LINQS
STATISTICAL RELATIONAL LEARNING GROUP @ UMD
LINQS People
Faculty:
Dr. Lise Getoor
getoor AT cs.umd.edu
AVW3217
Research Interests: My general research interests are in machine learning, reasoning under uncertainty, databases and artificial intelligence. Other topics of interest to me include: data integration, database query optimization and approximate query processing, entity resolution, information extraction, utility elicitation, planning under uncertainty, contraint-based reasoning, abstraction and problem reformulation. The theme of my research is building and using statistical models of structured, semi-structured and unstructured data to do useful things.
Students:
Mustafa Bilgic
mbilgic AT cs.umd.edu
AVW 3228
http://www.cs.umd.edu/~mbilgic
Research Interests: I am interested in learning in relational domains in general. In particular, I am interested in learning and inference in domains where some of the information (attribute & relation) is missing and costly.
Samuel Huang
AVW 3212
http://www.cs.umd.edu/~srhuang
Research Interests: My current research interests involve Machine Learning and Data Mining, especially as applied to Bioinformatics and Computational Biology.
Louis Licamele
licamele AT cs.umd.edu
AVW 3228
http://www.cs.umd.edu/~licamele
Research Interests: I am interested in Machine Learning, Data Mining and Bioinformatics, with a focus in mining high-throughput data using machine learning methods. Specific tasks that I have worked on include link prediction and classification, entity classification and resolution using relational data, and domain specific feature construction.
Galileo Mark S. Namata Jr.
namatag AT cs.umd.edu
AVW 3228
http://www.cs.umd.edu/~namatag
Research Interests: My current research is in the identification of entities and social network properties from email archives. Specifically, I've been looking into identifying underlying hierarchies and roles from email traffic.
Barna Saha
barna AT cs.umd.edu
AVW 3228
http://www.glue.umd.edu/~barna
Research Interests: Algorithms, Combinatorics, Machine Learning, Data Mining.
Prithviraj Sen
sen AT cs.umd.edu
AVW 3228
Research Interests: Learning, inference and applications of undirected graphical models to statistical relational learning, probabilistic databases.
Elena Zheleva
elena AT cs.umd.edu
AVW 3212
Research Interests: Machine learning, modeling trust, reputation systems, privacy-preserving data mining.
Alumni:
Indrajit
Bhattacharya, graduated with a Ph.D. degree
indrajit AT cs.umd.edu
AVW 3228
http://www.cs.umd.edu/~indrajit
Research Interests: I work on probabilistic models and clustering algorithms for resolving uncertain references to real world entities using relationships. I also work on algorithms for resolving entities efficiently for query answering.
Rezarta Islamaj, graduated with a
Ph.D. degree
rezarta AT cs.umd.edu
AVW 3228
http://www.cs.umd.edu/~rezarta
Research Interests: I am interested in bioinformatics, machine learning and data mining. I am interested in modeling and generating domain-appropriate specific features that can be employed for accurate sequence prediction. I work on studying, understanding and modeling "splice-site prediction" on pre-mRNA sequences aiming for a higly-accurate "Gene-Finding" process.
Dr. Hyunmo Kang
kang AT cs.umd.edu
AVW 3211
Research Interests: My general interests are (but not limited to) Human Computer Interaction, Information Visualization, User Interface Design and Implementation Personal Information Management, and Information Retrieval.
Vivek Sehgal,
graduated with a M.S. degree
viveks AT cs.umd.edu
AVW 3228
Research Interests: Interest in mining information from databases. Currently, I am working on data integration and duplication problem in spatial databases.
Dr. Wontaek Seo
wtseo AT cs.umd.edu
AVW 3231
http://ai.chosun.ac.kr/~wontagi
Research Interests: Pattern recognition, graphical model, document analysis, character recognition, etc.