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Sofus A. Macskassy, a project leader at ISI, has been working with InferLink, a tech startup in El Segundo, to develop technology to track public reactions to speeches as they happen.
The division is happy to congratulate David Chiang on becoming project leader.
SuperBot is going to space in DARPA's newly released video for PHOENIX program.
It is our distinct pleasure to welcome Linhong Zhu to ISD. She joins us from Singapore and will help out with our social media analysis work. Her office is in 926, so please stop by and say hello to her. Attached is a photo of her so you can recognize her if you run into her in the hallway -- she's the one on the right :-)
Welcome to ISI Linhong, we are thrilled to have you here!
We are very pleased to announce that Sofus Macskássy has accepted an appointment as Research Assistant Professor of Computer Science. The appointment reflects the department's recognition of Sofus' research in machine learning, data mining and related subjects.
An international team of specialists in machine translation, spearheaded by Knight, cracked the Copiale Cipher-after 250 years shrouded in mystery.
The 2012 Graduate Student Symposium was our most successful ever. It was the first one open to everyone at ISI, and we had contributions from 3 different divisions: Intelligent Systems, Networks and Computational Sciences. We had oral presentations, posters, invited talks by researchers from Rand and Google, and a lunch and gifts provided by Google.
Victoria Fossum is thrilled to return to USC/ISI as a postdoc in syntax-based machine translation, working with Professor David Chiang. She obtained her Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, in 2010, but conducted the bulk of her thesis research in syntax-based machine translation at USC/ISI with Professor Kevin Knight. After graduating, she held a one-year postdoc at USC/ISI, where she worked on morphological and semantic aspects of machine translation, followed by a one-year postdoc in computational psycholinguistics at the University of California, San Diego, where she worked on syntactic models of human language processing.
The following paper by Rahul Parundekar, Craig Knoblock, and Jose Luis Ambite won the award for Best Research Paper at the 11th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC) in Boston last week:
Laura Smith joined ISI as a post-doc in Kristina Lerman's group. Laura received degrees in Mathematics, including bachelor's and master's, from Western Washington University in 2005 and 2007 respectively, and Ph.D. in Mathematics from UCLA in 2012. Laura's dissertation analyzed mathematical models of crime. At ISI she is studying social behavior in social media. Hopefully, the only link between the two studies are the approaches and methods.
