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Manik Varmaمشاهده پروفایل

استاد مدعو

• Machine Learning
• Deep Learning
• Information Retrieval
• +۱۶ مورد دیگر

Manik Varma is a Distinguished Scientist and Vice President at Microsoft Research India, and an Adjunct Professor at the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi. He is a Fellow of the Indian Academies of Science (IASc, INSA, NASI), the Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE), and the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). He has received prestigious awards such as the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize and Microsoft Gold Star Award. Education : BSc in Physics from St. Stephen's College (David Raja Ram Prize) BA in Theoretical Physics from the University of Oxford (Rhodes Scholar) DPhil in Computer Vision and Machine Learning from the University of Oxford (University Scholar) Post-doctoral Fellow at the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute (MSRI), Berkeley Visiting Miller Professor at UC Berkeley His research focuses on Machine Learning (Extreme Classification, Resource-efficient ML, Supervised Learning), Information Retrieval (Computational Advertising, Dense Retrieval, Recommender Systems), and Computer Vision (Image Search, Object Recognition). Recent work includes graph-regularized encoders, label variance reduction, and multimodal classification frameworks. His publications span extreme classification algorithms like NGAME , SiameseXML , and DECAF , with applications in IoT, web search, and recommendation systems. He leads a research group at Microsoft Research India and advises PhD students at IIT Delhi. Scientific Awards : Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize (Government of India) Microsoft Gold Star and Achievement Awards WSDM 2019 Best Paper Prize BuildSys 2019 Best Paper Runner-up Fellow of ACM, IASc, INSA, NASI, INAE He has supervised numerous PhD students, including Sonu Mehta and Suchith Prabhu, and collaborates with institutions like Microsoft Research India, IIT Delhi, and UC Berkeley. His research has led to scalable solutions for billion-label classification and resource-constrained IoT applications.

• Graph Mining
• Graph Neural Networks
• Data Mining
• +۵ مورد دیگر

Danai Koutra is an Associate Professor in Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and an Amazon Scholar. Her research focuses on large-scale graph mining, graph neural networks, and interpretable machine learning methods for understanding complex networks. Key roles include leading the GEMS Lab and contributing to projects like DeltaCon (graph similarity) and VoG (graph summarization). She holds a PhD from Carnegie Mellon University and has authored over 80 publications in top venues like KDD, SDM, and NeurIPS. Educations: PhD in Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University (2015) MS in Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University (2015) Diploma in Electrical & Computer Engineering, National Technical University of Athens (2010) Research Interests: Her work spans graph mining, anomaly detection, knowledge graph completion, and applications in neuroscience, healthcare, and social networks. Recent projects include MAGNET (multi-agent graph networks) and GT2VEC (multimodal graph-text encoders). Grants & Awards: Recipient of the 2025 PECASE award, NSF CAREER Award (2019), and the 2016 ACM SIGKDD Dissertation Award. Active in organizing conferences like KDD and ECML/PKDD. Labs & Teams: Directs the GEMS Lab, collaborating on projects like FIDDLE (clinical data preprocessing) and SpecGreedy (dense subgraph detection). Engages in interdisciplinary efforts, including M-DICE (urban mobility analysis with Detroit).

Hamed Zamaniمشاهده پروفایل

دانشیار

• Information Retrieval
• Neural Models
• Conversational Search
• +۳ مورد دیگر

Hamed Zamani is an Associate Professor at the Manning College of Information and Computer Sciences (CICS) at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where he also serves as Associate Director of the Center for Intelligent Information Retrieval (CIIR). He joined UMass Amherst in 2020 after working as a researcher at Microsoft. His research focuses on designing and evaluating statistical and machine learning models for information access systems, including search engines, recommender systems, and question answering. Education: PhD in Computer Science, University of Massachusetts Amherst MS in Computer Engineering, University of Tehran BS in Computer Engineering, University of Tehran Zamani's current research explores neural information retrieval, conversational search, and retrieval-enhanced machine learning. He develops efficient neural models for core IR tasks and emerging areas like conversational information seeking. His work bridges information retrieval with large language models to enhance capabilities in understanding complex queries and generating relevant responses. His recent publications demonstrate a strong focus on retrieval-augmented generation, personalized information access, and efficient neural ranking models. There's a clear trend toward integrating large language models with information retrieval systems, optimizing multi-agent frameworks, and developing evaluation metrics for generative AI applications in search contexts. Scientific Awards: NSF CAREER Award ACM SIGIR Early Career Excellence in Research & Community Engagement Awards (2023) UMass CICS Outstanding Dissertation Award Paper awards at SIGIR (2022, 2023, 2024), CIKM (2020), ICTIR (2019) Microsoft Research Award (AI and New Future of Work program) Amazon Research Award (Optimization of Retrieval-Enhanced ML Models) Zamani actively advises PhD students and postdoctoral researchers, with his students receiving prestigious awards including NSF Graduate Research Fellowships and SIGIR Best Paper awards. He leads the CIIR Talk Series, hosting IR researchers to share recent findings. His Alexa Prize TaskBot Challenge team was selected for two consecutive years, advancing task-oriented dialogue systems. He directs research at the Center for Intelligent Information Retrieval (CIIR), where he oversees projects in neural retrieval models, conversational AI, and retrieval-augmented generation. The center serves as a hub for developing next-generation information access systems with industry and academic collaborators.

José F. Martínezمشاهده پروفایل

استاد

• Computer Architecture
• Microprocessor Design
• Multiprocessor and Multicore Architectures
• +۵ مورد دیگر

José F. Martínez holds the Lee Teng-hui Professorship of Engineering at Cornell University's College of Engineering, where he leads research in computer architecture and systems. His roles include Vice Chair of ACM SIGARCH, IEEE Fellow, and past leadership roles in ISCA, MICRO, and IEEE Computer Society journals. He has received prestigious awards such as the NSF CAREER Award, IBM/Qualcomm Faculty Awards, and multiple teaching accolades including Tau Beta Pi Professor of the Year (2011). Education: Licenciado en Informática de Sistemas (1996), Universidad Politécnica de Valencia M.S. (1999) and Ph.D. (2002) in Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign His research focuses on computer architecture , including microprocessors, multiprocessors, memory subsystems, embedded systems, and processing-in-memory (PIM) innovations. He co-leads the DARPA/SRC ACE Center for Evolvable Computing and NSF's CROPPS Center, and previously co-founded Cornell's Institute for Digital Agriculture (CIDA). His work bridges hardware-software co-design and sustainable computing. Key Contributions: Advancing energy-efficient multiprocessor architectures Developing PIM frameworks like PUMICE and Membrane Market-based resource allocation systems (e.g., XChange, ReBudget) His advising spans over 15 graduate students and has guided Merrill Presidential Scholars. Current research explores evolvable computing paradigms and AI hardware acceleration, reflecting his dual focus on foundational architecture and applied systems innovation.

• Table Representation Learning
• Generative Models for Tabular Data
• Semantic Data Type Detection
• +۴ مورد دیگر

Madelon Hulsebos is a Researcher at CWI in Amsterdam, where she leads the Table Representation Learning (TRL) Lab and contributes to the Database Architectures group. She is also a faculty member of the European Laboratory for Learning and Intelligent Systems (ELLIS) Amsterdam unit. Her career bridges academia and industry, including a postdoctoral fellowship at UC Berkeley and prior industry experience in automating data analysis pipelines with ML. Education : PhD in Computer Science (University of Amsterdam, 2023), with research at Sigma Computing and MIT; Postdoctoral Fellow (UC Berkeley, 2024). Her research focuses on establishing tabular data as a key AI modality through Table Representation Learning , generative models for relational data, and robust systems for data analysis. Key interests include: Relational Table Embeddings LLMs for QA/text2SQL and data wrangling Retrieval over Data Lakes and Databases Agentic Systems for Data Science Democratizing insights from structured data Recent work highlights trends in benchmarking table retrieval (TARGET), semantic column detection (AdaTyper, Sherlock), and large-scale tabular data curation (GitTables, SchemaPile). These projects address challenges in metadata utilization, data lake search, and end-to-end systems for structured data. She has secured significant funding, including the NWO AiNed Fellowship Grant ($1M) for her 5-year DataLibra project. Madelon organizes workshops at NeurIPS , SIGMOD , and ACL , and reviews for top venues like VLDB and NeurIPS. Scientific Awards : NWO AiNed Fellowship Grant ($1M) She actively mentors students and collaborates on European AI initiatives, including monthly TRL seminars and workshops. Her lab's tools (GitTables, TARGET) are widely adopted for training foundation models on tabular data.

Giorgio Grisettiمشاهده پروفایل

استاد

• Mobile Robotics
• SLAM
• Robot Localization
• +۳ مورد دیگر

Giorgio Grisetti is a Full Professor at Sapienza University of Rome within the Department of Systems and Computer Science, maintaining active research roles in the RoCoCo lab at Sapienza since November 2010 and the Autonomous Intelligent Systems Lab at Freiburg University where he previously served as a Post Doc under Wolfram Burgard starting in 2006. His educational background includes a M.Sc. in Computer Engineering from the University of Rome (2001) and a Ph.D. from Sapienza University of Rome's Intelligent Systems Lab (2006), supervised by Daniele Nardi. His doctoral thesis focused on SLAM using Rao-Blackwellized particle filters. Dr. Grisetti's research centers on mobile robotics with emphasis on robust solutions for autonomous navigation systems. His work spans theoretical and practical advancements in Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM), robot localization, path planning, and sensor fusion, particularly leveraging LiDAR and multi-sensor configurations. Recent publications demonstrate strong focus on optimization techniques, sensor calibration, and real-time performance for autonomous systems operating in complex environments. His publication trends reveal deep specialization in LiDAR-based SLAM (7 of 15 recent articles), bundle adjustment methods (4 articles), and sensor calibration/perception (3 articles), with consistent contributions to top robotics venues like IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters and ICRA. Key recognitions include: Nomination for the best IROS paper award (2010) Open Source achievement award from Willow Garage (2010) Best paper award at the International Conference and Exhibition on Unmanned Areal Vehicles (2010) Best Paper award at ICRA 2009 (2009) His research is conducted through the RoCoCo lab at Sapienza University of Rome and the Autonomous Intelligent Systems Lab at Freiburg University, focusing on developing foundational algorithms for mobile robot autonomy. Current projects emphasize robust perception systems, optimization frameworks for sensor fusion, and practical implementations for real-world navigation challenges.

Sherry Tongshuang Wuمشاهده پروفایل

استادیار

• Human-Computer Interaction
• Natural Language Processing
• Artificial Intelligence
• +۶ مورد دیگر

Sherry Tongshuang Wu is an Assistant Professor at Carnegie Mellon University's School of Computer Science, with primary appointments in the Human-Computer Interaction Institute (HCII) and secondary affiliation with the Language Technology Institute (LTI) . Trained at the University of Washington under Jeffrey Heer and Dan Weld, she bridges HCI and NLP to study human interactions with AI systems across diverse user groups. Her educational background includes a Ph.D. (2016-22) and M.S. (2016-18) in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of Washington, and a B.Eng. (2012-16) from Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. Industry experience includes research internships at Google Brain, Microsoft Research, and Apple. Wu's research focuses on three interconnected pillars: Real-world AI Evaluation (developing frameworks like SPHERE for systematic assessment), Task-specific AI Test & Distill (optimizing general-purpose models for specific use cases), and Human-AI Task Delegation (designing optimal collaboration between humans and AI). Her work emphasizes practical deployment, user-specific net gains, and error recovery mechanisms. Analysis of her 15 most recent publications reveals a strong trend toward evaluation frameworks (35%), human-AI collaboration systems (30%), and specialized model distillation (25%), with growing emphasis on educational applications (10%). Key methodological themes include checklist-based evaluation, perspective-aware retrieval, and structural analysis of AI outputs. Google Academic Research Award (2024) Amazon Research Awards (2024) AIED 2024 Best Paper Award ACL 2020 Best Paper Award Rising Stars in EECS Workshop (2020) Wu actively mentors 19 students across PhD, Master's, and undergraduate levels, with notable projects including synthetic data generation, LLM literacy tools, and retrieval system optimization. She leads significant grant-funded work through Amazon Research Awards and Google Academic Research Awards, focusing on deployable model generation and human-AI collaboration frameworks. Her lab develops practical tools like Promp2Model and SPHERE that bridge theoretical research with industry applications.

George Buchananمشاهده پروفایل

استاد

• Human-Computer Interaction
• Digital Libraries
• Information Retrieval
• +۵ مورد دیگر

Professor George Buchanan is a leading researcher in human-computer interaction and digital libraries at RMIT University . His work bridges information science, digital humanities, and health informatics, focusing on usability in sensitive contexts like healthcare and misinformation. Deputy Dean, Research at RMIT University Former Director, University of Melbourne iSchool Research Interests: Digital information interaction Health and aging informatics Disinformation analysis Mobile interface design Digital library systems Key Contributions: Developed mobile web usability benchmarks, spatial hypertext tools, and thermal feedback interfaces. Currently seeking PhD students for 2025 projects on digital browsing and view change dynamics. Awards: Over twenty best paper awards and Honorary Life Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. Advising: Accepting Masters/PhD supervision in information interaction and digital health domains.

Soosan Beheshtiمشاهده پروفایل

استاد

• Signal Processing
• Statistical Signal Processing
• Information Theory
• +۶ مورد دیگر

Soosan Beheshti is a Professor and Program Director in the Department of Electrical, Computer, and Biomedical Engineering at Toronto Metropolitan University. She holds a B.S. from Isfahan University of Technology and M.S./Ph.D. from MIT. Her research focuses on signal processing, statistical learning, and information theory, with applications in biomedical systems, data denoising, and system modeling. She has received awards such as the Dean's Teaching Award (2010) and the EECS Carlton E. Tucker Award (1998). Education: B.S., Electrical Engineering, Isfahan University of Technology (1996) M.S. & Ph.D., Electrical Engineering, MIT (2002) Research Interests: Statistical Signal Processing Information Theory Data Denoising & Compression System Modeling & Control Machine Learning Applications Awards: Dean's Teaching Award (2010) Gold Paper Award (PacRim 2009) Best Paper Award (Remote Sensing 2008) MIT Teaching Excellence Award (1998) Teaching: Courses include Signals and Systems, Control Systems, and Statistical Inference. She has supervised numerous graduate students and postdocs in her Signal and Information Processing (SIP) Lab. Labs/Teams: Director of the SIP Lab, conducting research in signal processing, information theory, and biomedical applications. Collaborates with industry partners like Myant Inc. and Huawei Technologies.

• Computer Vision
• Natural Language Processing
• 3D Human Motion Synthesis
• +۳ مورد دیگر

Gül Varol is a permanent researcher at École des Ponts ParisTech's IMAGINE group, an ELLIS Scholar, and Guest Scientist at Max Planck Institute. She holds a PhD from Inria Paris/ENS with awards from ELLIS and AFRIF. Her academic service includes Program Chair at ECCV'24 and Area Chair roles at major conferences. Current affiliations: IMAGINE group (École des Ponts ParisTech), Max Planck Institute Previous roles: Postdoctoral researcher at University of Oxford Her research focuses on vision-language applications, particularly in 3D human motion synthesis, sign language technology, and audio description generation. Key techniques include text-conditioned diffusion models, temporal context modeling, and synthetic data utilization. Scientific contributions recognized through: Google Research Scholar award (2023) ELLIS PhD Award (2020) AFRIF PhD thesis award (2020) Best application paper at ACCV'20 Recent publications demonstrate expertise in: Text-driven 3D motion editing (MotionFix, 2024) Cross-dataset generalization studies (TMR++, 2024) Temporal action composition frameworks (TEACH, 2022) Sign language dense annotation methods (BOBSL, 2022) Zero-shot audio description generation (AutoAD-Zero, 2024) She actively contributes to dataset development including BOBSL (British Sign Language corpus) and SURREACT synthetic action dataset, while pioneering new evaluation metrics for audio description quality and motion retrieval benchmarks.

Raymond J. Mooneyمشاهده پروفایل

استاد

• Artificial Intelligence
• Bioinformatics and Computational Biology
• Machine Learning
• +۱۴ مورد دیگر

Raymond J. Mooney is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Texas at Austin, where he has been a faculty member since 1987. He is the Director of the UT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory and affiliated with multiple research groups including the Machine Learning Research Group, UT Computational Linguistics Lab, and the UT Center for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics. He holds a B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where his thesis was supervised by Gerald DeJong. His research spans diverse areas in artificial intelligence, machine learning, and natural language processing: Natural Language Learning Connecting Language and Perception Statistical Relational Learning Information Extraction Transfer and Active Learning Abductive Reasoning Text Mining and Clustering Recommender Systems Knowledge-Base Refinement Recent publications highlight trends in grounded language processing, human-robot interaction, and multimodal reasoning. He has been recognized with prestigious fellowships including ACL (2014), ACM (2010), and AAAI (2005). Scientific awards: Fellow of the Association for Computational Linguistics (2014) Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (2010) Fellow of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence (2005) Classic Paper Award (2019) Best Paper Awards (2007, 2004, 1996) He teaches graduate courses like CS 371R: Information Retrieval and Web Search (Fall 2025) and CS 395T: Grounded Natural Language Processing (Spring 2025). His research labs include: UT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory Machine Learning Research Group UT Computational Linguistics Lab UT Center for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics

Hongwei Wangمشاهده پروفایل

پژوهشگر

• Natural Language Processing
• Interconnected Systems
• Large Language Models
• +۶ مورد دیگر

Dr. Hongwei Wang is a Senior Researcher at Tencent AI Lab Seattle , specializing in applied machine learning for Natural Language Processing and Interconnected Systems . His work bridges Knowledge Graphs , Recommender Systems , and Graph Neural Networks , with a focus on large language models and retrieval-augmented generation. Ph.D. (2018), B.E. (2014) in Computer Science from Shanghai Jiao Tong University Postdoctoral Researcher : Stanford University (2019-2021), University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (2021-2022) Dr. Wang’s research explores integrating Knowledge Graphs with Graph Neural Networks to enhance recommendation systems, language models, and information retrieval. His work spans Retrieval-Augmented Generation , Representation Learning , and GAN-based Graph Modeling , with recent papers on State-Space Exploration for LLM agents and Semantic Watermarking . His 15 most recent publications (2022-2024) focus on Retrieval Granularity , Interactive Memory , and Agent Systems , with keywords spanning Computer Science , Machine Learning , and Knowledge Graphs . Trends highlight advancements in Token-Level Semantic Matching , Schema-Guided Event Prediction , and Multi-Document Summarization . Scientific Awards: 2020 CCF Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award 2018 Google Ph.D. Fellowship Dr. Wang contributes to open-source projects like DKN and RippleNet , with 11 repositories on GitHub. He actively engages in Knowledge Graph Conferences (KDD, WWW, AAAI) and studies Chinese Classical Poetry and Film Arts .

• Graph Analytics
• Graph Mining
• Graph Algorithms
• +۳ مورد دیگر

Dr. Lijun Chang is an Associate Professor in the School of Computer Science at the University of Sydney. He holds an ARC Future Fellowship (2019–2022) and an ARC DECRA Fellowship (2015–2017). Previously, he was at the University of New South Wales. His research focuses on graph analytics, mining, algorithms, and network science. He teaches courses like INFO5011 (Competitive Programming), COMP5313 (Large Scale Networks), and COMP9120 (Database Management Systems), and coaches the USYD Programming Competition Teams. Education: B.Eng. in Computer Science & Technology from Renmin University of China; PhD from the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Research highlights include scalable graph processing systems (e.g., ScaleG), densest subgraph detection, and graph similarity search. He leads projects funded by ARC grants such as 'Advanced Search of Cohesive Subgraphs in Big Graphs' (2018) and 'Directionality-Aware Cohesive Subgraph Search' (2022). His work emphasizes efficient algorithms for large-scale networks and graph databases. Awards : ARC Future Fellow, ARC DECRA Fellow Students : Yu KONG, Rashmika MATHTHAKA GAMAGE, Mouyi XU Labs/Teams : Focuses on graph algorithms and systems research, contributing to open-source tools and large-scale network analysis.

Chenhao Maمشاهده پروفایل

استادیار

• Graph Computing
• Data Mining
• Database Systems
• +۳ مورد دیگر

Dr. Chenhao Ma is an Assistant Professor at the School of Data Science , The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen , where he works on large-scale data management and data mining. Previously, he was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Hong Kong (2021–2022) and earned his PhD in Computer Science from the University of Hong Kong (2021) and B.Eng. from Shandong University (2017). Current research focuses on graph computing (dense subgraph discovery, motif analysis, graph learning), AI+DB (Text-to-SQL, vector search), and traffic data mining (trajectory analysis, outlier detection). He has published over 40 papers in top venues including SIGMOD, PVLDB, KDD and received the ACM SIGMOD Research Highlight Award 2021 and Best of SIGMOD 2020 (4/458). Scientific Awards : ACM SIGMOD Research Highlight Award 2021 Best of SIGMOD 2020 (4/458) Presidential Young Fellow at CUHK-Shenzhen (2023) Hong Kong and China Gas Scholarship (2019-2020) Reaching Out Award (2019) HKU Postgraduate Scholarship (2017-2021) ACM-ICPC Gold Medal (2015) National Scholarship (2014, 2015) Advising and Research Team : He leads a team including Postdoc Dr. Yuanyuan Zeng, PhD students Lujie Ban, Yuwei Xu, and MPhil students Yi Yang, Yuyang Liang. Former mentees like Yichen Xu (PhD at Berkeley) and Jiayang Pang (Master at UC San Diego) have achieved academic placements. Professional Service : He has served as PC member/reviewer for VLDB, KDD, ICDE, WWW, NeurIPS, TKDE , and guest editor for Applied Sciences and Frontiers in Big Data . He chairs sessions at ICDE and VLDB.

• Information Access
• Information Retrieval
• Natural Language Processing
• +۳ مورد دیگر

Tetsuya Sakai is a Professor at the School of Fundamental Science and Engineering within Waseda University's Faculty of Science and Engineering. His work focuses on information access, retrieval, and natural language processing, with a particular emphasis on evaluation frameworks for search systems. Affiliations: Waseda University (Faculty of Science and Engineering, School of Fundamental Science and Engineering) Academic Rank: Professor Research Interests : Dr. Sakai's research spans four key areas: (1) Information Access —designing systems for direct and immediate information delivery, (2) Search Evaluation —developing metrics like Height-Biased Gain and hierarchical intent-based diversity measures, (3) Fairness in IR —pioneering frameworks for group fairness in conversational search, and (4) Statistical Reform —advocating Bayesian methods and robust experimental design. His work also addresses privacy inconsistencies in mobile apps and cognitive biases in LLMs. Scientific Awards : Notable recognitions include induction into the SIGIR Academy (2023) , ACM Distinguished Member (2018) , ACM Senior Member (2016) , and multiple DEIM/FIT/CSS Best Paper Awards . He has received teaching honors like the Waseda Presidential Teaching Award (2016) and WASEDA e-Teaching Award (2018) . Article Trends : Recent publications highlight: Advancements in LLM-assisted relevance assessments and hallucination diagnostics for tool-augmented models Conversational search fairness through multi-level evaluation frameworks and group diversity metrics Innovations in 3D medical reconstruction from clinical data and multimodal uncertainty modeling Statistical rigor via randomization tests , credible intervals , and topic set design Privacy analysis in mobile app descriptions and cognitive bias studies in search interaction