CIS Faculty Positions
The CIS department seeks applicants for one or more full-time tenure-track faculty positions beginning fall 2010, at the rank of Assistant Professor. The University of Oregon is an AAU research university located in Eugene, two hours south of Portland, and within one hour's drive of both the Pacific Ocean and the snow-capped Cascade Mountains. ...»
CIS department welcomes Assistant Professor Daniel Lowd
Daniel Lowd's research covers a range of topics in statistical machine learning, including statistical relational representations, unifying learning and inference, and adversarial machine learning applications (e.g., spam filtering). In 2009, he coauthored book on Markov logic with Pedro Domingos, published by Morgan & Claypool. He is also the recipient of graduate research fellowships from the National Science Foundation and Microsoft Research. ...»
Rejaie Awarded NSF Grant to Study Structural Properties of Online Social Networks
Professor Reza Rejaie has received a grant for $350,000 from the National Science Foundation to characterize the structure of Online Social Networks (OSNs) and investigate the underlying social causes that determines the structure. Funded by the NSF Division of Information & Intelligent Systems, the project is a joint effort of the UO CIS and Sociology Departments, the Mathematics Department at Duke University and AT&T Labs Research. ...»