About The Sanghani Center 25 Academic Faculty 5 Research Faculty 3 Staff Members 150 Students 4 Locations 11 Active Grants $14.9 M Grants in Force  37 Sponsors Awards National Science Foundation (NSF) Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award: Naren Ramakrishnan, Dhruv Batra, Devi Parikh, and Aditya Prakash  Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Distinguished Scientist: Chang-Tien Lu […]

DAC associate director, Chris North, along with other Virginia Tech researchers led by Joseph Gabbard, associate professor in the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, received a grant from Microsoft for the amount of $100,000.  The grant will be used to explore the potential uses of its HoloLens devices for advancing research in the area […]

The Washington Post director for Big Data and Personalization, Sam Han, discussed the Post’s collaboration with DAC at the Predictive Analytics Innovation Summit in San Diego this past weekend.  Yaser Keneshloo, DAC Ph.D. student, has been working with the Post on improving user experience by predicting the popularity of a news article.  His work allows editors to […]

Tao Yu, a Ph.D. student in the Department of Computer Science, works at the Spatial Data Management Lab.  His advisor is Chang-Tien Lu. Yu’s research interests include machine learning, data mining, and computational epidemiology.  His current focus is on mining public health related information from social media like Twitter. 

Bijaya Adhikari was a Ph.D. student in the Department of Computer Science. His advisor was B. Aditya Prakash. Adhikari’s core research focuses on graph mining and topics relating to social network analysis, such as community detection, immunization, influence maximization, and information. His interests also lie in machine learning, theoretical computer science, and algorithms.