At the 2012 ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining held in February in Seattle, our research team of Adam Sadilek, Henry Kautz and Jeff Bigham received the Best Paper Award for the conference. The paper, entitled "Finding Your Friends and Following Them to Where You Are" was chosen from 75 papers presented at the conference.
Graduate student Adam Sadilek's recent work has focused on predicting a social network user's location by looking where their friends are. His work is featured in a recent publication by New Scientist magazine.