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WNCG professor Atlas Wang received a Data Science Research Award from Adobe for his work on “Towards Automated Design of Efficient Deep Multi-Modal Recommendation Models.” Every year, Adobe funds a university faculty research program to “promote the understanding and use of data science in the area of marketing with the goal “to encourage both theoretical and empirical development of solutions to problems in marketing.”

Advances in machine learning are announced every day, but efforts to fundamentally rethink the core algorithms of AI are rare.

WNCG Postdoctoral Associate Javad Ghaderi will join Columbia University this fall as a new tenure-track assistant professor in electrical engineering with a focus on communications and networking. Prof. Ghaderi, who received the offer last year as a student at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign (UIUC) deferred the offer until 2014 for the opportunity to study as a Postdoctoral Associate with WNCG.