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You Lu

You Lou was a Ph.D. student in the Department of Computer Science. He was co-advised by Bert Huang and Naren Ramakrishnan. His research areas are structured prediction, probabilistic graphical models, variational inference, and deep generative models.

DAC Student Spotlight: You Lu

You Lu knew that the Discovery Analytics Center would be a great fit for his research when he applied to the Virginia Tech Ph.D. program in computer science. “I had heard about Professor Bert Huang and knew that he and I were working in a similar research area — graphical models,” said Lu. “I felt […]

Media use by young Tunisians during the 2011 revolution vs 2014 elections

Virtual Shop Clusters – A New Layout Concept for a Ship Repair and Maintenance Facility

A New Annotation Method and Dataset for Layout Analysis of Long Documents

Aman Ahuja, Kevin Dinh, Brian Dinh, William A. Ingram, Edward A. Fox: A New Annotation Method and Dataset for Layout Analysis of Long Documents. WWW (Companion Volume) 2023: 834-842

Innovation Campus solidifies plans for faculty recruitment, research areas of focus, and curriculum

Atop a new wave of support from the Fralin Life Sciences Institute, Peter Vikesland, the Nick Prillaman Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, is leading a research team in creating wireless sensor networks to survey microbial threats to water quality and to enable operational control and provide real-world feedback for public transparency. The project, Technology-enabled Water Surveillance and […]

Focus on Wei Wang…..a DAC alumnus interview

Wei Wang graduated with a Ph.D. in computer science in 2017 and joined the Language and Information Technology (LIT) group at Microsoft Research, Redmond, Washington, as an applied scientist. Recently, he was promoted to senior applied scientist. Did transitioning from academia to industry hold any real surprises for you? For the most part, problems that […]

Focus on Mahmud Shahriar Hossain…..a DAC alumnus interview

Mahmud Shahriar Hossain was recently promoted to associate professor of computer science, with tenure, at the University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP). He leads the university’s Discovery Analytics Lab. Hossain earned his Ph.D. in computer science from Virginia Tech in 2012 and joined UTEP as an assistant professor in 2013. While at the Discovery […]

DAC Student Spotlight: Thomas Lux

Thomas Lux does not hesitate when it comes to setting long-term goals. “After graduation I would like to work somewhere that allows me to devote my time to pursuing research in artificial general intelligence,” he said. “I can easily see myself at an industry/government lab, in academia, or in a small startup. I will be […]

Focus on Huijuan Shao…..a DAC alumnus interview

Since graduating in 2016 with a Ph.D. in computer science, Huijuan Shao has transitioned from academia to industry. For nine months, she was a research associate at George Washington University where she developed regular expression models with Java to extract clinical variables from cancer pathology reports and tuned queries performance in PostgreSQL when searching from […]