Hoda Eldardiry, associate professor in the Department of Computer Science and faculty at the Sanghani Center for Artificial Intelligence and Data Analytics, has received an Early Career Science Award from her alma mater, Purdue University. The award is granted to alumni who have graduated in the last 10 years or are under the age of […]

Xinyue Wang was an undergraduate research assistant involved in artificial intelligence and digital library research at the University of North Texas when he had occasion to connect with Edward Fox, professor in Virginia Tech’s Department of Computer Science and faculty at the Sanghani Center and Zhiwu Xie, a professor at University Libraries. The two are […]

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Ruoxi Jia joined Virginia Tech in 2020 as an assistant professor in the Bradley Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and is core faculty at the Sanghani Center.   She earned a bachelor of science degree from Peking University in 2013 and a Ph.D. in electrical engineering and computer sciences from the University of California Berkeley in 2018.    […]

The Sanghani Center for Artificial Intelligence and Data Analytics welcomes new faculty member Ismini Lourentzou, who joined the Virginia Tech Department of Computer Science as assistant professor in the Spring 2021 semester. Lourentzou most recently served as a research scientist at IBM Almaden Research Center where she worked on machine learning, natural language processing, and […]

The Association for Computing Machinery Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval (ACM SIGIR) has announced that Edward Fox, professor in the Virginia Tech Department of Computer Science and faculty at the Sanghani Center for Artificial Intelligence and Data Analytics, is one of 25 inductees from across the globe in its inaugural SIGIR Academy.  The inaugural academy inductees, drawn from academia, industry, and […]

Xiaolong Li was a Ph.D. student in the Bradley Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering.  He was advised by A. Lynn Abbott. His research is in the area of computer vision, with a focus on deep 3D representations learning for dynamic scene understanding.

Xiaolong Li is a Ph.D. student in computer engineering. His main interest is in computer vision, with a focus on deep 3D representations learning for dynamic scene understanding.  “Building robust smart algorithms will help machines understand the 3D world around us,” Li said.

Xinyue Wang was a Ph.D. student in the Department of Computer Science.  His advisor was Edward Fox. Wang’s research focuses on web archive processing and analysis infrastructure through distributed computation.

Ph.D. student Jesse Harden’s current research is focused on large, high-resolution displays and their use in and benefits for data science. “I am particularly interested in how we can better design software for large displays for data science. And in the future, I hope to look into how machine learning can be used to improve […]