University of Massachusetts, Amherst

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University of Massachusetts, Amherst

• Zhen Zhang

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Computer Science Department by Numbers

• General
• 40 faculty
• 233 graduate students
• 296 undergraduate majors
• Fellows
• 10 ACM Fellows
• 4 IEEE Fellows
• 7 AAAI Fellows
• 2 Fellows of the American Association for the
  Advancement of Science

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CS by Numbers (cont.)

• Ranking
• 25th in Computer Science
• 6th in Artificial Intelligence
• Collaboration
• Fun facts
• 16,026 cups of departmental coffee (caffeinated)
  consumed in a year
• 2,601 cups of departmental coffee
  (de-caffeinated) consumed in a year
• 1,587 cups of tea consumed
• 4,767 cups of flavored/herbal tea consumed
• 6,077 cups of hot chocolate or mocha
• 1,080 donuts eaten in a year at Monday Morning
  Coffee
• 1,440 bagels eaten in a year at Monday Morning
  Coffee
• 3,380 reams of blank white paper, purchased in a
  year
• Amherst, MA has one of the highest percentages of
  people with graduate degrees in the U.S. (41.9)

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History

• Early 60s Started as a departmental operation
  of Chemistry department
• 1964 Academic program (J.A.N. Lee as head)
  established
• 1964-65 M.S. program established
• 1966 graduated first graduate James Bouhana
• Milestone
• UMASS (Unlimited Machine Access from Scattered
  Sites) a timesharing system
• 1972 Ph.D program established
• 1974 graduated first Ph.D Suad Alagic
• 1992 change name from COINS to Computer Science
• 2001 grant activity 12,401,713

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26 Labs Centers/ 8 clusters

• Autonomous and Multi-Agent Systems
• Electronic Teaching
• Foundations of Computing
• Information Retrieval and Data Mining
• Machine Learning
• Networking, Distributed Systems, and Security
• Robotics and Computer Vision
• Software Systems and Architecture

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Labs related to database

• Bioinformatics Research Laboratory
• Center for Intelligent Information Retrieval
• Information Extraction and Synthesis Laboratory
• Knowledge Discovery Laboratory
• Machine Learning Laboratory

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W. Richards Adrion

• Professor
• Bio
• 1971 Ph.D, University of Texas at Austin
• 1986-1994 Chair of CS 1986-1994
• Activity and award
• 2000-2002 Division Director for Experimental and
  Integrated Activities in the NSFDirectorate for
  Computer and Information Science and Engineering
  (CISE)
• 2000-2003 Senior Advisor in CISE
• Founder of ACM Trans. on software engineering and
  methodology
• Held position at U. of Texas, Oregon state Univ,
  NSF, NBS
• ACM fellow, AAAS fellow
• research
• the impact of instructional technology on
  teaching and learning
• the analysis and verification of concurrent,
  real-time computing systems
• applications and models for technology transfer
  and diffusion

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Neil Immerman

• Professor
• Bio
• Ph.D from Cornell University, 1980
• Faculty at UMass, 1989
• Activity and award
• 1995 Gödel Prize in theoretical computer science
• ACM Fellow
• Research
• Theory of Computation
• Main contribution
• key developers of an active research program
  called descriptive complexity, an approach he is
  currently applying to research in model checking,
  database theory, and computational complexity
  theory.

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James F Kurose

• Distinguished Professor, Computer Networks
  Laboratory
• Bio
• PhD Computer Science, Columbia University (1984)
• Assistant Professor in 1984, Associate Professor
  (1991), Full Professor (1996) , Distinguished
  Professor (2004)
• Activity and award
• founding Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE/ACM
  Transactions on Networking
• Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on
  Communications
• Associate Director of the NSF Engineering
  Research Center for Collaborative Adaptive
  Sensing of the Atmosphere (CASA)
• Receive many awards of teaching and service
• ACM, IEEE fellow
• Research
• network protocols and architecture, network
  measurement, sensor networks, multimedia
  communication, and modeling and performance
  evaluation

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Donald F Towsley

• University Distinguished Professor,Computer
  Networks Laboratory, Multimedia Systems
  Laboratory
• Bio
• PhD Comptuer Science, University of Texas (1975)
• EE, UMass, 1976
• CS, UMass, 1986
• Activity
• ACM, IEEE fellow
• Research
• Computer  networks, multimedia systems, 
  stochastic scheduling. modeling and performance
  evaluation
• Major contribution
• exact and approximate analyses of
  parallel/distributed applications and
  architectures

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Arnold L. Rosenberg

• Distinguished University Professor, theoretical
  Aspects of Parallel and Distributed Systems
  (TAPADS) Group
• Bio
• Ph.D., Applied Mathematics, Harvard University
  (1966)
• Research Staff Member at the IBM Watson Research
  Center from 1965 to 1981
• Duke University from 1981 to 1986
• Join UMass, 1986
• Awards
• Fellow of the ACM, a Fellow of the IEEE, and a
  Golden Core member of the IEEE Computer Society
• Research
• developing algorithmic models and techniques to
  deal with the new modalities of "collaborative
  computing" that result from emerging technologies
  such as cluster computing, web computing, and
  grid computing

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W. Bruce Croft

• Distinguished University Professor, director of
  Center for Intelligent Information Retrieval
• Bio
• Ph.D., Computer Science, University of Cambridge,
  England,1979
• Activity and award
• 1987-1991 Chair of SIGIR
• 1995 - 2002 Editor-in-Chief of the ACM Trans. on
  Information Systems from
• 2000 2003 Member of the National Research
  Councils Computer Science and Telecommunications
  Board
• 2000 Research Award from the American Society
  for Information Science and Technology
• 2003 Gerard Salton Award from the ACM SIGIR
• ACM fellow
• Research
• Information retrieval and digital libraries
• Main contribution
• Generative Language model for information
  retrieval
• Inference model for information retrieval

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James Allan

• Associate Professor at Center for Intelligent
  Information Retrieval
• Bio
• Ph.D., Computer Science, Cornell University,1995
• Post-doc at UMass, 1994
• Assistant professor, 1996
• Research
• topic detection and tracking (TDT)
• high accuracy retrieval from documents (HARD)
• summarization of information that changes over
  time
• automatic information organization
• interactive information retrieval and
  organization, including browsing and other
  human-computer interactions

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David D Jensen

• Associate Professor at Knowledge Discovery
  Laboratory
• Bio
• Dr. Sc, Washington University, 1992
• 1991-1995 Analyst with US Congress, the Office
  of Technology Assessment
• 1995 Faculty of UMass
• Research
• Relational knowledge discovery
• Statistical inference in induction algorithms
• Evaluation of systems for knowledge discovery and
  machine learning
• Learning in multiagent systems

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Andrew McCallum

• Associate Professor, Director, Information
  Extraction and Synthesis Laboratory
• Bio
• Ph.D., Computer Science, University of Rochester
  (1995)
• 1997 1999 Research Scientist and Research
  Coordinator, Just Research (Justsystem Pittsburgh
  Research Center).
• 2000-2002 Vice President of Research and
  Development at WhizBang Labs
• Join UMass in 2002, associate Professor in 2003
• 1998 present adjunct professor at CMU
• Research
• Cora Research Paper Search Engine
• WhizBang Labs information extraction from the
  Web with ML tech
• Conditional Probability Models for Sequences and
  other Relational Data
• Unified Information Extraction and Data Mining

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Gerome Miklau

• Assistant Professor
• Bio
• Ph.D, University of Washington, 2005
• Advisor Dan Suciu
• Research
• Database research with an emphasis on security
  database theory semi-structured data

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Yanlei Diao

• Assistant Professor
• Bio
• Ph.D, University of California, Berkeley, 2005.
• Advisor Michael J. Franklin
• Research
• Information architectures, data management
  systems
• Data streams, continuous query processing
• Publish/subscribe, data dissemination
• XML query processing
• Learning-based data processing