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
J. Neville and D. Jensen, "A Bias/Variance Decomposition for Models Using Collective Inference", Machine Learning, 2008.
U. Sharan and J. Neville, "Temporal-Relational Classifiers for Prediction in Evolving Domains", Proceedings of the 8th IEEE International Conference on Data Mining, 2008.
R. Xiang and J. Neville, "Pseudolikelihood EM for Within-Network Relational Learning", Proceedings of the 8th IEEE International Conference on Data Mining, 2008.
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, 3/26/2008-6/22/2010.
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.
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