Computational Informatics
The Computational Informatics track of the IST Ph.D. program trains information scientists to create innovative algorithms, computational models, and cyberinfrastructure for storing, searching, processing, mining, fusing, synthesizing, and understanding large-scale information from data, text, images, video, and social networks.
Research Centers and Labs
- Center for Network-centric Cognition and Information Fusion (NC2IF)
- The Intelligent Information Systems Laboratory (IIS)
- Laboratory for Intelligent Agents
- Penn State Information, Knowledge, and Web (PIKE) Group
- Institute for CyberScience
Research Projects/Faculty Contacts
- EMERSE: Enhanced Messaging for the Emergency Response SEctor (John Yen, Prasenjit Mitra, Jim Jansen, Andrea H. Tapia, Lee Giles, and Dinghao Wu)
- CiteSeerX: Next Generation Search Engine for Scholarship Publication Networks (Lee Giles)
- ChemXSeer: An e-Science Cyberinfrastructure for Chemists (Lee Giles, Prasenjit Mitra)
- Automated Tagging and Learning-based Indexing and Retrieval of Images (James Wang)
- NSF CAREER: An Integrated Framework for Extracting and Utilizing Information from Tables and Figures in Digital Libraries (Prasenjit Mitra)
- Unearthing Latent Information Segments of Academic Videos on the Web (Dongwon Lee)
- Mining and Analysis of Search Queries and Micro-blogging (Jim Jansen)
- MURI: Unified Research on Network-based Hard/Soft Information Fusion (David Hall)
- RCAST: Cognitively-inspired Agents as Teammates and Decision Aids (John Yen, Michael McNeese)
- Ontology-driven Information Systems for Sustainability of the Brazilian Amazon (Fred Fonseca)
Interdisciplinary Research
- Cyberinfrastructure and Research Facilities: Developing Collaboratory Tools to Facilitate Multi-Disciplinary, Multi-Scale Research in Environmental Molecular Sciences, (Lee Giles, Prasenjit Mitra, Karl Mueller, Barbara Garrison, and James Kubicki)
- Extreme Events System Lab Integration with Education and Training (David Hall, Michael McNeese, Carleen Maitland, and Andrea Tapia)
- Immersive Security Education Environment (I-SEE) Using Second Life (Dongwon Lee and Jungwoo Ryoo)
- Relational Network Analysis and Complexity for WMD Intention Discovery (Frank Ritter, Peng Liu, and Prasenjit Mitra)
- COHORT: Computational Modeling of NGO Coordination Behaviors for Extreme Events (Carleen Maitland, Andrea Tapia, and John Yen)
Ph.D. Thesis Publications
- "Markets as an Information Aggregation Mechanism for Decision Support." Yiling Chen (Assistant Professor, Harvard University), 2005.
- "Characterizing Scientific Contributions Through Automatic Acknowledgement Indexing and Citation Analysis." Isaac Council (IBM Almaden Research), 2006.
- "Multi-Agent Systems for Data-Rich, Information-Poor Environments." Avasarala Viswanath (Research Scientist, Industrial AI Lab, GE Global Research), 2006.
- "Towards Inferring Biologically Informative Protein-Protein Interactions." Ya Zhang (Assistant Professor, University of Kansas), 2009.
- "Mining Feedback in Ranking and Recommendation Systems." Ziming Zhuang (Yahoo!), 2009.
