Assistant Professor of Computer Science
Assistant Professor of Statistics
Joined department in 2006
Education:
BS, Computer Science
University of Massachusetts Amherst (2000)
MS, Computer Science
University of Massachusetts Amherst (2004)
PhD, Computer Science
University of Massachusetts Amherst (2006)
Professor Neville's research focuses on data mining and machine learning techniques for relational
data. In relational domains such as bioinformatics, citation analysis, epidemiology, fraud detection,
and web analytics, there is often limited information about any one entity in isolation, instead it
is the connections among entities that are of crucial importance to pattern discovery. Relational
data mining techniques move beyond the conventional analysis of entities in isolation to analyze
networks of interconnected entities, exploiting the connections among entities to improve both
descriptive and predictive models. Professor Neville's research interests lie in the development and
analysis of relational learning algorithms and the application of those algorithms to real-world
tasks.
Selected Publications
Neville, J. and D. Jensen, "Relational Dependency Networks", Journal of Machine Learning
Research, 2007.
Neville, J. and D. Jensen, "Leveraging Relational Autocorrelation with Latent Group Models",
Proceedings of the Fifth IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (2005), pp 322-329.
Neville, J., O. Simsek, D. Jensen, J. Komoroske, K. Palmer and H. Goldberg, "Using Relational
Knowledge Discovery to Prevent Securities Fraud", Proceedings of the 11th ACM SIGKDD
International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (2005), pp 449-458.
Funding Administered by Computer Science
Jennifer Neville, Fusion and Analysis of Multi-Source Relational Data Fusion and Analysis of
Multi-Source Relational Data, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, 3/26/2008-6/22/2009.
Jennifer Neville, Learning Compositional Simulation Models, Dept of the Air Force - Air
Force Research Laboratory, 6/29/2007-12/29/2011.
Jennifer Neville, Stacey Connaughton, and James Tyler, Machine Learning Techniques to Model the
Impact of Relational Communication on Distributed Team Effectiveness, National Science
Foundation, 9/1/2008-8/31/2011.
William Cleveland, Jennifer Neville, and Bowei Xi, Stochastic Control of Multi-Scale Networks:
Modeling, Analysis, and Algorithms, Army Research Office, 5/1/2008-4/30/2013.
Last Updated: November 24, 2008 10:08am