Had a great experience attending the IGVC Auto-Nav and Self-Drive competition this week at Oakland University in Michigan!

🥳🥳Thrilled to begin my summer internship as a Software Engineer Intern at the Virginia Marine Resources Commission (VMRC)! Excited to contribute to marine conservation efforts through software development. #VMRC WS-DL Group, ODU CS

I'm honored to be named Chief Scientist at @oeriatodu (formerly Virginia Modeling, Analysis, & Simulation Center), the applied research center portion of Old Dominion University. I'll be mentoring the research faculty & staff scientists at @oeriatodu & advising OERI leadership re: computer & data science. vmasc.org/office-of-ente…

Our research group visited University of Michigan at Ann Arbor and Mcity today, really nice campus!

Dr. James Evans makes the opening remark for the 2024 International Conference on Science of Science and Innovation. I am honored to give an contributed talk on Tuesday and coauthor another talk with Sarah Rajtmajer and her student. ICSSI WS-DL Group, ODU CS AI4SciSci

My student Dominik Soós successfully defended his Master's thesis today. His thesis title is "Who Wrote the Scientific News? Improving the Discernibility of LLMs to Human-Written Scientific News". Thanks Vikas G Ashok Meng Jiang. Dominik will be a PhD student in Fall 2024 WS-DL Group, ODU CS

Congratulations to my PhD student Gangani Ariyarathne for her ACM CIKM 2024 paper 3DLNews: A Three-decade Dataset of US Local News Articles * 1996 -- 2024: ~1 million URLs (with HTML text) * ~14,000 local newspapers, TV, & radio in 50 states arxiv.org/abs/2408.04716 github.com/wm-newslab/3DL…

I am honored to receive the research grant award from IMLS titled "Preserving Open Access Datasets and Software for Sustained Computational Reproducibility." Thank you very much, IMLS! WS-DL Group, ODU CS IMLS Internet Archive Bill Ingram ⛵️ ws-dl.blogspot.com/2024/08/2024-0…

I am glad to announce that my first PhD student Muntabir Hasan Choudhury successfully defended his dissertation today. Congratulations! Muntabir Hasan Choudhury WS-DL Group, ODU CS ODU Computer Science

My paper titled "Freshness and Informativity Weighted Cognitive Extent and Its Correlation with Cumulative Citation Count" has been accepted by the International Workshop on Innovation Measurement for Scientific Communication (IMSC), colocated with JCDL 2024. WS-DL Group, ODU CS JCDL Conference

🚀 A PhD journey shaped by deadlines, dedication, and perseverance! From research breakthroughs to internships and honors, every challenge led to a successful defense. 📖 Read my reflections 👇 #PhDLife #Academia cc/ WS-DL Group, ODU CS ODU Computer Science ws-dl.blogspot.com/2025/02/2025-0…

Very excited to start as a Computer Research Scientist (on sabbatical from ODU) at Autonomous Integrated Systems Research Branch at NASA Langley Research Center. I'll work on next-gen drone navigation using eye tracking. Thank you Michael L. Nelson Dr. B. Danette Allen for all the help!!

Celebrating Dr. Wu’s well-deserved promotion to Associate Professor! 🎉 A wonderful gathering filled with joy, gratitude, and inspiration. Huge congratulations, Dr. Wu! 🥂Jian Wu WS-DL Group, ODU CS Rochana R. Obadage Dominik Soós Xin Wei

Excited to share that our paper “A Roadside Unit for Infrastructure Assisted Intersection Control of Autonomous Vehicles” has been accepted to IEEE EIT2025! I will be traveling to present this research at Valparaiso University in Valparaiso, Indiana on May 31st.

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Thrilled to have attended & presented at IEEE EIT2025! It was a great opportunity to connect with other researchers and discover cutting-edge work through the keynotes.

🎉 Excited to share that our paper "Uncertainty-Aware Complex Scientific Table Data Extraction" has been accepted at @ICDAR2025. We developed a framework using conformal prediction to quantify uncertainties in table structure recognition (TSR) and OCR extraction. WS-DL Group, ODU CS

Congratulations Bhanuka Bhanuka Mahanama, for a successful Ph.D. defence titled "Mutli-Eyes: Multi-Use Eye Tracking Using Commodity Hardware. " My 4th Ph.D. student from the nirds-lab WS-DL Group, ODU CS ODU Computer Science @odusc. Also, a Sri Lankan-style feast including yellow rice, cashews, and chicken!

Paper accepted to ACM Hypertext '25! 🎉 We show we can improve open-source LLMs to human level accuracy at distinguishing between human-written and LLM-generated science news. Thankful for my advisors for their support. Jian Wu Meng Jiang WS-DL Group, ODU CS ODU Computer Science

I am pleased to announce that my student Xin Wei passed her dissertation defense today. Congratulations! I thank all committee members, Michele Weigle Lusi Li and Sarah Rajtmajer and the WS-DL Group, ODU CS! Special thanks to Michael L. Nelson for taking pictures!