Professor Jennifer Neville

Jennifer Neville is a Senior Principal Researcher at Research at Microsoft Redmond and the Samuel Conte Chair Professor of Computer Science and Statistics at Purdue University. Her research focuses on developing data mining and machine learning techniques for complex relational and network domains, including social, information, and physical networks. This work has produced over 100 publications with 10K citations. Her awards include an NSF Career Award (2012), ICDM Best Paper (2009), and IEEE’s “10 to Watch in AI” (2008). She was an elected member of the AAAI Executive Council from 2015-2018 and a member of the DARPA Computer Science Study Group in 2007-2008. She was PC chair of the SIAM International Conference on Data Mining in 2019 and the ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data in 2016.