Statistics professor Taylor Arnold and digital humanities professor Lauren Tilton recently received grant funding for two data science projects. They received a $485,000 grant from the Mellon Foundation for their Distant Viewing Toolkit project, an open-source technology for the computational analysis of visual culture. Arnold and Tilton have also received a nearly $325K grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to support a project to build open-source software for collecting and analyzing digital images.
Yucong Jiang was promoted to associate professor of computer science. Her current research focuses on building software to analyze music-related data, especially performance data. Her latest project is aimed at visualizing technical aspects of an instrumental performance to provide multifaceted feedback to the player.
Melinda Yang was promoted to associate professor of biology. Her research focuses on using and developing computational population genetic tools to study the evolutionary history and genetic variation of species, especially humans, by analyzing both ancient and present-day genomes. Her work combines assessing the robustness of these tools with uncovering demographic relationships, with a particular emphasis on ancient human populations.
Taylor Arnold, professor of data science and statistics, and Lauren Tilton, professor of digital humanities and director of UR’s Center for Liberal Arts and AI, received a grant to support their research to develop AI models that analyze film and television. The funding is part of a larger award from Schmidt Sciences and includes collaboration with colleagues at UC Berkeley and Bowdoin College.
Joonsuk Park, associate professor of computer science, published the paper "Supporting Reviewing Reviews: How HCI Authors Handle Peer Reviews of Manuscripts" in the Proceedings of the International Conference on Human-Engaged Computing (ICHEC).
