Rademacher receives National Science Foundation CAREER award
Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Engineering Luis Rademacher was recently awarded the Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award, the NSF’s most prestigious award in support of junior faculty who exemplify the role of teacher-scholars through outstanding research, education and the integration of both.
Rademacher is currently focusing on the analysis and exploration of data, including classification, inference, and retrieval. Generally this involves the extraction of features that are relevant to a particular goal. In the design of algorithms for the analysis and exploration of data, feature extraction techniques act as basic building blocks or primitives that can be combined to model complex behavior using a variety of tools. Data rarely satisfies the precise assumptions of these models and feature extraction tools and, combining these tools amplifies errors. Rademacher is tackling the challenging task of designing new algorithms that are robust against noise and that can be combined as building blocks while keeping the error propagation under control.
His work will enhance the toolbox available to researchers in data-intensive fields such as biology, signal processing and computer vision. It will also enable improved data analysis by practitioners in security, marketing, business and government processes, and essentially any field that involves the analysis of feature-rich data.
Rademacher received his PhD in Applied Mathematics from MIT in 2007 and received his Bachelor in Engineering Sciences, major in math from the Universidad de Chile.
