A group of Ph.D. students from the Discovery Analytics Center headed with their faculty advisors to Long Beach, California, last week to present papers and posters at the 2017 Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS). One of the workshop papers was distinguished […]
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 […]
Large-Scale Structured Sparse Learning with Applications in Imaging Genomics Time: 1:00 – 2:oo pm Location: NVC Room 214 Abstract: Data science research is accelerating the translation of biological and biomedical data to advance the detection, diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of diseases, including the recently announced BRAIN (Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies) Initiative and Precision […]
Computer Science Seminar featuring Xiang Zhang Scalable, Robust and Integrative Algorithms for Analyzing Big Network Data Date: Tuesday, March 15, 2016 Time: 1:00 – 2:oo pm Location: NVC Room 100 Abstract: Networks (or graphs) provide a natural data model for numerous applications ranging from social, web, scienti c data to biological and medical data. e […]
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 […]
Collaborations in Big Data Our multi-disciplinary research teams apply their technical skills in data science to address modern societal problems. Sanghani Center faculty and students are skilled at computational formulation, model building, assessment of algorithms, implementation over modern computing platforms, and visualization of data and patterns. The Sanghani Center has fostered multi-stakeholder collaborations with fellow […]
This project has proposed theory, algorithms, and implementations for intelligent systems that convey their beliefs about the world by producing a small set of diverse plausible hypotheses or guesses about the state of the world (e.g. multiple segmentations for objects in an image, or human body key point locations). Before this project, intelligent systems either produced […]
The certificate in Urban Computing certificate trains students in the latest methods in analyzing massive datasets to study key issues concerning urban populations. This is a specialized certificate that accompanies either the Masters or Ph.D. you will complete in your field through other coursework. Program Details Learn to model cities, develop large-scale statistical models, and use […]
Transpose, a new Seattle startup that bills itself as a holistic information management platform, today announced a $1.5 million funding round. Transpose is the brainchild of Samah Gad, DAC (CS) PhD graduate and Hussein Ahmed also a CS PhD graduate. Formerly known as KustomNote, the nine-person company has developed software that helps customers create structure and […]
Devi Parikh, an assistant professor in the Bradley Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and DAC faculty member at Virginia Tech, has received an Allen Distinguished Investigator Award for close to $1 million from the Paul G. Allen Family Foundation to teach machines to use “common sense” in image analysis. Parikh uses cartoon scenes crafted from […]