Hospitalizations account for more than 30 percent of the two trillion annual cost of healthcare in the United States. Experts estimate that as many as 20 percent of all hospital admissions occur within 30 days of a previous discharge. Such rehospitalizations are not only expensive but potentially harmful.  Most importantly, they are often preventable. Providing special care […]

Various advancements in data acquisition and storage technologies have allowed different disciplines to attain the ability to not only accumulate a wide variety of data but also to monitor observations over longer time periods. In many practical domains, the primary objective of monitoring these observations is to better understand and estimate the time point at which […]

Students at the Discovery Analytics Center have headed off to summer jobs and internships from coast to coast. Following is a good example of the kind of real world experience they are getting.

B. Aditya Prakash, an assistant professor of computer science in the College of Engineering, is being celebrated as one of 10 young stars in the field of artificial intelligence by IEEE Intelligent Systems. The technical magazine named Prakash, who is also a faculty member at the Discovery Analytics Center, to the prestigious AI’s 10 to Watch list for his contributions to understanding, reasoning, […]

Virginia Tech graduates celebrating their achievements this spring include two    Ph.D. students and three master’s students at the Discovery Analytics Center. Two Ph.D. students and one master’s student are planning to celebrate the completion of their degrees during the summer.

Lata Kodali looks at statistics as a great bridge between theory and application. “It is  also a field that is applicable in a broad spectrum,” she said,  “and right now I see myself working in an industry position with a focus on research and design that also encourages creativity.” Kodali has a bachelor’s degree from […]

Last fall, the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA) struck a partnership with Virginia Tech’s graduate program in urban computing for help in predicting its system’s on-time performance (OTP). The resulting study, by a team of students enrolled in Introduction to Urban Computing, a computer science course in the UrbComp certificate program administered by the Discovery Analytics Center, is one of […]

The desire to combine psychology with her knowledge and expertise in computer science in an interesting and challenging way drew Michelle Dowling toward her current research in human-computer interaction (HCI). This area of study allows her to focus on the cognitive (human) side of research rather than just on programming and computer science. While exploring […]