Expertise

Research Interests: 

  • Artificial intelligence, machine learning, information retrieval, and natural language processing

My research interests are in natural language processing, artificial intelligence, deep learning, and information retrieval.

Current Research Projects

  • From Data to Knowledge: Extracting and Utilizing Scholarly Knowledge Graphs
  • CiteSeerX: A Scholarly Big Dataset
  • Keyphrase Extraction in Document Networks
  • Establishing Trustworthy Citizen-Created Data for Disaster Response and Humanitarian Action
  • Towards Privacy Preserving Online Image Sharing

My research interests are in artificial intelligence, machine learning, data mining, information retrieval, and natural language processing, with applications to text and image analysis, and social network analysis.


Subject Areas:

  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Machine Learning and Data Mining
  • Natural Language Processing
  • Security and Privacy
Affiliations

Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science, Carl R. Ice College of Engineering, Kansas State University
2018

Professor, Department of Computer Science, College of Engineering, University of Illinois Chicago
2022

Past Affiliations

Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science, College of Engineering, University of Illinois at Chicago (past)

Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, College of Engineering, University of North Texas (past)

Degrees
PhD, Iowa State University, Ames, Computer Science, 2009
BS, University of Bucharest, Romania, Computer Science, 1997