Events

2009

  • 11/16/2009, hosted Dr. Xindong Wu's seminar "Error-Tolerant Data Mining" at UMass Boston.
  • 11/09/2009, invited talk at the University of Houston (Host: Dr. Ricardo Vilalta)
  • 10/14/2009-10/16/2009, attended and presented at the NASA AISR PI Meeting and CIDU conference on Intelligent Data Understanding
  • 10/01/2009, invited talk at WPI (Host: Dr. Wenjing Lou)
  • 09/30/2009, hosted the first meeting of Women in Science (Co-Host: Dr. Nurit Haspel and Dr. Betty O'Neil)
  • 09/24/2009, hosted Dr. Kevin Knight's seminar "Automatic Translation of Human Languages" at UMass Boston.
  • 09/14/2009, invited talk at the University of Vermont (Host: Dr. Xindong Wu)
  • 09/11/2009, presented at the Teaching with Technology at UMass Boston (Host: Dr. Eleanor Kutz)
  • 07/13/2009-07/17/2009, attended IJCAI-09, Pasadena, CA
  • 07/13/2009, visited the Info Lab at USC (Host: Dr. Cyrus Shahabi)
  • 07/11/2009-07/12/2009, attended the CRA-W Career Mentoring Workshop, Pasadena, CA
  • 06/15/2009-08/26/2009, Visiting Scientist at the Lunar and Planetary Institute (Host: Dr. Tom Stepinski)
  • 5/21/2009-6/5/2009, attended and presented the paper “A Fully Unsupervised Word Sense Disambiguation Method and Its Evaluation on Coarse-grained All-words Task” at Human language Technologies: The 2009 Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL HLT 2009), University of Colorado at Boulder, Colorado
  • 04/30/2009-05/02/2009, presented a paper on "Discovery of Geospatial Discriminating Patterns from Remote Sensing Datasets" at SIAM International Conference on Data Mining, Sparks, Nevada
  • 04/23/2009, invited talk at the University of Massachusetts Lowell (hosted by Dr. Guanling Chen and Dr. Fred Martin)
  • 04/20/2009, submission due, Call for Papers for the Workshop on Social Networks, Applications, and Systems (SNAS'09).
  • 04/04/2009 - 04/05/2009, attended an NSF-Sponsored CDC Academic Career Workshop, Portland, Oregon
  • 03/27/2009, selected for funding, $285,163 for 3 years, "Automatic Detection of Sub-Kilometer Craters in High Resolution Planetary Images," NASA Applied Information Systems Research (AISR) element of the Research Opportunities in Space and Earth Science.
  • 03/13/2009, two internal grants awarded, UMass Boston Proposal Development Grant and Joseph P. Healey Grant
  • 03/05/2009, invited talk at the University of Houston-Clear Lake (hosted by Dr. Sharon Hall)
  • 01/28/2009, invited talk at George Mason University (hosted by Dr. Jeff Offutt and Dr. Paul Ammann)
  • 01/08/2009 - 01/09/2009, attended an NSF workshop on GeoSpatial & GeoTemporal Informatics
2008

  • 12/7/2008, the first snow of the season is falling in Boston
  • 11/17/2008 - 11/19/2008, presented a poster on "Parsing Tree Maching Based Question Answering" at the TAC 2008 Workshop, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, Maryland USA
  • 11/4/2008 - 11/7/2008, presented a paper on "Discovering Controlling Factors of Geospatial Variables" and received a best poster-presentation award at ACM SIGSpatial 2008 (we have two papers accepted), Irvine, CA
  • 9/12/2008, gave a talk at the department of Environmental Earth and Ocean Sciences, UMass Boston, on "Applications of Spatial Data Mining"
  • 5/23/2008, attended and presented the paper "Towards region discovery in spatial datasets," at PAKDD'08, Osaka, Japan
  • April 2008, awarded, ISSO proposal "Computer-aided Detection of Sub-Kilometer Craters in High Resolution Planetary Images"
  • 1/23/2008, invited talk, "Discovering regional knowledge from spatial datasets," Natural Science Seminar, University of Houston-Clear Lake
2007