Caragea named to creativity chair
Cornelia Caragea, associate professor of computer science at Kansas State University, has been named recipient of the Lloyd T. Smith Creativity in Engineering Chair.
Lloyd T. Smith was a 1947 graduate of K-State in mechanical engineering. Endowed by Lloyd and his late wife, Jacqueline M. Smith, the award is designated to honor Lloyd Smith on the campus of Kansas State University and promote the highest quality of faculty in the College of Engineering. The recipient of the award is to be a faculty member in the College of Engineering who is recognized for advancing creative theory and practice in engineering education.
Caragea received the National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development Program, or CAREER, award in April 2017 while on the faculty at the University of North Texas in the department of computer science and engineering. Joining the K-State faculty in the College of Engineering in fall 2017, she continues her NSF CAREER project in designing approaches that will make information more accessible and comprehensible to scholarly web users, helping them discover knowledge more effectively and efficiently.
She is also the co-PI on a $900,000 grant from the NSF Critical Techniques, Technologies and Methodologies for Advancing Foundations and Applications of Big Data Sciences and Engineering program, where she will explore domain adaptation solutions based on deep learning to help emergency response organizations deal with the overload of information in real time.
“In the relatively short time that Cornelia Caragea has been a part of our faculty,” said Darren Dawson, dean of the College of Engineering, “she has established a name for herself in the areas of artificial intelligence, machine learning, information retrieval and natural language processing. She is an excellent choice for the Lloyd T. Smith Creativity in Engineering Chair.”