CRAY Colloquium: Whither Educational Data Intelligence?
The computer science colloquium takes place on Mondays from 11:15 a.m. - 12:15 p.m. This week's speaker, Rakesh Agrawal (Data Insights Laboratories), will be giving a talk titled "Whither Educational Data Intelligence?"
Abstract
In this colloquium, we will interrogate the "whither" of the field. By examining the friction between automated optimization and pedagogical wisdom, we will map the technical and ethical bottlenecks that stand between our current dashboards and a future of truly intelligent, supportive learning environments.
Biography
Rakesh has published 200+ highly influential papers, including the 1st and 2nd highest cited in databases and data mining. They have been cited 140,000+ times with 35+ of them receiving 500+ citations and 3 receiving 8000+ citations (Google Scholar). He has been issued 88 patents. For his ground-breaking research, he has received the Innovation Awards given to the topmost researchers from two ACM-SIGs: SIGKDD and SIGMOD. In addition, his papers have received six test-of-time awards from five conferences: SIGMOD (twice), VLDB, ICDE, EDBT, WSDM. These awards recognize papers published ten years back that had the most influence in the field and industry.
Rakesh’s research has a far-reaching impact on commercial products and services. For instance, IBM's Intelligent Miner grew straight out of Rakesh’s data mining research, which also influenced the products of several companies (e.g., Oracle, SAP, SAS, SPSS, WEKA). He pioneered key concepts in data privacy, including Hippocratic database, privacy-preserving data mining, and sovereign information sharing, which have influenced data governance and compliance. He devised techniques for mining workflows from the logs of activities which have been used in commercial products like Flowmark. He invented techniques for automatically organizing and presenting unstructured information and architected their use for building catalogs for Bing's Ciao product search. He formulated the foundational principles for diversified ranking of search results which shaped the SIGIR TREC’s diversity task.
Rakesh has played key roles in projects of significant societal benefits (e.g., 2005 study on Improving Education System for the President of India, 2006 NRC study of Voter Registration Databases, 2009 NRC study of S&T strategies of six countries). Rakesh applied his technology for enriching textbooks to the NCERT books used by millions in India and has provided the results to NCERT to enable the authors to incorporate the improvements in future editions.
Keller Hall 3-180