik’s interests lie in big data, data visualization, analysis and machine learning.
Shane Bookhultz is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Statistics. His advisor is Scotland Leman. Bookhultz’s research interests are in detecting polarizing and potential high impact areas form spatial-time topic modeling. Through social media data scraping, his research shows how many topics can be diffused at different speeds and intensity over time.
Gloria Kang and Huthaifa Ashqar recently earned doctorates from Virginia Tech in totally different fields, but they have something in common — cross-disciplinary training to solve today’s tough urban challenges. Kang and Ashqar are the first graduates of the National Science Foundation-sponsored urban computing certificate program. Both are planning to walk at the December commencement ceremony in Blacksburg. […]
Naren Ramakrishnan, professor of computer science in the College of Engineering at Virginia Tech and director of the Discovery Analytics Center, was reappointed as the Thomas L. Phillips Professor of Engineering by Virginia Tech President Tim Sands and Interim Executive Vice President and Provost Cyril Clarke. Click here to read more about Naren’s reappointment.
Anuj Karpatne is an associate professor in the Department of Computer Science at Virginia Tech and core faculty at the Sanghani Center. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota with Vipin Kumar in September 2017. Following graduation, he was a postdoc with Kumar until joining Virginia Tech in August 2018. His research explores […]
Sneha Mehta was a Ph.D. student in the Department of Computer Science and her advisor was Naren Ramakrishnan. Mehta’s research interests are data mining and deep learning, especially for natural language processing applications. Specifically, Mehta is interested in learning representations for natural language understanding and multi-task learning for generalizable natural language processing (NLP).
Subhodip Biswas was a Ph. D. student in the Department of Computer Science. He was advised by Naren Ramakrishnan. His research interests are spatial data mining, geographic information systems, education, and crowdsourcing. Biswas was an NSF research trainee in the UrbComp program and earned the graduate certificate. Biswas worked on a crowdsourcing and analytics system, Redistrict, […]