About the Intelligent Data Analysis Lab at SMU
At IDA@SMU we create novel techniques inspired by knowledge discovery, data mining, machine learning, artificial intelligence, data analytics and statistical learning to work with data from various sources. We currently focus on creating novel techniques for knowledge discovery from large scale data streams with applications in storm prediction, security metagenomics, health screening, and recommender systems. All projects are accompanied by code published as open source R packages (CRAN/BioConductor). We currently maintain 15 very popular packages. > read about our current projects
IDA@SMU is part of the Bobby B. Lyle School of Engineering, SMU. The lab was created in 2009 when Dr. Hahsler joined as director. It is the successor of SMU's Database Research Group founded by Dr. Dunham.
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News
2020
- IDA member Tyler Giallanza was accepted into the PhD programm at Princeton University (Fall 2020).
- Farzad Kamalzadeh receives the Outstanding Graduate Student Award by the Engineering Management, Information and Systems (Spring 2020).
- Farzad Kamalzadeh graduates with a PhD in OR. His thesis is titled "A Data-Driven Framework for Decision Making Under Uncertainty" and combines partially observable Markov decision processes with predictive modeling. He works now as a data scientist for Citi Bank.
- The D Magazine reports on our project in SMU Research Could Change the Way Diabetes is Treated. (January 2020)
2019
- Farzad Kamalzadeh wins the 2019 Best Poster in Engineering Management, Information and Systems for Lyle Research Days (Fall 2019).
2018
- Zahra Gharibi graduates with a PhD in OR and is now a faculty member at SUNY Plattsburgh. Her thesis is titled "Modeling Kidney Transplantation Decisions: Regulatory Oversight, Information Sharing, and Post-Transplant Drug Choice" (May 2018).
2017
- IDA@SMU collaborates in a new NIST project called "SAFE-NET: An Integrated Connected Vehicle and Computing Platform for Public Safety Applications." Read the press release. (June 2016)
- Matthew Piekenbrock (collaborator from Wright State University) develops a new package for Google Summer of Code for "Estimating the Empirical Cluster Tree." (Summer 2017)
- IDA@SMU's arules package was announced by The Data Incubator as one of the top 10 R packages for machine learning (April 2017).
- Ian Johnson was named 2017-18 Barry Goldwater Scholar. (Spring 2017).
- Zahra Gharibi wins the Dean's Departmental Award (EMIS) for her research on modeling kidney transplantation decisions, 2017 SMU Research day (Spring 2017).
- Pimprapai Thainiam graduates with a DE in Engineering Management and is now a Faculty member at the King Mongkut's Institute of Technology Ladkrabang (KMITL), Thailand (Spring 2017).
2016
- Charlie Isaksson graduates with a PhD in CS and is now a data scientist at State Farm (December 2016).
- William Spurgin defends his thesis on Instability in PCA and graduates with a MS in CS (December 2016).
- Hadil Shaiba graduates with a PhD in CS and will join the faculty of the College of Computer and Information Sciences at Princess Nora University, Saudi Arabia (May 2016).
- Michael Hahsler received an adjunct appointment with the Department of Clinical Sciences, UT Southwestern Medical Center, to work on a project for virtual diabetes screening (January 2016).
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