Lise Getoor Explained

Lise Getoor
Birth Place:	Seattle, Washington, US
Doctoral Advisor:	Daphne Koller
Academic Advisors:	Stuart J. Russell

Lise Getoor is an American computer scientist who is a distinguished professor and Baskin Endowed chair in the Computer Science and Engineering department, ^[1] at the University of California, Santa Cruz,^[2] and an adjunct professor in the Computer Science Department^[3] at the University of Maryland, College Park.^[4] Her primary research interests are in machine learning and reasoning with uncertainty, applied to graphs and structured data. She also works in data integration, social network analysis and visual analytics. She has edited a book on Statistical relational learning that is a main reference in this domain.^[5] She has published many highly cited papers in academic journals and conference proceedings.^{[6] [7]} She has also served as action editor for the Machine Learning Journal, JAIR associate editor, and TKDD associate editor.

She received her Ph.D. from Stanford University, her M.S. from UC Berkeley, and her B.S. from UC Santa Barbara.Prior to joining University of California, Santa Cruz, she was a professor at the University of Maryland, College Park until Nov 2013.^[8]

Recognition

Getoor has multiple best paper awards, an NSF Career Award, and is an Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) Fellow.^[9] In 2019, she was elected as an ACM Fellow "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,^[10] was awarded the UCSC WiSE Chancellor's Achievement Award for Diversity,^[11] and was selected to give the UC Santa Cruz Faculty Research Lecture 2018-19, one of the highest recognitions given to UC faculty.^[12] She was named an IEEE Fellow in 2021, "for contributions to machine learning and reasoning under uncertainty".^[13] In October 2022, Getoor was elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).^[14] In 2024, she was named a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (AAA&S).^[15]

Personal life

Getoor's father was mathematician Ronald Getoor (1929–2017).^[16]

Notes and References

1. Web site: Campus Directory - UC Santa Cruz . campusdirectory.ucsc.edu . 10 August 2024.
2. Web site: Lise Getoor - Jack Baskin School of Engineering. cs.soe.ucsc.edu.
3. Web site: UMD Department of Computer Science. cs.umd.edu.
4. Web site: Lise Getoor. www.cs.umd.edu.
5. Web site: Introduction to Statistical Relational Learning. www.cs.umd.edu.
6. Web site: AMiner, [e-mail] . arnetminer.org.
7. Web site: Lise Getoor - Department of Computer Science, University of California Santa Cruz - VideoLectures.NET . videolectures.net.
8. Web site: Lise Getoor - Computer Science Department- University of Maryland (UMD). www.umiacs.umd.edu.
9. Web site: Elected AAAI Fellows. www.aaai.org.
10. Web site: Distinguished Lecturer: Lise Getoor UCSB Computer Science . www.cs.ucsb.edu . 14 July 2020.
11. Web site: Prof. Lise Getoor honored with 5th annual Women in Science and Engineering Award . Jack Baskin School of Engineering . 14 July 2020 . en.
12. Web site: McGirk . James . Data scientist Lise Getoor to give annual Faculty Research Lecture on Feb. 26 . UC Santa Cruz News . 14 July 2020 . en.
13. Web site: Newly elevated Fellow class 2021. IEEE. https://web.archive.org/web/20201206062543/https://www.ieee.org/content/dam/ieee-org/ieee/web/org/about/fellows/2021-ieee-fellows-Class.pdf. dead. December 6, 2020. 2023-04-26.
14. Web site: 2022 AAAS Fellows American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) . 2023-03-15 . www.aaas.org . en.
15. Web site: 2024 New Member List American Academy of Arts and Sciences . www.amacad.org . 10 August 2024 . en.
16. Web site: Ronald K. Getoor's Obituary on San Diego Union-Tribune. San Diego Union-Tribune. 2017-11-27.