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 Environments" 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.


May 2009: Nitesh Chawla leads tutorial "Mining When Classes are Imbalanced, Rare Events Matter More, and Errors Have Costs Attached" at the the SIAM International Conference on Data Mining.


April 2009: Karsten Steinhaeuser defends his Dissertation Proposal, "Descriptive and Predictive Analysis of Climate Data."


April 2009: Paper titled "Modeling a Store's Product Space as a Social Network" accepted at the ACM SIGWEB International Conference on Advances in Social Network Analysis and Mining.


April 2009: Troy Raeder defends his Masters Thesis, "Shopping with Networks: An Approach to Market Basket Analysis."


March 2009: Karsten Steinhaeuser and his colleagues receive an ORNL Significant Event Award (SEA) for their "Science Support for a Climate Change War Game and Follow-Up Support to the U.S. Department of Defense."


November 2008: DIAL receives funding from NSF Program HSD - Dynamics of Human Behavior. The project will focus on the longitudnal analysis and modeling of large scale social networks.


November 2008: Karsten Steinhaeuser presents talk "Data Mining for Climate Change and Impacts" at Notre Dame GIS Day 2008.


October 2008: Analysis and maps produced by Karsten Steinhaeuser and others at ORNL used to inform foreign policy disucssions.


October 2008: "Data Mining for Insights on Impacts of Global Climate Change" was selected for presentation at the first ever Notre Dame Graduate Research Symposium.


October 2008: DIAL co-organizes 2009 PAKDD Workshop on Data Mining When Classes are Imbalanced and Errors Have Costs (ICEC'09).


September 2008: Paper titled "Start Globally, Optimize Locally, Predict Globally: Improving Performance on Unbalanced Data" accepted at the 8th IEEE International Conference on Data Mining.


September 2008: Paper titled "Scaling Classifiers to Cloud Computers" accepted at the 8th IEEE International Conference on Data Mining.


September 2008: Paper titled "Data Mining for Climate Change and Impacts" accepted at the ICDM Workshop on Spatial and Spatio-Temporal Data Mining.


July 2008: Materials produced by Karsten Steinhaeuser and others at ORNL support first ever Climate Change War Game at CNAS.


July 2008: Darcy Davis defends her Masters Thesis, "Predicting Individual Disease Risk Based on Medical History."


July 2008: Paper titled "CARE for your Future: Collaborative And Recommendation Engine for Prospective Healthcare" accepted at the ACM SIGKDD Workshop on Mining Medical Data.


July 2008: Paper titled "Predicting Individual Disease Risk Based on Medical History" accepted at the ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management.


July 2008: Karsten Steinhaeuser takes internship position at Oak Ridge National Laboratory.


July 2008: Chawla receives research grant from NWICG for troubleshooting grids.


July 2008: Chawla receives a research award from NET.


June 2008: Paper titled "Troubleshooting Thousands of Jobs on Production Grids Using Data Mining Techniques" accepted at the 9th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Grid Computing.


June 2008: Paper titled "Learning Decision Trees for Unbalanced Data" accepted at the 18th European Conference on Machine Learning.


May 2008: David Cieslak takes a summer internship and presents research at Sandia National Laboratory in Livermore, CA.


April 2008: David Cieslak defends his Phd Proposal.


April 2008: Karsten Steinhaeuser is awarded a travel grant from the USMA to attend the International Workshop & Conference on Network Science (NetSci'08) in Norwich (UK), where he will present his work titled "Is Modularity the Answer to Evaluating Community Structure in Networks?"


March 2008: Paper titled "Scalable Learning with Thread-Level Parallelism" accepted at The 19th Midwest Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science Conference.


January 2008: Article "Automatically countering imbalance and its empirical relationship to cost" to appear in Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery: A Special Issue on Utility-Based Data Mining. Primary authors are Nitesh Chawla and David Cieslak.


December 2007: Paper titled "Analyzing Classifier Performance on Imbalanced Datasets when Training and Testing Distributions Differ" accepted at The Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining.


December 2007: Book chapter titled "Community Detection in a Large Real-World Social Network." Presentation at the First Int'l Workshop on Social Computing, Behavioral Modeling, and Prediction, 2008. Primary author is Karsten Steinhaeuser.


November 2007: Karsten Steinhaeuser wins faculty vote for best poster presentation at the Second Annual CSE Student Research Symposium.


October 2007: David Cieslak attends ICDM in Omaha, NE to present "Detecting Fractures in Classifier Performance".


September 2007: David Cieslak awarded 2007 ICDM Student Travel Grant.


August 2007: Troy Raeder enrolls as full time advisee of Nitesh Chawla.


July 2007: Paper titled "Detecting Fractures in Classifier Performance" accepted at 7th IEEE Conference on Data Mining.


May 2007: DIAL Research Group formally inaugurated.


May 2007: Michael Albrecht joins Nitesh Chawla as an undergraduate researcher.


May 2007: David Cieslak awarded Computer Science Department Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award.


April 2007: Karsten Steinhaeuser defends his Masters Thesis, "Scalable Learning with Thread-Level Parallelism."


April 2007: Article titled "Automatically Countering Imbalance and Its Empirical Relationship to Cost" accepted in the Journal of Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery Special Issue on Utility-Based Data Mining.


March 2007: Karsten Steinhaeuser receives Kaneb Outstanding Graduate Teaching Assistant Award.


October 2006: Karsten Steinhaeuser wins student vote for best poster presentation at the First Annual CSE Student Research Symposium.


October 2006: Darcy Davis enrolls as full time advisee of Nitesh Chawla.


July 2006: David Cieslak attends AAAI and AAAI Workshop on Evaluation Metrics in Boston to present "Evaluating Calibration of Probability Estimation Trees".


May 2006: David Cieslak attends IEEE International Conference on Granular Computing in Atlanta to present "Combating Imbalance in Network Intrusion Data"


May 2006: David Cieslak and Karsten Steinhaeuser formally enroll as full time advisees of Nitesh Chawla. Vince Thomas joins in undergraduate research under Nitesh Chawla.


May 2006: Nitesh Chawla formally joins University of Notre Dame Department of Computer Science Faculty as Associate Professor.