Briefs

By Matthew Early Wright. Stanford Report. September 29, 2004.

Daphne Koller, associate professor of computer science at Stanford, has been named one of this year's MacArthur Fellows. ...

Koller's research, which is very relevant to data mining, tackles questions of how complex information with high levels of uncertainty can be approached using algorithms, probabilistic modeling and other computational methods.

A significant contribution of Koller's work is the expansion of Bayesian networks-reasoning frameworks that deal with uncertainty-by showing how they can be organized into logical, object-oriented hierarchies. She has advanced this concept by implementing 'probabilistic relational models,' which blend logical and statistical representations in ways that employ standard deductive reasoning.

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