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
- 08/24 — Charles Dickens successfully defends his thesis – Congratulations Charles!
- 06/24 — Lise elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- 06/23 — Lise elected to the American Association for the Advancement of Science
- 03/23 — Eriq Augustine successfully defends his thesis – Congratulations Eriq!
- 08/22 — Lise gives KDD Keynote
- 07/22 — Lise promoted to Distinguished Professor
- 12/21 — Varun Embar (LINQs PhD student #21!), successfully defends his thesis – Congratulations Varun!
- 07/21 — Lise named IEEE Fellow
- 07/20 — Sriram Srinivasan (LINQs PhD student #20!), successfully defends his thesis – Congratulations Sriram!
- 07/20 — UCSC News Article about LINQs Alum Pigi Kouki.
- 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
- 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
- 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!!
- 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