The Computing Innovation Fellows Project

Mentors interested in:
Databases / Information Retrieval / Data Mining

• Ricardo Vilalta at University of Houston (Houston, TX)
  Keywords: machine learning, data mining, pattern recognition. 8July
• Manuel Rodriguez-Martinez at University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez (Mayaguez, PR)
  Keywords: Database Systems, Query Processing, Middleware, Query Optimization, Cloud Computing 3July
• Sergey Melnik at Google (Kirkland, WA)
  Keywords: Large-scale data management, distributed systems, information integration 10June
• Sharad Singhal at Hewlett-Packard Laboratories (Palo Alto, CA)
  Keywords: Web Services, Cloud Computing, Service Composition, Service Orchestration, Business Processes 10June
• Sharad Singhal at HP Labs (Palo Alto, CA)
  Keywords: Web Services, Cloud Computing, Service Composition, Service Orchestration, Business Processes 9June
• Atul Adya at Google Seattle (Seattle, Washington)
  Keywords: distributed systems, databases, transactions, consistency, caching, file systems 9June
• Nilufer Onder at Department of Computer Science, Michigan Technological University (Houghton, MI)
  Keywords: Artificial intelligence, planning, decision making under uncertainty, temporal and parallel planning, project management 9June
• Jeffrey Taekman at Duke University Human Simulation and Patient Safety Center (Durham, NC)
  Keywords: Clinical Research, Educational Technology, Human Factors, Informatics, Computer-Assisted Instruction, Education- Medical, Interactive 3-D environments, Mobile Computing, Internet, Patient Safety, Research Design, Peer Review, Serious Games,Simulation 9June
• Bangalore Manjunath at University of California, Santa Barbara (Santa Barbara, CA)
  Keywords: image analysis, vision, camera networks, data hiding and steganography, multimedia data mining, bioimage informatics, video activity analysis 9June
• Aniket Kittur at Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh, PA)
  Keywords: social computing, HCI, peer production, social collaboration, sensemaking, insight, wiki, Wikipedia, distributed cognition, collective intelligence, higher order cognition, categorization, scientific discovery 8June
• Jure Leskovec at Stanford University (Stanford, CA)
  Keywords: information networks, graph mining, social networks, web mining, data mining, machine learning 8June
• Premkumar Devanbu at University of California, Davis (Davis, CA)
  Keywords: Empirical Software Engineering, evaluation of static analysis tools, social and human factors in software engineering, distributed software engineering. 6June
• Guofei (Geoff) Jiang at NEC Laboratories America, Princeton (Princeton, New Jersey)
  Keywords: distributed system & networks, performance, reliability & dependability, statistical learning & mining for large scale system management, next generation data center, cloud computing platform, virtualization and resource provisioning, power management 6June
• Ashok Popat at Google (Mountain View, CA)
  Keywords: Signal and image processing, pattern recognition, machine translation, natural language processing, source coding, digital libraries, language modeling 6June
• Yan Huang at University of North Texas (Denton, Texas)
  Keywords: geo-stream data processing, spatio-temporal databases and mining, spatial data integration, intelligent transportaion systems 5June
• Geetika T. Lakshmanan at IBM T. J. Watson Research Center (Cambridge, MA)
  Keywords: Data Mining, Information Retrieval, Data Integration, Data Analytics, Data Discovery, Web Services, SOA, Social Computing, Theory, Algorithms, Data Provenance, Business Process Management, Information Visualization, Graph Theory, Machine Learning. 5June
• Yannis Kevrekidis at Princeton University, Chemical Engineering and PACM (Princeton, NJ)
  Keywords: dynamical systems, nonlinear dynamics, multiscale computation, equation-free computing, data mining, diffusion maps, pattern formation, instabilities, network dynamics, coarse graining, agent-based modeling 5June
• G. Michael Youngblood at University of North Carolina at Charlotte (Charlotte, NC)
  Keywords: interactive artificial intelligence, games, agents, multi-agent systems, cognitive architectures, visual / graph-based data mining / knowledge discovery, computational geometry, learning, behavioral analysis, MMO games, social games, artificial life 5June
• Erik Altman at IBM T.J. Watson Research Center (Hawthorne, NY)
  Keywords: multicore, SSD, middleware, webserving, middleware, databases, appserver,multi-tier 5June
• Murray Turoff at New Jersey Institute of Technology (Newark, NJ)
  Keywords: Emergency Management Information Systems, Computer Mediated Communications, Management of Information Systems, Online Learning Systems, Technological Foresight and Assessment, Risk Analysis, Online Delphi Design, Design of Planning Systems 5June
• Joyce Rudinsky at Renaissance Computing institute, University of North Carolina (Chapel Hill, NC)
  Keywords: virtual environments, interactivity, art, humanities, gaming, language. 5June
• Mehran Sahami at Stanford University (Stanford, CA)
  Keywords: computer science education, machine learning, data mining, information retrieval 5June
• Parag Joshi at Hewlett-Packard Laboratories (Palo Alto, CA)
  Keywords: text analysis, natural language processing, document similarity, semantic analysis, web page analysis, information extraction, machine learning 4June
• Alexander Gray at Georgia Institute of Technology (Atlanta, GA)
  Keywords: machine learning, data mining, statistics, high dimensionality, massive datasets, optimization, algorithms, automated program synthesis, computational geometry, linear algebra, data-intensive/distributed computing, astrophysics, mass spec, SVMs 4June
• Shenghuo Zhu at NEC Laboratories of America (Cupertino, CA (Sillicon Valley))
  Keywords: machine learning, information retrieval, social computing, web intelligence. 4June
• Yihong Gong at NEC Laboratories America, Inc. (Silicon Valley)
  Keywords: Video Content Analysis, Multimedia Computing, Machine Learning, Data Mining, Information Retrieval. 4June
• David Du at University of Minnesota, Minneapolis Minnesota (Minneapolis, Minnesota)
  Keywords: Future Internet, Vechicle-to-Vechicle Communications, Air Transportation Cyber Physical Systems, Mobile and Sensor Networks, Mass Storage Systems, Long-Term Data Preservation, Data Security/Privacy, Information Critical Networks, Situation-Aware Networks 4June
• Yiming Yang at Carnegie Mellow University (Pittsburgh, PA)
  Keywords: machine learning approaches to classification/regression/filtering, multi-task modeling, unified framework for relevance and novelty based information distillation, personalized and social-relation based distillation 4June
• Terran Lane at University of New Mexico (Albuquerque, New Mexico)
  Keywords: Machine learning, scientific data mining, neuroscience, bioinformatics, interdisciplinary data analysis, networks, graphs, topology, applications 4June
• Manolis Kellis at MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab / Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard (Cambridge, MA)
  Keywords: Computational Biology, Genomics, Epigenomics, Regulatory Motifs, Regulatory Networks, BioInformatics, Cancer, Development, Small RNAs, Evolutionary Genomics, Phylogenomics, Phylogenetics, Comparative Genomics 4June
• George Forman at Hewlett-Packard Labs (Palo Alto, CA)
  Keywords: data mining, text analysis, classification, quantification, personalization, recommendation systems, collaborative filtering 4June
• Ben Zhao at University of California, Santa Barbara (Santa Barbara, CA, USA)
  Keywords: social networks, large-scale distributed systems, communication security and privacy, vehicular networks, peer-to-peer networks 3June
• Jinbo Xu at Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago (Chicago, IL)
  Keywords: protein sequence alignment, homology search, protein threading, protein structure prediction, biological network alignment 3June
• Dmitri Krioukov at CAIDA/UCSD (San Diego, CA)
  Keywords: Networking, routing, Internet topology and evolution, complex networks, complex systems. 3June
• Rajan Lukose at HP Labs (Palo Alto, CA)
  Keywords: personalization, data mining, recommendation systems, privacy, collaborative filtering, information economics, complex networks, keyword bidding. 3June
• T.S. Jayram at IBM Almaden Research Center (Washington, DC)
  Keywords: complexity theory, communication complexity, data streams, massive data sets, probabilistic databases 3June
• Mani Chandy at California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California)
  Keywords: Smart systems. Smart grid. Cyber-physical systems. Event-driven architecture. Distributed systems. State estimation. Distributed control. Optimization theory. Workforce optimization 3June
• Robert Grossman at National Center for Data Mining at UIC (Chicago, IL)
  Keywords: Numerical/Scientific Computing , HPC , Data-Intensive Scalable Computing, Data Mining 3June
• Alok Choudhary at Northwestern University (Evanston, IL)
  Keywords: High-Performance Computing, Data Intenstive Computing, Parallel I/O and storage, data mining, computer architecture, security, business, medical and bioinformatics applications, power aware systems 3June
• Suk Hwan Lim at Hewlett-Packard Laboratories (Palo Alto, CA)
  Keywords: web page analysis, information extraction, machine learning, probabilistic modeling, computer vision 3June
• Cyrus Shahabi at University of Southern California (USC) (Los Angeles, CA)
  Keywords: Geospatial information management, multidimensional data analysis, GIS, spatial database, location privacy, spatial data outsourcing, sensor network, data stream, wavelets, spatial index, road network, intelligent transportation 3June
• Jennifer Neville at Purdue University: Computer Science Department (West Lafayette, IN)
  Keywords: Machine learning, knowledge discovery, data mining, relational learning, social networks, link analysis, computational social science 3June
• Yanlei Diao at University of Massachusetts Amherst (Amherst, Massachusetts)
  Keywords: Information architectures, data management systems; data streams, uncertain data management, sensor databases, flash databases, data dissemination, and XML query processing. 2June
• Yi-fang Wu at Information Systems Department, New Jersey Institute of Technology (Newark, NJ)
  Keywords: text mining, information extraction, knowledge organization, information retrieval, and natural language processing. 2June
• David Smith at University of Massachusetts, Amherst (Amherst, MA)
  Keywords: natural language processing (NLP), machine learning (ML), parsing, machine translation (MT), digital libraries, computational linguistics 2June
• Min Song at New Jersey Institute of Technology (Newark, NJ)
  Keywords: Biomedical Text Mining, Information Extraction, Information Retrieval, Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing 2June
• Michael Bieber at New Jersey Institute of Technology (University Heights, Newark, NJ)
  Keywords: learning systems, decision analysis, DSS, emergency mgmt systems, ubicomp, HCI, social networking, pattern recognition, open source, text mining, search, recommender systems, virtual worlds, digital libraries, collaborative systems, CMC, delphi 2June
• Jeongkyu Lee at University of Bridgeport (Bridgeport, CT)
  Keywords: Multimedia database, data mining, video processing, medical videos, ontology, video retireval, image retrieval, kinematic analysis 1June
• Yolanda Gil at University of Southern California, Information Sciences Institute (Los Angeles, CA)
  Keywords: intelligent user interfaces, knowledge collection from web volunteers, knowledge-rich problem solving, artificial intelligence in social networking sites, semantic web, scientific workflows. 1June
• Jun Huan at University of Kansas (Lawrence, KS )
  Keywords: Data mining and machine learning: theory, algorithms, & applications, Bioinformatics and Biomedical Informatics: functional genomics, chemical genomics, metabolomics, & systems biology 1June