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I am a Professor of Computer Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Louisville, where I also direct the Knowledge Discovery and Web Mining Lab. My research area is data mining and machine learning with an emphasis on mining web data (e.g. text, ratings, clickstreams, social networks) and on designing improved explainability and fairness in black-box AI that involves human in the loop machine learning.
The applications of my research have been mainly in personalized information retrieval, clustering and searching within heterogeneous data, and most recently recommender systems that can explain their predictions and that are less biased by human-in-the-loop interaction.
I have always been excited and drawn to collaborate with researchers from other disciplines (physics, health, social, education, etc) to use data science and machine learning to draw insight from data or to solve particular problems; or vice versa to use knowledge from other disciplines to better understand phenomena or solve challenging problems in computation.