George Brova

About me

I am cofounder and CTO at Migacore Technologies, where we use NLP and AI to help travel companies understand changes in demand patterns. Before this, I worked at companies including Palantir Technologies (distributed databases), Google (natural language processing), and Groupon (personalization). My CV is available here.

Research

I am on leave from the PhD program in Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where I am a member of the Data Mining Research Group and advised by Professor Jiawei Han.

I graduated with my BA and MA degrees from Boston University in May 2012, where Professor Evimaria Terzi was my advisor.

My research interests are in the general area of data management. In particular, I am interested in the design and development of algorithms for efficient data analysis and retrieval.

Publications

• Huan Gui, Yizhou Sun, Jiawei Han, George Brova: “Modeling Topic Diffusion in Multi-Relational Bibliographic Information Networks”, CIKM 2014.

• Fangbo Tao, George Brova, Jiawei Han, Heng Ji, Chi Wang, Brandon Norick, Ahmed El-Kishky, Jialu Liu, Xiang Ren, Yizhou Sun: NewsNetExplorer: automatic construction and exploration of news information networks", SIGMOD Conference 2014.

• Honglei Zhuang, Jing Zhang, George Brova, Jie Tang, Hasan Çam, Xifeng Yan, Jiawei Han: "Mining Query-Based Subnetwork Outliers in Heterogeneous Information Networks, ICDM Conference 2014.

• Fangbo Tao, Xiao Yu, Kin Hou Lei, George Brova, Xiao Cheng, Jiawei Han, Rucha Kanade, Yizhou Sun, Chi Wang, Lidan Wang, Tim Weninger: Research-insight: providing insight on research by publication network analysis", SIGMOD Conference 2013.

• Aris Anagnostopoulos, George Brova, Evimaria Terzi: “Peer and authority pressure in information-propagation models”, Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (ECML-PKDD) 2011. [code]