Robert WestRobert West is a tenure-track assistant professor of computer science at EPFL, where he heads the Data Science Lab. In his research, he develops and applies techniques in machine learning, computational social science, natural language processing, social network analysis, and data mining. Bob also collaborates closely with the Wikimedia Foundation, in his role as a Wikimedia Research Fellow. Bob’s work has won several awards, including best/outstanding paper awards at ICWSM’21, ICWSM’19, and WWW’13, a best-paper runner-up award at WWW’16, a Google Faculty Research Award, a Facebook Research Award, a Hewlett-Packard Graduate Fellowship, and a Facebook Graduate Fellowship. He is actively involved in the research community, e.g., as an Associate Editor of ICWSM and EPJ Data Science and as a co-founder of the Wiki Workshop (held at WWW and ICWSM) and the Applied Machine Learning Days. Bob received his PhD in Computer Science from Stanford University, his MSc from McGill University, Canada, and his undergraduate degree from Technische Universität München, Germany.[Last updated: 25 Aug 2021]
Huishu DengHuishu Deng is an architect and architectural researcher. Since 2016, she was a member of the architectural design and planning group for the Beijing 2022 Olympic Winter Games, working with TeamMinus, THAD. She introduced the human-centered design strategies into the design of Olympic facilities, to align them with people's public lifestyle and spatial experiences, and towards a long-term postgame usage.
She received her Ph.D. in Architecture at Tsinghua University (Beijing) in 2021, with the thesis addressing the essential spatial condition for urban spontaneous leisure physical activity with the method of field investigation and computer vision. She was a visiting scholar in the Department of Architecture and Design, Politecnico di Torino (Turin) in 2018 and 2019, worked on a joint research topic “Human Body and Urban Space”.
