Researcher Spotlight

George Chacko

George Chacko is Research Associate Professor in the Siebel School of Computing and Data Science and Executive Director of Research Analytics at the Grainger College of Engineering. His research interests span scalable clustering methods, novelty in science, research impact, knowledge diffusion, historiography, and the structure and formation of research communities. His research is supported by by awards from the National Science Foundation and the Illinois:Insper Partnership. His work has also been supported by cloud computing awards from Oracle and Google. Another source of computing is the Illinois Computes program.

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Apart from usefully archiving the data for my own use, it makes our data available to others, and enables them to reproduce and extend our work. The process of archiving our own data also helps us to be diligent about creating adequate documentation surrounding it.

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