Indian among Facebook Fellowship Winners of 2012-2013

By siliconindia   |   Tuesday, 21 February 2012, 23:55 IST   |    2 Comments
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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.