The Computing Innovation Fellows Project

Mentors interested in:
Information Systems / Information Science

• William Griswold at UC San Diego (La Jolla, CA)
  Keywords: software engineering, distributed systems, disaster informatics, mobile wireless information systems, medical informatics, publish-subscribe. 28July
• Ramesh Rao at University of California San Diego (Washington, DC)
  Keywords: Wireless Systems and Networks, Energy efficient algorithms and protocols, Resource management schemes, Medium Access Control, Cognitive Networking, Information Theory and Applications 25June
• Manoj B.S at CalSysNet Research Group at UCSD-CalIt2 (San Diego, CA)
  Keywords: cognition in wireless networks, cognitive wireless networks, cognitive radio, cognitive radio networks. 21June
• Sonia Martinez at University of California, San Diego (La Jolla, CA 92093)
  Keywords: cooperative control, distributed algorithms, multi-agent systems, optimization, nonlinear control, geometric control 10June
• Nalini Venkatasubramanian at University of California, Irvine (Irvine CA)
  Keywords: distributed systems, middleware, multimedia systems and applications, formal methods 10June
• 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
• Alexander Barg at University of Maryland (Washington, DC metro area)
  Keywords: Codes on graphs, fingerprinting, metrics on discrete spaces, semidefinite programming 10June
• Sharad Singhal at HP Labs (Palo Alto, CA)
  Keywords: Web Services, Cloud Computing, Service Composition, Service Orchestration, Business Processes 9June
• Lecia Barker at School of Information (Austin, TX)
  Keywords: tacit information learning online, computer science education, educational technologies, computing workforce, under representation in computing, user studies, evaluation, mixed-methods, survey research, discourse analysis, ethnographic research 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
• Justine Cassell at Northwestern University (Chicago, IL)
  Keywords: Embodied Conversational Agents, Natural Language, Dialogue Systems, Graphics, Educational Technology, Autism, Under-represented groups, 8June
• Prakash Ishwar at Boston University (Boston, MA)
  Keywords: Network Information Theory, Communication Complexity Theory, Information-Theoretic Security, Video Analytics, Statistical Learning Theory, Multidimensional Signal Processing 8June
• Jorge Cortes at University of California, San Diego (La Jolla, CA)
  Keywords: Cooperative Control, Sensor Networks, Distributed Coordination Algorithms, Nonlinear Control, Geometric Control, Distributed Robotics, Multi-Agent Systems 8June
• Robert Kraut at Human-Computer Interaction Institute, Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh, PA)
  Keywords: Online communities, Virtual organizations, Social impact of computing 7June
• Erik Johnston at Arizona State University (Tempe, AZ)
  Keywords: Policy informatics, information visualization, interactive simulations, agent-based modeling, public health, sustainability, crisis management, urban growth 7June
• 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
• 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
• Venkatesh Saligrama at Boston University (Boston MA)
  Keywords: statistical learning theory, video analytics, information theory, statistical signal processing, systems theory 5June
• Erik Altman at IBM T.J. Watson Research Center (Hawthorne, NY)
  Keywords: multicore, SSD, middleware, webserving, middleware, databases, appserver,multi-tier 5June
• Aditya Johri at Virginia Tech (Blacksburg, VA)
  Keywords: Virtual Teams, CSCW, Creativity and Technology, Educational Technology (CSCL), Learning Sciences, Knowledge Networks, Engineering Design, Collaboration in Open Source Projects 5June
• Joseph Hellerstein at Google (Seattle, WA)
  Keywords: distributed scheduling, cluster management, machine learning and systems, performance modeling, control theory 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
• 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
• Quentin Jones at New Jersey Institute of Technology - SmartCampus Lab (Newark New Jersey)
  Keywords: Social Computing, CSCW, HCI, Mobile Computing, Ubiquitous Computing, Pervasive Computing, Online Communities, Social Recommendation Systems 4June
• Vladimir Zolotov at IBM T.J. Watson Research Center (Yorktown Heights, NY)
  Keywords: design automation, timing analysis, statistical timing, circuit analysis, circuit optimization, signal integrity, VLSI testing 4June
• Dorian Arnold at University of New Mexico (Albuquerque, NM)
  Keywords: High performance computing, Large scale distribued systems, Autonomous systems, Fault-tolerance, HPC Tools 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
• Starr Roxanne Hiltz at Collaborative Hypermedia Lab, Information Systems Dept NJIT (Newark NJ)
  Keywords: Virtual teams, social software, emergency response information systems, information systems evaluation methods, online learning 4June
• Yan Qu at College of Information Studies, University of Maryland, Collage Park (Washington, DC)
  Keywords: Sensemaking and learning, Collaborative sensemaking, Human computer interaction, Social computing, Information system design, Information behavior 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
• Lang Tong at Cornell University (Ithaca, NY)
  Keywords: Statistical inference, security, anonymous networking, information theory, wireless communications and networks, sensor networks. 4June
• Rajan Lukose at HP Labs (Palo Alto, CA)
  Keywords: personalization, data mining, recommendation systems, privacy, collaborative filtering, information economics, complex networks, keyword bidding. 3June
• Truong Nguyen at University of California, San Diego (UCSD) (San Diego, CA)
  Keywords: Video processing, image processing, filter banks and wavelets, image analysis and understanding, 3D - multiview signal processing, machine learning, signal processing for medical devices 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
• Devasis Bassu at Applied Research, Telcordia Technologies Inc. (Piscataway, NJ)
  Keywords: data mining, network analysis, machine learning, fast algorithms, pattern detection, data representation, data fusion, text analysis, classification 3June
• Suk Hwan Lim at Hewlett-Packard Laboratories (Palo Alto, CA)
  Keywords: web page analysis, information extraction, machine learning, probabilistic modeling, computer vision 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
• Kannan Ramchandran at University of California at Berkeley (Berkeley, CA)
  Keywords: secure distributed networked storage, multi-user information theory, video-over-wireless, distributed signal processing and coding, network coding, peer-to-peer content delivery, wireless video camera networks, cognitive radio. 2June
• Juan A. Garay at AT&T Labs (Florham Park, NJ)
  Keywords: Cryptography, cryptographic protocols, information security 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
• Emina Soljanin at Corporate Research Lab (Murray Hill, NJ)
  Keywords: coding theory, information theory, network coding, rateless coding, secrecy, quantum information 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
• Do Young Eun at North Carolina State University (Raleigh, NC)
  Keywords: Stochastic Networks, Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks, Delay/disruption tolerant networks, mobility models, Network Theory, Peer-to-peer networks, congestion control, Resource allocation, Information spreading in mobile networks 30May
• Haris Vikalo at University of Texas at Austin (Austin, TX)
  Keywords: signal processing, biosensors, biological networks 30May
• Mung Chiang at Princeton University (Princeton, NJ)
  Keywords: Internet, wireless networks, broadband access networks, content distribution networks, Green IT, remote healthcare, telemedicine, social network, network economics, optimization, control, game theory, distributed algorithm, network protocol 29May