IST Center Welcomes Dr. Yuhong Guo

In January 2009 Dr. Yuhong Guo has joined the IST Center and the CIS Department as an Assistant Professor. She has just completed a post-doctoral training in machine learning at the Australian National University. Previously, she was a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Alberta where in 2007 she received her Ph.D. while working in the laboratory of Prof. D. Schuurman. Dr. Guo is a recipient of 2005 IJCAI Distinguished Paper Award (1323 papers submitted to this conference, of which 240 were accepted and 3 were honored with this award). Her primary area of research is machine learning and she is also interested in bioinformatics.