Sudipta Kar was awarded the Best PhD Student of 2019 from the Department of Computer Science @ UH.
Sudipta’s work was featured in KHOU News.
Reza gets Adobe Research Fellowship for the academic year 2018-2019!
The Adobe Research Fellowship recognizes outstanding graduate students anywhere in the world carrying out exceptional research in areas of computer science important to Adobe. Reza was able to get Adobe Research Fellowship for the academic year 2018-2019.
Pastor wins Best PhD Dissertation Award by SMIA
The Mexican Society for Artificial Intelligence (SMIA) awarded the first place for PhD dissertation to Pastor’s work. He will receive the award at the banquet of the 16th Mexican International Conference for Artificial Intelligence next week in Ensenada, Baja California. Kudos to Pastor!
Niloofar and Deepthi get GHC Student Scholarship 2017
Niloofar and Deepthi have received GHC Student Scholarship to attend the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing-2017, in Orlando, Florida. More details about GHC here.
Deepthi gets selected to attend CRA-W GradCohort 2017
Deepthi will be attending the CRA-W GradCohort 2017 taking place this year at the Marriott Marquis in Washington D.C. on April 7-8, 2017. The CRA-Women Graduate Cohort Workshop is a mentoring program, for graduate women in computing or related fields, designed to help build a networking cohort during graduate school…
Papers accepted at EACL-2017
Our papers titled “A Multi-task Approach to Predict Likability of Books” and “Convolutional Neural Networks for Authorship Attribution of Short Texts” were accepted to EACL 2017. Congratulations to our PhD students Suraj and Prasha and to our collaborators John, Sebastian, Prof. Fabio and Prof. Manuel. Daycare Centers in Kondapur
Congratulations to Sudipta and Suraj for securing second position in SemEval’2017 Task 5 – Subtask 2
SemEval-2017 Task 5: Fine-Grained Sentiment Analysis on Financial Microblogs and News focuses on analyzing the sentiments and opinions on financial data that can affect market dynamics. There were two subtasks: Subtask 1: Calculate polarity score from microblog posts collected from Twitter and Stocktwits. Subtask 2: Calculate polarity score from financial news headlines…
Congratulations to Suraj, Mohammed and Younes for securing first position in CogALex-V shared task-1
“Cogalex-V Shared Task on the Corpus-Based Identification of Semantic Relations” focuses on discovering the semantic relation between words. There are two subtasks: the first task is to decide if two words are semantically related and the second task is to decide the semantic relation between them. For more information on the…
Keynote Speech at the First Mexican Workshop on Plagiarism Detection and Authorship Analysis
I’ve been invited to be the keynote speaker at the First Mexican Workshop on Plagiarism Detection and Authorship Analysis. The program for the event is here: First Mexican Workshop on Plagiarism Detection and Authorship Analysis Details of my Talk are below: Demystifying the power of character n-grams in attribution tasks…