
Jay Pujara
Research Assistant Professor
Précis
- Director, Center on Knowledge Graphs
- Research Assistant Professor, USC CS
- Research Lead, Information Sciences Institute
- Areas: AI, ML, NLP, Knowledge Graphs
- Postdoc, UC Santa Cruz (2016-2017)
- PhD, University of Maryland, College Park (2010-2016)
- Research Intern, Google (2014) & LinkedIn (2012)
- Senior Engineer, Yahoo! Mail Antispam (2006-2010)
- MS and BS, Carnegie Mellon University (2000-2005)
- 4 best paper awards and over 50 refereed publications
- Research Group: JAUNTS
- E-mail: jay@cs.umd.edu
News
- Spring 2021
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Pre-print of our work on Biases in Common Sense KGs with Nina and Pei on arXiv
Pre-print of our work on Probing for Common Sense with Pei on arXiv
Pre-print of our forthcoming NAACL paper on Numbers in NLP with Avi available - Winter 2021
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I'm now Director of the Center on Knowledge Graphs at ISI!
Paper on Pre-trained Embeddings for Tables with Majid Ghasemi Gol published in KAIS
Paper on Hybrid Models for Table Understanding with Kexuan Sun published at AAAI 2021 - Fall 2020
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Focused Research Award from Google on Recommendation Dialogues with Lise Getoor and William Wang to build hybrid models for dialogues and data!
Paper on Personzalized Explanations for Recommendations (with Pigi Kouki) published in ACM TIIS
Newly funded VENICE project (DARPA Habitus seeks to build KGs for cultural attitudes and knowledge Our MACROSCORE project on Scoring Scientific Research renewed by DARPA through 2022
Education
University of Maryland, College Park, 2010-2016
School of Computer Science
Ph.D. Computer Science
Thesis: Probabilistic Models for Scalable Knowledge Graph Construction
University of California, Santa Cruz, 2014-2015
Jack Baskin School of Engineering
Visiting Student
Carnegie Mellon University, 2014
Machine Learning Department
Visiting Research Scholar
Carnegie Mellon University, 2004-2005
School of Computer Science
M.S. Computer Science
Thesis: Understanding Feature Selection in Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Carnegie Mellon University, 2000-2004
School of Computer Science
B.S. Computer Science
Minors in Logic and Computation, Mathematical Science, and Robotics
Thesis: Machine Learning Classification of fMRI data
University Honors and College Honors
Carnegie Mellon University, 2001-2004
Carnegie Institute of Technology
B.S. Electrical and Computer Engineering
University Honors
Carnegie Mellon University, 2001-2004
School of Humanities and Social Sciences
B.S. Cognitive Science
University Honors
Awards
Outstanding Paper Award, Intelligent User Interfaces, 2019
Top Reviewer, Neural Information Processing Systems, 2018
Best Paper Award, Statistical Relational Learning Workshop, 2016
Outstanding Reviewer, International Joint Conference on AI, 2016
Best Student Paper Award, International Semantic Web Conference, 2013
Best Paper Award, Collaboration, Electronic Messaging, Anti-abuse, and Spam, 2011
Dean’s Fellowship Award, University of Maryland, College Park, 2010-2012
Yahoo! FREP Award, “Active Feature Acquisition”, Advisor: Martin Zinkevich, 2010-2012
Lemonade Stand Multi-agent Competition, 2nd place, 2009; 3rd place, 2010
Experience
University of Southern California, Marina del Rey, CA, 2017-
Research Assistant Professor, Computer Science
Research Lead & Keston Researcher in Residence, Information Sciences Institute
University of California, Santa Cruz, CA, 2017-
Research Consultant, Data, Discovery, Decisions Data Science Center
University of California, Santa Cruz, CA, 2016-2017
Postdoctoral Researcher, Jack Baskin School of Engineering
University of California, Santa Cruz, CA, 2016
Lecturer, Technology and Information Management
University of Maryland, College Park, MD, 2010-2016
Graduate Research Assistant, Artificial Intelligence
Google Inc., Mountain View, CA, 2014
Research Intern, Knowledge Vault Team
LinkedIn Corp., Mountain View, CA, 2012
Data Science Intern, Skills Team
Yahoo! Inc., (remote), 2010-2012
Data Scientist, Yahoo! Mail Antispam
Yahoo! Inc., Sunnyvale, CA, 2006-2010
Senior Software Engineer, Yahoo! Mail Antispam
Oracle Corp., Redwood Shores, CA, 2005-2006
Software Engineer, Business Intelligence
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, 2004
Graduate Research Assistant, Machine Learning
University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, 2003
Research Programmer, Learning R&D Center
Internal Drive Corp., Stanford, CA, 2002
Camp Instructor, Game Programming & C++
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, 2001
Research Programmer, Robotics Institute