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...

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.

Yi Mao was selected as a finalist for the Google Anita Borg scholarship and was awarded $1000.

Professor Alan Qi joined the faculty of the Department of Computer Science and the Department of Statistics in the fall of 2007. His research interests involve machine learning and computational biology.

Professor Jennifer Neville selected as a finalist for the prestigious Microsoft Research New Faculty Fellowship program.

Purdue Research Foundation award granted to support Yi Mao in her work on isotonic conditional random fields.

Professor Guy Lebanon invited to serve on the advisory board of Vyante Inc. an Indianapolis based start-up focusing on monitoring the contents of the web.

Joshua Dillon selected to attend meeting of Nobel Laureates in Lindau, Germany, July 1-6, 2007. He will be a member of a student delegation supported by funding from the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science (DOE-SC), the National Science Foundation Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences (NSF-MPS), and Oak Ridge Associated Universities (ORAU).