Indian among Facebook Fellowship Winners of 2012-2013
Jeff Huang
Area of Focus: Search
Jeff is using mouse cursor movements, scrolling, and tabbed browsing to support the design of better information systems. He is researching the possibilities of scalable, non-intrusive methods for collecting richer interaction data on web pages, so that search engines and interactive websites like Facebook can work together to utilize user-interaction data and give users the information they want more effectively. He is doing the fourth year of doctoral studies in Information Science.
Hyeontaek Lim
Area of Focus: Distributed systems
A PhD student at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Hyeontaek hopes to deliver data-intensive computing in a more affordable package. By this, he hopes to facilitate future innovations for large-scale Internet services.