HP Selects 45 Professors for Innovation Research Awards in 2008
35 institutions selected worldwide
As part of the HP Labs Innovation Research Program, an open and competitive process that reviewed more than 450 proposals from 200 universities in 28 countries spanning the globe, HP selected 45 projects at 35 institutions to receive HP Labs Innovation Awards.
Awardees will work with HP Labs researchers on speculative and potentially game-changing research, the results of which are expected to generate the next set of technology breakthroughs in the areas of information explosion, dynamic cloud services, content transformation, intelligent infrastructure and sustainability. Over the coming year, we will highlight many of the projects awarded in 2008.
Please click on the links below for more information about the professors and research taking place at these outstanding institutions.
Americas
» Carnegie Mellon University - USA
Dr. Greg Ganger: “Toward Scalable Self-* Storage”
Topic 16: Scalable Storage
Research Themes: Information Explosion, Dynamic Cloud Services, Intelligent Infrastructure and Sustainability
» Georgia Institute of Technology - USA (two awards)
Dr. Karsten Schwan: “Scalable Management for Exascale Systems”
Topic 12: Exascale Datacenters
Research Themes: Information Explosion, Intelligent Infrastructure and Sustainability
Dr. Biing Hwang Juang: “Advanced Statistical Acoustic Signal Processing: Multi-Channel Signal Processing for Intelligent Collaboration”
Topic 9: Next-Generation Multimedia Communication and Collaboration Systems
Research Theme: Content Transformation
» Massachusetts Institute of Technology - USA (two awards)
Dr. Erik Brynjolfsson: “Information Diffusion and Diffusion of Good Ideas Among Mega-Regions”
Topic 7: Social Computing: Methods for Harvesting the Collective Intelligence of Groups
Dr. Thomas W. Malone: “Combining Human and Machine Intelligence in Collective Prediction Networks”
Topic 7: Social Computing: Methods for Harvesting the Collective Intelligence of Groups
Research Themes: Information Explosion and Dynamic Cloud Services
» Purdue University - USA
Dr. Elias I. Franses: “Aqueous Dispersion Stability of Printing Inks and Ink-Like Model Colloidal Dispersions”
Topic 3: Aqueous Dispersion Stability
Research Themes: Content Transformation and Sustainability
» Rochester Institute of Technology - USA
Dr. Frank Cost: “An Automated Framework for Collecting, Tagging, Transforming, and Publishing Web Repository Content to Unified Print Layouts”
Topic 32: Documents in the Enterprise
Research Themes: Information Explosion, Dynamic Cloud Services and Content Transformation
» Stanford University - USA (two awards)
Dr. Brian A. Wandell and Dr. Peter Catrysse: “High-speed Document Sensing and Imaging in Digital Presses”
Topic 1: High-speed Document Sensing and Imaging in Digital Presses
Research Themes: Content Transformation, Intelligent Infrastructure and Sustainability
Dr. Hideo Mabuchi: “Quantum Control of Information Dynamics in Cavity QED”
Topic 28: Engineering Quantum Technologies
Research Themes: Information Explosion and Intelligent Infrastructure
» State University of New York at Buffalo - USA (two awards)
Dr. Venu Govindaraju: “Multimodal Command-and-Control By Integrating Two-Handed Gestures and Speech ” (joint project with IIT Madras)
Topic 46: Pen, Touch and Hand Gesture-based Interaction for Personal Systems
Research Themes: Dynamic Cloud Services and Content Transformation
Dr. Venu Govindaraju: “Intelligent Processing of Hand-Annotated Documents”
Topic 47: Intelligent Document Analysis and Interpretation
Research Themes: Content Transformation and Information Explosion
» University of California, Berkeley - USA (two awards)
Dr. Ruzena Bajcsy: “Interactive Communication and Control in an Immersive Facility”
Topic 11: Interactive Communication and Control in an Immersive Facility
Research Themes: Information Explosion, Content Transformation and Intelligent Infrastructure
Dr. Van P. Carey: “Modeling Tools for Data Center Energy Performance and Sustainability”
Topic 15: Creating a Sustainable IT Ecosystem
Research Themes: Intelligent Infrastructure and Sustainability
» University of California, Davis - USA
Dr. Kwan-Liu Ma: “Visual Analytics Tools for Enterprise Information Management”
Topic 17: Natural Language Processing and Computational Linguistics Tools for Taming the Information Explosion
Research Themes: Information Explosion, Dynamic Cloud, Services Intelligent Infrastructure and Sustainability
» University of California, San Diego - USA
Dr. Amin Vahdat: “A Scalable, Commodity Data Center Network Architecture”
Topic 8: Custom Networks on Demand
Research Themes: Content Transformation
» University of California, Santa Barbara - USA
Dr. John Bowers: “High-Speed, Low-Threshold Hybrid Silicon Evanescent Ring Resonator Lasers”
Topic 26: High-Speed Low-Cost CMOS-Compatible Optical Engine
Research Themes: Information Explosion and Intelligent Infrastructure
» University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - USA (two awards)
Dr. Narendra Ahuja: “3D Reconstruction of Dynamic Real-World Objects and 3D Motion Aided Gesture Recognition”
Topic 9: Next-Generation Multimedia Communication and Collaboration Systems
Research Themes: Content Transformation
Dr. Jiawei Han: “Smartex: High Performance Searching, Mining, and Ranking Text Data in Multidimensional Space”
Topic 19: Visual and High-performance Analytics
Research Themes: Information Explosion and Intelligent Infrastructure
» University of Michigan - USA (three awards)
Dr. Kang G. Shin: "Adaptive Resource Management in Large-Scale Virtual Data Centers”
Topic 14: Sustainable Solutions for Data Centers
Research Themes: Sustainability and Intelligent Infrastructure
Dr. Stephane Lafortune: “Gadara: Dynamic Deadlock Avoidance in Concurrent Software via Discrete Control”
Topic 12: Exascale Datacenters
Research Themes: Information Explosion, Intelligent Infrastructure and Sustainability
Dr. Trevor Mudge: “Disaggregated Memory for Energy-Efficient Data Centers”
Topic 12: Exascale Datacenters
Research Themes: Information Explosion, Intelligent Infrastructure and Sustainability
» University of Southern California - USA
Dr. Alan E. Willner: “Signal Processing in On-Chip Optical DWDM Networks”
Topic 25: Signal Processing in On-Chip Optical DWDM Networks
Research Themes: Information Explosion and Intelligent Infrastructure
» University of Toronto - Canada
Dr. Ming Hu: “Channel Management in the Sale of After-Sales Services under Competition”
Research Themes: Information Explosion and Dynamic Cloud Services
» University of Wisconsin-Madison - USA
Dr. Mikko H. Lipasti: “On-Chip Optical Interconnects”
Topic 13: Nanophotonic Many-Core Architecture
Research Themes: Information Explosion, Intelligent Infrastructure and Sustainability
Europe, Middle East and Africa
» Bilkent University - Turkey
Dr. Alper Sen: “Design and Analysis of Procurement Contracts and Related Bidding Processes”
Research Themes: Information Explosion and Dynamic Cloud Services
» Konstanz University - Germany
Dr. Daniel A. Keim: “Real Time Visual Analytics”
Topic 19: Visual and High-performance Analytics
Research Themes: Information Explosion and Intelligent Infrastructure
» Russian Academy of Sciences - Russia
Dr. Maxim Grinev: “NLP Tools for Taming Information Explosion”
Topic 17: Natural Language Processing and Computational Linguistics Tools for Taming the Information Explosion
Research Themes: Information Explosion, Dynamic Cloud Services, Intelligent Infrastructure
» Technion, Israel Institute of Technology - Israel
Dr. Ron Y. Pinter: “An Integrated Framework for the Knowledge-based and Graph-theoretical Analysis of Time-oriented Event Sequences”
Topic 49: Knowledge Discovery from Event Sequences in Large Scale Systems
Research Themes: Information Explosion, Content Transformation and Intelligent Infrastructure
» Technische Universitaet Muenchen - Germany
Dr. Alfons Kemper: “Workload Management for an Operational Business Intelligence Supercomputer”
Topic 18: Real-time Business Intelligence Infrastructure
Research Themes: Information Explosion and Intelligent Infrastructure
» Universität Karlsruhe - Germany
Dr. Stefan Tai: “Document Services and Mashups for Situational Collaboration (MoSaiC)”
Topic 32: Documents in the Enterprise
Research Themes: Information Explosion, Content Transformation and Intelligent Infrastructure
» University of Bath - England (two awards)
Dr. John Philip Collomosse: “Artistic Rendering of Consumer Video Collections”
Topic 10: Artistic Rendering for Video
Research Themes: Information Explosion, Content Transformation and Intelligent Infrastructure
Dr. Guy McCusker: “Systems Security Modelling with Classical and Logical Games”
Topic 38: Security Analytics: Understanding the Threat Environment
Research Themes: Information Explosion and Intelligent Infrastructure
» University of Bristol - England (two awards)
Dr. Walterio W. Mayol-Cuevas: “Anywhere Authoring Using Interactive Computer Vision and Mobile Sensors”
Topic 34: Visual Interaction to Support Location Based Services
Research Themes: Information Explosion, Dynamic Cloud Services, Content Transformation and Intelligent Infrastructure
Dr. Robert M. Richardson: “Production and Properties of Nanoparticle in Nematic Suspensions”
Topic 5: Liquid Crystal Colloids
Research Themes: Content Transformation, Sustainability and Intelligent Infrastructure
» University of Edinburgh - Scotland
Professor Alan Bundy: “A Framework for Recording, Relating and Combining a Heterogeneous Collection of HP Ontologies for Enterprise Information Management”
Topic 35: Ontology Learning and Adaptation for Information Management
Research Themes: Information Explosion and Dynamic Cloud Services
» University of Leeds - England
Dr. Ming Ronnier Luo: “Affective Quality for Digital Images”
Topic 48: Affective Imaging
Research Themes: Information Explosion, Content Transformation and Intelligent Infrastructure
» Universidade do Minho - Portugal
Dr. Antonio Luis Pinto Ferreira De Sousa: “DC2MS: Dependable Cloud Computing Management Services”
Topic 39: Cloud Computing and Managing Large Heterogeneous Computing Infrastructures
Research Themes: Dynamic Cloud Services and Intelligent Infrastructure
» University of Saint-Petersburg - Russia
Dr. Boris Novikov: “Semantic Caching Techniques for Semistructrued Data Model”
Topic 40: Improving the Efficiency of Queries in Heterogeneous Distributed Environments
Research Themes: Information Explosion, Dynamic Cloud Services and Intelligent Infrastructure
» Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam - Netherlands
Dr. Frank Van Harmelen: “Rough Description Logic: A Qualitative Approach to Uncertainty on the Semantic Web”
Topic 36: Uncertainty Representation on the Semantic Web
Research Themes: Information Explosion and Dynamic Cloud Services
Asia-Pacific and Japan
» Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay - India
Dr. Soumen Chakrabarti: “Semantic Linkage between the Web, Intranet and Wikipedia: Discovery and Exploitation in Search and Aggregation”
Topic 47: Intelligent Document Analysis and Interpretation
Research Themes: Dynamic Cloud Services and Content Transformation
» Indian Institute of Technology, Madras - India
Dr. Anurag Mittal: “Multimodal Command-and-Control By Integrating Two-Handed Gestures and Speech ” (joint project with SUNY Buffalo)
Topic 46: Pen, Touch and Hand Gesture-based Interaction for Personal Systems
Research Themes: Dynamic Cloud Services and Content Transformation
» National Institute of Informatics - Japan
Dr. Kae Nemoto: “Distributed Quantum Information Processing and Hybrid Quantum Devices”
Topic 30: Distributed Quantum Information Processing
Research Themes: Information Explosion and Intelligent Infrastructure
» Nanyang Technological University - Singapore
Dr. Anwitaman Datta: “Understanding and Exploiting the Dynamics of Collaboration Ecosystems ”
Topic 42: Analyzing Dynamics of Collaborative Work in Communities
Research Themes: Dynamic Cloud Services and Content Transformation
» Peking University - China
Dr. Xiaoming Li: “Machine Learning Based Construction of Organizational Knowledge Base”
Topic 44: Organizational Knowledge Base by Machine Learning
Research Themes: Information Explosion and Dynamic Cloud Services
» Tsinghua University - China
Dr. Jianhua Feng: “Effective Schema-Aware Keyword Search over Heterogeneous Data”
Topic 45: Unified One-Stop Information Access System
Research Themes: Information Explosion and Dynamic Cloud Services