A Research Group at Faculty of Computer Science, IBA exploring various aspects of the Web and pursuing the study of Web as a system.
This research group focuses on areas related to the Web. Web is a massive system which is not reachable entirely by any individual, group, organization, or commercialized industry. Due to this reason there is always a part of the Web which is termed as "Dark Web (analogous to dark matter)". Discovery of the Dark Web becomes more challenging with the rapid growth of the Web on a daily basis. Moreov
09/07/2014
YummyKarachi by our group attracting a lot of attention from researchers in Aalborg, Denmark at the UMAP2014 Conference. Here's a sneak peak into what its about:
Yummy Karachi Demonstration In this paper the YummyKarachi system is presented; it is a combined restaurant and safe routes recommender system for an unsafe city such as Karachi. YummyKarachi…
After winning ProBattle Mobile Exhibition at IBA, Karachi the mobile app "YummyKarachi" developed with our interns Muhammad Usuf and Abdul Moiz will head over to Aalborg, Denmark this summer as a demonstration paper in the UMAP 2014 Conference.
Even students already pursuing MS or PhD can go for the internship option. Feel free to contact if you need help with the application process.
Idiap/EPFL: PhD and Internship Positions in Social Computing The Social Computing Research Group at Idiap/EPFL has 3 PhD positions and several internship positions to help research in social media, ubiquitous computing, and computational social science.
03/04/2014
Our past intern Suneel Kumar Kingrani blogs about his experience of securing a PhD studentship at Birkbeck, University of London.
Update: Our interns interns of App Bakery, Muhammad Usuf and Abdul Moiz, who were announced as runners-upin software project exhibition category of IBA PROBATTLE for the mobile application "YummyKarachi" are actually the winners as there was a mistake in points calculation. We will release details of the app soon.
Congratulations to our interns of App Bakery, Muhammad Usuf and Abdul Moiz, who won second prize in software exhibition category of IBA PROBATTLE for the mobile application "YummyKarachi". Details of the app to be released soon.
Mobile Application "YummyKarachi" developed by two of our interns at App Bakery will be taking part in software exhibition category of IBA PROBATTLE this week. Good luck to the young developers!!
Pre-print of our upcoming poster on "Election Trolling: Analyzing Sentiment in Tweets during Pakistan Elections 2013"
Our recent work on mining election tweets and analyzing sentiment to detect "election trolling" during Pakistan Elections 2013 has been accepted as poster in prestigious WWW2014 conference. Stay tuned for a pre-print version.
06/12/2013
Funded PhD positions available in the new INSIGHT CENTER for Data Analytics
PhD positions in Recommender Systems & Real Time Analytics of Social, Semantic and Linked data |... We have a number of funded PhD positions in INSIGHT National Centre for Data Analytics @ NUI Galway. The positions will focus on research challenges in Graph-Based Recommender Systems/Real Time Analytics of Social, Semantic and Linked data.
22/11/2013
If you'd like to do a PhD in Edinburgh (esp. working with lots of Social Media data) then apply! 10 slots free.
Centre for Doctoral Training in Data Science 10 fully funded PhD studentships available for September 2014. Apply now!What is data science? Data science is the study of computational methods for extracting knowledge from data. Read moreThe Course We have a four year PhD programme combining advanced coursework and independent PhD-level research...
Can data science help earn money for startups, watch this exclusive panel held during KDD 2013 for "A Data Scientist’s Guide to Making Money from Start-ups"
A Data Scientist’s Guide to Making Money from Start-ups KDD provides the premier forum for advancement and adoption of the “science” of knowledge discovery and data mining. KDD encourages: Research in KDD (through annual research conferences, newsletter and other related activities) Adoption of “standards” in the market in terms of terminology, evaluatio...