Congratulations to our Sciences/CS award winners, Dr. Gavindya Jayawardena Gavindya won the Lee Entsminger Dissertation Award! and Dr. Jayarathna won the Outeach award. James Owens James Owens and Yomna Elmousalami won the best CS Grad and Undergrad awards. WS-DL Group, ODU CS ODU Computer Science

Come get Rickrolled by Kritika garg from WS-DL Group, ODU CS during her paper presentation for "Not Here, Go There: Analyzing Redirection Patterns on the Web" at #WebSci25 ! WebSciConf Michele Weigle Michael L. Nelson

Don't forget to follow back James James Owens and Yomna Yomna Elmousalami. James will start his Ph.D. with me nirds-lab WS-DL Group, ODU CS starting Fall 2025. Yomna is continuing with MS thesis from Fall 2025. Both are starting this NASA internships at NASA Langley Research Center this summer 2025. Congrats

Very proud of our former NSF-funded REU student, Michael Evans Michael Evans achievement ODU CS REU ODU Computer Science ODU College of Sciences @odu WS-DL Group, ODU CS. @nsf

Excited to see some of the work that resonates with our labs nirds-lab work in the area of multi-user tracking Bhanuka Mahanama and joint attention tracking Kumushini Thennakoon. ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/docum… WS-DL Group, ODU CS

ETRA, always a pleasure to see nirds-lab WS-DL Group, ODU CS ODU Computer Science distinguished alumni. My students Gavindya Gavindya and Yasith Jayawardana with Andrew Duchowski Andrew Duchowski. Gavindya's paper "A Real-Time Approach to Capture Ambient and Focal Attention in Visual Search" #etra2025

ETRA, youngest participant/presenter/SV ever at the ETRA conference, 15 year old 10th grader, Pahan Jayarathna. Don't forget to follow this future eye tracking researcher Pahan Jayarathna #etra2025

ETRA Pahan Jayarathna Excellent job presenting his first publication at the Premier ACM conference for eye tracking titled "Nocturnal Diabetic Hypoglycemia Detection Using Eye Tracking" , a new way of looking at diabetic hypoglycemia using eye tracking dl.acm.org/doi/full/10.11…

Very excited to present our nirds-lab WS-DL Group, ODU CS research at the NASA Langley Research Center Pizza talk series, titled "Egocentric Eye Tracking in the Wild," covering multiple topics from joint attention tracking, multi-user eye tracking, and RAEMAP pipeline. ODU Computer Science, ODU College of Sciences

Congrats!!! my students James Owens James Owens and Yomna Yomna Elmousalami, on this super awesome summer internship at NASA Langley. I found both of you in the picture. James is in the back center, blue shirt, and Yomna, 5th row, right side. nirds-lab WS-DL Group, ODU CS ODU Computer Science ODU College of Sciences @odu

🎉 Excited to share that our paper "Uncertainty-Aware Complex Scientific Table Data Extraction" has been accepted at @ICDAR2025. We developed a framework using conformal prediction to quantify uncertainties in table structure recognition (TSR) and OCR extraction. WS-DL Group, ODU CS

My quantitative study on archiving news stories shows that the Wayback Machine is now much larger than the sum of all other web archives. This was not the case 10 years ago. ws-dl.blogspot.com/2024/02/2024-2… WS-DL Group, ODU CS

This blog post details my quantitative study comparing the archival rate of Arabic and English news stories published between 1999 and 2022. ws-dl.blogspot.com/2025/06/2025-0… WS-DL Group, ODU CS

Very excited to deliver HF/E Society Perception and Performance Technical Group webinar on eye tracking technologies, titled "Egocentric Eye Tracking in the Wild." WS-DL Group, ODU CS ODU Computer Science ODU College of Sciences @odu

In this blog post, I summarized Goel et al.’s "Jawa: Web Archival in the Era of JavaScript". They identified sources of non-determinism that cause replay problems and created a crawler that removes non-deterministic code. #WebArchiveWednesday WS-DL Group, ODU CS ws-dl.blogspot.com/2025/06/2025-0…

🎉 Congratulations to Bhanuka Mahanama on successfully defending your PhD dissertation! Your hard work and perseverance truly paid off. Wishing continued success, Dr. Mahanama. Sampath Jayarathna nirds-lab WS-DL Group, ODU CS ODU Computer Science #PhDdefense

Congratulations Bhanuka Bhanuka Mahanama, for a successful Ph.D. defence titled "Mutli-Eyes: Multi-Use Eye Tracking Using Commodity Hardware. " My 4th Ph.D. student from the nirds-lab WS-DL Group, ODU CS ODU Computer Science @odusc. Also, a Sri Lankan-style feast including yellow rice, cashews, and chicken!

The Call for Papers for the 2025 ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries is online. Check it out 2025.jcdl.org/calls/. WS-DL Group, ODU CS

Reflecting on #GAAD2025: The “Accessible by Design” workshop led by Dr. Brett Cook-Snell and hosted by ODU Libraries and the EWDA—moved beyond just technical skills to address the core of digital inclusion. (1/5) ws-dl.blogspot.com/2025/06/2025-0… /cc WS-DL Group, ODU CS Old Dominion University ODU College of Sciences ODU Computer Science Accessible Computing Lab

Lecturer in Data Science (#F1048A) School of Data Science at ODU non-TT position, starting Fall 2025 4+4 teaching load reviews start on 2025-06-23 jobs.odu.edu/postings/23300