Web Science and Digital Libraries Research Group

Hello Everyone! I am Jhon G. Botello from Colombia. I am an Engineer with a Master's in Industrial Engineering. I obtained these degrees at the Universidad del Norte in Barranquilla, Colombia. Recently, I started a new chapter in my academic life by joining the Web Science and Digital Libraries (WS-DL) research group at Old Dominion University (ODU) as a Ph.D. student in Computer Science under the supervision of Dr. Michele Weigle .  My interest in the field of Computer Science (CS) stems from the growing, important, and interesting relevance of technology in our society. Computer Science plays a crucial role in process automation, decision-making, and complex problem-solving. I believe that by combining my skills in Industrial Engineering, focused on data science and analysis, multivariate statistics, modeling, and simulation, with a Ph.D. in Computer Science , I will be able to contribute to the development of solutions to challenges of great interest in society. I am taking

  https://xkcd.com/2085/   The Internet Archive is hosting their annual celebration this week ( October 12, 2023 ), and I wanted to take this opportunity to both 1) encourage your attendance (virtual for most of us, but if you're in San Francisco, you can attend in person), and 2) express my appreciation and gratitude for continued existence of the Internet Archive, their evolving products and services, and their support of the research community.    The ongoing devolvement of Twitter into 4chan has caused me to reflect on the platforms, services, and corpuses on which I have built a research program over the last 20+ years.  Discussing the Twitter situation will be the topic of a future post, but here I want to laud the Internet Archive, specifically the Wayback Machine, and by extension, the suite of other public web archives, such as Archive.Today , Arquivo.pt , and the many members of IIPC .  In the past I've referred to the Internet Archive as the " Walter Cronkite o

Hello! I’m Rochana Obadage from Sri Lanka, a newly joined member of the WS-DL group. Very recently I started my journey with the Web Science and Digital Libraries (WS-DL) research group at Old Dominion University (ODU) as a PhD student under the supervision of Dr. Jian Wu . According to the saying, “there is a first time for everything”, so far, the year 2023 has provided me with several exciting first-time experiences. Becoming an international student and being able to study at an R1 institute by joining ODU are at the top of this list. For my very first year here at ODU, I am taking below courses for the Fall semester 2023. CS620 - Introduction to Data Science and Analytics (by Dr. Yi He ) CS834 - Introduction to Information Retrieval (by Dr. Jian Wu ) Also, I am working as a Graduate Teaching Assistant (GTA) at the Department of Computer Science, ODU for the class CS462/562 Cybersecurity Fundamentals in this Fall 2023. Apart from the above course related work, and th

Hi WS-DL blog readers! I’m Kumushini Thennakoon, an international student from Sri Lanka. I joined the Web Science and Digital Libraries (WS-DL) research group at Old Dominion University (ODU) as a PhD student under the supervision of Dr. Michael Nelson . Fall 2023 is my first semester and I’m very excited to work with the WS-DL research group. I’m happily willing to face challenges that might come across in the very first semester. I’m also working as a Teaching Assistant (TA) this semester for the class CS463/563 Cryptography for Cyber Security which is an interesting subject to work with. During the first semester as a graduate student, I’m taking: CS533 Web Security ( Dr. Michael Nelson ) CS518 Web Programming ( Dr. Jian Wu ) CS620 Introduction to Data Science and Analytics ( Dr. Yi He ) The web security course will start from an introduction to Document Object Model, Javascript, HTTP, security fundamentals and will cover many interesting topics concluding with rehostin