LINQS
STATISTICAL RELATIONAL LEARNING GROUP @ UMD
LINQS People
Faculty:
Dr. Lise Getoor
getoor AT cs.umd.edu
AVW 3135
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.
Postdoctoral researchers:
Bert Huang, Ph.D.
bert AT cs.umd.edu
AVW 3211
Research Interests: My research interests are machine learning, probabilistic inference, large-scale learning, and relational learning. I am particularly interested in theory and application of learning in the presence of network data, looking for principled connections between the rich mathematical theory of graphs and practical learning algorithms.
Dr. Angelika Kimmig
angelika AT cs.umd.edu
AVW 3251
http://people.cs.kuleuven.be/~angelika.kimmig/
Research Interests: My research interests include symbolic AI, reasoning under uncertainty, machine learning, logic programming, and especially combinations thereof such as probabilistic programming and statistical relational learning.
Students:
Stephen Bach
bach AT cs.umd.edu
AVW 3228
Research Interests:My research interests are machine learning and artificial intelligence. My work focuses on probabilistic soft logic and its applications. I have a particular interest in structure learning in relational domains.
Walaa Eldin Mustafa
walaa AT cs.umd.edu
AVW 3228
Research Interests: My research interests are in database management systems and machine learning, specifically, in aspects of declarative analysis and query optimization for network analysis and relational inference, such as collective classification, link predication and entity resolution.
Benjamin London
blondon AT cs.umd.edu
AVW 3228
http://www.cs.umd.edu/~blondon
Research Interests: I am interested in machine learning, computational learning theory, generalization bounds for relational data, learning with similarity functions, query-driven learning and active learning
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.
Jay Pujara
jay AT cs.umd.edu
AVW 3228
Research Interests: My current research interests are cost-sensitive classification and active feature acquisition, with a particular focus on feature interdependence and acquisition cost. My goal is to apply this research in large-scale settings, with ongoing work on communication networks such as electronic mail.
Theodoros Rekatsinas
thodrek AT cs.umd.edu
AVW 3220
http://www.cs.umd.edu/~thodrek
Research Interests: My research interests focus primarily on machine learning, decision making under uncertainty and their applications to large-scale problems.
Hossam Sharara
hossam AT cs.umd.edu
AVW 3228
Research Interests: I am mainly interested in machine learning and data mining in relational domains. More specifically, studying both the properties and the evolution process in dynamic social and affiliation networks.
Alex Memory
amemory AT cs.umd.edu
AVW 3270
http://www.cs.umd.edu/~amemory
Research Interests: Machine learning, arti cial intelligence, reasoning under uncertainty, ontology alignment, data integration, entity resolution and information extraction.
Alumni:
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Stanley Kok, Ph.D. skok AT cs.umd.edu http://www.cs.umd.edu/~skok Research Interests: My research interests are in artificial intelligence, machine learning, and their applications (such as natural language processing, text mining, Web mining, and computational biology). Current Job details Title: Assitant Professor Organization/Lab: Singapore University of Technology and Design Location: Singapore, Singapore |
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Lilyana Mihalkova, Ph.D. lilyanam AT alumni.cs.utexas.edu http://www.cs.umd.edu/~lily Research Interests: My research interests are in statistical relational learning and reasoning under uncertainty. I am currently working on, or have recently focused on, structure learning in relational domains, efficient inference, collective classification, transfer learning across relational tasks, applications to problems on the Web. Current Job details Title: Software Engineer Organization/Lab: Google Location: Santa Monica, USA |
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Louis Licamele, graduated with a Ph.D degree in 2012 licamele AT cs.umd.edu 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. Current Job details Title: Head of Informatics Organization/Lab: Vanda Pharmaceuticals, Inc Location: Maryland, USA |
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Elena Zheleva, graduated with a Ph.D degree in 2011 elena AT cs.umd.edu http://www.cs.umd.edu/~elena Research Interests: My research interests lie in applying machine learning models to social and affiliation network problems, such as relational classification, graph generation and link prediction. I also study privacy in the context of social networks, graphical models for social media recommendations, data mining and reputation systems. Current Job details Title: Data Scientist Organization/Lab: LivingSocial Location: USA |
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Mustafa Bilgic, graduated with a Ph.D. degree in 2010 mbilgic AT iit.edu http://www.cs.iit.edu/~mbilgic/ Ph.D. Thesis: Cost-Sensitive Information Acquisition in Structured Domains. Current Job details Title: Assistant Professor Organization/Lab: Illinois Institute of Technology Location: Chicago, IL |
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Prithviraj Sen, graduated with a Ph.D. degree in 2009 senp AT us.ibm.com http://www.cs.umd.edu/~sen Ph.D. Thesis: Representing and Querying Uncertain Data. Current Job details Title: Research Staff Member Organization/Lab: IBM, Almaden Location: San Jose, CA |
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Rezarta Islamaj, graduated with a Ph.D. degree in 2007 rezarta AT cs.umd.edu http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/CBBresearch/Fellows/Dogan/ Ph.D. Thesis: Feature Generation and Analysis Applied to Sequence Classification for Splice-Site Prediction. Current Job details Title: Research Fellow Organization/Lab: National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine Location: Bldg. 38A, 10N03D 8600 Rockville Pike Bethesda, MD 20894 Tel: (301) 435 8769 |
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Indrajit Bhattacharya, graduated with a Ph.D. degree in 2006 indrajitb AT gmail.com http://www.csa.iisc.ernet.in/~indrajit Ph.D. Thesis: Collective Entity Resolution in Relational Data. Current Job details Title: Assistant Professor Organization/Lab: Department of Computer Science and Automation Indian Institute of Science Location: Bangalore, India |
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Vivek Sehgal,
graduated with a M.S. degree in 2007 vivek AT compasslabs.com http://www.cs.umd.edu/~viveks Research Interests: mining information from databases, data integration and duplication problem in spatial databases. Current Job details Title: Senior Research Engineer (Algorithms) Organization/Lab: Compass Labs Location: USA |
Former members:
Barna Saha
barna AT cs.umd.edu
http://www.glue.umd.edu/~barna
Research Interests: Algorithms, Combinatorics, Machine Learning, Data Mining.
Samuel Huang
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.
Hyunmo Kang, Ph.D.
kang AT cs.umd.edu
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.
Wontaek Seo, Ph.D.
wtseo AT cs.umd.edu
http://ai.chosun.ac.kr/~wontagi
Research Interests: Pattern recognition, graphical model, document analysis, character recognition, etc.