News
Dec 2024 Congrats to Abdulmateen for receiving UPE Outstanding Achievement Award!
Oct 2024 Dr. Shivika Prasanna will join Fidelity as principal data scientist!
Oct 2024 Served as Session Chair for CIKM 2024.
Sep 2024 Congrats to Rohitha Sresta and Sam Byerly for receiving the College of Engineering Undergraduate Research Fellowship!
Sep 2024 Congrats to Nader Abdelnabi for successfully passing his qualifying exam!
July 2024 Congrats to Chandrasekhar Syamala for successfully defending his MS thesis work!
July 2024 Received CyberTraining grant from NSF!
July 2024 Serving on ICDE 2025 Research Track PC.
May 2024 Congrats to Dr. Shivika Prasanna for successfully defending her PhD dissertation!
May 2024 Congrats to Ahmed Alhonainy for successfully completing the PhD comprehensive exam!
May 2024 Congrats to Sydney Poulsen for receiving the Mizzou Forward Undergraduate Research Training Grant!
Apr 2024 Received Outstanding Reviewer Award from ICDE 2024
Apr 2024 Congrats to Deshawn Sutton for 1st Place in Undergraduate Research Competition (Informatics Category) at Show Me Research Week!
Mar 2024 Received grant from a2 Pilot Awards Program
Feb 2024 Received grant from Alzheimer's Association
Dec 2023 Congrats to Sonia Akter for successfully passing the qualifying exam for PhD in Informatics!
Dec 2023 Congrats to Shivika Prasanna for receiving the UPE Scholarship Award!
October 2023 Served as session chair for CIKM 2023 Applied Research Track
August 2023 Congrats to Dr. Manas Das for joining Southern Illinois University Edwardsville!
July 2023 Congrats to Shivika Prasanna for successfully completing her comprehensive exam!
June 2023 Serving on ICDE 2024 Research Track PC
May 2023 Received EECS Sr. Faculty Excellence in Teaching and Mentoring Award, University of Missouri
May 2023 Congrats to Dr. Nouf Alrasheed for successfully defending her Ph.D. dissertation!
May 2023 Congrats to Shivika Prasanna for receiving EECS Outstanding Ph.D. Student Award!
March 2023 Filed a US patent for our work funded by the MU Coulter Program
March 2023 Serving as an Associate Editor of ACM Transaction on Probabilistic Machine Learning (TOPML)
March 2023 Received PLOS ONE Long Service Award
March 2023 Congrats to Shivika Prasanna for receiving the EDBT/ICDT Diversity & Inclusion Student Participation Award!
February 2023 Selected for the Mid-Career Research Development Fellows Program, University of Missouri
December 2022 Congrats to Nouf Alrasheed for successfully passing her Ph.D. comprehensive exam!
August 2022 Dr. Manas Das received a travel grant to attend NSF FABRIC KNIT5 Workshop in Chicago!
August 2022 Received a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) with Dr. Grieco.
July 2022 Congrats to Dr. Arun Zachariah for successfully defending his Ph.D. dissertation!
March 2022 Received a grant from the National Science Foundation for scalable human genome sequence analysis
January 2022 Congrats to Arun Zachariah for successfully completing his comprehensive exam!
December 2021 Congrats to Dr. Monica Senapati for successfully defending his PhD dissertation!
December 2021 Congrats to Dr. Srini Bhagavan for successfully defending his PhD dissertation!
November 2021 Congrats to Arun Zachariah for receiving the Upsilon Pi Epsilon Scholarship Award!
November 2021 Our paper was nominated for Best Short Paper Award at CIKM 2021!
July 2021 Received a grant from the MU Coulter Biomedical Accelerator Program.
May 2021 Congrats to Dr. Khulud Alsultan for successfully defending her PhD dissertation! She will be joining King Saud University (Saudi Arabia) as an assistant professor.
April 2021 Received CTSC pilot grant with Drs. James Spilsbury and Satya Sahoo
April 2021 Congrats to Srini Bhagavan for passing his Ph.D. comprehensive exam!
March 2021 Received MU SOM TRIUMPH funding with Drs. Emily Smith, Mirna Becevic, and Eduardo Simoes
December 2020 Congrats to Dr. Mohamed Gharibi for successfully defending his PhD dissertation!
July 2020 Invited speaker for 8th International Conference on Big Data Analytics (BDA) 2020
July 2020 Received NEH Grant for Digital Humanities Advancement (news)
June 2020 Received NSF RAPID Grant for COVID-19 (news)
Feb 2020 Nice article on our digital pathology work (full coverage)
Jan 2020 Awarded Collaborative Data Science Grant by UMKC.
Dec 2019 Two papers accepted to SPIE Defense + Commerical Sensing and selected for oral presentations.
Nov 2019 Congratulations to Mohamed Gharibi for passing his Ph.D. comprehensive exam!
Oct 2019 Congratulations to Daniel E. Lopez Barron for passing his Ph.D. comprehensive exam!
Aug 2019 Awarded a Tier 1 grant from the UM System (full coverage)
Feb 2019 Demo paper on DiSC accepted to the 35th IEEE Intl. Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), 2019
Feb 2019 Workshop paper on scalable first-order rule learning accepted to 1st IEEE ICDE Workshop on Large Scale Graph Data Analytics (LSGDA), 2019
Jan 2019 Congratulations to Monica Senapati and Nouf Alrasheed for receiving the UMKC Women's Council Graduate Assistance Fund (GAF) Award!
Jan 2019 Congratulations to Daniel Lopez Barron and Mohamed Gharibi for receiving the SGS Research Grant ($7,500) from University of Missouri-Kansas City!
Dec 2018 Received Funding for Excellence Grant from University of Missouri-Kansas City to investigate early detection of fake news on Twitter
Nov 2018 Delivered a Sterling Hou Lecture Series seminar talk titled "Enabling Scalable Learning on Massive Datasets" at University of Missouri-Columbia
Nov 2018 Congratulations to Dr. Anas Katib for successfully defending his Ph.D. dissertation!
Nov 2018 Journal paper on fast approximate score computation for score-based structure learning of Bayesian networks accepted to the ACM Trans. on Knowledge Discovery from Data (TKDD)
Oct 2018 Conference paper on cervical cancer cell classification using deep learning accepted to the 2019 SPIE Medical Imaging: Digital Pathology Conference
Aug 2018 Honored to be selected for this year's N.T. Veatch Award from UMKC
Aug 2018 Awarded NSF grant of $50,000 for the project titled "Scalable Storage of Whole Slide Images and Fast Retrieval of Tiles for Next-Generation Image Analytics"
Aug 2018 Selected to receive AFRL Extension Grant Award of $10,000
Jun 2018 Demo paper on RichRDF for food, energy, and water systems accepted to ISWC 2018!
Jun 2018 Selected for the Visiting Faculty Research Program at AFRL
May 2018 Congrats to Khulud Alsultan for receiving the 2018 Grace Hopper Celebration (GHC) for Women in Computing scholarship!
Mar 2018 Talk on cyberthreats and social media at IEEE Computer Society meeting in KC
Mar 2018 Invited to join the editorial board of PLOS ONE
Feb 2018 NSF IUCRC Center for Big Learning at UMKC has been awarded funding by NSF!
Jan 2018 Featured on UMatters
Jan 2018 Congrats to Monica Senapati for receiving the UMKC Women’s Council Graduate Assistance Fund (GAF)!
Dec 2017 Congrats to Mohamed Gharibi for being selected to the UMKC Preparing Future Faculty Program!
Dec 2017 Congrats to Dig Vijay Kumar Yarlagadda and Mohamed Gharibi for successfully defending their MS thesis work!
Oct 2017 Our paper on scalable storage and retrieval of whole slide images using Apache Spark has been accepted to the SPIE Medical Imaging Conference
Aug 2017 Our demo paper on RIQ has been accepted to ISWC 2017
Aug 2017 Samaa Gazzaz accepts a lecturer position at King Abdulaziz University in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
Aug 2017 Congratulations to Samaa Gazzaz for successfully completing her MS thesis work!
Apr 2017 Book chapter accepted to Surveillance in Action -Technologies for Civilian, Military and Cyber Surveillance, Springer
Apr 2017 Delivered a talk at Syracuse University on scalable score computation for learning multinomial Bayesian networks
Mar 2017 We are now a site for NSF I/UCRC Center for Big Learning
Jan 2017 Congrats to Venubabu Kolla for successfully defending his MS thesis work!
Oct 2016 See recent publications in IEEE SocialSec 2016 and AAAI 2017 Workshop on Distributed Machine Learning for new directions being explored by the team
Oct 2016 Congratulations to Samaa Gazzaz for winning 3rd place in the ACM Student Research Competition at the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing 2016!
Oct 2016 Serving as an associate editor for the Journal of Healthcare Informatics Research, Springer
Sep 2016 Organizing 2nd International Workshop on Health Data Management and Mining (HDMM 2017) co-located with ICDE 2017
Aug 2016 Congratulations to Anas Katib for being selected to the UMKC Preparing Future Faculty (PFF) Program
Aug 2016 Hastimal Jangid successfully defends his MS thesis; he will join WebbMason in Baltimore, MD
Jul 2016 Proposal funded by UMKC Provost's Strategic Funding Initiative to recruit nine high-quality, domestic PhD students
Jul 2016 Received the National Research Council Research Associateship Programs Senior Research Award
Jun 2016 Congratulations to Oswaldo Cuen Tellez for successfully defending his PhD thesis at Autonomous University of Sinaloa, Culiacan, Mexico!
Jun 2016 Samaa Gazzaz receives scholarship grant to attend and present a poster titled "Harnessing Kansas City Open Data to Improve the Lives of Citizens" at the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing 2016
Apr 2016 Anas Katib received Outstanding PhD Student in Computer Science Award from the Dept. of Computer Science & Electrical Engineering at UMKC
Mar 2016 Received UMKC's Award for Excellence in Mentoring Undergraduate Researchers, Scholars, and Artists (picture)
Mar 2016 Journal paper on graph indexing and query processing accepted for publication in the Journal of Computer and System Sciences (JCSS), Elsevier
Mar 2016 Journal paper on RDF query processing accepted for publication in the Journal of Web Semantics (JWS), Elsevier
Mar 2016 Selected for 2016 AFRL Summer Faculty Fellowship
Feb 2016 Congratulations to Vinutha Nuchimaniyanda for successfully defending her MS thesis!
Feb 2016 Advanced seminar on "Mobile Computing, Internet of Things, and Big Data for Urban Informatics" accepted to the 17th IEEE International Conference on Mobile Data Management (MDM) 2016 (with Profs. Anirban Mondal and Sanjay Madria)
Jan 2016 Received a grant from the NSF Division of Industrial Innovation and Partnerships (IIP)
Oct 2015 Organizing International Workshop on Health Data Management and Mining (HDMM) co-located with ICDE 2016
Sep 2015 Victoria Wu receives a scholarship grant to attend and present a poster at the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing (GHC 2015)
Sep 2015 Received an extension grant from Air Force Research Lab (AFRL)
Sep 2015 Li Wang joins Prof. Sahoo's team as a software developer at Case Western Reserve University
Aug 2015 Journal paper accepted in Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine (CMPB) journal
Aug 2015 Journal paper accepted in the Journal of Biomedical Informatics (JBI) (with Prof. Scott Campbell et.al.)
Aug 2015 Received NSF/TCPP CDER Center Early Adopters Award (with Prof. Kuhail et.al.) (link)
July 2015 Delivered a talk at Xerox Research Center India (XRCI) in Bangalore
July 2015 Vinutha Nuchimaniyanda was awarded a scholarship grant to attend the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing (GHC 2015)
May 2015 Victoria Wu will present a poster on SPARQL query optimization for Linked Data at the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing (GHC 2015)
May 2015 Received a grant from the University of Missouri Research Board (UMRB)
May 2015 Received a Microsoft Azure Research Award (with Prof. Ossama Tawfik, KU Medical Center)
April 2015 Samaa Gazzaz receives UMKC Summer Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (SUROP) grant
April 2015 Tutorial on "Provenance Analysis and RDF Query Processing" accepted at ISWC 2015 (with Prof. Satya Sahoo, Case Western)
April 2015 Congratulations to Dr. Vasil Slavov for successfully defending his PhD thesis
April 2015 Selected for the 2015 Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) Summer Faculty Fellowship Program (SFFP)
Mar 2015 Congrats to Li Wang for accepting a job offer from Yaap Up, Inc.
Feb 2015 Anas Katib awarded the School of Graduate Studies Research Grant worth $7,000
Jan 2015 Li Wang successfully defends his MS thesis work
Nov 2014 Invited to serve as a review editor for Frontiers in ICT: Big Data (website)
Nov 2014 Invited to serve as a panelist in the Big Data Summit KC, Kansas City (website)
Nov 2014 Spoke at the seminar series in the MU Informatics Institute, University of Missouri-Columbia
Oct 2014 Congrats to Imrul Siddique for accepting a job offer from Cerner, MO
Oct 2014 Congrats to Vasil Slavov for receiving an offer from Bloomberg, NY
July 2014 Delivered a talk at Pusan National University, Busan
July 2014 Visiting Database Systems Laboratory, Seoul National University, Seoul
May 2014 Vasil Slavov passed his PhD Comprehensive Exam
May 2014 Workshop paper accepted to WebDB 2014
April 2014 Participate in the UMKC IBM BlueMix Hackathon
April 2014 Serving on ICDE 2015 Program Committee (Applications Track)
April 2014 Special Issue on "Advanced Big Data Management and Analytics for Ubiquitos Sensors," Intl. Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks (IJDSN), (CFP)
March 2014 UMKC selected for the IBM BlueMix Beta Program
December 2013 Anas Katib successfully defended his MS thesis work
November 2013 Spoke at BDKC 2013 (Big Data-Kansas City Festival) on Big Data Education and Training (website)
October 2013 Conference paper accepted to IEEE ICDE 2014 (demo)
August 2013 Srivenu Paturi and Dinesh Barenkala successfully defended their MS thesis work
July 2013 Journal paper accepted to Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine (CMPB)
June 2013 Received IBM Big Data & Analytics Faculty Award (press release)
May 2013 Conference paper accepted to IEEE ICHI 2013
May 2013 Promoted with tenure to the rank of associate professor
March 2013 Journal paper accepted to the VLDB Journal