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Quick facts for kids Lise Getoor
Getoor in 2011
Born	Seattle, Washington, US
Alma mater	Stanford University University of California, Berkeley University of California, Santa Barbara
Known for	Statistical Relational Learning Probabilistic Soft Logic
Awards	AAAI Fellow (2013) ACM Fellow (2019) IEEE Fellow (2021) AAAS Fellow (2022) AAA&S Fellow (2024) ACM SIGKDD Innovation Award (2024)
Scientific career
Fields	Computer Science Machine Learning Data Mining Statistical relational learning
Institutions	University of California, Santa Cruz University of Maryland, College Park
Doctoral advisor	Daphne Koller
Other academic advisors	Stuart J. Russell

Lise Getoor is an amazing American computer scientist. She is a top professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz, where she teaches about computers and engineering. She also teaches at the University of Maryland, College Park.

Her main work is in machine learning, which is about teaching computers to learn from information, much like how people learn from experience. She also studies how computers can understand and use information that isn't always certain. This often involves looking at connections between different pieces of information, like in social networks.

She also works on data integration, which means combining information from many different places. She helps computers understand social network analysis, which looks at how people connect online. She also works with visual analytics, which is about showing data in ways that are easy to understand visually.

Lise Getoor has written many important papers that other scientists use. She also helped edit a key book about a field called Statistical relational learning.

Her Education and Career

Lise Getoor studied at some of the best universities in the United States. She earned her highest degree, a Ph.D., from Stanford University. Before that, she received her master's degree (M.S.) from UC Berkeley and her bachelor's degree (B.S.) from UC Santa Barbara.

Before she joined the University of California, Santa Cruz, she was a professor at the University of Maryland, College Park until 2013.

Awards and Special Honors

Lise Getoor has received many awards for her important work in computer science. She has won several "best paper" awards for her research. She also received an NSF Career Award, which helps promising young scientists with their research.

She is a Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI). This means she is recognized as a leading expert in the field of artificial intelligence.

In 2019, she became an ACM Fellow. This honor was given to her for her big contributions to machine learning, understanding information that isn't certain, and making sure data science is used responsibly. That same year, her old university, UC Santa Barbara, recognized her as a distinguished alumna. She also received an award from UCSC for promoting diversity. She was even chosen to give a special lecture at UC Santa Cruz, which is one of the highest honors for a professor there.

In 2021, she was named an IEEE Fellow for her work in machine learning and dealing with uncertain information. 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), which is a very old and respected group that honors leaders in many fields.

Also in 2024, she received the ACM SIGKDD Innovation Award. This award celebrates people who have created amazing new ideas in finding useful patterns in large amounts of data, and whose work has had a lasting impact.

Her Family Life

Lise Getoor's father was a famous mathematician named Ronald Getoor. He lived from 1929 to 2017.