The Computing Innovation Fellows Project

Mentors interested in:
Social Computing / Social Informatics

• Irfan ESSA at Georgia Tech (Atlanta, GA)
  Keywords: Computational Video, Computational Photography, Activity Recognition, Computational Journalism, Human Behavior Modeling and Analysis, Human Robot Interaction, Sports Visualization, Interacting with and Authoring Video. 14July
• Scott Mainwaring at People and Practices Research, Intel Labs (Beaverton, OR)
  Keywords: financial services innovation; personal meaning; sustainability and consumerism; technosocial infrastructures; ethnography and design 5July
• Heather Zheng at University of California, Santa Barbara (Santa Barbara, California)
  Keywords: cognitive radios, dynamic spectrum access, spectrum auctions, wireless networking, social networks 23June
• Jim Hurley at Intel Labs (Santa Clara, CA)
  Keywords: Ray Tracing, Rendering, Micro-Polygon, Physical Simulation, Global Illumination, Social Networking, Image Processing, Statistical Algorithms, Audio Propogation, Rasterization, GPU, Larrabee, Algorithms, Amaturn Content Creation, Mobile Internet Devices 10June
• Sharad Singhal at Hewlett-Packard Laboratories (Palo Alto, CA)
  Keywords: Web Services, Cloud Computing, Service Composition, Service Orchestration, Business Processes 10June
• Ajita John at Avaya Labs Research (Basking Ridge, New Jersey)
  Keywords: collaborative tagging, rich media, communication dynamics in social networks, community evolution, microbloggiing, search, privacy, awareness 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
• 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
• 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
• Justine Cassell at Northwestern University (Chicago, IL)
  Keywords: Embodied Conversational Agents, Natural Language, Dialogue Systems, Graphics, Educational Technology, Autism, Under-represented groups, 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
• Nina Bhatti at Hewlett-Packard Laboratories (Palo Alto, California)
  Keywords: Mobile Systems, media interation, mobile social computing, mobile media, computer vision, interactive media, pervasive computing, mobile consumer applications, usability, mobile HCI 6June
• 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
• Kar-Han Tan at Hewlett-Packard Laboratories (Palo Alto, CA)
  Keywords: Immersive Remote Collaboration, Computer Vision and Graphics, Computational Photography and Video 5June
• Natalie Glance at Google (Pittsburgh, PA)
  Keywords: social networks, social media analysis 5June
• Todd Zickler at Harvard University (Cambridge, MA)
  Keywords: computer vision, computer graphics, image and signal processing, computational photography, physics-based vision, internet vision, online photo collections, socially-aware computer vision 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
• 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
• Frank Ritter at Penn State (University Park, PA)
  Keywords: Parallel Genetic Algorithms, cognitive architectures, docking, function optimization, cognitive modeling, stress 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
• Craig Martell at Naval Postgraduate School (Monterey, CA)
  Keywords: NLP, persuasion, sentiment analysis, topic detection, subjectivity detection, authorship attribution, parsing, Chat, Blogs 5June
• Joyce Rudinsky at Renaissance Computing institute, University of North Carolina (Chapel Hill, NC)
  Keywords: virtual environments, interactivity, art, humanities, gaming, language. 5June
• Ramesh Raskar at MIT Media Lab (Boston, MA)
  Keywords: Computational imaging, Signal processing, Applied optics, Computer graphics and vision, Medical Imaging, Thermal and ultrasound sensing, Computational photography, Hardware electronics, Art, Online photo collections, Visual social computing. 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
• Subir Biswas at Michigan State University (Lansing, MI)
  Keywords: Embedded Networks, Medical Instrumentation Networks, Social Network Protocols, Body Area Networks, Vehicular Communication, Cognitive Network Access, Controlled Network Mobility 4June
• Anita Sarma at University of Nebraska, Lincoln (Nebraska, Lincoln)
  Keywords: workspace awareness, interactive exploration of software project, visualization of large scale projects 4June
• Shenghuo Zhu at NEC Laboratories of America (Cupertino, CA (Sillicon Valley))
  Keywords: machine learning, information retrieval, social computing, web intelligence. 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
• 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
• Bobby Bhattacharjee at University of Maryland (College Park, MD)
  Keywords: Network protocols; Social networks; Distributed Systems; Mechanism Design; Peer-to-peer systems; wireless protocols 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
• 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
• Mohan Sridharan at Texas Tech University (Abilene, TX)
  Keywords: Robotics, Computer Vision, Multiagent Systems, Statistical Machine Learning, Human-robot Interaction 2June
• Nathan Moroney at Hewlett-Packard Laboratories (Palo Alto, CA)
  Keywords: computational categorization, color imaging, web-based experiments 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
• Gary Tyson at Florida State University (Tallahassee, Fl)
  Keywords: Mobile systems; Android platform; Computer Architecture; Low power systems 1June
• Neil Heffernan at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (Worcester, MA)
  Keywords: Intelligent tutoring systems, human computer interaction, Bayesian networks, user modeling, collaborative learning systems, educational games and simulation 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
• Charles Isbell at Georgia Institute of Technology (Atlanta, GA)
  Keywords: machine learning, interactive artificial intelligence, computational influence, adaptive narrative, reinforcement learning, game theory, activity discovery, adaptive programming languages 1June
• Stacy Marsella at Univ. of Southern California, Institute for Creative Technologies (Marina del Rey, CA)
  Keywords: computational models of human behavior, social simulation, virtual humans, emotion, cognition, theory of mind, decision-theory, machine learning, cognition, nonverbal behavior, animation 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
• Jason Nieh at Columbia University (New York, NY)
  Keywords: software systems, operating systems, virtualization, file and storage systems, cloud computing, mobile computing, thin-client computing, network computing, Web systems, high-performance computing, security, performance evaluation. 29May
• Brian Uzzi at Northwestern University Institute on Complex Systems (NICO) (Chicago, IL)
  Keywords: social networks, email and IM dynamics, on-line community formation, growth, and behavior, and teh social economic outcomes of networks 29May
• Tin Kam Ho at Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent (Murray Hill, NJ)
  Keywords: statistical pattern recognition, statistical machine learning, statistical signal processing, data mining, visual analytics, compressive sensing, network traffic analysis, speech analytics, prosody, recommender systems, service personalization, eHealth 29May
• David McDonald at University of Washington, Information School (Seattle, WA)
  Keywords: social computing, wikipedia, digital living, home technology, home media, recommendation systems 29May
• Jamie Callan at The Heinz College iLab at Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh, PA)
  Keywords: information retrieval, social media, text mining, machine learning 29May