About
The Web Science and Digital Libraries (WS-DL) Research Group at Old Dominion University performs research in web archiving, web science, digital libraries, neuro-information retrieval, social media, digital preservation, human-computer interaction, information visualization, natural language processing, accessibility, and mining scholarly data.
Our alumni have been hired by the Internet Archive, MITRE, Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), and have been faculty and/or researchers at several universities including Drexel University, Indiana University, Emory University, University of California at Berkeley, and Columbia College.
We are grateful for support from the National Science Foundation (NSF), the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), Department of Defense (DOD), Department of Energy (DOE), Department of Education (ED), International Internet Preservation Consortium (IIPC), Protocol Laboratories, and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
Faculty
Dr. Michael L. Nelson
Research topics: web science, web archiving, social media, digital libraries, repositories
Research topics: web science, web archiving, social media, digital libraries, repositories
Dr. Michele C. Weigle
Research topics: web science, digital preservation, social media, information visualization
Research topics: web science, digital preservation, social media, information visualization
Dr. Sampath Jayarathna
Research topics: eye tracking, data science, machine learning, multimodal sensing, cognitive computing, digital libraries
Neuro Information Retrieval and Data Science Lab
Research topics: eye tracking, data science, machine learning, multimodal sensing, cognitive computing, digital libraries
Neuro Information Retrieval and Data Science Lab
Dr. Jian Wu
Research topics: text mining, scholarly big data, digital libraries, search engines, natural language processing, applied machine learning, deep learning
Research topics: text mining, scholarly big data, digital libraries, search engines, natural language processing, applied machine learning, deep learning
Dr. Vikas Ashok
Research topics: human computer interaction, accessible computing, natural language processing, web technologies
Research topics: human computer interaction, accessible computing, natural language processing, web technologies
Dr. Faryaneh Poursardar
Research topics: digital libraries, social computing, web science, data science, machine learning, digital data preservation
Research topics: digital libraries, social computing, web science, data science, machine learning, digital data preservation
Students
PhD students
David Calano
(Nelson)
(Nelson)
Kritika Garg
(ABD)
(Nelson)
(Nelson)
Rochana R. Obadage
(Wu)
(Wu)
Kumushini Thennakoon
(Jayarathna)
(Jayarathna)
Nithiya Venkatraman
(Ashok)
(Ashok)
Akshay Kolgar Nayak
(Ashok)
(Ashok)
MS students
Caleb Bradford
(Nelson)
(Nelson)
BS students
Alumni
PhD Alumni
Dr. Yasith Jayawardana
(2024)
- "Streaminghub - A Realtime Biosignal Processing Framework for Lab Scale Experimentation"- wrap-up blog
Initial employment: Georgia Institute of Technology
(2024)
- "Streaminghub - A Realtime Biosignal Processing Framework for Lab Scale Experimentation"- wrap-up blogInitial employment: Georgia Institute of Technology
Dr. Gavindya Jayawardena
(2024)
- "RAEMAP: Real-Time Advanced Eye Movements Analysis Pipeline"- wrap-up blog
Initial employment: The University of Texas at Austin
(2024)
- "RAEMAP: Real-Time Advanced Eye Movements Analysis Pipeline"- wrap-up blogInitial employment: The University of Texas at Austin
Dr. Bathsheba Farrow
(2024)
- "A Microservices Approach to Electroencephalography Research in the Public Cloud"- wrap-up blog
Initial employment: Naval Surface Warfare Center
(2024)
- "A Microservices Approach to Electroencephalography Research in the Public Cloud"- wrap-up blogInitial employment: Naval Surface Warfare Center
Dr. Corren McCoy
(2022)
- "A Relevance Model for Threat-Centric Ranking of Cybersecurity Vulnerabilities"- wrap-up blog
Initial employment: G2 Ops
(2022)
- "A Relevance Model for Threat-Centric Ranking of Cybersecurity Vulnerabilities"- wrap-up blogInitial employment: G2 Ops
Dr. Shawn M. Jones
(2021)
- "Improving Collection Understanding For Web Archives With Storytelling: Shining Light Into Dark and Stormy Archives"- wrap-up blog
Initial employment: Los Alamos National Laboratory
(2021)
- "Improving Collection Understanding For Web Archives With Storytelling: Shining Light Into Dark and Stormy Archives"- wrap-up blogInitial employment: Los Alamos National Laboratory
Dr. Sawood Alam
(2020)
- "MementoMap: A Web Archive Profiling Framework for Efficient Memento Routing"- wrap-up blog
Initial employment: Internet Archive
(2020)
- "MementoMap: A Web Archive Profiling Framework for Efficient Memento Routing"- wrap-up blogInitial employment: Internet Archive
Dr. Mohamed Aturban
(2020)
- "A Framework for Verifying the Fixity of Archived Web Resources"- wrap-up blog
Initial employment: Columbia College
(2020)
- "A Framework for Verifying the Fixity of Archived Web Resources"- wrap-up blogInitial employment: Columbia College
Dr. Alexander Nwala
(2020)
- "Bootstrapping Web Archive Collections From Micro-Collections in Social Media"- wrap-up blog
Initial employment: Indiana University
(2020)
- "Bootstrapping Web Archive Collections From Micro-Collections in Social Media"- wrap-up blogInitial employment: Indiana University
Dr. Mat Kelly
(2019)
- "Aggregating Private and Public Web Archives Using the Mementity Framework"- wrap-up blog
Initial employment: Drexel University
(2019)
- "Aggregating Private and Public Web Archives Using the Mementity Framework"- wrap-up blogInitial employment: Drexel University
Dr. Lulwah Alkwai
(2019)
- "Expanding the Usage of Web Archives by Recommending Archived Webpages Using Only the URI"- wrap-up blog
Initial employment: University of Hail
(2019)
- "Expanding the Usage of Web Archives by Recommending Archived Webpages Using Only the URI"- wrap-up blogInitial employment: University of Hail
Dr. Yasmin AlNoamany
(2016)
- "Using Web Archives to Enrich the Live Web Experience Through Storytelling"- wrap-up blog
Initial employment: University of California, Berkeley
(2016)
- "Using Web Archives to Enrich the Live Web Experience Through Storytelling"- wrap-up blogInitial employment: University of California, Berkeley
Dr. Justin F. Brunelle
(2016)
- "Scripts in a Frame: A Two-Tiered Approach for Archiving Deferred Representations"- wrap-up blog
Initial employment: MITRE
(2016)
- "Scripts in a Frame: A Two-Tiered Approach for Archiving Deferred Representations"- wrap-up blogInitial employment: MITRE
Dr. Hany SalahEldeen
(2015)
- "Detecting, Modeling, and Predicting User Temporal Intention in Social Media"- wrap-up blog
Initial employment: Microsoft
(2015)
- "Detecting, Modeling, and Predicting User Temporal Intention in Social Media"- wrap-up blogInitial employment: Microsoft
Dr. Chuck Cartledge
(2014)
- "A Framework for Web Object Self-Preservation"- wrap-up blog
Initial employment: Fulcrum IT Services
(2014)
- "A Framework for Web Object Self-Preservation"- wrap-up blogInitial employment: Fulcrum IT Services
Dr. Ahmed AlSum
(2014)
- "Web Archive Services Framework for Tighter Integration Between the Past and Present Web"- wrap-up blog
Initial employment: Stanford University
(2014)
- "Web Archive Services Framework for Tighter Integration Between the Past and Present Web"- wrap-up blogInitial employment: Stanford University
Dr. Martin Klein
(2011)
- "Using the Web Infrastructure for Real Time Recovery of Missing Web Pages"- wrap-up blog
Initial employment: LANL
(2011)
- "Using the Web Infrastructure for Real Time Recovery of Missing Web Pages"- wrap-up blogInitial employment: LANL
Dr. Joan Smith
(2008)
- "Integrating Preservation Functions Into the Web Server"
Initial employment: Emory University
(2008)
- "Integrating Preservation Functions Into the Web Server"Initial employment: Emory University
Dr. Frank McCown
(2007)
- "Lazy Preservation: Reconstructing Websites from the Web Infrastructure"
Initial employment: Harding University
(2007)
- "Lazy Preservation: Reconstructing Websites from the Web Infrastructure"Initial employment: Harding University
MS Alumni
Sami Uddin
(2022)
- "TransParsCit: A Transformer-Based Citation Parser Trained on Large-Scale Synthesized Data"
Initial employment: Virginia Marine Resources Commission
(2022)
- "TransParsCit: A Transformer-Based Citation Parser Trained on Large-Scale Synthesized Data"Initial employment: Virginia Marine Resources Commission
Nauman Siddique
(2021)
(2021)
Abigail Mabe
(2021)
(2021)
Dhruv Patel
(2021)
(2021)
Puneeth Bikkasandra Puttaramegowda
(2020)
(2020)
Grant Atkins
(2018)
(2018)
Maheedhar Gunnam
(2018)
(2018)
Erika Siregar
(2017)
(2017)
Hung Do
(2017)
Greg Szalkowski
(2016)
Carlton Northern
(2011)
(2011)
Matthias Prellwitz
(2010)
(2010)
Jeb Ware
(2010)
Jeffery Shipman
(2010)
Sudhir Koneru
(2009)
Venkata Potta
(2009)
Olena Hunsicker
(2008)
Venkata Sai Krishna Kamineni
(2008)
Satish Lakkoju
(2008)
Krishnan Ganesh Madras
(2008)
Amine Benjelloun
(2007)
Manoranjan Magudam
(2007)
Ignacio Garcia del Campo
(2006)
Aravind Elango
(2005)
Giridhar Manepalli
(2005)
Suchitra Manepalli
(2005)
Daniel Swaney
(2005)
Sheffan Chan
(2004)
Thomas Lutkenhouse
(2004)
Research
- Faculty, students, and alumni at Google Scholar
- @WebSciDL retweets highlights and announcements from WS-DL members
- Software and data at GitHub
- Trip reports, paper summaries, announcements, releases, early results at Blogger
- Annual research summaries: 2023 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, and 2013
Courses
The Web Science and Digital Libraries research group teaches an exciting and unique set of advanced undergraduate and graduate courses, including:
- CS 395 Research Methods in Data and Web Science
Topics: writing proposals, reading & writing papers, giving presentations, Python, Web APIs, reproducibility, LaTeX, and GitHub. - CS 418/518 Web Programming
Topics: LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP), MVC (Model-View-Control), Search Engines, GitHub. - CS 431/531 Web Server Design
Topics: HTTP, REST (Representational State Transfer), HATEOAS. - CS 432/532 Web Science
Topics: Python, GitHub, LaTeX, data visualization, information retrieval, social networks, collective intelligence, machine learning. - CS 480/580 Introduction to Artificial Intelligence
Topics: problem representation, problem-solving methods, search, pattern recognition, natural language processing, vision processing, machine learning, and expert systems. - CS 495/595 Intro to Data Mining
Topics: data preprocessing, pattern mining, outlier analysis, and mining of text, data streams, time series, spatial, and graph data. - CS 495/595 Web Security
Topics: HTTP, Cross-Site Request Forgery, Same Origin Policy, Cross-Site Scripting (XSS), Fingerprinting, Denial-of-service, Phishing. - CS 620 Intro to Data Science & Analytics
Topics: Python, Pandas, NumPy, NoSQL, Data Wrangling, ML. - CS 625 Data Visualization
Topics: Tableau, R, Vega-Lite, Observable, Markdown, OpenRefine, data cleaning, visual perception, visualization design, exploratory data analysis, visual storytelling. - CS 725/825 Information Visualization and Visual Analytics
Topics: Vega-Lite, D3, Observable, visual analytics, interactive visualization, dashboard design, reading academic vis papers. - CS 733/833 Natural Language Processing
Topics: Language Models, Word2Vec, BERT, Deep Learning, Assistants. - CS 795/895 Mining Scholarly Big Data
Topics: Apache Spark, NLP, Data Mining, Recommenders. - CS 734/834 Information Retrieval
Topics: crawling, ranking, query processing, retrieval models, evaluation, clustering, machine learning. - CS 795/895 Natural Language Understanding
Topics: Fundamentals of neural networks and deep learning, natural language reference, sentiment analysis, and semantic parsing. - CS 795/895 Web Archiving Forensics
Topics: Memento, CDX, Twitter, Caching. - CS 795/895 Intelligent User Interfaces
Topics: HCI, Assistive Technologies, Speech Interfaces, Wearable Computing, Crowd-Powered Interfaces - CS 795/895 Human-Computer Interaction
Topics: cognitive and social phenomena surrounding human use of computers. - CS 891 Emerging Technologies
Topics: Cloud, Edge, IoT, Blockchain, Security, Agile.
Previous semesters: S24, F23, S23, F22, S22, F21, S21, F20, S20, F19, S19, and F18