Great coverage of DAC Ph.D. student Yaser Keneshloo’s research in collaboration with the Washington Post on applying data science to predict the popularity of news articles.  Keneshloo and the Post are working on a popularity prediction experiment, they are doing clickstream analysis and producing a pipeline for processing tens of millions of daily clicks, for thousands of […]

Congratulations to Chandan Reddy, DAC faculty member and associate professor of Virginia Tech – Computer Science, whose paper in collaboration with Korea University, Boosted L-EnsNMF: Local Topic Discovery via Ensemble of Nonnegative Matrix Factorization, received the Best Student Paper Award at the IEEE Conference on Data Mining! Click here for a full list of awards.

DAC PhD student Saurav Ghosh’s work was published in Nature Scientific Reports. His research explores relationships between news coverage and modeling of infectious disease outbreaks The research is in collaboration with Boston Children’s Hospital and University of Washington, Seattle. Click here to read more about Ghosh’s research.

Walid Saad, assistant professor in electrical and computer engineering, and Naren Ramakrishnan, and professor of computer science and director of DAC, are leading a $324,000 U.S. Army Research Laboratory grant that is laying groundwork for the Internet of Battlefield Things. They are developing a planning framework that would present mathematical tools to understand how to […]

DAC has been recognized for its contributions in a project focused on workforce analytics for Governor Terry McAuliffe’s Open Data, Open Jobs portal.  DAC is playing a key role in the governor’s commitment to improving the labor market in Virginia. Open Data, Open Jobs is a real-time curation, analysis, and visualization of advertised job postings […]

Ed Fox, DAC faculty member and professor of computer science, takes part in Coordinated, Behaviorally-Aware Recovery for Transportation and Power Disruptions project which was just awarded a Critical Resilient Interdependent Infrastructure Systems and Processes (CRISP) Award from the National Science Foundation (NSF). The grant is to study behavioral adaptation during disruptive events affecting power and […]

DAC and director, Naren Ramakrishnan, are featured as this month’s Virginia Tech​ Inventors of the Month by the Office of Research and Innovation for work in Early Model Based Event Recognition using Surrogates (EMBERS) software project. EMBERS is a fully automated system for forecasting significant societal events, such as influenza-like illness case counts, rare disease […]

Jessica Zeitz Self, DAC Ph.D. alumna who was was advised by Dr. Chris North, professor of Virginia Tech – Computer Science and associate director of DAC, discusses her experiences at Virginia Tech that allowed her to help decrease the gender gap of women in the field of computer science. Self became a champion for diversity […]

Congratulations to Liang Zhao, a recent DAC Ph.D. graduate in computer science, who has been named one of the Top 20 New Starts in Data Mining, provided by Microsoft searching. Liang was advised by Chang-Tien Lu, associate director of DAC and professor of computer science. Microsoft searching mines the past six years of Knowledge Discovery […]

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