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Scott Bishop, a PhD candidate in the Institute for Data Analysis and Visualization (http://idav.ucdavis.edu/) advised by Professor Nelson Max, has been awarded a Transatlantic Partnership for Excellence in Engineering (http://tee-net.webs.upv.es) research scholarship by the European Union. Scott will spend six months in Spain performing research at the Polytechnic University of Valencia (UPV) working on computational methods of design and assembly of 3D industrial facility models. The TEE award covers all expenses for six and ten month research exchanges to either the Polytechnic University of Valencia, the University of Cambridge (CAM), the University of Gent (UGENT), La Sapienza University of Rome (UNIROMA), the Technical University Berlin (TUB), or the University of Paris-Sud (UPSUD).
Check out the official FB page for the SINCERE (Social Interactive Networking & Conversation Entropy Ranking Engine) Search Engine (http://www.sincere.se/) - being developed at UC Davis! The primary research objective of the SINCERE search engine is to develop the capability for any Internet user to discover interesting discussions and conversation among Facebook pages/groups. Currently, SINCERE only includes Facebook pages related to certain political topics (such as the Occupying movement, UCDavis Pepper-Spray, US Presidential Election discussions) and only 21 of them have included the social entropy results (it's quite CPU intensive to compute those attributes, BTW). This project involves the following current and former MS/PhD students from three Universities (UC Davis - USA, BTH - Sweden, Tunghai University - Taiwan) -- Mohammad Rezaur Rahman, Roozbeh Nia, Fredrik Erlandsson, Darren Yuxi Hu, Keith Wang, Jason Teng Wang, Prantik Bhattacharyya, Yu-Hsin Christine Shih, Chih-Chieh Lien.
This page is for the community of SINCERE.se users to share their experience, positive or negative, so we can improve. Also, we will announce any new updates and other information.
SINCERE: Social Interactive Networking and Conversation Entropy Ranking Engine
Professor and Chair Prasant Mohapatra has been elected as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) for his distinguished contributions to the field of computer networks, particularly for designing novel protocols for quality and security in wireless networks.
Buyue Qian (left) and his advisor Ian Davidson have been awarded a Yahoo! research award to investigate the next generation of ranking algorithms. Ranking algorithms are central to internet search companies such as Yahoo!, but current search engines use a static ranking schemes. The next generation of ranking algorithms will explore machines that "learn to rank" based on human guidance/feedback. This particular award will focus on active and transfer learning formulations of the learning to rank problem.
Dr. Amit Pande, an NSF Computing Innovation Fellow with Dr. Prasant Mohapatra, has been selected for prestigious "Award for Excellence in Postdoctoral Research 2012" at UC Davis. Three recipients were awarded amongst a pool of 1000+ postdocs all across the campus. Dr. Pande has published nearly 40 peer-reviewed International conference and journal papers, among which 17 are published during his 1.5 years of postdoctoral research at Davis. His excellence in postdoctoral research is demonstrated by featuring in Computing-Community-Consortium (CCC) Blog (top 10 of 107 postdoctoral fellows across nation); winning Best Paper Award in 14th IEEE Wireless Personal Multimedia Communications Conference 2011 (120 submissions) and being Design Contest Winner for IEEE VLSI Design Conference 2012 (24 entries).
A visualization created by Hongfeng Yu and Professor Kwan-Liu Ma of the VIDI research group is featured on the cover of the June 1, 2012 issue of the Science Journal.
Graduate Group in Computer Science faculty John Owens has been elected to be an NVIDIA CUDA fellow. http://blogs.nvidia.com/2012/05/gpu-computing-experts-join-cuda-fellow-ranks/
Graduate student Jennifer Chandler has been awarded prestigious NSF graduate research fellowships. These three-year fellowships support outstanding graduate students in science, technology, engineering and mathematics disciplines. http://www.nsfgrfp.org/
Congratulations to An Chan and his research advisor, Prasant Mohapatra. Mr. Chan is the recipient of this year's GGCS Best Graduate Researcher Award.