Core team:
Ching-Yung Lin is a Research Scientist and the SmallBlue Research Project Lead in IBM T. J. Watson Research Center. He invented and created SmallBlue. He has been working with more than 40 IBM worldwide colleagues in New York, Boston, London, Beijing, Shanghai, Kolkata, Mumbai, Moscow, Haifa, Vancouver, Los Angeles and Denver to make SmallBlue from a research idea to real impacts. Since 1992, Ching-Yung has published more than 100 papers, book and book chapters in multimedia (video, audio and text) analysis, information retrieval, security, and social network analysis. He received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Columbia University in 2000. In 2003, Ching-Yung created and led the first large-scale collaborative video annotation/tagging project that included 23 worldwide research institutes. He will be the general chair of IEEE International Conference on Multimedia (ICME) in 2009, and the chair of IEEE CAS society Technical Committee of Multimedia System and Applications in 2010-11. Ching-Yung is also an affiliate associate/assistant professor at the University of Washington since 2003, and an adjunct associate professor at Columbia University since 2005.
Vicky Griffiths-Fisher is a project manager in IBM Global Business Services (GBS) Learning and Knowledge. She oversees Research-GBS L&K joint projects. Vicky created the SmallBlue Documentation website and redesigned SmallBlue wireframes. She joined PwC as an IT Consultant in 1995. After IBM acquired PwC Consulting, Vicky became a head of e-learning design and production team in GBS L&K in 2001. She received her BA with honors in Earth Sciences from Oxford University in 1993.
Christopher W. Desforges is a Program Manager of ISSL (Lotus Services) Worldwide Strategy and Business Development at IBM Software Group, WPLC (Lotus). Chris is leading several development teams in China and India to collaborate to convert SmallBlue into an external IBM software/service asset/product -- Lotus Atlas.
Researchers:
Kate Ehrlich is a Senior Technical Staff Member in IBM T. J. Watson Research Center. She conducted SmallBlue user studies. Kate is a social network analysis expert, and a promoter and early adopter of SmallBlue. She originally joined Lotus Research in 1993, when she did ethnographic research on information seeking that led to prototypes for collaborative filtering and a very early version of instant messaging. Kate is interested in furthering the practice side of collaboration to meet business goals in a way that is informed by the insights and innovations from research and grounded in the work practices of individuals. Kate has a B.Sc in Psychology from the University of London and a PhD. in Cognitive Science from the University of Sussex, UK.
Xifeng Yan is a Research Scientist at IBM T.J. Watson Research Center. He earned his Ph.D. in Computer Science from University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign in 2006. His research areas are in the fields of data mining, bioinformatics, and databases, with an emphasis on developing novel data mining concepts, theories, and scalable systems related to pattern discovery in massive datasets, specifically, unstructured datasets in computational biology, social networks, the Web, and computer systems. He has been working on the user behavior, social network and content analysis for SmallBlue information search.
Spiros Papadimitriou is a Research Staff Member at IBM Watson since 2005, and he is the Campus Relations Manager between Carnegie Mellon and IBM Research. His main interests are data mining for streaming data, clustering and time series. He has published more than twenty papers on these topics in refereed conferences and journals, including SIGMOD, VLDB, ICDE, KDD and the VLDB Journal. He has two invited journal publications, several book chapters and he has filed multiple patents. He was a Siebel scholarship recipient in 2005. He obtained his BSc in Computer Science from the University of Crete, Heraclion and his MSc and PhD degrees from Carnegie Mellon University.
Jimeng Sun is a research staff member at IBM TJ Watson lab. He received a Bachelor and MPhil in Computer Science from Hong Kong University of Science and Technology in 2002 and 2003. After that, he obtained a MS and PhD degree in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University in 2006 and 2007. His research interests include data mining on streams and networks, databases and service science. He has received the best research paper award in SIAM Data mining conference (SDM) 2007. He has published over 20 refereed articles and one book chapter. He filed four patents and has given four tutorials on top data mining and databases conferences.
Shixia Liu is a research staff member at IBM China Research Lab. Her team provides the Peony visualization platform used in the SmallBlue Ego and Net. She received a BSC degree in Computing Mathematics from Harbin Institute of Technology in 1996, a MSC degree in Computational Geometry and Computer Graphics from Harbin Institute of Technology in 1998, a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Tsinghua University in 2002. With IBM Research, Shixia has worked primarily on information visualization and text analysis. Recently, she has been bridging the areas of Information Visualization and information management. Her current research interests include information visualization, visual analytics, social network analysis, information retrieval and text mining. Dr. Liu was in the Program Committee for PacificVis 2008 and has authored and coauthored a number of papers, and filed 20+ patents in information visualization, social network analysis, text analysis, computer graphics and computer aided design.
Nan Cao is a research engineer in Information Visualization and Analysis department at IBM China Research Lab. He recieved a Master's Degree in Computer Science from Northwestern Polytechnical University. He was a Microsoft Globle MVP and IBM Extreme Blue Member. His research intrests mainly focused in two areas: 1). information visualization, viual analytics, computer graphcis and geometry, and 2). network storage, distribute systems and database. Nan Cao has recived many international software competition awards in the area of storage and distribute systems. He has authored and coauthored some papers in information visualization.
Tian Shu Wang is a researcher in Information Visualization and Analysis department at IBM China Research Lab. He received a Ph.D. in Artifical Intelligience Lab of Xi'an Jiao tong University, His research interests include information visualization, Statistical Learning, computer graphics, HCI , Computer Vision etc. Dr. Wang has authored and coauthored a number of papers in Machine Learning, computer graphics, human computer interaction and computer vision
Shu-Ping Chang is a Software Development Manager in Watson Research Center. He earned his Ph.D. in Computer Science from University of Minnesota in 1989. Thesis Title: Multiple Packet Multiple Channel Local Area Networks. Shu-Ping has been helping maintain SmallBlue cluster machines for internal IBM deployment.
Advisory Board:
Currie Boyle is an IBM Distinguished Engineer for AS Canada and a Member of the IBM Academy of Technology. Currie has also spent several successful years as one of four Complex Opportunity Business Managers in IBM Canada. This role included leading strategy, and negotiating complicated client relationships between IBM and some of the larger companies in Canada. Currie has been help guiding SmallBlue into a W3 search function to be used by IBM Worldwide Distinguished Engineers and eventually for the entire IBM.
Dave Newbold is an IBM Distinguished Engineer in CIO office. He chairs CIO Technology Team and is responsible to BT/IT Technology and Innovation Technology Strategy. He has spent most of his career at IBM developing software focused on enhancing the ability to find, share and collaborate with each other. These projects have spanned the web, Notes/Domino and Websphere/DB2 environments. Over the years Dave has gathered experience in user interface design, full text search and mining technologies and knowledge management. He has had the opportunity during his time at IBM to work with many customers and to help executives create technical strategies (Internet, Knowledge Management and Collaboration.) Dave has been help guiding SmallBlue into a W3 search function to be used by IBM Worldwide Distinguished Engineers and eventually for the entire IBM.
Kun-Lung Wu is the Manager of the Data-Intensive Systems and Analytics Group at the IBM T. J. Watson Research Center. The current focuses of the group cover various aspects of developing data-intensive systems and analytics. Kun-Lung is an IBM Master Inventor, a Fellow of the IEEE, and a member of the ACM. He received several IBM awards, including an IBM Corporate Environmental Affair Excellence Award, a Research Division Award, and many Invention Achievement Awards.
Development Teams:
Xu, Yijie (Jennifer) is a manager in IBM China Software Development Lab, Lotus. Jennifer is leading a team in CDL to convert the prototype SmallBlue into product-level software asset for both internal GBS deployment and external Lotus Atlas. Jennifer's team develops the core SmallBlue system.
James Stupak is a project manager in IBM Global Business Services. Since Jan 2008, James is overseeing the internal development, user support, deployment processes of SmallBlue.