Project Participants

This section reflects the project personnel for Year One broken down by research team.

(1)

Multimedia search over distributed collections
Team Leader: Prof. Luis Gravano
Team Members: Prof. Shih-Fu Chang, Dr. Vasileios Hatzivassiloglou
PhD Students: Kathleen Dunn, Panagiotis Ipeirotis, Shahram Ebadollahi
Industry: General Electric (concept-based text retrieval); IBM; Mehran Sahami, E.piphany Inc.

(2)

Multimedia resource summarization
Team Leader: Prof. Kathleen McKeown
Team Members: Dr. Judith Klavans, Dr. Vasileios Hatzivassiloglou, Dr. Simone Teufel, Prof. Shih-Fu Chang.
PhD Students: Noemie Elhadad, Min-Yen Kan, Smaranda Muresan
Industry: IBM Digital Library Group (summarization, information extraction); Siemens Corporate Research (video summarization)

(3)

Query interface and presentation
Team Leader: Prof. Steven Johnson
Team Members: Prof. Steven Feiner, Prof. Shih-Fu Chang, Dr. James Cimino, Dr. Justin Starren, Dr. George Hripcsak
PhD Students: Mike Charney, Simon Lok
Industry: Lucent Technologies (will aid in developing and funding spoken-language query interface); IBM (query refinement and image search interface))

(4)

Clinical infrastructure
Team Leader: Dr. James Cimino
Team Members: Dr. Carol Friedman, Dr. Desmond Jordan, Dr. George Hripcsak
PhD Students: Eneida Mendonca
Industry: GE (General Electric Medical Systems)

(5)

Content and library
Team Leader: Dr. Judith Klavans
Team Members: Dr. Pat Molholt, Ms. Elizabeth LaRue.
Industry: Ovid Technologies

(6)

Evaluation
Team Leader: Dr. Vimla Patel
Team Members: Dr. Andre Kushniruk, Dr. Desmond Jordan, Dr. James Cimino, Dr. Vasileios Hatzivassiloglou