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Lise Getoor
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Getoor in 2011
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Seattle, Washington, US
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Lise Getoor is an American computer scientist. She is a highly respected professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She also teaches at the University of Maryland, College Park.
Her main work involves machine learning. This is where computers learn from data without being directly programmed. She also studies how to reason with information that isn't always certain. She applies these skills to understand complex data, like connections in social network analysis. She has written important books and many research papers in her field.
Lise Getoor earned her highest degree, a Ph.D., from Stanford University. She also received her M.S. from UC Berkeley and her B.S. from UC Santa Barbara. Before joining the University of California, Santa Cruz, she was a professor at the University of Maryland, College Park.
Awards and Honors
Lise Getoor has received many important awards for her work. These awards show that she is a leader in her field.
Top Recognitions
She has won several "best paper" awards for her research. She also received an NSF Career Award. This award supports promising young researchers.
In 2013, she became a Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI). This means she is recognized as a top expert in artificial intelligence.
In 2019, she was named an ACM Fellow. This honor was given for her important work in machine learning. It also recognized her research in understanding uncertain information and responsible data science.
Other Achievements
UC Santa Barbara's Computer Science Department chose her as a Distinguished Alumna. This award celebrates successful former students.
She also received the UCSC WiSE Chancellor's Achievement Award for Diversity. This award recognizes her efforts to promote diversity in science and engineering.
In 2018-19, she gave the UC Santa Cruz Faculty Research Lecture. This is one of the highest honors for a professor at the university.
In 2021, she was named an IEEE Fellow. This was for her contributions to machine learning and reasoning with uncertainty. In 2022, she became a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). In 2024, she was named a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (AAA&S).
Family Life
Lise Getoor's father was a mathematician named Ronald Getoor. He lived from 1929 to 2017.
