Web Science and Digital Libraries Research Group

https://xkcd.com/329/ Eight courses from the Web Science and Digital Libraries ( WS-DL ) Group will be offered for Spring 2026.  The classes will be a mixture of on-line synchronous, asynchronous, and f2f.  C S 418/518 Web Programming, Ms.  Nasreen Muhammad Arif , Mondays & Wednesdays 3:00-4:15  Topics : MySQL, React, Express.js, NodeJS, MVC (Model-View-Control), Search Engines, GitHub   C S 431/531  Web Server Design , Mr.  David Calano , Mondays, Wednesdays, & Fridays, 10:00-10:50   Topics : HTTP, REST (Representational State Transfer), HATEOAS    C S 432/532 Web Science,  Ms.  Nasreen Muhammad Arif , asynchronous   Topics : Python, R, D3, ML, and IR.   CS 620 Intro to Data Science & Analytics, Dr.  Bhanuka Mahanama , Web, Tuesdays & Thursdays 6:00-7:15 and asynchronous (8 week session starting in October) Topics : Python, Pandas, NumPy, NoSQL, Data Wrangling, ML, Colab. CS 625 Da...

Better late than never, right? This review of WS-DL's 2024 is incredibly late, but some family concerns delayed my writing and then I never quite got back on track.  We had quite a productive 2024, graduating a record three MS students and four PhD students.   Students and Faculty We did not add or lose any faculty this year, but Dr. Jayarathna received tenure early !  Congratulations to Sampath! We graduated four PhD students: Bathsheba Farrow defended her dissertation on 2024-06-28 .  Bathsheba already had a position with the Naval Surface Warfare Center, and will continue with them after her graduation.  Yasith Jayawardana defended his dissertation on 2024-07-09 .  Yasith took a research scientist position at Georgia Tech.  Gavindya Jayawardena defended her dissertation on 2024-07-10 .  Gavindya took a post-doc position at the Information eXperience lab at the UT Austin School of Information. Muntabir Hasan Choudhury defended h...