lisa singh 
what is going on?
11/2013 - Invited Panelist - Using the Internet to enhance scholarship and improve dissemination.
Georgetown University Library. Scholars from different disciplines discuss ways to improve dissemination of scholarship using the Internet. We also debate the changing landscape of scholarly work.
9/2013 - Awarded NSF Interdisciplinar Grant
Martin, Collmann, and Singh are awarded $300K NSF grant - Forecasting the Break: Building Community and Capacity for Large-scale, Data-Intensive Research in Forced Migration Studies. This is a new project to explore using big data for early warning of forced migration. Woohoo Again!!
7/2013 - CS4HS Workshop for high school teachers
We just finished hosting a three-day hands-on workshop for STEM middle school and high school teachers in the Washington, D.C. area. The workshop provided an introduction to the Raspberry Pi hardware, the Raspbian operating system, and the Scratch and Python programming languages. The teachers, student volunteers, and organizers were awesome. Thanks Google for the support!
4/2013 - Invited Panelist - Big data: Educating the next generation.
Interesting panel hosted by McDonough School of Business - very different perspectives of directions to take and what the core of big data education should include.
1/2013 - Award Begins
Singh, Sherr, and Yang awarded $500K NSF grant - Assessing Online Information Exposure Using Web Footprints. Woohoo!!
12/2012 - Best Paper Award
Sharara, Singh, Getoor, and Mann win best paper award at SocialInforamtics 2013 for paper entitled "Stability vs. Diversity: Understanding the Dynamics of Actors in Time-varying Affiliation Networks".
12/2012 - Congrats Jason!!
Jason Robinson successfully defends his PhD dissertation entitled "Modeling Spanish mood choice in belief statements".
8/2012 - Congrats Frank!!
Frank Nagle successfully defends his Master's thesis entitled "Efficient Anonymization of Vulnerable Individuals in Social Networks"
8/2012 - Congrats Nayyara!!
Nayyara Samuel successfully defends her Master's thesis entitled "Quantifying and Ranking Bias in Social Networks"
5/2012 - Congrats Aditi!!
Aditi Ramachandran wins best student paper award at PST 2012 for paper entitled "Exploring re-identification risks in public domains"
5/2012 - Congrats John!!
John Ferro successfully defends his Undergraduate's thesis entitled "Identifying Individual Vulnerability Based on Public Data - A Senior Thesis"
8/2011 - Congrats Denis!!
Denis Dimitrov successfully defends his Master's thesis entitled "Extensible Operators for Comparison Queries of Uncertain Graphs"
5/2011 - Congrats Lindsay!!
Lindsay Neubauer successfully defends her senior thesis entitled "FinNet: Exploring Ways to Enhance Science Education for Middle
Schoolers - A Senior Thesis"
4/2011 - Congrats Matt!!
Matt Davis successfully defends his senior thesis entitled "Decentralized Routing for Smartphone Networks - A Senior Thesis (primary adviser: Micah Sherr)"
4/2011 - Congrats Allie!!
Allie Candido successfully defends her senior thesis entitled "Anomaly Detection in High Dimensional Spaces - A Senior Thesis"