Data Science News

CCI Computer Science Student Wins Best Presenter Award for AI and Machine Learning Innovations

October 31, 2024

Shatakshi Tyagi, BS computer science '27, showcased two projects involving large language models, generative AI and machine learning to develop an AI-powered tool, along with data analysis and visualization.

New Faculty Join CCI

September 24, 2024

Drexel CCI welcomes eight new faculty members this autumn.

Upsilon Pi Epsilon Honors Drexel with 2024 Outstanding Chapter Award

July 24, 2024

International computing and information honor society Upsilon Pi Epsilon Global (UPE) has recognized its Drexel University chapter with the 2024 Upsilon Pi Epsilon Outstanding Chapter Award.

Spring 2024 Drexel CCI Research Round-up

April 26, 2024

Drexel CCI recently hosted a range of workshops and conferences, while faculty and graduate students made notable contributions to prestigious research conferences worldwide.

Drexel University College of Computing & Informatics Announces David Breen as Recipient of Fulbright Award for 2024-2025

March 18, 2024

As a Fulbright Scholar, Breen will develop computational methods to support cutting-edge research in smart fabrics at the Inria Centre at the University of Grenoble Alpes.

Drexel CCI Faculty Featured in WHYY Article on ChatGPT's Information Retrieval

March 14, 2024

Denise Agosto and Michael Ekstrand weighed in on ChatGPT and its role within the broader landscape of artificial intelligence, information retrieval and human-computer interaction.

Drexel University College of Computing & Informatics Faculty Present at ASIS&T 2023

October 20, 2023

Drexel CCI is proud to announce our faculty members will present and be recognized for awards at the 86th ASIS&T Annual Meeting in London.

Drexel CCI Announces Faculty Promotions and Tenure for 2023

September 11, 2023

Drexel CCI is pleased to announce the latest faculty promotions and tenure appointments this fall within the Department of Information Science.

Jane Greenberg Wins Association for Information Science and Technology Research Award

July 11, 2023

ASIS&T's top award for research recognizes Greenberg's outstanding contributions to information science research.

Kelsey Chong BS ’25 Receives Drexel Undergraduate Research Mini-Grant to Uncover Social Media Bias

May 02, 2023

The mini-grant supports Chong, a BS in economics and data science student, in researching social media bias over the course of the spring 2023 term.

Call for Applicants: LEADING '23 Fellowship

January 31, 2023

The Metadata Research Center (MRC) at Drexel University’s College of Computing & Informatics (CCI), in partnership with University of New Mexico Libraries, UC San Diego Library, OCLC, and project LEADING Mentors/institutions, invites early-to-mid career library professionals and doctoral students to participate in the LIS Education and Data Science-Integrated Network Group (LEADING) program.

Drexel CCI at ACM Computer-Supported Cooperative Work & Social Computing Conference

November 11, 2022

Drexel University College of Computing & Informatics (CCI) faculty and students are making several research and other contributions to the ACM conference Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW 2022), from Nov. 8 to Nov. 22, 2022.

Drexel CCI Faculty and Students at 2022 ALISE and ASIS&T Conferences

October 26, 2022

Drexel CCI faculty and students are participating in the 85th Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) Annual Meeting and ALISE 2022 Annual Conference.

Drexel's College of Computing & Informatics Welcomes Six New Faculty Members

September 27, 2022

Joining Drexel CCI this September, the six new faculty members bring a wealth of professional and research experience that span the computing and information technology fields.

Drexel CCI Undergraduate and Doctoral Students Place in International Semantic Web Conference Challenge

August 18, 2022

The student team earned top recognition in a special project challenge on "Knowledge Base Construction from Pre-trained Language Models."

CCI Faculty Members An, Chatterjee and Pirmann Among 2021-2022 Drexel Provost and Research Award Winners

June 13, 2022

Associate Professor Yuan An, PhD, Assistant Professor Preetha Chatterjee, PhD, and Assistant Teaching Professor Tammy Pirmann, EdD were recognized by the University's highest academic and research offices for excellence.

LIS Education and Data Science Integrated Network Group (LEADING): Call for Applications

January 27, 2022

CCI's Metadata Research Center (MRC) invites early-to-mid career library professionals and doctoral students to participate in the LIS Education and Data Science-Integrated Network Group (LEADING) virtual fellowship program.

Joel Pepper Wins National Digital Library Conference ‘Best Student Paper’ Award

December 08, 2021

The winning paper, titled “Automatic Metadata Generation for Fish Specimen Image Collections,” focuses on using machine learning to solve challenges in assessing publicly available fish images.

LIS and Data Science LEADING Virtual Fellowship Now Accepting Applications

February 02, 2021

Early-to-mid career library professionals and doctoral students are invited to apply to the virtual LIS Education and Data Science-Integrated Network Group (LEADING) fellowship program by March 15, 2021.

Professor Il-Yeol Song Wins Best Paper Award from Data & Knowledge Engineering (DKE)

December 18, 2020

Song's paper was recognized by Data & Knowledge Engineering (DKE) editorial board members as having the largest impact and most citations among all papers published in 2017.

IMLS-Funded LIS Education and Data Science-Integrated Network Group to Launch Nov. 1

October 28, 2020

Drexel CCI's Metadata Research Center, in partnership with Montana State University Library, UC San Diego Library, and OCLC, is establishing an LIS Education and Data Science-Integrated Network Group thanks to a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS).

Michelle Rogers Talks Tech and Healthcare on Drexel's 10,000 Hours Podcast

August 07, 2020

Rogers, an associate professor and director of CCI's Women in Tech Initiative, discussed how advances in technology are helping our healthcare system and where we still have room for improvement.

Houda El mimouni and Jiangen He Awarded 2020 Eugene Garfield Doctoral Dissertation Fellowships

July 27, 2020

The Fellowship awards will support El mimouni’s dissertation research, “Robotic Telepresence in the Classroom and Values,” and Jiangen He's dissertation research, “Predictive and Visual Analytics of Scientific Development."

Drexel CCI Faculty and Student Research Featured at ASIS&T 2019

October 17, 2019

Drexel CCI faculty and students are participating in the 82nd annual Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) Annual Meeting this month in Melbourne, Australia.

Web of Science Group Announces Dr. Erjia Yan as Recipient of the 2019 Eugene Garfield Award

September 04, 2019

With the award, Yan wins $25,000 for innovative approaches to citation analysis.

Drexel CCI PhD Student Jiangen He Wins 2019 Eugene Garfield Doctoral Dissertation Scholarship

August 07, 2019

The scholarship, which aims to support research in informetrics, including bibliometrics, scientometrics, webmetrics and altmetrics, will assist Jiangen He in his dissertation research.

Drexel CCI Faculty and Students to Present at iConference 2019

March 26, 2019

Several faculty and students from Drexel University’s College of Computing & Informatics (CCI) will be presenting and participating in iConference 2019 in Washington, DC (March 31 to April 3).

CAHIIM Grants Drexel CCI Accreditation for Master of Science in Health Informatics Program

January 14, 2019

CAHIIM is an independent accrediting organization whose mission is to serve the public interest by establishing and enforcing quality Accreditation Standards for Health Informatics and Health Information Management (HIM) educational programs.

CCI Information Science Faculty, Students, and Alumni Make Strong Showing at ASIS&T and CSCW Conferences

November 27, 2018

In the month of November, members of the College of Computing & Informatics’ (CCI) Information Science department stayed busy presenting research and collecting awards at two major conferences, the 2018 Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) Annual Meeting and the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work.

Call for LEADS-4-NDP Fellowship Applications

March 13, 2018

The Metadata Research Center invites doctoral students to apply for a LEADS-4-NDP Fellowship by Friday, March 30. 

Assistant Professor Alex Poole’s Research on Diversity in Archival Studies Featured in American Archivist

July 28, 2017

Alex Poole, an assistant professor of information science at Drexel’s College of Computing & Informatics (CCI), recently published, “Pinkett’s Charges: Recruiting, Retaining, and Mentoring Archivists of Color in the Twenty-First Century,” in the Spring/Summer 2017 issue of American Archivist. 

Drexel Hosts Ninth International Evidence Based Library & Information Practice Conference

June 30, 2017

From June 18 to 21, Drexel University Libraries hosted the ninth International Evidence Based Library & Information Practice Conference: Embedding and Embracing Evidence (EBLIP9) in the Papadakis Integrated Sciences Building.

Drexel Faculty Make Strong Showing at American Medical Informatics Association Symposium

November 29, 2016

Several members of the Drexel CCI and College of Medicine community presented at the AMIA 2016 Annual Symposium in Chicago.

CCI Faculty Deborah Turner and Michelle Rogers Author Case Study on Health Care in Uganda

August 28, 2014

The paper titled "Documents and Diagnosis: A Ugandan Case Study" was presented at the 11th Annual Meeting of the Document Academy Kent State University this month.