Jennifer Neville
Jennifer Neville
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, Learning Compositional Simulation Models, Dept of the Air Force - Air Force Research Laboratory, 6/29/2007-12/29/2011.
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