DARPA Young Faculty Award granted to Dr. Ehsan Elhamifar

Dr. Ehsan Elhamifar has been awarded the prestigious DARPA Young Faculty Award (YFA) for his research on “Robust, Adaptive, Interactive and Scalable Summarization for Big Data”. Dr. Elhamifar is currently an assistant professor in the College of Computer and Information Science and is the director of the Mathematical, Computational and Applied Data Science (MCADS) Lab at Northeastern, focusing on research in machine learning, computer vision and optimization.

In the DARPA research project, Prof. Elhamifar and his team in the MCADS Lab will focus on addressing major challenges in the summarization of massive and heterogeneous multimodal data to make Big Data substantially more efficient to process, analyze and disseminate and will develop scalable, robust and high-performance learning and inference systems that work efficiently on Big Data.

According to DARPA, the objective of the DARPA Young Faculty Award program is to identify and engage rising research stars in junior faculty positions at U.S. academic institutions. The long-term goal of the YFA program is to develop the next generation of academic scientists, engineers and mathematicians in key disciplines who will focus a significant portion of their careers on DoD and national security issues. The YFA program provides funding, mentoring and industry and DoD contacts to awardees early in their careers.