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March 2016  Prof Eugene Agichtein to give invited talk at Wiki Workshop 2016
Professor Eugene Agichtein was invited to present at the Wiki Workshop 2016 at the WWW 2016 conference in Montreal.
December 2015  Congratulations to Prof. Ymir Vigfusson for winning the NSF CAREER Award
Professor Ymir VIgfusson receives a prestigious early-career development 5 year grant from NSF CISE CNS for his project on Rethinking the Cache Abstraction. More information: http://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1553579
November 2015  Congratulations to Prof. Shamim Nemati on the NIH Career Award (K01)
Professor Shamim Nemati receives a 5 year NIH Career Development Award (K01) in biomedical big data science (BD2K) to develop deep learning algorithms for prediction of adverse events in the intensive care unit (ICU). More information:  https://projectreporter.nih.gov/project_description.cfm?projectnumber=1K01ES025445-01A1
November 2015  Prof. Lance Waller to present invited lectures
Professor Lance Waller was invited to present at the Workshop on Complex Spatiotemporal Data Structures: Methods and Applications at the Fields Institute for Research in Mathematical Sciences at the University of Toronto. He was also invited to present a lecture (one of four in series), for the Science and the Common Good Lecture Series at Ursinus College
October 2015  Congratulations to Prof. Qi Long on election to International Statistics Institute
 Professor Qi Long is named an elected member of the International Statistical Institute in October, 2015: http://www.isi-web.org/images/news/2015%20ISI_Memb%20Elect%202015-3_News%20Item.pdf.
October 2015  Congratulations to Sanjay Agravat who successfully defended his PhD Dissertation!
Sanjay will join the Harvard Medical School as a postdoctoral researcher in the center for functional glycomics. Sanjay was advised by Dr. Lee Cooper.
August 2015 Prof. Veneziani's paper selected for 2014 "Best of Computing" List"
A pioneering paper on a novel combination of FEM and spectral approaches by Alessandro Veneziani (Emory) and his collaborator Simona Perrotto (Politecnico Milano) has been selected by ACM for its 19th Annual Best of Computing -- Notable Books and Articles list. More here. 
August 2015 Prof. Li Xiong to give a keynote at the Privacy Preserving IR 2015 Workshop and to participate in a data privacy panel at the USENIX Summit on Information Technologies for Health (HealthTech '15). 
July 2015 Congratulations to Luca Bonomi who successfully defended his PhD dissertation! Luca will join University of California at San Diego as a postdoctoral fellow. Congratulations to his advisor, Prof. Li Xiong.
July 2015 Yahoo! FREP awarded to Prof. Eugene Agichtein
Yahoo!’s Faculty Research and Engagement Program is designed to produce the highest quality scientific collaborations and outcomes by engaging with faculty members working in areas of mutual interest. More information: Yahoo Labs announcement.
July 2015 NIH R01 awarded to Dr. Li Xiong
The project SHARE: Statistical Health Information Release with Differential Privacy in collaboration with the NCBC iDASH is funded by NIH R01. Congratulations Dr. Xiong.
May 2015  NIH/NCI  U24 grant awarded to Lee Cooper
The $3.5M award from the Informatics Technology for Cancer Research Program will be used to develop a software platform for "Big" pathology datasets. More information: Emory press release.
January 2015 North American Computational Linguistics Olympiad hosted by Emory University
On Jan 29, 2015, the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science and the Program in Linguistics hosted the North American Computational Linguistics Olympiad. NACLO is a contest in which high school students solve problems in computational linguistics. Winners of the competition can participate in an invitational round, which can ultimately lead to participation in an international competition. This year Emory joined other top universities (52 in all) in hosting the event, and was  the only school in the SouthEast. The main organizers of the event were Jinho Choi from Computer Science and Phillip Wolff from Linguistics.
November 2014 Congratulations to Dmitry Lagun, who successfully defended his PhD dissertation! Dmitry is joining Google as a Research Scientist. Congratulations also to his advisor, Prof. Eugene Agichtein.
October 2014 Dr. Jinho Choi wins Yahoo Labs ACE Award
Jinho Choi, Assistant Professor in MathCS and QuanTM is one of five recipients worldwide of Yahoo Lab's 2014 Academic Career Enhancement (ACE) award. Jinho’s research focuses on the optimization of natural language processing for "robustness" on various data and "scalability" on large data. A full news item is at http://labs.yahoo.com/news/2014-yahoo-ace-award-recipients-selected/. Congratulations Prof. Choi!
September 2014  Dr. Li Xiong's project on Building Data Registries with Privacy and Confidentiality for PCOR in collaboration with Emory BMI and UCSD was funded by PCORI! (Emory press release)
July 2014  Congratulations to Dmitry Lagun on winning Best Student Paper Award at the SIGIR 2014 conference!
Dmitry is a Ph.D. student in the IR Lab, advised by Prof. Eugene Agichtein
April 2014  Congratulations to Prof. Eugene Agichtein on Karen Sparck Jones (KSJ) Award from the British Computer Society
Prof. Eugene Agichtein has been awarded the 2013 British Computer Society Karen Spärck-Jones Award for several important contributions to search and web data mining with a focus on user interaction data. The award was presented at the 2014 European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2014) in Amsterdam, where he was the opening keynote speaker. The full award citation is posted on the British Computer Society website.
February 2014  Congratulations to Dmitry Lagun on winning Best Student Paper Award at the WSDM 2014 conference!
Dmitry is a Ph.D. student in the IR Lab, advised by Prof. Eugene Agichtein