We conduct fundamental and cutting-edge research in databases, data mining, Web mining, information retrieval, and natural language processing. Current topics include data integration; exploring and integrating the Deep Web; schema matching; security; mining data streams and sequential and semi-structured data; OS support for storage systems; text retrieval and mining; bio-informatics; database support for high performance computing; and top-k query processing.
Learn more on the Database & Information Systems Group page.
| Jiawei Han | data mining, data warehousing, database systems, information networks |
| Kevin C. Chang | information access, data integration, ranked Query processing |
| ChengXiang Zhai | information retrievel, NLP, bioinformatics |
| Marianne Winslett | information security, scientific data management |
| Dan Roth | knowledge representation, NLP, machine learning |
| Ouri Wolfson | database systems |
| Saurabh Sinha | bioinformatics |
| Julia Hockenmaier | computational linguistics, computational biology |
| Bryan Heidorn | information extraction, human-computer information system design |
| Thomas Anastasio | computational neuroscience |
| Mehdi Harandi | information systems |
| Yi Ma | high-dimensional data |
| Olgica Milenkovic | bioinformatics |
| Bruce Schatz | bioinformatics |
| Sheng Zhong | computational biology |
Multimodal Information Access & Synthesis
Information Network Academic Research Center
Summer Institute Preparing Next Gen Data Sciences Leaders
Illinois CS Leads $16.75 million Info Network Center
Illinois CS Part of $30 million Homeland Security Center
Zhai Named ACM Distinguished Scientist
Winslett to Direct Int'l Advanced Digital Sciences Center