Contact Lise Getoor, Ph.D. Professor of Computer Science Center Director, UC Santa Cruz D3 Data Science Research Center University of California Santa Cruz Engineering 2, Room 341B, MS: SOE3 1156 High Street Santa Cruz, CA 95064 phone: 831-459-1489 getoor AT soe.ucsc.edu Research Interests My general research interests are in machine learning, reasoning under uncertainty, databases and artificial intelligence. Other topics of interest to me include: data integration, database query optimization and approximate query processing, entity resolution, information extraction, utility elicitation, planning under uncertainty, contraint-based reasoning, abstraction and problem reformulation. The theme of my research is building and using statistical models of structured, semi-structured and unstructured data to do useful things. My research group, Lise's Inquisitive Students, Linqs Curriculum Vitae Some of the topics I work on: Probabilistic Soft Logic (PSL) Entity Resolution Statistical Relational Learning (SRL) Data Science