{"588115":{"#nid":"588115","#data":{"type":"news","title":"CSE Professor Receives Promotion","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe Georgia Institute of Technology\u0026rsquo;s \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ECollege of Computing\u003C\/a\u003E has promoted faculty member \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.cse.gatech.edu\/people\/6850\/le-songs\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ELe Song\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E to associate professor.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESong\u0026rsquo;s elevation comes on the heels of a stellar stint as an assistant professor for the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.cse.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Computational Science and Engineering\u003C\/a\u003E (CSE). Over the past six years, Song has won several accolades for his research, which include a National Science Foundation CAREER award and six best paper awards.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EFurthermore, Song has attracted approximately $4.2 million in external research grants and played a vital role in establishing the new \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/ml.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ECenter for Machine Learning at Georgia Tech\u003C\/a\u003E, which opened in July 2016. He is regularly published in top scientific journals and holds leadership positions with many premier conferences and editorial boards.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Le is an internationally recognized leader in machine learning,\u0026rdquo; CSE Chair \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.cse.gatech.edu\/people\/6866\/david-baders\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EDavid Bader\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E said. \u0026ldquo;His research is highly regarded among his peers, and he is becoming well-known for applying his findings in exciting and profound new ways. We are all excited about his promotion.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESong\u0026rsquo;s research uses machine learning to answer complex data science questions. He uses the information he collects to build scalable frameworks to solve challenging real-world problems. Most recently, he and his students won a \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.cse.gatech.edu\/news\/583583\/cse-grad-students-wins-best-paper-award-recsys-conference\u0022\u003Ebest paper award\u003C\/a\u003E for their recommendation systems research, which has the potential to help create patient-specific medications.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;I am extremely excited about this recognition,\u0026rdquo; Song said. \u0026ldquo;I look forward to collaborating with my peers and students from across campus on more solution-focused research.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESong received his master\u0026#39;s and\u0026nbsp;Ph.D. degrees in computer science from the University of Sydney, Australia in 2004 and 2008, respectively. He was also a Ph.D. student in the Statistical Machine Learning program at the National Information and Communications Technology, Australia\u0026#39;s excellence center. Before joining Georgia Tech, Song was a research scientist with Google Research and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Carnegie Mellon University.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESong\u0026rsquo;s promotion will take effect in July 2017.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"College of Computing Assistant Professor Earns New Title and Tenure."}],"uid":"30267","created_gmt":"2017-02-28 21:27:13","changed_gmt":"2017-03-01 17:24:04","author":"Devin Young","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2017-02-28T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2017-02-28T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"583584":{"id":"583584","type":"image","title":"Le Song_Klaus","body":null,"created":"1478540785","gmt_created":"2016-11-07 17:46:25","changed":"1478540785","gmt_changed":"2016-11-07 17:46:25","alt":"","file":{"fid":"222481","name":"Le Song.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Le%20Song.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Le%20Song.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":386090,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Le%20Song.jpg?itok=mNycu8nH"}}},"media_ids":["583584"],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"},{"id":"50877","name":"School of Computational Science and Engineering"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"127171","name":"Le Song"},{"id":"13255","name":"david bader"},{"id":"166983","name":"School of Computational Science and Engineering"},{"id":"4305","name":"cse"},{"id":"3856","name":"promotion"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:devin.young@cc.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EDevin M. 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