March 24, 2014
Natural Language Processing (NLP) has long been an energetic area of research at ISI and our researchers have made pioneering contributions to the field. Among the NLP group’s many world famous past and present senior researchers we count (in alphabetical order of last names) Jerry Hobbs, Ed Hovy, Kevin Knight, Philipp Koehn, Bill Mann, Daniel Marcu, and Franz Och.
Jerry Hobbs, who has made seminal contributions to computational linguistics since 1976, has now been appointed as the first Chief Scientist for NLP at ISI.
For our Executive Director Prem Natarajan’s announcement of this appointment, read more.
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Ed Fuks - I came from Russia couple years ago and now I am about to graduate from USC with Computer Science degree. I am not a scientist but I enjoy thinking about ideas and implementing them. I am really happy with the academic path I chose, because it gives me perfect tools to gain control of my life.
Jiabao Zhao is a professor of industrial and systems engineering at Nanjing University in China, and will be spending a year sabbatical here. He has done a lot of work on workflows for industrial control and big data analytics with Hadoop and other Apache technologies. He is interested in making workflow systems easier to use, and will be working on simplifying the Wings user interface through improved abstract workflow representations and underlying reasoning algorithms.
“The StarCell project is designed to strategically advance the technologies for future space systems,” said Dr. Wei-Min Shen, the PI of StarCell and the director of Polymorphic Robotics Lab at USC ISI, “based on self-Reconfigurable modular systems, StarCell is expected to make breakthroughs in the related research areas and pave the way for building space elements that have diverse functions and low cost and risk.”
Last weekend Yu-Han Chang and Rajiv Maheswaran won the Best Research Paper Award (Alpha Prize) at the 2014 MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference. The paper is co-authored by 3 of their former students.