Research Interests
My general research interests are in machine learning, reasoning under uncertainty, databases and artificial intelligence. Other topics of interest to me include: data integration, database query optimization and approximate query processing, entity resolution, information extraction, utility elicitation, planning under uncertainty, contraint-based reasoning, abstraction and problem reformulation. The theme of my research is building and using statistical models of structured, semi-structured and unstructured data to do useful things.
My research group, Lise's Inquisitive Students, Linqs
Some Of The Topics I Work On
News
| 07/20 | Sriram Srinivasan (LINQs PhD student #20!), successfully defends his thesis -- Congratulations Sriram! |
| 07/20 | UCSC News Article about LINQs Alum Pigi Kouki (link) |
| 03/20 | Lise offers new graduate course, CSE 246, Responsible Data Science |
| 02/20 | Varun Embar and Sriram Srinivasan win Best Paper Award at AAAI StarAI Workshop -- Congrats Varun and Sriram! |
| 01/20 | Lise offers new undergraduate course, CSE 146, Ethics & Algorithms |
| 12/19 | Lise named ACM Fellow (link) |
| 12/19 | Keynote Speaker, IEEE Big Data Conference |
| 07/19 | IBM Distinguished Speaker Forum |
| 07/19 | Keynote Speaker, ACM SIGMOD/PODS International Conference on Management of Data |
| 05/19 | Lise receives UCSC Women in Science & Engineering (WiSE) Award (link) |
| 03/19 | Distinguished Lecture at UC Santa Barbara; awarded Distinguished Alumna Award |
| 03/19 |
Keynote Speaker, LAK19: 9th International Learning Analytics and Knowledge Conference |
| 02/19 |
53rd Annual Faculty Research Lecture at UC Santa Cruz |
| 01/19 | Invited Speaker, Questions that Matter, UCSC Humanities Institute |
| 12/18 | Invited Speaker, NeurIPS Workshop on Meta-Learning |
| 12/18 | Invited Speaker, NeurIPS Workshop on Relational Representation Learning |
| 11/18 | Keynote Speaker, 17th International Conference of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence (AI*IA) |
| 10/18 | Keynote Speaker, International Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys) |
| 08/18 | Probabilistic Soft Language (PSL) is highlighted at the Conference on Uncertainty and Artificial Intelligence |
| 02/18 | Invited Speaker, SysML Conference |
| 12/17 | Keynote Speaker, International Conference on Neural Information Processing (NeurIPS) |
| 10/17 | Distinguished Speaker, Microsoft Computing in the 21st Century, Harbin, CH |
| 07/17 | Invited Speaker, American Statistical Association’s Annual Joint Meeting on Statistics (JSM) on Data Science: Collaborations Across Computer Science and Statistics |
| 08/16 | Keynote Speaker, International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining (ASONAM) |
| 06/16 | Keynote and Tutorial Speaker, Alberto Mendelzo International Workshop on Foundations of Data Management |
| 05/16 | Keynote Speaker, International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media |
| 04/16 | Keynote Speaker, International Conference on Knowledge Representation and Reasoning |
| 04/16 | Arti Ramesh wins the Ann G. Wylie Dissertation Fellowship! |
| 04/16 | Distinguished Lecture, Microsoft Research New England |
| 04/16 | Distinguished Lecture, NetScience Institute, North Eastern University |
| 03/29/16 | Invited Talk, Strata Hardcore Data Science Track |
| 03/23/16 | Invited Talk, Sandia Workshop on Incomplete Network Data (WIND) |
| 02/26/16 | Lise at Netflix Faculty Summit 2016 |
| 02/22/16 | Arti Ramesh wins the Outstanding Graduate Student Dean's Fellowship! |
| 02/13/16 | Invited talk, AAAI Workshop on Declarative Learning Based Programming |
| 02/10/16 | In the news: Results of collaboration with Adobe |
| 01/29/16 | Invited Talk, Deep Learning Summit |
| 01/06/16 | Invited Talk, Workshop on Big Graphs: Theory & Practice |
| 12/19/15 | Jay Pujara defends his thesis and joins UCSC for postdoc with Lise -- congratulations Jay!! |
| 11/29/15 | PhD Student Shobeir Fakhraei advances to candidacy -- congratulations Shobeir! |
| 11/25/15 | PhD Student Pigi Kouki advances to candidacy with honors -- congratulations Pigi! |
| 11/15/15 | Invited Speaker, ICDM Challenge on Crossplatform Entity Resolution |
| 11/09/15 | Distinguished Lecture, Sandia National Laboratories |
| 11/02/15 | Invited Speaker, Women in Data Science, Stanford |
| 09/15/15 | Steve and Theo BOTH win UMD Larry S. David Dissertation Award -- congrats Steve & Theo!!! |
| 09/01/15 | Stephen Bach defends his thesis and joins Stanford for postdoc with Chris Re & Jure Leskovec! |
| 09/01/15 | Ben London defends his thesis and joins Amazon -- congrats Ben!!! |
| 07/20/15 | Invited Speaker, Data Science Summit, SF |
| 06/01/15 | Theo Rekatsinas defends his thesis and joins Stanford for postdoc with Chris Re! |
| 06/01/15 | Invited Speaker, European Semantic Web Conference, Portoroz, Slovenia |
| 04/28/15 | Distinguished Lecture, Columbia University |
| 01/30/15 | Invited Speaker, AAAI 2015, Austin, Texas |
| 04/12/14 | Organizer Data Science Education Panel, Palo Alto |
| 11/14/14 | Invited speaker, Machine Learning Conference, MLConf SF |
| 11/03/14 | Invited Speaker, EPFL(Big Graph Data Science), Switzerland |
| 09/29/14 | Keynote Speaker, European Network Intelligence Conference (ENIC), Wroclaw (Poland) |
| 09/15/14 | Invited Speaker, ECML PKDD 2014 |
| 08/24/14 | Co-organizer KDD workshop on Data Science for Social Good |
| 08/07/14 | Invited Speaker, PARC Forum |
| 07/30/14 | Invited Speaker, Data Science DC Meetup |
| 06/27/14 | Invited Speaker, SIGMOD Workshop on Automatic Creation and Curation of Knowledge Bases (WACCK-2014) |
| 06/22/14 | Invited Speaker, SIGMOD/PODS Workshop on Big Uncertain Data (BUDA-2014) |
| 05/01/14 | Postdoc Bert Huang accepts faculty position at Virginia Tech -- congratulations Bert! |
| 04/23/14 | Invited Speaker, Northern California Database Day |
| 04/16/14 | Invited Speaker, Stanford Workshop on AI and Knowledge (SWANK) |
| 03/24/14 | Distinguished Speaker, Max Planck Institute for Informatics |
| 01/17/14 | Invited Speaker, Stanford InfoLab |
| 12/09/13 | Stephen Bach and Bert Huang received best student paper for their NIPS workshop paper! |
| 12/09/13 | Invited Speaker, NIPS Workshop, Frontiers of Network Analysis: Methods, Models, and Applications |
| 12/04/13 | PhD Student Jay Pujara advances to candidacy -- congratulations Jay! |
| 11/21/13 | PhD Student Stephen Bach advances to candidacy -- congratulations Steve! |
| 11/16/13 | Invited Speaker, AAAI Fall Symposium Workshop on Social Networks and Social Contagion |
| 11/04/13 | Lise joins the Computer Science Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz! Go slugs! |
| 10/21/13 | Jay Pujara & Hui Miao win Best Student Paper at ISWC 2013!! see their paper here |
| 10/05/13 | Invited Speaker, NWO Workshop on Continuous Access to Cultural Heritage (CATCH) |
| 09/29/13 | Invited Speaker, NEH Workshop on Linked Open Data & Libraries, Archives and Museums (Digital Humanities) |
| 09/28/13 | Invited Speaker, International Workshop on Climate Informatics |
| 09/10/13 | Invited Speaker, Big Social Science Data Seminar Series, Penn State |
| 09/08/13 | PhD Student Ben London advances to candidacy -- congratulations Ben! |
| 08/11/13 | KDD Tutorial on Entity Resolution in Big Data |
| 08/11/13 | MLG 2013: KDD Workshop on Mining and Learning from Graphs |
| 07/14/13 | Elected AAAI Fellow! |
| 06/16/13 | SLG 2013: ICML Workshop on Structured Learning: Inferring Graphs from Structured and Unstructured Inputs |
| 12/10/12 | NIPS 2012 Tutorial on Representation, Inference and Learning in Structured Statistical Models |
| 08/27/12 | VLDB 2012 Tutorial on Entity Resolution |
| 06/12/11 | SIGMOD 2011 Tutorial Learning Statistical Models from Relational Data |
| 01/06/11 | SDM 2011 Tutorial Exploiting Statistical and Relational Information on the Web and in Social Media |
| 2007 | Check out our SRL Book |
| 2005 | SIGKDD Special Issue on Link Mining |