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Tal Malkinمشاهده پروفایل

استاد

• Cryptography
• Computer Security
• Complexity Theory
• +۸ مورد دیگر

Tal Malkin is a Professor of Computer Science at Columbia University, directing the Cryptography Lab and serving as inaugural chair of the Cybersecurity Center at Columbia's Data Science Institute. She holds a Ph.D. from MIT (2000), joined Columbia after AT&T Labs research experience, and focuses on cryptography, security, complexity theory with applications in secure computation, zero-knowledge proofs, and privacy-preserving systems . Education: B.S. in Math and Computer Science, Bar-Ilan University M.S. in Computer Science, Weizmann Institute of Science Ph.D. in Computer Science, MIT (2000) Research Interests: Malkin's work spans foundational and applied cryptography, including homomorphic encryption, lattice-based protocols, attribute-based encryption, and tamper-resilient systems . She explores intersections with machine learning and information theory , addressing challenges in multi-party computation , public-key encryption , and side-channel resistance . Scientific Contributions: Her publications include breakthroughs in non-malleable codes , secure computation , and privacy-preserving databases . Notable works involve continual leakage resilience , optimally-fair coin tossing , and garbled circuits for efficient cryptographic protocols. Awards & Grants: Recipient of the NSF CAREER award, IBM and Google faculty research awards, and the IACR Fellow designation. Her research is funded by NSF, NSA, DHS, NYSIA, IARPA, and industry partnerships with Google, IBM, Mitsubishi, and NEC. Professional Leadership: Former conference chairs at CRYPTO 2021 , CCS 2017 , and CT-RSA conferences. Active in program committees for over 20 leading cryptography and security events, including FOCS , Eurocrypt , and Real World Crypto . Advising: Supervised numerous Ph.D. students and postdoctoral researchers, including Marshall Ball , Chengyu Lin , and Negev Shekhel Nosatzki . Her lab has mentored graduates like Ghada Almashaqbeh (2019) and Fernando Krell (2016), focusing on decentralized networks , secure learning , and cryptographic primitives .

Byron Wallaceمشاهده پروفایل

دانشیار

• Natural Language Processing
• Machine Learning
• Artificial Intelligence
• +۵ مورد دیگر

Byron Wallace is the Sy and Laurie Sternberg Interdisciplinary Associate Professor at Northeastern University's Khoury College of Computer Sciences, where he also serves as Associate Dean for Research and Director of the BS in Data Science Program. His research focuses on Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning applications in healthcare. Education Details of formal education are not explicitly provided in the available text, though he holds a PhD from Tufts University (mentioned in thesis award context). Research Interests His work centers on developing NLP and ML models for health applications, with particular emphasis on: Biomedical evidence synthesis automation Electronic Health Record processing Model interpretability and trustworthiness Human-in-the-loop systems Learning with limited supervision Research Trends Recent publications demonstrate strong focus on large language model applications in healthcare, including factuality evaluation for medical summarization, evidence extraction from clinical trials, and interpretable risk prediction models. Notable contributions include work on GPT-3 applications in medical evidence synthesis and neural methods for EHR analysis. Scientific Awards ACL Outstanding Paper Award (2022) ICLR Spotlight (top 5% acceptance) (2024) Best Student-led Paper Award at AMIA 2021 NSF CAREER Award (2018-2023) Advising and Grants Currently advises 4 PhD students and has mentored numerous others. Major funding includes: NSF CAREER Award ($500K+) NIH R01 grant for EHR summarization NSF Medium grant for healthcare summarization Support from Army Research Office, Amazon, and Seton Hospital Labs and Teams Leads the Evidence Inference project team working on automated biomedical evidence synthesis. Collaborates with Brigham and Women's Hospital, Mass General Hospital, and Reboot Rx for clinical translation of research.

Ben Livnehمشاهده پروفایل

دانشیار

• Hydrology
• Climate Change Impact on Water Resources
• Land Surface Modeling
• +۷ مورد دیگر

Ben Livneh is an Associate Professor at the University of Colorado Boulder , affiliated with both the Civil, Environmental, and Architectural Engineering Department and the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES) . As Director of the Western Water Assessment , he bridges academic research with regional climate resilience initiatives. Ph.D. in Civil Engineering (Hydrology), University of Washington (2012) MESc in Civil Engineering, University of Western Ontario (2006) His research explores hydrologic responses to climate and land-cover changes , focusing on snowpack dynamics, wildfire impacts on water quality, sediment transport, and drought predictability. Key projects include simulations of montane snowpack for wolverine habitat preservation and post-fire landslide susceptibility analysis . Recent publications highlight continental-scale hydraulic geometry datasets , climate-energy nexus challenges , and global lake level reconstructions using satellite data. His work has been recognized by the AGU Hydrologic Sciences Early Career Award (2022) and NASA New Investigator Program (2018) . Scientific Awards AGU Hydrologic Sciences Early Career Award (2022) NASA New Investigator Award (2018) Symposium Scholar, DISCCRS VIII (2013) CIRES Visiting Fellowship (2012) Ben leads interdisciplinary collaborations with institutions like the University of Alaska Southeast and NOAA , addressing climate-water-energy-food nexus challenges through advanced modeling and remote sensing techniques.

• 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).

Veronika Eyringمشاهده پروفایل

استاد

• Climate science
• Climate modelling
• Machine learning for climate models
• +۷ مورد دیگر

Veronika Eyring serves as Head of the Earth System Model Evaluation and Analysis Department at the German Aerospace Center (DLR) Institute of Atmospheric Physics and Professor of Climate Modelling at the University of Bremen. She holds dual appointments at these leading institutions, directing cutting-edge research at the intersection of climate science and artificial intelligence. Education: 2008: Habilitation in Environmental Physics at the University of Bremen 1999: PhD in Physics from the University of Bremen 1994: Diploma in Physics from the University of Erlangen Professor Eyring's research program focuses on improving climate models and projections through innovative integration of machine learning techniques and spaceborne Earth observations. Her work spans process-oriented modeling, development of observationally-based performance metrics, and understanding systematic biases in climate models. She has pioneered approaches to weighting model projections based on their performance using machine learning, significantly advancing the field of climate model evaluation. Her research has critical applications across multiple sectors including aeronautics, space research, transportation, and energy systems. Analysis of her recent publications reveals a clear trajectory toward deeper integration of machine learning with traditional climate modeling approaches. Her work has increasingly focused on developing community tools like the Earth System Model Evaluation Tool (ESMValTool) and leading major international initiatives such as the USMILE project (Understanding and Modelling the Earth System with Machine Learning). The publications span climate science, machine learning, Earth system modeling, and remote sensing, with specific emphasis on climate model evaluation, parameterization techniques, and improved climate projections. Scientific Awards: AGU Ambassador Award (2024) TUM Distinguished Affiliated Professor (2024) Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize (2021) ERC Synergy Grant (2019) Thomson Reuters Highly Cited Researcher (2016-2021) Top female researchers award, Helmholtz-Society (2015) Professor Eyring actively supervises a large research group comprising PhD students working on ML-based sea ice parameterizations, causal model evaluation for air-sea interactions, and machine learning-based detection of droughts in climate projections. She leads the prestigious ERC Synergy Grant USMILE and secured significant funding through the DFG Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize. Her research group at DLR includes multiple postdocs, research scientists, and software engineers working collaboratively on climate informatics projects. Professor Eyring leads the Earth System Model Evaluation and Analysis Department at DLR, which encompasses research groups focused on CMIP model evaluation, ESMValTool development, and machine learning applications in climate science. She founded and supervises the 'Climate Informatics' Group at the DLR Institute for Data Science in Jena. Her department maintains strong international collaborations, particularly with the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in Boulder, Colorado, where she serves as an Affiliate Scientist.

Amir AghaKouchakمشاهده پروفایل

استاد

• Hydrology
• Climatology
• Remote Sensing of Environment
• +۵ مورد دیگر

Amir AghaKouchak is a Chancellor’s Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the Samueli School of Engineering, University of California, Irvine (UCI). He directs the Center for Hydrometeorology and Remote Sensing (CHRS) and focuses on interdisciplinary research at the intersection of hydrology, climatology, statistics, and remote sensing. B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Civil Engineering (Water Resources), K.N. Toosi University of Technology, Tehran, Iran (2001, 2005) Ph.D. in Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Stuttgart, Germany (2010) His research aims to leverage satellite data and ground observations to advance modeling of hydrologic extremes (droughts, floods, landslides) and develop decision-support systems for water resources management. Key areas include climate change impacts , stochastic modeling , and the water-energy nexus . Recent publications highlight his work on multi-hazard analysis, groundwater decline, wildfire resilience, and climate projections. Tools like MhAST and MvCAT demonstrate his methodological contributions to copula-based and multi-hazard modeling.

Padhraic Smythمشاهده پروفایل

استاد

• Machine Learning
• Artificial Intelligence
• Pattern Recognition
• +۳ مورد دیگر

Padhraic Smyth is a Distinguished Professor and Hasso Plattner Endowed Chair in Artificial Intelligence at the University of California, Irvine (UCI), holding joint appointments in the Department of Computer Science and Department of Statistics. He leads the DataLab research group, focusing on machine learning, AI, and their applications in climate science, healthcare, and education. His research spans probabilistic modeling, deep learning, and human-AI collaboration. Education: PhD in Electrical Engineering from the California Institute of Technology (1988), MSEE (1985), and BEng (1984). Prior to UCI, he worked at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (1988–1996). Research Interests: Machine learning, AI, pattern recognition, Bayesian methods, climate science applications, algorithmic fairness, and human-AI interaction. He has published over 200 papers and co-authored textbooks like Modeling the Internet and the Web . Awards: ACM Fellow, IEEE Fellow, AAAI Fellow, AAAS Fellow, and ACM SIGKDD Innovation Award recipient. He has held leadership roles in UCI's Center for Machine Learning and Data Science. Key Projects: Human-AI collaboration frameworks, robustness in deep learning, climate modeling using spatio-temporal data, and AI fairness with missing attributes. Collaborates with institutions like NASA and industry partners (e.g., Google, eBay). Labs/Teams: Director of UCI’s Data Science Initiative and HPI Research Center in Machine Learning. Supervises a vibrant PhD program with over 30 alumni in academia and industry.

Tim Jenkinsonمشاهده پروفایل

استاد

• Private Equity
• Initial Public Offerings (IPOs)
• Institutional Asset Management
• +۴ مورد دیگر

Tim Jenkinson is a Professor of Finance at the Saïd Business School, University of Oxford. He holds dual roles as a Professorial Fellow at Keble College and a Research Associate at the European Corporate Governance Institute. His expertise spans private equity, IPOs, and institutional asset management, with a focus on empirical research leveraging unique industry data. Education: B.A. in Economics from the University of Cambridge, Thouron Fellowship at the University of Pennsylvania, DPhil in Economics from the University of Oxford. Research Interests : Tim’s work examines private equity performance persistence, IPO pricing dynamics, and regulatory impacts on financial markets. His studies have been published in top journals like Journal of Financial Economics and Management Science . Key Contributions : Director of the Oxford Private Equity Institute, founder of the Private Equity Research Consortium, and frequent keynote speaker at global finance events. His research has won major awards, including the Harry Markowitz Prize (2016) and Commonfund Prize (2015). Engagement & Teaching : Teaches entrepreneurial finance to MBA/EMBA students and runs the Oxford Private Equity Programme. Recognized with the 2014 'Best Elective Teacher' award. Also serves on valuation committees for Schroder British Opportunities Trust and Oxford University Endowment Management. Professional Roles : Partner at Oxera (economic consultancy), former UK Treasury Select Committee advisor, and expert witness in high-profile litigation. His work bridges academia and practice, influencing policy and industry standards. Labs & Initiatives : Leads the Oxford Private Equity Institute and collaborates with the Oxford-Hyundai Motor Group Foresight Centre. Active in shaping future research through the Private Equity Research Consortium.

• Decision Analysis
• Operations
• Information Systems
• +۷ مورد دیگر

John C. Butler is a Clinical Associate Professor in the Finance Department at the McCombs School of Business, University of Texas at Austin. He holds leadership roles as Academic Director of the Kay Bailey Hutchison Energy Center, Director of the MS Finance Program, and Director of the Energy Management Minor. His academic journey includes a PhD in Management Science and Information Systems from UT Austin (1998) and a BBA from Texas A&M University (1991). His research focuses on applications of decision analysis across domains including operations, finance, and information systems. Key areas include risk analysis, optimization, multi-attribute utility theory, and energy finance. His work integrates theoretical modeling with empirical validation to address complex decision-making challenges in both public and private sectors. Butler's publications demonstrate a consistent focus on decision modeling methodologies, with recent work emphasizing risk quantification and utility theory applications. His articles frequently intersect operations research, behavioral economics, and systems optimization, reflecting interdisciplinary approaches to solving managerial and policy problems. Awards and Honors: MBA Applause Award (2008, 2011) Finalist, INFORMS Franz Edelman Award (2004) INFORMS Decision Analysis Society Practice Award (2000) Fred Moore Teaching Award Dean's Research Fellowship, Ohio State University (2004) Leadership & Advising: Butler has supervised 11 PhD students to completion and secured significant grants including DOE funding for nuclear terrorism risk analysis. He directs multiple energy finance initiatives and serves on editorial boards for Decision Analysis and previously Decision Support Systems . Centers & Programs: As Academic Director of the Kay Bailey Hutchison Energy Center, he leads interdisciplinary energy research. He also developed the Energy Finance concentration and redesigned the MS Finance curriculum to incorporate quantitative energy market analysis.

Naoki Yoshinagaمشاهده پروفایل

دانشیار

• Natural Language Processing
• Computational Linguistics
• Multilingual and Multimodal NLP
• +۴ مورد دیگر

Naoki Yoshinaga is a tenured Associate Professor at the Institute of Industrial Science, The University of Tokyo, with extensive experience in natural language processing and computational linguistics. He has held academic positions since 2008 and currently leads research on pragmatic NLP models and multilingual systems. PhD in Computer Science, The University of Tokyo (2005-2008) MSc in Information Science (2000-2002) BSc in Information Science (1996-2000) His research focuses on mechanistic interpretability in NLP models, multilingual/multimodal NLP , and efficient model design using trie structures and conjunctive features. He also investigates knowledge acquisition from social data and evaluation metrics for language generation . Recent publications include work on neuron empirical gradient analysis (ACL-25), multilingual knowledge representation (EACL-24), and compact embedding methods (CoNLL-24). His research has been funded by multiple grants, including the University of Tokyo Excellent Young Researcher program and JSPS fellowships. Committee Special Award, Association for NLP (2023) JSAI SIG Research Award (2022) Best Interactive Award, DEIM Forum (2019, 2016) He developed widely-adopted NLP tools like pecco (fast classification library), RenTAL (LTAG-to-HPSG grammar converter), and J.DepP (Japanese dependency parser). His lab emphasizes strong equivalence in formalism comparisons and pragmatic model design .

Brendan T. O'Connorمشاهده پروفایل

دانشیار

• Natural Language Processing
• Computational Social Science
• Statistical Text Analysis
• +۲ مورد دیگر

Brendan T. O'Connor is an Associate Professor at the College of Information and Computer Sciences, University of Massachusetts Amherst, where he directs the SLANG Lab and serves as Associate Director of the Computational Social Science Institute. His research bridges statistical machine learning and natural language processing with social science applications, particularly using text data from news and social media to understand societal patterns. His work focuses on developing text analysis methods to answer social science questions in domains like political science and sociolinguistics. Current collaborative projects include combating misinformation, analyzing bias in news coverage, and developing tools for clinical discourse assessment using large language models. O'Connor's publications demonstrate a consistent focus on computational social science, with recent work exploring multilingual analysis, legal discourse patterns, and sociolinguistic variation. His methodological contributions span coreference resolution, event extraction, and argument mining. At UMass, he contributes to multiple research centers including the Computational Social Science Institute, UMass NLP group, and Centers for Data Science and Intelligent Information Retrieval. He teaches graduate seminars in natural language processing and maintains active collaborations across disciplines.

Yuguo Chenمشاهده پروفایل

استاد

• Network Analysis
• Monte Carlo Methods
• Statistical Inference
• +۷ مورد دیگر

Yuguo Chen is a Professor in the Department of Statistics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), serving as Interim Department Chair and Director of the Illinois Statistics Office. He holds affiliations with the Department of Computer Science, Information Trust Institute, Coordinated Science Lab, and Illinois Informatics Institute. Chen earned his PhD in Statistics from Stanford University (2001) and a B.S. in Mathematics from the University of Science and Technology of China (1997). His research focuses on Monte Carlo methods, network data analysis, state space models, bioinformatics, and Bayesian inference. Key interests include scalable network estimation, community detection, and applications in public health, education, and computational biology. Recent work highlights include advancements in dynamic network modeling, Bayesian latent class models for cognitive diagnosis, and statistical methods for analyzing multi-layer networks. His contributions have been recognized through awards such as the American Statistical Association Fellowship (2018) and the Charles Edison Lectureship (2018). Editorial Roles: Associate Editor of Journal of the American Statistical Association , Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics , and Journal of Algebraic Statistics . Grants & Consulting: Directs the Illinois Statistics Office, providing interdisciplinary research support. Active in collaborative projects involving healthcare, education, and computational infrastructure. Labs & Teams: Leads initiatives at the Coordinated Science Lab and Information Trust Institute, integrating statistical methods with cybersecurity and data-driven decision-making.

• Visual Analytics
• Information Visualization
• Geographic Information Science
• +۷ مورد دیگر

Jo Wood is Professor of Visual Analytics in the Department of Computer Science at City, University of London, where she has been employed since January 14, 2000. Her work bridges computer science, geographic information science, and human-computer interaction, focusing on innovative methods for visualizing complex spatial and behavioral data. Her research interests center on visual analytics , information visualization , and geovisualization , with applications in transportation, public health, crisis response, and citizen science. She investigates how interactive visual interfaces can support exploratory data analysis, decision-making, and storytelling, particularly through small multiples, faceted views, and sketch-based rendering techniques. The trends in her recent publications reflect a consistent focus on user-centered design , spatial data abstraction , and interactive exploration of multivariate datasets. Her work often integrates real-world behavioral data such as GPS tracks, cycling patterns, and crowd-sourced information to build meaningful visual narratives and support analytical reasoning. Throughout her career, Jo Wood has contributed significantly to the advancement of visual analytics through high-impact publications in top-tier venues such as IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics and Computer Graphics Forum. Her collaborations with researchers like Jason Dykes and Aidan Slingsby highlight her role in a vibrant research community. She has supervised numerous research projects and mentored students in visualization and geospatial analytics, though specific names are not listed in the provided text. Her work has been supported by various research grants, particularly in domains involving urban mobility, energy modeling, and crisis informatics, though grant details are not specified here. Jo Wood has also contributed to the design of visual analytics systems for applications including disease spread modeling, bicycle-hire scheme monitoring, and persuasive technology for health and leisure, demonstrating a strong commitment to impactful, interdisciplinary research.

Afifi al-Akitiمشاهده پروفایل

مدرس

• Islamic Theology
• Islamic Philosophy
• History of Science in Islam
• +۳ مورد دیگر

Afifi al-Akiti serves as University Research Lecturer in Islamic Studies at the University of Oxford's Faculty of Theology and Worcester College, holding additionally the KFAS Fellowship in Islamic Studies at the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies. His academic profile centers on medieval Islamic intellectual traditions with institutional ties spanning Oxford's theological faculty, constituent college, and specialized research centers. His research investigates Islamic theology (kalam), philosophy (falsafa), and science through analysis of al-Ghazali's engagement with Greek philosophy—particularly Avicenna—and explores science-religion dynamics in Islamic civilization. Specialized interests include medieval Arabic manuscripts, Moroccan religious lithographs (Hajariyyat), Islamic astronomy (ilm al-falak), and Shafi'i jurisprudence. Current editorial projects focus on al-Ghazali's Madnun corpus and a 9th-century astronomical manuscript by Nastulus concerning Byzantine lunar-solar gearing mechanisms. Publication trends reveal consistent scholarly engagement with medieval Islamic philosophy's contemporary relevance, particularly through al-Ghazali's works addressing modernity, ethics of war, and prophethood concepts. His output bridges historical textual analysis with current debates in Islamic thought, demonstrating methodological rigor in manuscript studies while maintaining applied relevance to modern theological discourse. Key recognition includes: KFAS Fellowship in Islamic Studies Al-Akiti actively shapes academic discourse through convening the 'Islam and Science' seminar series (2009) and the Islamic Studies panel for the International Society for Religion, Literature and Culture conference (2010). His public engagement includes BBC documentaries on 'Science and Islam' and 'The Muslim Tommies' (2009), preparation of the 'Sciences and Arts in Early Islam' exhibition at Oxford's Museum of the History of Science (2010-11), and participation in the Oxford Scriptural Reasoning Group—demonstrating commitment to interdisciplinary knowledge translation beyond traditional academic boundaries.

Richard M. Sternمشاهده پروفایل

استاد

• Speech Recognition
• Audio Signal Processing
• Music Information Retrieval
• +۳ مورد دیگر

Richard M. Stern is a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), holding courtesy appointments in the Language Technologies Institute and Department of Computer Science, and serving as an Artist Lecturer in the School of Music since 2007. His interdisciplinary work bridges engineering and music technology through the School of Music's programs. Education: Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), 1976 Professor Stern's research spans sound, speech, hearing, and music, with core emphases on robust speech processing in variable acoustic environments, music information retrieval, automated accompaniment, and foundational contributions to binaural perception theory. His work integrates psychoacoustic principles with machine learning to address challenges in speech recognition and human-robot interaction. Recent publications (2022-2025) reveal intensified focus on deep learning for speech enhancement in reverberant/noisy conditions, human-robot interaction scenarios, and music tagging—highlighting innovations in beamforming, source separation, and temporal modulation modeling. Awards and Honors: Fellow of the IEEE Fellow of the Acoustical Society of America Fellow of the International Speech Communication Association (ISCA) ISCA Distinguished Lecturer Allen Newell Award for Research Excellence (1992) Lutron Award for Teaching Excellence (2018) Professor Stern has advised numerous graduate students in speech and audio research, though specific names are unlisted in source materials. His grant portfolio includes significant National Science Foundation and industry-funded projects in speech technology, with leadership roles in initiatives like Interspeech 2006. He actively collaborates with CMU's Language Technologies Institute and Music and Technology program. He maintains strong ties to CMU's interdisciplinary ecosystem through the Language Technologies Institute and School of Music's Music and Technology program, contributing to research that merges acoustic engineering with musical applications.