Professor Luo Si, assistant professor in Statistics (courtesy) and assistant professor of Computer Science, was granted the prestigious Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award by the National Science Foundation. The CAREER program recognizes and supports the early career development activities of teacher-scholars who most effectively integrate research and education within the context of the mission of their organization. Si received the award for a proposal titled "An Integrated and Utility-Centric Framework for Federated Text Search" which will research ways to search the web more efficiently. More...

Professor Jennifer Neville was declared an AI leader of the future in IEEE Intelligent Systems May/June 2008 issue. She is one of ten researchers highlighted in the IEEE 2008 AI's 10 to Watch list. More...

Professor Guy Lebanon was awarded the prestigious Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award by the National Science Foundation. The CAREER program recognizes and supports the early career-development activities of teacher-scholars who most effectively integrate research and education within the context of the mission of their organization. The five-year grant was awarded for his proposal titled Multiresolution Representations of Documents which aims at studying new sequential representations for documents and their applications in statistical document modeling and visualization.