WILLIAM B. SMITH
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Professor, MIT
Professor, U Illinois
Army Research Laboratory
PhD 2020
Research Fellow
Harvard Medical School
Congratulations to DAISY member Xika Lin for passing her PhD Dissertation Defense "Frequent Pattern Mining Analytics"! Congratulations Dr. Lin!
On November 16th 2022, DAISY member Oluseun Olulana recieved the prestigious American Association of University Women's International Doctoral Degree Fellowship. Congratulations Olu! Read More
On August 10th 2022, Noura Alghamdi successfully completed her PhD dissertation defense, congratulations Dr. Alghamdi!
WPI features DAISY research into AI depression screening of voice recordings Read More
Congratulations to Walter Gerych and Jadipa Thadajarassiri for winning first and third place at WPI's Graduate Resesearch Innovation Exchange! See their award photo in the carousel below!
Congratulations to Walter Gerych, Kevin Hickey, and Jadipa Thadajarassiri for being selected to advance to the finals of WPI's Graduate Research Innovation Exchange! Read More
WPI features DAISY member Kathleen Cachel's work to make AI more fair through addressing bias in automated rankings Read More
Congratulations to DAISY member Walter Gerych for being selected to present his work in an oral presentation at AAAI 2022!
On December 1st 2021, Tom Hartvigsen successfully completed his PhD dissertation defense, congratulations Dr. Hartvigsen!
Congratulations to Ermal Toto and ML Tlachac for recieving the Best Applied Research Paper award at CIK 2021! Amazing work!
Congratulations to several DAISY teams for getting papers accepted at the IEEE International Conference on Big Data! Read more on our news page below!
DAISY PhD graduate Dr. Susmitha Wunnava is featured speaker at WPI's Class of 2021 commencement. Congratulations, Susmitha!
Professor Elke Rundensteiner is named WILLIAM B. SMITH PROFESSOR!
Dr. Tabassum Kakar will join Well as a Data Visualization and Reporting Specialist.
WPI wins $3 Million Award To Launch Graduate Program Preparing Data-Driven Leaders To Build A More Sustainable And Just Future Read More
DAISY PhD graduate Dr. Susmitha Wunnava was the featured speaker at WPI's Class of 2021 commencement. Susmitha now moves on with her career as a Research Fellow at Harvard Medical School pursuing her dream of working in medical analytics. Congratulations, Susmitha!
Former DAISY student Dr. Manasi Vartak is now founder and CEO of AI start-up Verta which aims to bring the latest in data science research into the bussiness world by estabilishing best practices for deploying machine learning. Verta has just secured a $10 million Series A round of funding, Read More.
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.
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.
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.
Selected Recent Publications.
Celebration for DAISY member Olu's birthday, happy birthday Olu!
Celebration for DAISY member Kathleen's wedding, congratulations Kathleen!
Dr. Noura Alghamdi presenting her PhD Dissertation Defense, August 10th 2022.
DAISY Celebration for Dr. ML Tlach's PhD Dissertation Defense
DAISY member Ricardo plays Chilean music in celebreation at Dr. Tlach's PhD celebration
Dr. Tlach's dog Bumper celebrating their owners PhD defense
DAISY mascot Margiold Hartvigsen who graduated with her owner Tom with a doctorate on December 1st 2021.