Lise Getoor is a professor in the
computer science
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department, at the
University of California, Santa Cruz
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, and an
adjunct professor
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the job security of the tenure vary in different parts of the world, however the genera ...
in the
Computer Science
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Department at the
University of Maryland, College Park
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.
Her primary research interests are in
machine learning
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Machine ...
and reasoning with uncertainty, applied to graphs and structured data.
She also works in
data integration
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This process becomes significant in a variety of situations, which include both commercial (such as when two similar companies ...
,
social network analysis
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and
visual analytics. She has edited a book on
Statistical relational learning that is a main reference in this domain.
She has published many highly cited papers in academic journals and conference proceedings.
She has also served as action editor for the Machine Learning Journal, JAIR associate editor, and TKDD associate editor.
She is a board member of the International Machine Learning Society, has been a member of
AAAI
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Executive council, was PC co-chair of
ICML
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2011, and has served as senior PC member for conferences including AAAI, ICML, IJCAI, ISWC, KDD, SIGMOD, UAI, VLDB, WSDM and WWW.
She received her
Ph.D.
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from
Stanford University
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,
her
M.S.
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from
UC Berkeley
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, and her
B.S.
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The first university to admit a student to the degree of Bachelor of Science was the University ...
from
UC Santa Barbara
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.
Prior to joining
University of California, Santa Cruz
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, she was a
professor
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at the
University of Maryland, College Park
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until Nov 2013.
Recognition
Getoor has multiple best paper awards, an
NSF
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Political organizations
*National Socialist Front, a Swedish National Socialist party
*NS-Frauenschaft, the women's wing of the former German Nazi party
*National Students Federation, a leftist Pakistani students' political gr ...
Career Award, and is an
Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence
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(AAAI) Fellow.
In 2019, she was elected as an
ACM Fellow
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Aviation
* AGM-129 ACM, 1990–2012 USAF cruise missile
* Air chief marshal
* Air combat manoeuvring or dogfighting
* Air cycle machine
* Arica Airport (Colombia) (IATA: ACM), in Arica, Amazonas, Colombia
Computing
...
"for contributions to machine learning, reasoning under uncertainty, and responsible data science",
was selected as a Distinguished Alumna of the UC Santa Barbara Computer Science Department,
was awarded the UCSC WiSE Chancellor's Achievement Award for Diversity,
and was selected to give the UC Santa Cruz Faculty Research Lecture 2018-19, one of the highest recognitions given to UC faculty.
In October 2022, Getoor was elected a Fellow of the
American Association for the Advancement of Science
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(AAAS).
Getoor's father was mathematician
Ronald Getoor
Ronald Kay Getoor (9 February 1929, Royal Oak, Michigan – 28 October 2017, La Jolla, San Diego, California) was an American mathematician.
Getoor received from the University of Michigan bachelor's degree in 1950, master's degree in 1951, and Ph ...
(1929–2017).
References
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Living people
American women computer scientists
American computer scientists
Machine learning researchers
Artificial intelligence researchers
Fellows of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence
Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery
Logic programming researchers
Women logicians
Stanford University alumni
University of California, Santa Cruz faculty
University of Maryland, College Park faculty
Women systems scientists
Year of birth missing (living people)
21st-century American women