Machine learning

Ram’s research spans enterprise data management, business intelligence and predictive analytics. She is director of both the Advanced Database Research Group and INSITE: Center for Business Intelligence and Analytics at the Eller College. The latter seeks to harness exploding amounts of data online – including through social media – for better decision making. Among her many honors include a 2012 IBM Faculty Award. Her research has been highlighted in several media outlets including NPR news. She has received more than $50 million in research funding from several different agencies including the National Science Foundation, National Institutes of Health, and NASA. Keywords: Big Data Analytics, Chronic health Conditions, Network Science, Machine Learning, Prediction Modeling

Dr Chen's areas of expertise include:Security informatics, security big data; smart and connected health, health analytics; data, text, web mining.Digital library, intelligent information retrieval, automatic categorization and classification, machine learning for IR, large-scale information analysis and visualization.Internet resource discovery, digital libraries, IR for large-scale scientific and business databases, customized IR, multilingual IR.Knowledge-based systems design, knowledge discovery in databases, hypertext systems, machine learning, neural networks computing, genetic algorithms, simulated annealing.Cognitive modeling, human-computer interactions, IR behaviors, human problem-solving process.