ASU

Yezhou Yang

Yezhou Yang

Dr. Yang is an Assistant Professor at School of Computing, Informatics, and Decision Systems Engineering (CIDSE), Arizona State University. His primary interests lie in Cognitive Robotics, Computer Vision, and Robot Vision, especially exploring visual primitives in human action understanding from visual input, grounding them by natural language as well as high-level reasoning over the primitives for intelligent robots. His research mainly focused on solutions to visual learning, which significantly reduces the time to program intelligent agents.

Gail-Joon Ahn, ASU Site co-Director

Gail-Joon Ahn, ASU Site co-Director

Prof. Ahn is Director of Laboratory of Security Engineering for Future Computing (SEFCOM). His research has been supported by NSF, NSA, DoD, ARO, ONR, DoE, Bank of America, Apriva, GoDaddy, Hewlett Packard, Microsoft and Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. He serves in a leading role in the ACTRA (Arizona Cyber Threat Response Alliance) which is independent but closely affiliated with the FBI’s Arizona InfraGard Program. He is a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP).

Chitta Baral

Chitta Baral

Prof. Baral’s main research interests are threefold: (i) developing language constructs and surrounding building block results for representing knowledge and reasoning with it, (ii) developing a theory of actions and their impact on an environment and using it in autonomous agent design, planning and diagnosis, (iii) Using (i) and (ii) in modeling cell behavior and reasoning with it to explain observations and develop plans of action so as to alter pathways that could suggest therapeutic procedures.

K. Selcuk Candan, Center Director, ASU Site Director

K. Selcuk Candan, Center Director, ASU Site Director

Prof. Candan’s primary research interests are in the area of efficient and scalable management and analysis of heterogeneous (such as sensed and streaming media, web and social media, scientific, and enterprise) data and data clouds.  He is a founding member of ASU’s Information Assurance Center and a senior sustainability scientist at ASU’s Global Institute of Sustainability (GIOS), one of whose missions is to connect researchers with businesses and industry. He has served as a Visiting Scientist at NEC for ~10 years and had collaborations with IBM, HP, JCI, Early Warning, Telecom Italia, and RAI Labs among others. He has 10 patents.  He is a member of the Executive Committee of the ACM Special Interest Group on Management of Data (SIGMOD).

Hasan Davulcu, ASU Site co-Director

Hasan Davulcu, ASU Site co-Director

Prof. Davulcu's research is in data mining and information assurance. Prior to joining ASU, US DOD's Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) funded his work in industry. The intelligent agent product that he developed, while at a software startup, was the recipient of a Long Island Software Achievement Award. He is currently the PI for an NSF Partnership for Innovation grant in which he collaborates with Candan and Early Warning services LLC, to develop a platform to enable integration and enrichment of limited private financial data with larger publicly available data sets to detect fraud and reduce losses due to fraudulent transactions. His recent research in socio-cultural modeling and analysis is funded by a US Department of Defense (DOD) Minerva Award.

Adam Doupé

Adam Doupé

Prof. Doupé is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at ASU and the co-Director of the Laboratory of Security Engineering for Future Computing (SEFCOM). His research focuses on all aspects of keeping Internet users safe, by securing all levels of the computing stack, including web applications, mobile devices, and enterprise networks. 

Jingrui He

Jingrui He

Prof.  He's research interests include rare category analysis and heterogeneous machine learning with applications in social media analysis, healthcare, semiconductor manufacturing, traffic prediction. She is the recipient of the 2014 IBM Faculty Award and has published more than 40 referred articles. She is the author of the book on Analysis of Rare categories (Springer-Verlag, 2011) and has served on the organizing/senior program committees of many top-tier conferences, including ICML, KDD, IJCAI, ICDM, and SDM.

Dijiang Huang

Dijiang Huang

Prof. Huang's research interests are in Cloud Computing, Computer and Network Security, Mobile ad Hoc Networks, and Network Virtualization. Dr. Huang's research is supported by federal agencies NSF, ONR, NRL, ARO, and NATO, and organizations such as Consortium of Embedded System (CES), Hewlett-Packard, and China Mobile. He is a recipient of ONR Young Investigator Award and HP Innovation Research Program (IRP) Award. He is a co-founder of Athena Network Solutions (Athenets) providing a virtualized hands-on project running environment. He is currently leading the Secure Networking and Computing (SNAC) research group at ASU.

Subbarao Kambhampati

Subbarao Kambhampati

Prof. Kambhampati's research interests are in AI, automated planning, information integration, and data cleaning. His recent industrial collaborations include IBM and Google. He is a fellow and "president-elect" of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI). 

Baoxin Li

Baoxin Li

Prof. Li's research research focuses on image and video processing, computer vision, statistical inference and multimedia content indexing and analysis, with applications to visual computing for people with visual impairment, medical image analysis, and vision based robotics. Prior to joining ASU he was a Senior Researcher with SHARP Laboratories of America.

Huan Liu

Huan Liu

Prof. Liu’s research focuses on social network analysis, machine learning (ensemble methods, active learning, rule extraction, feature selection and discretization, subspace clustering), data mining (data quality and integration, stream data reduction, bioinformatics, algorithm scaling-up) and real world applications (CRM, Egeria detection in imagery, intelligent driving data analysis, recommender systems). He Liu joined ASU after conducting research in Telecom (Telstra) Australia Research labs. 

Ross Maciejewski

Ross Maciejewski

Prof. Maciejewski's primary research interests are in developing novel tools and methods for exploring, analyzing and visualizing data across a variety of domains including climate, public health, social media, criminal incident reports and dietary analysis. How work explores the extraction and linking of disparate data sources exploring combinations of structured geographic data to unstructured social media data to enhance situational awareness.  

Paolo Papotti

Paolo Papotti

Prof. Papotti's research is focused on systems that assist users in complex, necessary tasks and that scale to large datasets with efficient algorithms and distributed platforms. He is the recipient of a Google Faculty Award, has published more than referred 60 articles, and is work has been recognized with a best demo award at SIGMOD 2015. He has served on the organizing/senior program committees of many top-tier conferences, including SIGMOD, VLDB, and ICDE, and is associate editor for the ACM Journal of Data and Information Quality (JDIQ).

Maria Luisa Sapino, International Research Liaison

Maria Luisa Sapino, International Research Liaison

Prof. Sapino's  current research interests are in the areas of heterogeneous (including multimedia) data management, with strong emphasis on tackling the so called "Big Data challenges", including aspects related to the development of efficient techniques for tensor based big data analysis, and on various aspects related to indexing, classification, and querying of a large spectrum of data types. She is currently active in multiple interdisciplinary and industrial projects (including with RAI, Compagnia di San Paolo, and JCI) in building energy data management, epidemic data management, smart cities, and sustainable environments.

Mohamed Sarwat

Mohamed Sarwat

Prof Sarwat is designing and developing data management systems (e.g., database systems) that enable new emerging applications (e.g., recommender systems, location-based services, social networking, mobile applications), new data types (e.g., spatial data, graph data), and new workload. His research also includes support for non-traditional computing paradigms (e.g., Cloud computing, Cluster computing) and new hardware system architectures (e.g., flash memory storage, non-volatile memory).

Paulo Shakarian

Paulo Shakarian

Prof. Shakarian specializes in data mining, social network analysis, and cyber security.  His group, the Cyber-Socio Intelligent Systems Laboratory (CySIS) is focused on the  development new of novel techniques to tackle data mining problems relating to socio-cultural systems as well as cyber-physical systems.  Specific focus application areas include social media analytics, law enforcement, malware analysis, deep web mining, and infrastructure protection.

Yasin Silva

Yasin Silva

Prof. Silva’s research focuses on scalable and efficient database systems. The focus of his research is two-fold: advancing database systems to respond to requirements of multiple emerging applications (e.g., exploratory data analysis, decision support, and social networking), and extending fundamental concepts of database systems to new data management platforms (e.g., big data systems). His specific areas of interest include: similarity-aware data analysis (e.g., similarity search and similarity-based clustering), database query processing and optimization, big data analytics, privacy assurance in databases, and scientific database systems.

Hanghang Tong

Hanghang Tong

Prof. Tong's research interest is in large scale data mining for graphs and multimedia, with applications to social networks analysis, healthcare, cyber-security and e-commerce. He has published over 80 referred articles and more than 20 patents. He is the associated editor of ACM SIGKDD Explorations and has served as a program committee member in top data mining, databases and artificial intelligence venues. Before joining ASU, he was a research staff menber at IBM T.J Watson Research Center.

Teresa Wu

Teresa Wu

Prof. Wu's  research interests include health informatics, swarm intelligent algorithms for distributed decisions. Her research has been sponsored by NSF, DoD, NIH, DoED. She works closely with industry and has been involved in several industrial projects for Intel, IBM and Mayo Clinic. Her research collaborators in health informatics are from Mayo Clinic, Banner Alzheimer Institute, Duke CIVM Center, University of Nebraska Medical Center. In 2011, she is appointed as an associate professor of Radiology in Mayo Clinic College of Medicine. 

Ming Zhao

Ming Zhao

Prof. Ming Zhao directs the research laboratory for Virtualized Infrastructures, Systems, and Applications (VISA). His research is in the areas of experimental computer systems, including
distributed/cloud, big-data, and high-performance computing systems. He is also interested in the interdisciplinary studies that bridge computer systems research with other domains. His research has generated significant real-world impacts and been used by various production systems. His work on a cloud storage caching is now deployed at a leading European cloud company, CloudVPS, and adopted by many others (e.g., Facebook) to provide scalable cloud storage and benefit both cloud providers and users. He has collaborated with IBM on the performance virtualization of high-performance parallel storage systems. He has also received a VMware faculty award to work on the QoS issues of data-intensive computing systems.

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