Welcome to the home of the PIKE (Penn State Information, Knowledge, and wEb) Research Group. We study various research issues including:

• Conventional Database Research Agenda
• XML Data Model and Schema/Query Languages
• Web Search, Web Services and Semantic Web, Metadata
• Information Retrieval, Digital Library, Citation Analysis, Bibliometrics
• Multimedia Information System

For Fall 2015, We have one RA opening for a Ph.D. student to investigate data mining and privacy issues in social media. If you are interested in joining the PIKE group, pursuing for Ph.D., please apply to IST, indicating your interest.

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