September 17, 2014
Google Faculty Research Award goes to Dan Sui
Daniel Sui, professor and chair, geography, received a Google Faculty Research Award for his research proposal, “Modeling and Inferring Local Expertise." This project aims to develop new models and inference approaches for assessing local expertise in massive-scale social media. The award is for one year and Sui will be conducting the research with his collaborator, James Caverlee, Texas A&M.