January 15, 2007

Rong Jin, assistant professor of computer science and engineering, has received an NSF CAREER Award for his project "Large-scale Multi-label Learning" (2007-2011). This project aims to address two fundamental challenges of large-scale multi-label learning: rare class classification and classifying data with similar input patterns. Jin will develop a relation propagation framework for multi-label learning that exploits a variety of semi-learning technologies.

The Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program, the National Science Foundation’s most prestigious award for new faculty members, recognizes and supports the early career-development activities of teacher-scholars who are most likely to become the academic leaders of the 21st century. Awardees are selected on the basis of creative career-development plans that effectively integrate research and education within the context of the mission of their institution.

NSF Award Abstract