Lyle H. Ungar Computer and Information Science University of Pennsylvania ungar@cis.upenn.edu 215 898-7449 504 Levine, 200 S. 33rd St, Philadelphia, PA 19104-6309

Associate Professor of

• Bioengineering
  
• Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
  
• Computer and Information Science
  
• Electrical and Systems Engineering
  
• Genomics and Computational Biology (in the School of Medicine)
• Operations and Information Management (in the Wharton School )
• Psychology (in the School of Arts and Sciences)
  

Research Interests

Current main projects:

• Spectral methods for modeling language
• Word use, personality and well-being
• NLP and Word Sense Disambiguation
• Forecasting, methods for combining predictions, group decision making, prediction markets
• Bibliometrics: Modeling the dynamics of scientific communities
• BioInformatics

Other project areas:

• Machine learning and data mining
  • Clustering and Collaborative Filtering
  • Feature Selection
  • Genomics, Proteomics, and regulatory network modeling (see also BioInformatics)
  • Statistical Relational Learning
  • Text Mining
  • Active Learning
• Market-based methods and Applied Economics
  • Information Economics, Shopbots and Pricebots
  • Auctions and Mechanism Design

Teaching

• Cognitive Science (CIS 140, a.k.a Cognitive Science 001, Linguistics 105, Philosophy 044 and Psychology 107)
• Artificial Intelligence (CIS 391 and CIS 521)
• Machine Learning (CIS 520) and Data Mining (EMTM 554)
• Management of Technology (MGMT 560)
• The Singularity (under development)
• Other courses I have taught at Penn
• I have given many tutorials on textmining with Ronen Feldman at venues including SIGIR, KDD, CIKM, ICWSM, and AAAI

Administration

• Associate director of the Penn Center for BioInformatics (PCBI)
• Track leader, Computational Biology/Bioinformatics in the Masters in biotechnology
• Former Director, Executive Masters in Technology Management (EMTM), SEAS and Wharton (1996-2004)
• General Chair for KDD-2006 and Co-Chair for IEEE BIBM 2012

I am a member of

• Annenberg Public Policy Center (Distinguished research fellow)
• Center for Cognitive Neuroscience (CCN)
• Center for Pharmacoepidemiology Research and Training (CPeRT)
• Institute for Research in Cognitive Science (IRCS)
• Institute for Translational Medicine (ITMAT)
• Penn Center for BioInformatics (PCBI)
• Penn Positive Psychology Center
• Penn Research in Machine Learning (PRiML)

Futher information

• Full CV and short biography
• Publications (slightly out of date) and Patents
  • For more recent publications, see GoogleScholar (H-index = 46), Pubmed, and DBLP
• Students
• Family and hobbies
• Data mining reading group (the group meets weekly, but the site is not updated)
• Penn resources

... and most importantly

• Philadelphia restaurants