June 2008: Paper titled "Troubleshooting Thousands of Jobs on Production Grids Using Data Mining Techniques" accepted at the 9th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Grid Computing (GRID '08). The paper is authored by David Cieslak, Nitesh Chawla, and Douglas Thain.


June 2008: Paper titled "Learning Decision Trees for Unbalanced Data" accepted at the 18th European Conference on Machine Learning (ECML '08) in Antwerp, Belgium. The paper is authored by David Cieslak and Nitesh Chawla.


May 2008: David Cieslak presents research at Sandia Labs in Livermore, CA.


April 2008: David Cieslak defends his Phd Proposal.


April 2008: Karsten Steinhaeuser is awarded a travel grant from the USMA to attend the International Workshop & Conference on Network Science (NetSci'08) in Norwich (UK), where he will present his work titled "Is Modularity the Answer to Evaluating Community Structure in Networks?"


March 2008: Paper titled "Scalable Learning with Thread-Level Parallelism" accepted at The 19th Midwest Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science Conference, 2008. Primary author is Karsten Steinhaeuser.


January 2008: Article "Automatically countering imbalance and its empirical relationship to cost" to appear in Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery: A Special Issue on Utility-Based Data Mining. Primary authors are Nitesh Chawla and David Cieslak.


December 2007: Paper titled "Analyzing Classifier Performance on Imbalanced Datasets when Training and Testing Distributions Differ" accepted at The Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, 2008, authored by David Cieslak and Nitesh Chawla.


December 2007: Book chapter titled "Community Detection in a Large Real-World Social Network." Presentation at the First Int'l Workshop on Social Computing, Behavioral Modeling, and Prediction, 2008. Primary author is Karsten Steinhaeuser.


November 2007: Karsten Steinhaeuser wins faculty vote for best poster presentation at the Second Annual CSE Student Research Symposium.


October 2007: David Cieslak attends ICDM in Omaha, NE to present "Detecting Fractures in Classifier Performance".


September 2007: David Cieslak awarded 2007 ICDM Student Travel Grant.


August 2007: Troy Raeder enrolls as full time advisee of Nitesh Chawla.


July 2007: Paper titled "Detecting Fractures in Classifier Performance" accepted at 7th IEEE Conference on Data Mining). Primary author is David Cieslak.


May 2007: DIAL Research Group formally inaugurated.


May 2007: Michael Albrecht joins Nitesh Chawla as an undergraduate researcher.


May 2007: David Cieslak awarded Computer Science Department Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award.


April 2007: Karsten Steinhaeuser defends his master's thesis, titled "Scalable Learning with Thread-Level Parallelism"


April 2007: Article titled "Automatically Countering Imbalance and Its Empirical Relationship to Cost" accepted in the Journal of Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery Special Issue on Utility-Based Data Mining. The article is co-authored by Nitesh Chawla, David Cieslak, Larry Hall (USF), and Ajay Joshi.


March 2007: Karsten Steinhaeuser receives Kaneb Outstanding Graduate Teaching Assistant Award.


October 2006: Karsten Steinhaeuser wins student vote for best poster presentation at the First Annual CSE Student Research Symposium.


October 2006: Darcy Davis enrolls as full time advisee of Nitesh Chawla.


July 2006: David Cieslak attends AAAI and AAAI Workshop on Evaluation Metrics in Boston to present "Evaluating Calibration of Probability Estimation Trees".


May 2006: David Cieslak attends IEEE International Conference on Granular Computing in Atlanta to present "Combating Imbalance in Network Intrusion Data"


May 2006: David Cieslak and Karsten Steinhaeuser formally enroll as full time advisees of Nitesh Chawla. Vince Thomas joins in undergraduate research under Nitesh Chawla.


May 2006: Nitesh Chawla formally joins University of Notre Dame Department of Computer Science Faculty as Associate Professor.