Archived News

6 Aug, 2007:
I have just taken up a PostDoc position in the Informatics Faculty of the University of Lugano, Switzerland. I will be working with Fabio Crestani on the problem of discovering, modeling and providing personalized access to news feeds, blogs, and other online data sources. I am very excited about the work and see a great opportunity for combining Data Integration, Personalization and Distributed Information Retrieval techniques.

14 Feb, 2007:
The software I wrote for my thesis for learning definitions of web sources has just been made available on the ISI website! The package is royalty-free for research purposes and comes with all the source code. Documentation is "in progress", so feel free to contact me with installation questions.

9 Jan, 2007:
Here are the slides that I presented today at IJCAI-07.

18 Sep, 2006:
A paper I submitted with Craig Knoblock to IJCAI-07 entitled "Learning Semantic Descriptions of Web Information Sources" was accepted for presentation at the conference.

15 Sep, 2006:
I just gave a talk at ISI on the work I did in my thesis. Be sure to check out the video of the talk! (Unfortunately it's missing the first 4 minutes of audio.)

31 Jul, 2006:
I graduated! My defense was in Trento, Italy. I am now (finally!) a Ph.D. graduate. You can read all about my thesis here.