The Computing Innovation Fellows Project

Recently Listed Mentors interested in:
Social Computing / Social Informatics

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• C Hendricks Brown at University of Miami (Center for Computational Science, U Miami)
  Keywords: Social systems informatics, biostatistics, social network analysis, systems science 30May, 2011
• Michelle Zhou at IBM Research Almaden (San Jose, CA)
  Keywords: Intelligent user interaction, interactive visual text analysis, social informatics including analytics-driven and crowd-sourced social network analysis, social profiling and community analysis, intelligent mobile information interaction and presentation. 30May, 2011
• Charlotte Lee at Computer Supported Collaboration Lab, University of Washington (Seattle, WA)
  Keywords: Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW), HCI, Science and Technology Studies, Qualitative Research Methods, Scientific Collaboration, Cyberinfrastructure, Sociotechnical Systems 26May, 2011
• Chirag Shah at Rutgers University (New Brunswick, NJ)
  Keywords: IR; HCI; CSCW; Collaborative information seeking; Social information seeking; Social Q&A; Social media; Information theory. 24May, 2011
• Nelson Chang at Hewlett-Packard Laboratories (Palo Alto, CA)
  Keywords: 3D; GPU; data visualization; camera modeling and calibration; computer vision; image processing; digital video processing; HCI; collaboration technologies; mobile devices; high speed networking 23May, 2011
• Adriana Iamnitchi at University of South Florida (Tampa, FL)
  Keywords: socially-aware distributed systems, social computing, social sensors, cloud computing, privacy of social information, social network analysis 23May, 2011
• Sergey Bereg at University of Texas at Dallas (Dallas, Texas, USA)
  Keywords: Computational Geometry, Computational Biology, Bioinformatics, Networks and Communications, Geographic Information Systems, Combinatorial Optimization, Facility Location, Pattern Matching 21May, 2011
• Steve Whittaker at University of California at Santa Cruz (Santa Cruz, CA)
  Keywords: HCI, CSCW, interactive information retrieval, personal information management, social computing, online communities, lifelogging, computer mediated communication, collaboration 20May, 2011
• Mohammad Hasan at Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) (Indianapolis, IN)
  Keywords: Graph Mining, Clustering, Classification, Bioinformatics, social network analysis, link prediction 18May, 2011
• Eric Gilbert at Georgia Institute of Technology (Atlanta, GA)
  Keywords: social computing, social media, cmc, text, applied natural language processing 17May, 2011
• Eytan Adar at University of Michigan (United States)
  Keywords: Web mining, social computing, social media, visualization, collaborative analytics, temporal data, behavior mining, privacy, Web extraction 17May, 2011
• Karen Cheng at University of California, Irvine (Irvine, CA)
  Keywords: Information and Communication Technologies for Development (ICTD), Global Health, Developing Countries, Mobile Computing, Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), Cultural Issues in HCI, Health/medical informatics 16May, 2011
• Wayne Lutters at University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) (Baltimore, MD)
  Keywords: social computing, social informatics, sociotechnical systems, CSCW, knowledge management, organizational memory, usable privacy and security, online communities, computer-mediated communication, technology in the home, social media, game studies, virtual organizations. 16May, 2011
• Mohan Sridharan at Texas Tech University (Lubbock, Texas)
  Keywords: Robot vision, stochastic machine learning, human-robot/human-computer interaction, multiagent systems and applied cognitive science. 16May, 2011
• Andruid Kerne at Texas A&M University - Interface Ecology Lab (United States)
  Keywords: creativity support environments, games, team coordination, multi-touch, bi-manual interaction, embodied interaction, information visualization, crisis informatics, disaster response, information semantics, meta-metadata, open source, ideation 14May, 2011
• Robert Pless at Washington University in St. Louis (Saint Louis, MO)
  Keywords: Computer Vision, Computational Geometry, Manifold Learning, Time-Lapse and High-Speed Video, Surveillance, Medical Imaging, Imaging for Environmental and Climate Change Analysis, Citizen Science, Collaborative Imaging. 13May, 2011
• Lise Getoor at University of Maryland, College Park (University of Maryland, College Park, MD)
  Keywords: machine learning, statistical relational learning, graph mining, structured prediction, social network analysis, social computing, personalized medicine, information extraction and alignment 12May, 2011
• Elaine Chew at University of Southern California (Los Angeles, CA)
  Keywords: mathematics and computation in music, automated music analysis, music visualization, expressive performance analysis and synthesis, music information retrieval 11May, 2011
• Matt Huenerfauth at The City University of New York (CUNY), Queens College, LATLab (New York, NY)
  Keywords: American Sign Language, animation, assistive technology for people with disabilities, accessibility, computational linguistics, motion-capture, natural language processing, machine translation, sign language, text simplification, readability. 10May, 2011
• Jaideep Vaidya at Rutgers University (Newark, NJ)
  Keywords: Privacy, Security, Anonymity, Data Mining, Data Management, Distributed Data Mining, Machine Learning, Applied Cryptography, Social Networks, Access Control, Role Engineering, Information Sharing, Data Outsourcing, Cloud Computing 10May, 2011
• Noshir Contractor at Science of Networks in Communities (SONIC) (Evanston, IL (near Chicago))
  Keywords: social network analysis, statistical modeling, social network dynamics, p*, exponential random graph models, SIENA, optimizing social networks, agent based modeling, recommender systems, team assembly, visualization, virtual worlds, MMO networks 9May, 2011
• Steven Greenspan at CA Labs, CA Technologies (New York, NY)
  Keywords: Usability and design, knowledge-sharing communities, web programming, workflow orchestration, organizational design and innovation, mobility and ubiquitous computing, usable security, smart phones, impact of technology on work and social interaction 9May, 2011
• David Jensen at University of Massachusetts Amherst (Amherst, MA)
  Keywords: Machine learning, knowledge discovery, data mining, relational learning, causal discovery, social network analysis, computational social science 8May, 2011
• Filippo Menczer at Indiana University (Bloomington, IN)
  Keywords: Web search and data mining, Web science, social media and social Web applications, complex information networks 7May, 2011
• 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 7May, 2011
• Haym Hirsh at Rutgers University (Piscataway, NJ)
  Keywords: Machine learning, information retrieval, data mining, crowdsourcing, human computation, collective intelligence 7May, 2011
• John Carroll at The Pennsylvania State University (University Park, Pennsylvania)
  Keywords: collaboration, usability, creativity, design methods, participatory design, design rationale, community networks, mobile community networks, online community, virtual organizations, common ground, social capital, awareness, activity awareness, case-based learning, 7May, 2011
• Tina Eliassi-Rad at Rutgers University, Department of Computer Science (Piscataway, NJ)
  Keywords: Machine learning and data mining in complex networks with applications to cyber security, social science, and humanities; network science 7May, 2011
• Nikita Borisov at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (Urbana, IL)
  Keywords: security, privacy, anonymity, social networks, distributed hash tables, peer-to-peer, applied cryptography, smart phones, smart meters 6May, 2011
• Howie Choset at Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh, PA)
  Keywords: snake robots, search and rescue, medical robotics, pipe inspection, archeology, demining; motion planning, path planning, estimation, hybrid controls; gait learning, SLAM, coverage, mechanism design, dynamic climbing, multi-robot coordination. 6May, 2011
• cruz Alfredo at Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico (San Juan, Puerto Rico)
  Keywords: Computer Security, Computer Forensics, Software Engineering, Software Testing 6May, 2011
• Michael Bieber at New Jersey Institute of Technology (University Heights, Newark, NJ)
  Keywords: learning systems, emergency mgmt systems, ubicomp, HCI, social networking, pattern recognition, open source, text mining, search, recommender systems, digital libraries, collaborative systems, CMC, delphi, Web Mining, Web Analytics 6May, 2011
• James Myers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) (Troy, NY)
  Keywords: semantic web, provenance, electronic notebooks, virtual organizations, content management, data synthesis, curation, preservation, electronic records, digital scholarship, knowledge management, web 2.0, virtual observatories, sensor networks, GIS 6May, 2011
• Guojing Cong at IBM TJ Watson Research Center (Yorktown, NY)
  Keywords: Large-scale graph analysis, PGAS algorithms and applications, Performance analysis and tuning for HPC systems 6May, 2011
• Leysia Palen at University of Colorado at Boulder (Boulder, Colorado)
  Keywords: Human Computer Interaction, CSCW, crisis informatics, social computing, computer-mediated communication (CMC), technology-mediated social participation, ethnography, virtual ethnography, sociotechnical studies 5May, 2011
• Frank Ritter at Penn State (University Park, PA)
  Keywords: Parallel Genetic Algorithms, cognitive architectures, docking, function optimization, cognitive modeling, stress 5May, 2011
• Steven Skiena at Stony Brook University (Stony Brook, NY)
  Keywords: news/blog analysis, Web 2.0, sentiment analysis, social science research, social networks, natural language processing, NLP, Hadoop, Map-Reduce, data mining, visualization, synthetic biology, bioinformatics, computational biology, algorithm design 5May, 2011
• Koduvayur Subbalakshmi at Stevens Institute of Technology (Hoboken, NJ)
  Keywords: Social networking, deception detection, psycholinguistic data mining, cognitive radio networks, cognitive radio network security, dynamic spectrum access security, steganography and steganalysis 5May, 2011
• Allen Klinger at UCLA (Los Angeles CA)
  Keywords: Stochastic Control, Random Models, Pattern Analysis, Allocation, Image Analysis, Computers in Education and Society, Decision Theory, Data Structures, Algorithms, Biomedical Computing, Games, Human-Computer Interaction, Speech, Language. 5May, 2011
• Juan Gilbert at Clemson University (Clemson, SC)
  Keywords: Human-Centered Computing, Accessibility, Educational Technology, Interface Agents, Avatars, Social Computing, Human-Virtual Human Interaction, Broadening Participation in Computing, Culturally Relevant Computing, Technology Policy, Data Mining 5May, 2011
• Cecilia Aragon at University of Washington (Seattle, WA)
  Keywords: Human-computer interaction (HCI), computer-supported cooperative work (CSCW), cyberinfrastructure, eScience, visualization, visual analytics, eye tracking, usability, usable security, collaboration and creativity 5May, 2011
• Sara Kiesler at HCII, Carnegie Mellon (Pittsburgh, PA)
  Keywords: human-robot interaction, collaboration 5May, 2011
• Ben Shneiderman at University of Maryland (College Park, MD )
  Keywords: human-computer interaction, information visualization, electronic health records, social network visualization, network visualization, technology-mediated social participation 5May, 2011
• Sonia Chernova at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) (Worcester, MA)
  Keywords: robot learning, adjustable autonomy, human-robot interaction, learning from demonstration, autonomous robots, social robotics, humanoid robots 5May, 2011
• Robert Kraut at Human-Computer Interaction Institute, Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh, PA)
  Keywords: Online communities, Social computing, Social impact of technology, HCI, CSCW, Health support groups 5May, 2011
• Michael Perrone at IBM TJ Watson Research Center (Yorktown Heights, NY)
  Keywords: Business analytics, social networking, seismic imaging, reservoir modeling 5May, 2011
• Guojing Cong at IBM TJ Watson Research Center (Yorktown, NY)
  Keywords: High performance computing, large-scale graph analysis, performance analysis tools, PGAS algorithms and applications 5May, 2011
• Geraldine Gay at Cornell University (Ithaca, NY)
  Keywords: Mobile health, social networks, location based media 5May, 2011
• Rebecca (Beki) Grinter at Georgia Institute of Technology (School of Interactive Computing, GVU and RIM centers) (Atlanta, Georgia)
  Keywords: Human-Computer Interaction, Computer Supported Cooperative Work, Human-Robot Interaction, Ethnography, Qualitative Methods, Social Computing 5May, 2011
• Jason Hong at Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh, PA)
  Keywords: Usable Privacy and Security, Mobile Social Computing, Location-Based Services, Ubiquitous Computing 5May, 2011