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The problems we study combine vast amounts and disparate types of measurements with equally complex prior knowledge, posing unique challenges for machine learning. Our interests include both modeling paradigms, such as Bayesian nonparametric methods, and inference methodologies, such as MCMC, variational methods and convex optimization. We also work on structured, interpretable, and generalizable deep learning models. Other topics of focus include multi-task learning, reinforcement learning, and transfer learning.

Subareas: Data Integration, Internet of Things, Knowledge Discovery, Machine Learning, Scientific Data Management, Visual Analytics

Data Mining: Our group has a long history of developing data mining methods and has successfully applied them to solve problems in many other disciplines. Our interests include clustering and subspace clustering in high dimensional data, matrix factorization, graph mining and classification, efficient methods for large scale statistical tests.

Internet of Things: The Internet of Things (IoT) is a fabric that is aimed at connecting every object in the world to the Internet. There are two schools of thoughts regarding IoT, emphasizing — IoT devices and networks, and IoT data analytics. Understanding both is essential to designing an end-to-end IoT system that senses the physical world, learns and makes inferences, talks to other IoT systems, and caters plethora of data-driven services that help us making better decisions, save our time, make our lives efficient, and keep us healthier.


Faculty

Stan Ahalt

Stan Ahalt
Professor

Jay Aikat

Jay Aikat
Vice Dean, School of Data Science and Society

Mohit Bansal

Mohit Bansal
John R. and Louise S. Parker Distinguished Professor

Gedas Bertasius

Gedas Bertasius
Assistant Professor

Snigdha Chaturvedi
Associate Professor

Tianlong Chen

Tianlong Chen
Assistant Professor

Neil Gaikwad

Snehalkumar “Neil” Gaikwad
Adjunct Assistant Professor

Harlin Lee

Harlin Lee
Adjunct Assistant Professor

Richard Marks

Richard Marks
Professor of the Practice

Leonard McMillan

Leonard McMillan
Associate Professor

Brent Munsell
Teaching Associate Professor

Marc Niethammer

Marc Niethammer
Professor

Shahriar Nirjon

Shahriar Nirjon
Associate Professor

Junier Oliva

Junier Oliva
Associate Professor

Roni Sengupta

Roni Sengupta
Assistant Professor

Jorge Silva
Teaching Assistant Professor

Shashank Srivastava

Shashank Srivastava
Assistant Professor

Danielle Szafir

Danielle Szafir
Associate Professor

Huaxiu Yao

Huaxiu Yao
Assistant Professor

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