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Christian Bizerمشاهده پروفایل

استاد

• Data Integration
• Entity Matching
• Schema Matching
• +۵ مورد دیگر

Professor Christian Bizer is a leading figure in web-based systems and data integration at the University of Mannheim , where he chairs Information Systems V: Web-based Systems . His research focuses on integrating data from multiple sources using large language models and LLM-based agents, with applications in product data extraction and DBpedia knowledge graph construction. He co-founded the DBpedia project and initiated the WebDataCommons initiative. Current research areas: Entity matching, schema matching, table annotation, information extraction, data discovery Key projects: WebMall benchmark, WInte.r integration framework, Schema.org analysis His work applies to e-commerce data integration and knowledge graph construction, with empirical studies on schema.org adoption. He supervises PhD students including Alexander Brinkmann and Ralph Peeters. Scientific Awards: Best Paper at iiWAS 2024 SWSA Ten-Year Award at ISWC 2019 Yahoo FREP Award 2015 Semantic Web Challenge winners Teaching includes courses on web data integration, web mining, large language models, and data mining for master's programs. He leads the DWS PhD colloquium and team projects on LLM agents for data integration.

Sanjay Purushothamمشاهده پروفایل

استادیار

• Machine Learning
• Data Mining
• Optimization Theory
• +۵ مورد دیگر

Sanjay Purushotham is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Information Systems at the University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC), with a PhD in Electrical Engineering from the University of Southern California (USC) and a postdoctoral background in Computer Science at USC's Integrated Media Systems Center (IMSC). His research focuses on machine learning, data mining, and their applications in biomedical informatics, social network analysis, and multimedia data mining. Key contributions include survival analysis models using pseudo values and federated learning frameworks for healthcare data. He has received awards including the Best Paper Award at SIGSPATIAL 2014 and a Best Poster Runnerup at SCMLS 2016. Education: PhD in Electrical Engineering (USC), Postdoc in Computer Science (USC) His work spans interdisciplinary areas such as domain adaptation for remote sensing, thermal face translation, and interpretable neural networks for medical applications. Recent projects include federated survival analysis models and climate-informatics frameworks for cloud property retrieval. He teaches courses in artificial intelligence, healthcare informatics, and statistical learning at UMBC. Research highlights include developing MedFuseNet for multimodal medical question answering and VDAM for multi-sensor cloud data analysis. His work on fair survival analysis models addresses algorithmic bias in healthcare predictions. Current grants include a NSF CAREER award for trustworthy federated learning in computational healthcare.

Raquel Fernándezمشاهده پروفایل

استاد

• Computational Linguistics
• Dialogue Systems
• Cognitive Science
• +۳ مورد دیگر

Raquel Fernández is Full Professor of Computational Linguistics and Dialogue Systems at the University of Amsterdam, where she leads the Dialogue Modelling Group at the Institute for Logic, Language & Computation (ILLC). As Vice-Director for Research at ILLC and a Fellow of the ELLIS Society, she bridges computational linguistics, cognitive science, and artificial intelligence through her research on language use in multimodal and conversational contexts. PhD in Computational Linguistics from King's College London Prior research positions at University of Potsdam and Stanford University's CSLI Her work explores how cognitive constraints, social interaction, and perception shape language use, with a focus on: Visually-grounded language processing Multimodal dialogue modeling Model uncertainty and calibration Language grounding in multimodal data Language learning and semantic change Dialogue reference resolution Recent publications analyze multimodal reasoning limitations, cross-lingual knowledge consistency, and uncertainty modeling in dialogue systems. She has received multiple accolades including an ERC Consolidator Grant , NWO VENI/VIDI/Aspasia fellowships , and EMNLP/GenBench awards . Outstanding Paper Award (EMNLP 2023) Best Data Award (GenBench Workshop 2023) ELLIS Society Fellow ERC Consolidator Grant #819455 recipient NWO VENI/VIDI/Aspasia awardee As a leader in academic service, she serves on the SIGDAT Executive Committee and chairs multiple conference committees. Her lab develops models for multimodal dialogue, visual storytelling, and grounded language understanding.

Satoshi Tomiokaمشاهده پروفایل

استاد

• Semantics
• Pragmatics
• Prosody and Intonation
• +۷ مورد دیگر

Satoshi Tomioka is a Professor in the Department of Linguistics and Cognitive Science at the University of Delaware, affiliated with the College of Arts & Sciences. He holds a B.A. from International Christian University (Tokyo) and a Ph.D. from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. His expertise spans semantics, pragmatics, syntax, and prosody, with a focus on Japanese and comparative East Asian linguistics. Education: B.A. in Liberal Arts (1987), International Christian University; Ph.D. in Linguistics (1997), University of Massachusetts Amherst. Research interests include ellipsis, anaphora, wh-interrogatives, distributivity, and contrastiveness. He investigates how prosody interacts with syntax and semantics in Japanese, exploring topics like focus marking, intervention effects, and scalar implicatures. Recent work examines associative plurals and pragmatic disambiguation in embedded questions. Publications analyze theoretical and empirical questions in linguistic interfaces, such as Bare quotatives as embedded speech acts (2024) and Focus without pitch boost (2022). His work bridges formal semantics and experimental approaches, addressing challenges in cross-linguistic typology and cognitive aspects of language processing.

Shiyu Changمشاهده پروفایل

دانشیار

• Machine Learning
• Natural Language Processing
• Computer Vision
• +۴ مورد دیگر

Shiyu Chang is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of California, Santa Barbara , focusing on machine learning with applications in natural language processing and computer vision . He previously worked as a research scientist at the MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab alongside Prof. Regina Barzilay and Prof. Tommi Jaakkola, and earned both his B.S. and Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign , advised by Prof. Thomas S. Huang. Education : PhD, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign BS, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign His research centers on enhancing AI systems through human-AI interaction , aiming to improve interpretability , transferability , and adversarial robustness in LLMs. Recent work includes LLM watermarking defense , uncertainty decomposition , and self-denoised smoothing for model robustness. His publications span premier venues like ICML , NeurIPS , CVPR , and ACL , with recurring themes in diffusion models , LLM optimization , and ethical AI (e.g., hallucination detection, unlearning frameworks). He actively mentors students, several of whom are marked as advisees (☆) in his publications.

Claire Donnatمشاهده پروفایل

استادیار

• Statistics
• Machine Learning
• Graph Neural Networks (GNNs)
• +۷ مورد دیگر

Claire Donnat is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Statistics at the University of Chicago, specializing in statistical and machine learning methods for graph-structured and high-dimensional data. Her work bridges theoretical innovation with applications in biomedical research, environmental science, and public health. Education: B.S. and M.S. in Applied Mathematics from Ecole Polytechnique; Ph.D. in Statistics from Stanford University (2020). Her research focuses on three methodological directions: (1) statistical foundations for graph neural networks (GNNs), (2) structured estimation with graph constraints, and (3) multimodal data integration with uncertainty quantification. Key applications include thermotolerance in photosynthetic microbes, family network analysis for child welfare, and spatial transcriptomics. The 15 most recent publications highlight her work in GNNs, CCA, tensor modeling, and epidemic analysis, with keywords spanning statistics, machine learning, and network science. Her methodological contributions address challenges in sparsity, graph topology, and heterogeneous data fusion. Scientific Awards: Facebook Research Award (2021), C3.AI COVID Grand Challenge winner (2020), Lumiata hackathon winner (2020), Stanford Centennial Award (2019), and others. Claire's research group actively recruits postdocs and students for projects involving graph-based modeling, data integration, and biomedical applications. She also provides research consulting in statistical methodology and graph modeling for life sciences.

Maj Schian Nielsenمشاهده پروفایل

پژوهشگر

• Multilingualism
• Language Education
• Crosslinguistic Awareness
• +۳ مورد دیگر

Maj Schian Nielsen is a Senior Research Librarian at the University Library of the University of Agder. Her work focuses on multilingualism, crosslinguistic awareness, and German language pedagogy. She is affiliated with the research groups 'Media and Communication Studies' and 'Multilingualism in Society and Education (MUSE).' University of Agder Research Groups: Media and Communication Studies, MUSE Her research explores how multilingual awareness can enhance grammar instruction in German third-language (L3) teacher education programs across Denmark and Norway. Recent publications analyze curriculum structures, educational materials, and the integration of generative AI tools like ChatGPT in multilingual education contexts. Scientific output trends reveal a focus on: Cross-linguistic pedagogy L3 German acquisition Grammar teaching methodologies AI applications in language learning Teacher training for multilingual classrooms Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) frameworks She has not been publicly recognized with scientific awards listed in the available data.

Diana Inkpenمشاهده پروفایل

استاد

• Computational Linguistics
• Natural Language Processing
• Artificial Intelligence
• +۶ مورد دیگر

Professor Diana Inkpen is a faculty member at the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Ottawa. She holds a Ph.D. from the University of Toronto's Department of Computer Science and degrees from the Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania (M.Sc. and B.Eng.). Her research focuses on computational linguistics, natural language processing (NLP), and artificial intelligence, with specialties in natural language understanding/generation, lexical semantics, and semantic web agents. Education: Ph.D., Computer Science, University of Toronto M.Sc., Computer Science and Engineering, Technical University of Cluj-Napoca B.Eng., Computer Science and Engineering, Technical University of Cluj-Napoca Affiliations: Director, NLP Lab Editor-in-Chief, Computational Intelligence journal Associate Editor, Natural Language Engineering journal Her research has led to roles such as program co-chair for AI 2012 and leadership in organizing international workshops. She has received funding from NSERC, SSHRC, and OCE, and was honored with a Visiting Professor title at the University of Wolverhampton, UK. Her teaching spans courses like Information Retrieval, Natural Language Processing, and Prolog programming. Professor Inkpen's work bridges NLP innovations with societal challenges, including mental health surveillance via social media analysis and bias mitigation in AI systems. She actively contributes to interdisciplinary projects, such as detecting hate speech and legal text entailment, while maintaining a global research network through collaborations and international conference involvement.

Julian Jara-Ettingerمشاهده پروفایل

دانشیار

• Cognitive Development
• Social Cognition
• Computational Modeling
• +۵ مورد دیگر

Julian Jara-Ettinger is an Associate Professor of Psychology and Computer Science at Yale University. He holds a Ph.D. from MIT (2016). His research focuses on understanding the cognitive and computational mechanisms underlying human social behavior, including fairness, linguistic communication, gesture, moral reasoning, and pedagogy. He employs interdisciplinary methods such as computational modeling, eye-tracking, cross-cultural studies, and developmental research to bridge psychology and artificial intelligence. Key research areas include the development of social cognition in children, the integration of theory of mind with communication, and the application of cognitive science principles to build socially intelligent machines. His work emphasizes how humans infer others' knowledge, intentions, and desires, with implications for AI safety and ethical systems design. Publications span topics like epistemic inference, moral judgments, and the computational foundations of social interaction. His lab's research often intersects with evolutionary simulations, neural modeling, and cultural psychology. No scientific awards are explicitly mentioned in the provided text. Collaborations involve cross-disciplinary teams addressing challenges in developmental science, AI ethics, and cognitive robotics. His work has practical applications in educational strategies, social policy, and human-AI collaboration frameworks.

Surya Ganguliمشاهده پروفایل

دانشیار

• Theoretical Neuroscience
• Computational Neuroscience
• Machine Learning
• +۴ مورد دیگر

Surya Ganguli is an Associate Professor in the Department of Applied Physics at Stanford University, with courtesy appointments in Neurobiology and Electrical Engineering. He serves as Senior Fellow at the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI and is affiliated with the Stanford Neuroscience Institute , Bio-X , and Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute . His research spans theoretical neuroscience, machine learning, and statistical mechanics. Ph.D. , UC Berkeley, Theoretical Physics (2004) M.A. , UC Berkeley, Physics (2000) M.A. , UC Berkeley, Mathematics (2004) M.Eng. , MIT, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (1998) B.S. , MIT, Physics (1998) B.S. , MIT, Mathematics (1998) B.S. , MIT, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (1998) His lab explores how higher-level cognitive phenomena emerge from neural network dynamics, focusing on perception, memory, attention, and decision-making . Research themes include statistical mechanics of learning , neural representational geometry , and biologically plausible learning rules . Current work examines nonlinear interactions in neural networks through the Schmidt Science Polymath Award (2023). Key article trends reveal expertise in neural coding limits (2022 Nature), synaptic plasticity models (2022 Neural Computation), and deep learning theory (2022 NeurIPS publications). His 2019 Annual Review chapter on statistical mechanics of deep learning established foundational insights into network criticality. Scientific Awards : NSF Career Award (2019) Simons Foundation Investigator (2016) McKnight Scholar Award (2015) James S. McDonnell Foundation Scholar (2014) Sloan Research Fellow (2013) As advisor, he mentors 10+ doctoral students across Applied Physics, Neurosciences, and Computer Science, including Vamshi Balanaga and Mason Kamb. His lab collaborates with experimental teams at Stanford and beyond, supported by grants from NSF , Simons Foundation , and Swartz Foundation . The Neural Dynamics & Computation Lab unites physicists, mathematicians, and neuroscientists to decode cognition through interdisciplinary methods.

• Machine Learning
• Reinforcement Learning
• Robotics
• +۳ مورد دیگر

Georg Martius is a Full Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Tübingen's Faculty of Science and a Max Planck Research Group Leader at the MPI for Intelligent Systems. Since April 2023, he has been a core member of the DFG-funded Cluster of Excellence 'Machine Learning: New Perspectives for Science,' which received extended funding through 2032 for its mission to integrate machine learning into fundamental scientific discovery processes. His academic foundation includes a PhD from the University of Göttingen and Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience (2005), a Diploma in Computer Science from the University of Leipzig (2003), and a visiting research period at the University of Edinburgh's Division of Informatics. Postdoctoral positions followed at the Max Planck Institutes for Dynamics and Self-Organization (Göttingen, 2009), Mathematics in the Sciences (Leipzig, 2010), and IST Austria (2015). Professor Martius's research pioneers the intersection of reinforcement learning, robotics, and tactile sensing, with emphasis on developing autonomous systems capable of natural locomotion, dexterous manipulation, and physical-world understanding. His work bridges theoretical machine learning with practical hardware applications, particularly in creating differentiable simulators, superresolution tactile sensors, and biologically plausible learning frameworks for robotic control. Analysis of his 2024-2025 publications reveals dominant trends in offline reinforcement learning (especially goal-conditioned and diversity-maximization techniques), object-centric representation learning for video understanding, and tactile sensing innovations. A strong thread connects foundation models to world model construction, while his work on differentiable physics engines enables precise collision handling and contact dynamics for real-world robotic control. His leadership roles include directing the Distributed Intelligence research team at Tübingen and contributing to major collaborative initiatives like the Real Robot Challenge and Myochallenge 2022. The Cluster of Excellence appointment represents recognition of his contributions to transforming scientific methodology through machine learning, particularly in automating hypothesis generation and experimental design. Current projects focus on integrating large-scale machine learning with embodied intelligence, advancing tactile perception systems like the Minsight vision-based sensor, and developing neuroplasticity-inspired approaches for robust out-of-distribution detection. His work directly impacts fields requiring physical interaction intelligence, from autonomous navigation to medical robotics, with emphasis on sample-efficient learning from limited real-world data.

Amin Hammadمشاهده پروفایل

استاد

• BIM and Digital Twins
• Construction Automation & Robotics
• Sustainable Infrastructure Management
• +۴ مورد دیگر

Amin Hammad is a Professor at the Concordia Institute for Information Systems Engineering, with an additional appointment as Affiliate Professor in Building, Civil, and Environmental Engineering at Concordia University. His research focuses on advancing construction technology through digital transformation, automation, and AI integration. He leads work in BIM applications, 4D simulation, robotic systems, and sustainable infrastructure management. His interdisciplinary approach bridges civil engineering with computer science and data analytics. Key research areas include: Automation and robotics in construction (Construction 4.0) BIM and digital twin lifecycle management AI-driven defect detection and inspection systems Occupational safety through exoskeleton performance evaluation Multi-purpose utility tunnel optimization Energy-efficient building systems Recent work emphasizes applying machine learning to construction equipment activity recognition, UAV path optimization for infrastructure inspection, and ontology development for integrated systems. His research addresses industry challenges in productivity, safety, and sustainability through data-driven solutions.

Ruth Fongمشاهده پروفایل

استاد آموزشی

• Computer Vision
• Machine Learning
• Explainable AI
• +۳ مورد دیگر

Ruth Fong is a Teaching Professor at the Department of Computer Science, Princeton University , where she teaches foundational and advanced AI/ML courses (COS324, COS126) while leading the Looking Glass Lab in explainable AI research. She collaborates closely with the Visual AI Lab and Professor Olga Russakovsky . Education: PhD in Visual Geometry Group, University of Oxford (advised by Andrea Vedaldi , funded by Rhodes Trust and Open Philanthropy ) MSc in Neuroscience, University of Oxford (with Rafal Bogacz , Ben Willmore , and Nicol Harper ) AB in Computer Science, Harvard University (with David Cox and Walter Scheirer ) Research Focus: Pioneering Explainable AI and ML Fairness , with emphasis on post-hoc model understanding, interpretable-by-design architectures, and human-AI interaction frameworks. Her work spans computer vision, self-supervised learning, and neuroscience-inspired methodologies. Publication Trends: Recent papers (2023-2025) analyze interactive explanations , concept salience , and gender artifacts in vision datasets . Earlier work (2017-2020) established foundational techniques in extremal perturbations , backpropagation saliency , and neural network interpretability . Scientific Awards: Princeton Engineering Council Teaching Award (2025) Keller Center Summer Course Development Grant (2025) CHI Honorable Mention Paper Award (2023) Open Philanthropy AI Fellowship (2018) Rhodes Scholarship (2015) Advising: Directly mentored 10 Princeton undergraduates on IW/senior theses projects spanning generative AI , medical imaging fairness , and interactive visualization tools . Grants include Princeton SEAS and Open Philanthropy funding for the Looking Glass Lab. Lab & Team: Leads the Looking Glass Lab with 6 graduate/postgraduate members including Rawand Aziz , Matthew Barrett , and Ben Wachspress . Collaborates with faculty across Princeton and Oxford.

Stephen Bachمشاهده پروفایل

استادیار

• Machine Learning
• Weak Supervision
• Probabilistic Soft Logic
• +۷ مورد دیگر

Stephen Bach is an Assistant Professor in the Computer Science Department at Brown University, where he leads the BATS (Bach's Awesome Team of Students) research group. His research focuses on improving how humans teach computers through programmatic weak supervision and methods for learning from fewer examples like zero-shot and few-shot learning. His primary research interests include weak supervision, data programming, probabilistic soft logic (PSL), statistical relational learning (SRL), information extraction, zero-shot learning, and few-shot learning. Bach's work often focuses on exploiting high-level, symbolic or semantically meaningful domain knowledge, with applications in information extraction, image understanding, scientific discovery, and data science. Bach's recent publications show a strong focus on language models, weak supervision techniques, and multimodal learning, particularly examining the capabilities and limitations of models like CLIP. His research has increasingly emphasized practical applications in low-resource settings and cross-lingual scenarios. Best Paper Award at NeurIPS Workshop on Socially Responsible Language Modelling Research (SoLaR) 2023 Larry S. Davis Doctoral Dissertation Award Selected for oral presentation at ICLR 2024 Best of VLDB 2018 paper selection Bach advises numerous Ph.D., Master's, and undergraduate students, many of whom have gone on to positions at leading tech companies, research institutions, and graduate programs. His research group has developed several influential frameworks including Snorkel (for weak supervision), PSL (Probabilistic Soft Logic), T0 (for zero-shot task generalization), ZSL-KG (for zero-shot learning with knowledge graphs), TAGLETS (for semi-supervised learning with auxiliary data), and WISER (for programmatic weak supervision in sequence tagging).

Jia Zhangمشاهده پروفایل

استاد

• Machine Learning
• Natural Language Processing
• Information Retrieval
• +۱۰ مورد دیگر

Dr. Jia Zhang is the Inaugural Robert H. Dedman Jr. Endowed Department Chair and Professor of Computer Science at Southern Methodist University (SMU Lyle School of Engineering). She holds the Cruse C. and Marjorie F. Calahan Centennial Chair in Engineering and has a courtesy appointment in the Department of Operations Research and Engineering Management. Her research focuses on applying machine learning, natural language processing, and information retrieval to data science infrastructure, particularly scientific workflows, provenance mining, software discovery, knowledge graphs, cloud computing, immune AI, and applications in earth science and healthcare. Education: Ph.D. in Computer Science, University of Illinois at Chicago M.S. in Computer Science, Nanjing University B.S. in Computer Science, Nanjing University Dr. Zhang's work emphasizes data science infrastructure and machine learning for scientific workflows and knowledge graphs. Her recent publications highlight deep learning , graph neural networks , and optimization algorithms in cloud computing, cybersecurity, and environmental applications. Key trends include spatiotemporal modeling , hybrid neural architectures , and AI-driven service ecosystems . Scientific Awards: Best Paper Awards IEEE SCC (2011, 2017) Best Student Paper Awards IEEE ICWS (2014, 2018), IEEE ICCC (2018) Distinguished Paper Award ICSOC (2023) First Outstanding Service Award IEEE Technical Committee on Services Computing (2016) She has secured over $5 million in federal grants (as PI) and $11 million as PI/Co-PI from NSF, NASA, NIH, UTSW, Ericsson, SAP, and Google. Her lab (Caruth Hall 308) actively recruits research assistants. She previously served as a faculty member at Carnegie Mellon University, Northern Illinois University, and Nanjing University, and worked in industry as a software architect.