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The Web Conference (WWW2018) [[https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3178876.3186020][Paper (from ACM Library)]] [[https://www.cs.uic.edu/pub/Cruz/WebHome/IMG-20180426-WA0004.jpg][Photo]] [[https://www.cs.uic.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/WebConference-2018.pdf][Department News]] (April 2018) [[%ATTACHURL%/IMG-20180426-WA0004.jpg][<br /> Distinguished Researcher of the Year (Natural Sciences and Engineering) ]] [[https://today.uic.edu/invitation-researcher-scholar-and-inventor-of-the-year][Invitation]] [[https://www.cs.uic.edu/Main/NewsItem?audience=public&ind=687][ ]] [[https://today.uic.edu/finding-patterns-to-make-sense-of-complex-data][UIC News]] [[https://www.cs.uic.edu/pub/Cruz/WebHome/groupphoto.jpg][Photo]] (February 2018) [[https://www.cs.uic.edu/Main/NewsItem?audience=public&ind=687][<br />]] [[http://oaei.ontologymatching.org/2017/ibm_prize.html][IBM Research Prize winner for instance matching]] [[https://www.cs.uic.edu/Main/NewsItem?audience=public&ind=687][ (October 2017)<br />Two papers at ]] [[https://wp.nyu.edu/urbangis/][UrbanGIS 2017]] [[https://www.cs.uic.edu/Main/NewsItem?audience=public&ind=687][ (October 2017)<br />Iman Mirrezaei defends his PhD thesis successfully (August 2017)<br />Data scientist wins award to develop malaria monitoring platform ]] [[https://today.uic.edu/data-scientist-wins-award-to-develop-malaria-monitoring-platform][UIC Press Release]] [[https://www.cs.uic.edu/Main/NewsItem?audience=public&ind=687][ (June 2017)<br />Seminar - Juan F. Sequeda: "Integrating Relational Databases with the Semantic Web"]] (November 2015)<br />Visit by ADVIS alumn Venkat Raghavan to CS586 and the ADVIS Lab as part of the [[https://www.cs.uic.edu/Main/NewsItem?audience=public&ind=681][IBM Watson visit to UIC]] (October 2015)<br />AgreementMakerLight: (again) [[http://oaei.ontologymatching.org/2015/results/index.html][best ontology matching system at OAEI]]! (October 2015)<br />The ADVIS Lab has four presentations at ISWC: two at the [[http://voila2015.visualdataweb.org/][Voila! Workshop]] and two at the [[http://om2015.ontologymatching.org/][Ontology Matching Workshop]] (October 2015)<br /> [[https://www.cs.uic.edu/Main/NewsItem?audience=public&ind=675][Keynote at NSF funded workshop at the University of Michigan]] (October 2015)<br /><em>UIC CS Data Science Curriculum</em>: Introduction to Data Science course to be offered for the first time in Spring of 2016! (September 2015)<br /><em>UIC CS Data Science Curriculum:</em> [[https://www.cs.uic.edu/Cruz/CS586Fall2015][Data and Web Semantics graduate course is offered for the 11th time!]](August 2015)<br /> [[http://www.cs.uic.edu/Main/NewsItem?audience=public&ind=662][Congratulations to PhD student Iman Mirrezaei for best paper at Know@LOD]]: The Triplex Approach for Recognizing Semantic Relations from Noun Phrases, Appositions, and Adjectives (July 2015)<br />Isabel Cruz gives keynote talk at the [[http://www.agile-online.org/index.php/conference/conference-2015][8th AGILE International Conference on Geographic Information Science]]  titled "Big Data Integration to Enable Citizen Participation in Smart Cities" (June 2015) <font color="#515151" face="arial"><br /></font>Ning Ai and Isabel Cruz give [[https://greatcities.uic.edu/event/neighborhood-based-sustainable-food-waste-management/?utm_source=GCI+News&utm_campaign=8de7aff561-6_9_2014_Events_Email7_7_2014&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_20d44d45e2-8de7aff561-66795697][talk]] at the [[https://greatcities.uic.edu/][Great Cities Institute]] titled "Neighborhood-based Sustainable Food Waste Management" (May 2015)<br />Three undergraduate students receive NSF REU scholarships to work over the summer on the NSF CyberSEES and Visual Analytics projects: Manasa Bandapalle, Stephen Selke, and Akhil Thuthika (May 2015)<br />Isabel Cruz gives talk at the Urban Data Analytics/City of Chicago SmartData Platform Workshop at the Computation Institute of the University of Chicago titled "You Cannot Take the Data Integration out of the Analytics (Nor Can You Take the Analytics out of the Data Integration)" (May 2015)<br />Paper by PhD student Iman Mirrezaei gets accepted (full paper) at the [[http://knowalod2015.informatik.uni-mannheim.de/en/program/][Know@LOD Workshop]]: "The Triplex Approach for Recognizing Semantic Relations from Noun Phrases, Appositions, and Adjectives" (April 2015)<br />Meeting between the CyberSEES team and top representatives from the City of Chicago featuring presentations of WindyGrid (by Tom Schenk, CDO, City of Chicago) and of GIVA (Isabel Cruz, UIC) (March 2015)<br />Isabel Cruz attends NetApp University Day in Sunnyvale, CA (February 2015)<br />Isabel Cruz becomes Associate Editor of [[http://toit.acm.org/][ACM TOIT]] (January 2015)<br />Our paper [[https://www.ida.liu.se/conferences/EKAW14/program.html][Pay-As-You-Go Multi-User Feedback Model for Ontology Matching is presented by Matteo Palmonari at EKAW in Sweden]] (November 2014) <br />Isabel Cruz gives a [[http://www.uic.edu/cuppa/ipce/Winter_2015_newsletter/directorletter.html][Civic Engagement talk at the Institute for Policy and Civic Engagement at UIC]] (October 2014)<br />AgreementMakerLight is again first at [[http://oaei.ontologymatching.org/2014/][OAEI ]](September 2014)<br />Riccardo Porrini, a PhD student from the U. of Milano-Bicocca, is visiting the ADVIS Lab for the Fall semester (August 2014)

<span style="color: #000000; background-color: transparent;">Tais Bellini from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS) in Brazil is visiting the ADVIS Lab funded by an undergraduate scholarship from the CAPES/CNPq (May-August 2014)<br /></span> <span style="color: #000000; background-color: transparent;">Three of UIC's best undergraduate students: Lakulish Gandhi, Eson Musabelliu, and Taleb Omar are REU NSF recipients working on the </span><span style="background-color: transparent;">CyberSEES</span><span style="color: #000000; background-color: transparent;"> project and the Visual Analytics project (May-August 2014)<br /></span> <span style="background-color: transparent;"> [[http://ieee-icde2014.eecs.northwestern.edu/][ICDE 2014]]</span><span style="background-color: transparent;"> (March-April 2014)<br /></span> <span style="background-color: transparent;"> [[https://greatcities.uic.edu/2014/03/17/scholar-announcement/][Great Cities Institute Scholar Award (2014-2015)]]</span> <span style="color: #000000; background-color: transparent;"> (February 2014)<br /></span> <span style="color: #000000; background-color: transparent;">Mattteo Palmonari from U. of Milan-Bicocca visits the ADVIS Lab for one month to collaborate on the </span><span style="background-color: transparent;"> [[http://advis.cs.uic.edu/giva/][NSF <span style="color: #000000;">CyberSEES</span> project]]</span><span style="color: #000000; background-color: transparent;"> (January 2014)<br /></span> <span style="color: #000000; background-color: transparent;">Update: "GIVA: </span><font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent;">A Semantic Framework for Geospatial and Temporal Data Integration, Visualization, and Analytics" received the *Best Demonstration Paper Award* at the [[http://sigspatial2013.sigspatial.org/][ACM SIGSPATIAL GIS 2013 Conference]] (November 2013)<br /></font> <span style="background-color: transparent;"> [[http://openhatch.org/blog/2013/five-women-bringing-open-source-to-campus-for-ada-lovelace-day-2013/][Devina Dhawan in the news]]</span><span style="color: #000000; background-color: transparent;"> (October 2013)<br /></span> <span style="color: #000000; background-color: transparent;">AgreementMakerLight is a resounding success at OAEI 2013 (</span><span style="background-color: transparent;"> [[http://oaei.ontologymatching.org/2013/results/index.html][final results]]</span><span style="color: #000000; background-color: transparent;">) (October 2013)</span> <span style="color: #000000; background-color: transparent;"> <br /></span> <span style="color: #000000; background-color: transparent;">Our second paper on GIVA "Semantic Extraction of Geographic Data from Web Tables </span><span style="color: #000000; background-color: transparent;">for Big Data Integration" has been accepted to the </span><span style="background-color: transparent;"> [[http://www.geo.uzh.ch/~rsp/gir13/][GIR '13 workshop]]</span><span style="background-color: transparent;"> (October 2013)<br /></span> <span style="background-color: transparent;"> [[http://www.cs.uic.edu/Main/NewsItem?audience=public&ind=560][Data Integration for Urban Metabolism]] </span><span style="color: #000000; background-color: transparent;">(September 2013)<br /></span> <span style="color: #000000; background-color: transparent;">Our demo paper "GIVA: </span><font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent;">A Semantic Framework for Geospatial and Temporal Data Integration, Visualization, and Analytics" has been accepted to the [[http://sigspatial2013.sigspatial.org/][ACM SIGSPATIAL GIS 2013 Conference]] (September 2013)<br /></font> <span style="background-color: transparent;">Francesco Loprete from U. of Milan-Bicocca starts a six month visit to the ADVIS Lab (August 2013)<br /></span> <span style="background-color: transparent;"> [[http://agreementmaker.org/wiki/index.php/Visual_Analytics][New results for NSF Award "Visual Analytics for Ontology Matching"]]</span><span style="background-color: transparent;"> (August 2013) <br /></span> <span style="background-color: transparent;"> [[http://www.cs.uic.edu/Main/NewsItem?audience=public&ind=556][<span style="font-family: arial, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.890625px;">Big Data Integration to Enable Citizen Participation in Smart Cities</span>]]</span><span style="background-color: transparent;"> (July 2013)<br /></span> <span style="background-color: transparent;">Isabel Cruz gives talk at Microsoft Research (June 2013)<br /></span> <span style="background-color: transparent;"> [[http://ieee-icde2014.eecs.northwestern.edu/][ICDE 2014 Web site]]</span><span style="background-color: transparent;"> (June 2013) <br /></span> <span style="background-color: transparent;"> [[http://www.burst.uic.edu/symposium.html][International Symposium on the Design of Urban Systems of the Future]]</span><span style="background-color: transparent;"> (May 2013)<br /></span> <span style="background-color: transparent;"> [[http://www.cs.uic.edu/Main/NewsItem?audience=public&ind=548][Visit of Tina Eliassi-Rad]]</span><span style="background-color: transparent;"> (May 2013)<br /></span> <span style="background-color: transparent;">Anna Anderson and Matt Dumford join the ADVIS Lab as NSF REU recipients (April 2013)<br /></span> <span style="background-color: transparent;">Launching of </span><span style="background-color: transparent;">AgreementMakerLight</span><span style="background-color: transparent;"> at SOMER meeting, University of Lisbon (April 2013)<br /></span> <span style="background-color: transparent;">Isabel Cruz made associate editor of </span><font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent;">ACM Trans. on Spatial Algorithms and Systems (March 2013) <br /></font> <span style="background-color: transparent;"> [[http://www.cs.uic.edu/Main/NewsItem?audience=public&ind=517][<font face="arial, verdana, sans-serif" style="line-height: 18.890625px;">Isabel Cruz receives ACM Recognition of Service Award</font>]]</span><font face="arial, verdana, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent;"> (February 2013)<br /></font> <span style="background-color: transparent;">REU-recipient Devina Dhawan receives Scholarship for Service, </span><span style="background-color: transparent;">CyberCorps</span><span style="background-color: transparent;"> (January 2013) <br /></span> <span style="background-color: transparent;"> [[http://arxiv.org/abs/1212.1625][AgreementMaker still at the top!]]</span><span style="background-color: transparent;"> (December 2012) <br /></span> <span style="background-color: transparent;"> [[http://www.wise2012.cs.ucy.ac.cy/][WISE 2012]]</span><span style="background-color: transparent;"> (November 2012)<br /></span> <span style="background-color: transparent;"> [[http://acmgis2012.cs.umd.edu/][ACM SIGPATIAL GIS 2012]]</span><span style="background-color: transparent;"> (November 2012) <br /></span> <span style="background-color: transparent;">Invited talk at Chesapeake Large-Scale Analytics Conference (October 2012) <br /></span> <span style="background-color: transparent;"> [[http://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1213013][Moving Objects Databases for Exploration of Virtual and Real Environments]]</span><span style="background-color: transparent;"> (September 2012)<br /></span> <span style="background-color: transparent;"> [[http://www.onthemove-conferences.org/index.php/previousevents/otm2012][ODBASE 2012]]</span><span style="background-color: transparent;"> (September 2012)<br /></span> <span style="background-color: transparent;"> [[http://www.cs.uic.edu/~ifc/Papers/Cruz-ESWC-2012.pdf][Alessio Fabiani and Matteo Palmonari present paper on an automatically configurable architecture for ontology matching using machine learning techniques at ESWC 2012]]</span><span style="background-color: transparent;"> (May 2012)<br /></span> <span style="background-color: transparent;">Four students graduate from the ADVIS Lab: Rigel Gjomemo (</span><span style="background-color: transparent;">PhD</span><span style="background-color: transparent;">), Joel Booth (</span><span style="background-color: transparent;">PhD</span><span style="background-color: transparent;">), Federico Caimi (MS Thesis), Alessio Fabiani (MS Thesis) (May 2012)<br /></span> <span style="background-color: transparent;"> [[http://www.cs.uic.edu/~ifc/Papers/Cruz_ICDE12_demo_697.pdf][Isabel Cruz and Cosmin Stroe give demo of an interactive ontology matching system at ICDE 2012]]</span><span style="background-color: transparent;"> (March 2012)<br /></span> <span style="background-color: transparent;"> [[http://stko.geog.ucsb.edu/bigdatagiscience2012/][Isabel Cruz gives Reginald Golledge Distinguished Lectureship at UCSB "Big Data in Geographic Information Science Panel 2012"]]</span><span style="background-color: transparent;"> (February 2012)<br /></span> <span style="background-color: transparent;"> [[http://tigger.uic.edu/depts/ovcr/research/councils/award/awardee.html][UIC Area of Excellence Award: <span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.921569);">Building Urban Resilience and Sustainability (BURST): Integrating Adaptive Infrastructure Systems with Institutional and Ecological Functions</span>]]</span><span style="background-color: transparent;"> (January 2012)<br /></span> <span style="background-color: transparent;"> [[http://www.uic.edu/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/uicnews/articledetail.cgi?id=15919][Interview: "Complexity of simple answers"]]</span><span style="background-color: transparent;"> (December 2011)<br /></span> <span style="background-color: transparent;"> [[http://bit.ly/sPd6UZ][NSF features research by Isabel Cruz and Rigel Gjomemo "Computer Scientists Advance Secure Emergency Response Systems"]]</span><font color="#000000" face="arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent;">(November 2011)<br /></font> <span style="background-color: transparent;"> [[http://acmgis2011.cs.umn.edu/][Isabel Cruz is the General Chair of ACM SIGSPATIAL GIS]]</span><font face="arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent;"> (November 2011)<br /></font> <span style="background-color: transparent;"> [[http://oaei.ontologymatching.org/2011/][AgreementMaker is again the best ontology matching system at OAEI]]</span><span style="background-color: transparent;"> (October 2011)<br /></span> <span style="background-color: transparent;"> [[http://ideas.encs.concordia.ca/ideas11/][Isabel Cruz is Program Chair of IDEAS 2011]]</span><span style="background-color: transparent;"> (September 2011)<br /></span> <span style="background-color: transparent;">The ADVIS Lab welcomes Alessio Fabiani (visiting from "La Sapienza") and welcomes back Matteo Palmorari (from Milano-Bicocca) and Federico Caimi (graduate student at UIC) (August 2011)<br /></span> <span style="background-color: transparent;"> [[http://agreementmaker.org/wiki/index.php/Visual_Analytics][New project on Visual Analytics for Ontology Matching]] (July 2011)<br /></span> <span style="background-color: transparent;">AgreementMaker on Linked Open Data </span><span style="background-color: transparent;"> [[http://www.cs.uic.edu/~ifc/Papers/lhd2011_cruz_et_al.pdf][Paper at IJCAI LHD-11]] (July 2011)<br /></span> <span style="background-color: transparent;"> [[http://www.lasige.di.fc.ul.pt/~cpesquita/][Catia Pesquita]]</span><span style="background-color: transparent;"> visits the ADVIS Lab (July 2011) </span><span style="background-color: transparent;"> [[http://www.cs.uic.edu/Main/NewsItem?audience=public&ind=433][Invited Talk]]<br /></span> <span style="background-color: transparent;"> [[http://www.cs.uic.edu/Main/NewsItem?audience=public&ind=429][Isabel Cruz receives the University of Illinois Faculty Scholar Award]] (June 2011)<br /></span> <span style="background-color: transparent;"> [[http://www.cs.uic.edu/Main/NewsItem?audience=public&ind=431][Rigel Gjomemo receives the Outstanding TA Award]] (May 2011)<br /></span> <span style="background-color: transparent;"> [[https://www.cs.uic.edu/bin/view/Cruz/OAEICompetition2010][The AgreementMaker system is first in matching biomedical ontologies]] (November 2010)<br /></span><span style="background-color: transparent;"> [[http://www.cs.uic.edu/bin/view/Cruz/Visitors20102011][The ADVIS Lab welcomes Matteo Palmonari and Michele Caci]] (August 2010)<br /></span><span style="background-color: transparent;"> [[http://twitter.com/ADVIS_UIC][The ADVIS Lab is now on *twitter]]* <span style="background-color: transparent;"> (July 2010)<br /></span></span> [[http://www.cs.uic.edu/Main/NewsItem?audience=public&ind=381][Isabel Cruz delivers keynote talk at the IV Alberto Mendelzon Workshop on Foundations of Data Management]] (May 2010) [[http://www-2.dc.uba.ar/amw2010/Cruz-keynote-AMW2010.pdf][Slides]]<br /> <span style="background-color: transparent;"> [[https://www.cs.uic.edu/bin/view/Cruz/OAEICompetition][The AgreementMaker ontology matching system ranks high among peers]] (October 2009)</span><span style="background-color: transparent;"> [[http://www.cs.uic.edu/~ifc/webpapers/Cruz-OAEI-2009-new.pdf][Paper]]<br /></span><span style="background-color: transparent;"> [[http://www.cs.uic.edu/Cruz/Angela][Postdoc Angela Maduko joins the ADVIS lab]] (July 2009)<br /></span> <span style="background-color: transparent;"> [[http://www.sigspatial.org/][Isabel Cruz named general chair of the 2011 ACM SIGSPATIAL GIS conference]] (June 2009)<br /></span> <span style="background-color: transparent;"> [[http://www.uic.edu/cuppa/gci/whatwedo/competitions/facultyscholar.htm][Isabel Cruz receives Great Cities Institute Faculty Scholar award]] (April 2009)<br /></span><span style="background-color: transparent;"> [[http://www.AgreementMaker.org][Launch of AgreementMaker.org]] (December 2008)<br /></span> <span style="background-color: transparent;"> [[http://www.cs.uic.edu/~ifc/grants/SchemaOntologyMatching/index.html][NSF grant on schema and ontology matching]] (August 2008)<br /></span><span style="background-color: transparent;"> [[http://www.cs.uic.edu/~advis/CASSIS/publications.html][List of NSF ITR publications]] (August 2008)<br /></span> <span style="background-color: transparent;"> [[http://oaei.ontologymatching.org/2007/][AgreementMaker in the OAEI 2007 campaign]]<br /></span> <span style="background-color: transparent;">[[http://www.cise.ufl.edu/dept/acmgis2007/index.html"&gt;ACM][Call for participation: ACM GIS 2007]]<br /></span> <span style="background-color: transparent;"> [[http://iswc2006.semanticweb.org][Program chair of ISWC 2006]]<br /></span> <span style="background-color: transparent;"> [[http://www.uic.edu/depts/oaa/cetl/trp/2005.htm][UIC teaching award]]<br /></span> <span style="background-color: transparent;"> [[http://www.cs.uic.edu/~ifc/newyorkworkshop.html][AP2PC 2004 (New York)]]<br /></span> <span style="background-color: transparent;"> [[http://www.uic.edu/depts/enga/coenews/fac_research_award.htm][COE faculty research award]]<br /></span> <span style="background-color: transparent;"> [[http://dels.nas.edu/besr/msc_members_past.shtml][National Academies Mapping Science committee]]<br /></span> <span style="background-color: transparent;"> [[http://www.cs.uic.edu/~psliva/2mITR/2mitr.html][NSF ITR]]<br /></span> [[http://www.cs.uic.edu/~ifc/cruise-webpage.html][Invited talk on semantic data integration]]<br /> <span style="background-color: transparent;"> [[http://www.cs.uic.edu/~psliva/TAs/TAs-2.htm][Undergraduate research]]<br /></span> <span style="color: blue; background-color: transparent;"> [[http://cs.uic.edu/~psliva/TAs][Feihong and Lu win TA prizes]]<br /></span> <span style="color: blue; background-color: transparent;"> [[http://www.cs.uic.edu/~ifc/Talks/SC2002/index.html][Tutorial at Supercomputing 2002]]<br /></span> <span style="color: blue; background-color: transparent;"> [[http://www.giscience.org/GIScience2002/program.html#invited1][Invited talk at GIScience 2002]]<br /></span> <span style="color: blue; background-color: transparent;"> [[http://www.cs.uic.edu/~ifc/photo-LA.html][dg.o demo]]</span>
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