Research Highlights

Google Faculty Research Award Granted to Professor Xi Chen for Work on Social Networks

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Xi Chen, assistant professor of Information, Operations and Management Sciences, recently received a Google Faculty Research Award to support his research on social networks. The Google Faculty Research Award program is a biannual recognition of ongoing research in computer science and related topics, including systems, machine perception, structured data, robotics and mobile. This round, Google received 808 proposals, an increase of 12% over last round, and is funding 122 projects.

Professor Chen will liaise with Peng Dai, Google research software engineer, as his research develops.

For more about the Faculty Research Award program, please see Google’s Research Blog.