Our team
Faculty
Elke Rundensteiner
Professor
rundenst@wpi.edu
Faculty Collaborators
Professor
emmanuel@wpi.edu
Associate Professor
meltabakh@wpi.edu
Associate Professor
xkong@wpi.edu
Assistant Professor
ltharrison@wpi.edu
Associate Professor
kmlee@wpi.edu
Associate Professor
rcpaffenroth@wpi.edu
Assistant Professor
yli15@wpi.edu
Professor, MIT
haofeng@illinois.edu
Professor, U Illinois
haofeng@illinois.edu
Students
PhD Student
PhD Student
PhD Student
PhD Student
PhD Student
PhD Student
PhD Student
PhD Student
PhD Student
Jidapa
Thadajarassiri
PhD Student
Lei
Ma
PhD Student
PhD Student
PhD Student
Susmitha
Wunnava
PhD Student
PhD Student
PhD Student
PhD Student
Master Student
PhD Student
Alumni
PhD Alumni 2020
Data Scientist, Codametrix
PhD Alumni 2020
Research Scientist, Apple
PhD Alumni 2019
Research Scientist, Visa
PhD Alumni 2019
Research Scientist, Samsung Research Lab
Master Alumni 2019
Software Engineer, Mathwork
PhD Alumni 2019
Research Scientist, IBM Almaden Research
Olga
Poppe
PhD Alumni 2017
Research Scientist, Microsoft Jim Gray Systems Lab
PhD Alumni 2017
Associate Teaching Professor, WPI
PhD Alumni 2016
Postdoc, MIT
Kaiyu
Zhao
PhD Alumni 2016
Dato
Latest News
Congratulations to Cansu on having her dissertation research accepted in
the top conference in NLP!
Congrats to her and her co-collaborators and co-authors !
Human Attention Maps for Text Classification: Do Humans and Neural Networks Focus on the Same Words?
Authors: Cansu Sen, Thomas Hartvigsen, Biao Yin, Xiangnan Kong and Elke Rundensteiner
ACL 2020 (2020 Annual Conference of the Association for Computational Linguistics).
Congratulations to ML for just having heard that 2 of her research works were accepted for publication at EMBC'2020! Congrats!
Ml Tlachac and Elke Rundensteiner, Depression Screening from Text Message Reply Latency 42nd Annual International Conference of IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC), Montreal, Canada, July 20-24, 2020.
Ml Tlachac, Elke Rundensteiner, Kerri Barton, T. Scott Troppy, Kirthana Beaulac and Shira Doron, Anomalous Antimicrobial Resistant Trend Identification, 42nd Annual International Conference of IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC), Montreal, Canada, July 20-24, 2020.
Congratulation to Allison Rozet for successfully defending her MS thesis today Wednesday May 5, 2020 on the topic of "MUSE - Shared Complex Event Trend Aggregation".
It is a pleasure to announce that Yizhou Yan has successfully
passed her PhD Dissertation Defense Thursday, May 26, 2020.
Congratulations to soon-to-be Dr. Yizhou Yan on achieving this ultimate milestone!
Ermal Toto has successfully passed
his Ph.D. Comprehensive Exam this Friday, Jan 31, 2020.
His areas of study covered questions broadly in (1) deep learning for voice analysis,
(2) machine learning in psychology, and (3) human computer interface technology for health care.
Congratulations to Ermal on having passed this important milestone in his Ph.D. studies.
Open positions
We are always looking for bright, motivated, and hard-working graduate and undergraduate students to join our group and work on projects with us to develop data-centric solutions and systems that solve pressing problems in healthcare, medicine, science, or engineering with societal impact. If you are interested, please contact Elke Rundensteiner at rundenst [at] wpi [dot] edu.
Awards
Our group has been recognized many times over the years from best papers/posters to competitions to TA awards. For a full list, please click the following link.
Funding
We are grateful to have been supported by many funding agencies over the years. In addition to our ongoing projects, please refer to the following full list of funding sources.
NSF
HP
Microsoft
IBM
Verizon
MIT Lincoln Lab
Publications
Selected Recent Publications.
- Caitlin Kuhlman and Elke Rundensteiner. Rank Aggregation Algorithms for Fair Consensus. VLDB 2020.
- Cansu Sen, Thomas Hartvigsen, Biao Yin, Xiangnan Kong and Elke Rundensteiner. Human Attention Maps for Text Classification: Do Humans and Neural Networks Focus on the Same Words? ACL 2020.
- Thomas Hartvigsen, Cansu Sen, Xiangnan Kong, Elke Rundensteiner. Recurrent Halting Chain for Early Multi-label Classifier. KDD 2020.
- Dongyu Zhang, Jidapa Thadajarassiri, Cansu Sen, and Elke Rundensteiner. Time-Aware Transformer-based Network for Clinical Notes Series Prediction. MLHC 2020.
- ML Tlachac and Elke Rundensteiner, Screening for Depression with Retrospectively Harvested Private versus Public Text. IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics (J-BHI), 2020.
