Web Science and Digital Libraries Research Group

This summer 2019, ten students from B.N.M Institute of technolog y , fourteen students from  Acharya Institute of Technology , and one student from  Ramaiah Institute of Technology participated for the Summer Research Workshop organized by  Ajay Gupta  and the CS department at ODU. Over the past few years, this workshop has enabled participants to collaborate with various research groups and join ODU for graduate degrees. One of the main goals of this annual workshop is to  encourage the undergraduate students to actively engage in research activities. ⁦ @Gavindya2 ⁩ presenting about Eye Tracking in predicting ADHD. At 2120, E&CS Building pic.twitter.com/q5bJ9LuX4Q — Yasith Jayawardana (@yasithmilinda) July 12, 2019 I was invited to give a talk in one of the session on the topic of "Eye Tracking for Predicting ADHD".  The slides are available at:  https://www.slideshare.net/GavindyaJayawardena/eye-tracking-for-predicting-adhd . I was able to make it in

I am really excited to be part of the Old Dominion University and the WS-DL group . I joined the faculty at Old Dominion University in 2018. Before that, I was a tenure-track assistant professor for two years at California State Polytechnic University (Cal Poly Pomona). I am truly grateful to Frank Shipman , Oleg Komogortsev , Richard Furuta , Dilma Da Silva and Cecelia Aragon for the help throughout this faculty search. It is sad to say goodbye to my colleagues at Cal Poly but I am excited to have an amazing bunch of mentors and colleagues here at ODU, Michael , Michele , Nikos , Ravi , Jian , Cong , Shubham , Anne and many more. Its truly amazing that I was able team up and put-together 2 NSF proposals (CRII and REU Site) within a short period of time. I received my Ph.D. in Computer Science from Texas A&M University in 2016, advised by Frank Shipman. I was a member of the Center for the Study of the Digital Libraries (CSDL) group. In 2012, I did a 6 month internshi

I am an outlier compared with most computer scientists because I spent 10 years on a field called "Astronomy and Astrophysics". Very few computer scientists followed the same path as me to transfer from a seemingly irrelevant major. But this is where my passion is, so I did it, and I made it! Right after I graduated as a PhD in 2011, I joined the CiteSeerX group directed by Dr. C. Lee Giles at IST , Penn State University . I worked as a DBA for web crawling at the beginning and soon became the tech leader of the search engine, and recently the Co-PI of an NSF awarded proposal on CiteSeerX . I spent six years, an usually long time as a postdoc and then was promoted to a teaching faculty. However, I kept moving on, because I wanted to do research! Luckily, Michael and Michele did not mind of taking the risk and bet on me to be a tenure-track faculty at the Old Dominion University. So I accepted the offer and became a member of the Web Science Digital Library group at ODU

For the last few years, Docker , the application containerization technology, has been gaining a lot of attraction from the DevOps community and lately it has made its way to the academia and research community as well. I have been following it since its inception in 2013. For the last couple years, it has become a daily driver for me. At the same time, I have been encouraging my colleagues to use Docker in their research projects. As a result, we are gradually moving away from one virtual machine (VM) per project to a swarm of nodes running containers of various projects and services. If you have accessed MemGator , CarbonDate , Memento Damage , Story Graph or some other WS-DL services lately, you have been served from our Docker deployment. We even have an on-demand PHP/MySQL application deployment system using Docker for the CS418 - Web Programming course . I ( @ibnesayeed ) have been selected as the @Docker Campus Ambassador for Old Dominion University! /cc @ODU @oducs

Last Wednesday, August 9, 2017, I was invited to give a talk to some summer interns of the Computer Science Department at Old Dominion University. Every summer our department invites some undergrad students from India and hosts them for about a month to work on some projects under a research lab here as summer interns. During this period, various research groups introduce their work to those interns to encourage them to become potential graduate applicants. Those interns also act as academic ambassadors who motivate their colleagues back in India for higher studies. This year, Mr. Ajay Gupta invited a group of 20 students from  Acharya Institute of Technology and B.N.M. Institute of Technology and supervised them during their stay at  Old Dominion University . Like the last year, I was selected from the Web Science and Digital Libraries Research Group again to introduce them with the concept of web archiving and various researches of our lab. An overview of the talk can be fo

For the last few years the Department of Computer Science at Old Dominion University invites a group of undergrad students from India and hosts them in the summer. They work closely with a research group on some relevant projects. Additionally, researchers from different research groups in the departments present their work to the guest students twice a week and introduce various different projects that they are working on. The goal of this practice is to allow them to collaborate with graduate students of the department and to encourage them for research studies. The invited students also act as ambassadors to share their experience with their colleagues and spread the word out when they go back to India. This year a group of 16 students from Acharya Institute of Technology and B.N.M. Institute of Technology  visited Old Dominion University , they were hosted under the supervision of Ajay Gupta . They worked in the areas of Sensor Networks and Mobil Application Development. The

Announcing the publication of an Old Dominion Computer Science Department technical report and an homage to Davide Carradine, Keye Luke and the television series Kung Fu. "Grasshopper." "Yes, Master Po?" "Grasshopper, you have passed many tests of strength, agility and stamina. But that is not enough. There are other trials you must pass before you are permitted to attempt to lift the fiery brazier. I will ask you a series of questions. “Let us begin. What is a graph?" "Master; a graph is a mathematical construct made of objects that may, or may not be connected to each other." "Grasshopper, how does a graph relate to digital libraries and the world where we live?" "Master; a graph is composed of nodes (or vertices) that can be connected in a pairwise manner with edges (or arcs). In the world of Facebook, people take the place of nodes and the connection that is made when one person “friends” another creates an edge. In