We would like to congratulate each of the following for their outstanding achievements this year:
Amit Sheth, Valerie L. Shalin, and Krishnaprasad Thirunarayan received an award of $925,104 from the National Science Foundation for their project, entitled "TWC SBE: Medium: Context-Aware Harassment Detection on Social Media".
Srinivasan Parthasarathy, Amit Sheth, Desheng Liu, Ethan Kubatko, and Valerie L. Shalin received an award of $1,975,000 from the National Science Foundation for their project, entitled "Hazards SEES: Social and Physical Sensing Enabled Decision Support for Disaster Management and Response".
Sujan Perera has been selected to be the Health Data Consortium's George Thomas Post-Graduate Fellow this 2015-2016 academic year for Kno.e.sis Health Data Consortium's George Thomas Post-Graduate Fellow in Health Data Science and Engineering. He will present his work and demonstrate semantic technologies and Web standards that play a critical role in advancing the field at the annual Health Datapalooza.
Derek Doran, Samir Yeine, Luisa Massari, Maria-Carla Calzarossa, Latrelle Jackson, and Glen Moriarty were granted the Best Paper Award presented at the Industrial Track of IEEE/ACM ASONAM, the top conference in computational social network analysis, for their paper, entitled "Stay Awhile and Listen: User Interactions in a Crowdsourced Platform Offering Emotional Support Complex Network Analysis on Distributed Systems".
Congratulations to you all for your excellent work!
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