Search Results for "Nathan Self"

Generative Modeling of Human Behavior and Social Interactions Using Abductive Analysis

Yihui Ren , Vanessa Cedeno-Mieles , Zhihao Hu, Xinwei Deng, Abhijin Adiga, Christopher L. Barrett, Saliya Ekanayake, Brian J. Goode, Gizem Korkmaz, Chris J. Kuhlman, Dustin Machi, Madhav V. Marathe, Naren Ramakrishnan, S. S. Ravi, Parang Saraf, Nathan Self, Noshir Contractor, Joshua M. Epstein, Michael W. Macy: Generative Modeling of Human Behavior and Social Interactions Using […]

Multi-Task Learning for Transit Service Disruption Detection

Taoran Ji, Kaiqun Fu, Nathan Self, Chang-Tien Lu, Naren Ramakrishnan: Multi-Task Learning for Transit Service Disruption Detection. ASONAM 2018: 634-641

Pipelines and their Compositions for Modeling and Analysis of controlled Online Networked Social Science Experiments

Vanessa Cedeno-Mieles , Yihui Ren , Saliya Ekanayake, Brian J. Goode, Chris J. Kuhlman, Dustin Machi, Madhav V. Marathe, Henning S. Mortveit , Zhihao Hu, Xinwei Deng, Naren Ramakrishnan, Parang Saraf, Nathan Self, Noshir Contractor, Joshua M. Epstein, Michael W. Macy: Pipelines and their Compositions for Modeling and Analysis of controlled Online Networked SocialScience Experiments. WSC […]

Tracking Multiple Social Media for Stock Market Event Prediction

Fang Jin, Wei Wang, Prithwish Chakraborty, Nathan Self, Feng Chen, Naren Ramakrishnan: Tracking Multiple Social Media for Stock Market Event Prediction. ICDM 2017: 16-30

UrbComp program team receives Alumni Award for Outreach Excellence

A multidisciplinary faculty team has garnered the Virginia Tech 2021 Alumni Award for Outreach Excellence for developing and administering the Urban Computing (UrbComp) program that trains graduate students in the latest methods of analyzing massive datasets to study key issues facing urban populations while emphasizing ethical and societal issues for practicing responsible data science. The […]

Data scientists combat hate crimes and other violence

About the series: Every complex problem has many multidisciplinary angles. Leveraging expertise and energy, Virginia Tech faculty and students serve humanity by addressing the world’s most difficult problems. With risk of political and targeted violence on the rise across the United States, national and local leaders are asking Princeton University’s nonpartisan Bridging Divides Initiative (BDI) to provide them with more timely, […]

DAC Director Naren Ramakrishnan named Inventor of the Month

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 […]

Congratulations to Sanghani Center’s 2023 Spring Graduates

Virginia Tech’s 2023 Commencement ceremonies are underway culminating with the university commencement in Blacksburg on Friday, May 12, and commencement in the Washington D.C. area on Sunday, May 14. “Once again we have come to that bittersweet time when we say farewell to our graduating students at the Sanghani Center and wish them continued success as they […]

DAC and UrbComp students garner Deloitte Foundation Data Analytics Fellowship to fund their research

Jonathan Baker and Sirui Yao, Ph.D. students at the Discovery Analytics Center, and Leanna Ireland, a National Science Foundation research trainee in the Urban Computing (UrbComp) Certificate program administered through DAC, have each been awarded a Deloitte Foundation Data Analytics Fellowship in the amount of $10,000 to fund their research. Baker, also a National Science […]