News June 2009: Congrats to David Cieslak for a successful PhD defense --- Dr. Dave. June 2009: Congrats to Ryan Lichtenwalter for a successful MS defense. May 2009: Paper titled "An Exploration of Climate Data Using Complex Networks" accepted at the ACM SIGKDD Workshop on Knowledge Discovery from Sensor Data. May 2009: Paper titled "Mining in Mobile Environment" accepted at the ACM SIGKDD Workshop on Knowledge Discovery from Sensor Data. May 2009: Paper titled "Model Monitor (M^2): Evaluating, Comparing, and Monitoring Models" accepted to Journal of Machine Learning Research. May 2009: Karsten Steinhaeuser receives the Best Poster Award at the Doctoral Student Forum held in conjunction with the SIAM International Conference on Data Mining. MORE NEWS About Welcome to DIAL (Data, Inference Analysis, and Learning) -- Professor Nitesh Chawla's research group. Our work ranges a diverse set of problems including class imbalance, cost-sensitive learning, graph based data mining, network science, parallel and distributed data mining, perforamnce evaluation, privacy preserving data mining, and collaborative filtering. We work on a diverse set of applications including medical informatics, finance, security, biometrics, systems, bioinformatics, and customer behavior analytics.