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Data Scientist Rayid Ghani Joins UChicago CS as Research Associate Professor
While data analytics, modeling, and machine learning are now standard practice in most businesses and industries, the public and non-profit sectors have yet to fully capitalize on these powerful methods. After his work as Chief Scientist for the Obama 2012 campaign,...
Eight New Faculty Join UChicagoCS for 2018-19 Academic Year
A new crop of faculty with expertise in networking, theory, human-computer interaction, computer vision, machine learning, and more will join the University of Chicago Department of Computer Science for the 2018-19 academic year. The eight new faculty members continue...
New UChicagoCS Faculty Junchen Jiang Combines Systems and Machine Learning
When someone streams a movie, TV show, or video call on today’s internet, it’s usually still a one-on-one conversation between device and content provider, built from scratch. With each use, an application tries to best utilize its existing network conditions, which...
Social MIND Project Blends Machine Learning and Social Science
Data-driven models are increasingly used to simulate and make predictions about complex systems, from online shopping preferences and the performance of the stock market to the spread of disease and political unrest. But while powerful methods in machine learning and...
University of Chicago launches Center for Data Science and Computing Research
The University of Chicago is launching the Center for Data and Applied Computing, a research center for developing new methods in computation and data analytics and applying them to ambitious projects across the full spectrum of science and scholarship. The Center for...