dprl, Fall 2018
Left-to-right: Parag, Puneeth, Wei, Behrooz, Mahshad, Thomas, Abishai, and Dr. Zanibbi.
Inside the Lab
Wei, Mahshad and Thomas taking a break, trying out our ping-pong set, Fall 2018.
dprl Potluck
Picture of the food at our first potluck! The dishes originate from China, France, Honduras, India, Iran, Canada and the USA. DPRL carrot art: Behrooz Mansouri.
Math-Aware Search Researchers
SIGIR 2016, Pisa, Italy
Left-to-Right: Richard Zanibbi, Kenny Davila, Moritz Schubotz, Iadh Ounis, Bela Gipp, and Lingcai Gao
Best Poster Award
ICFHR 2016, Szenzhen, China
Best Paper Award
ICFHR 2018, Niagara Falls, USA
Tangent Search Engine
Master's student Nidhin Pattaniyil presenting the
Tangent math-aware search engine at NTCIR-11 (Tokyo, 2014).
ICFHR 2018
The dprl and CUBS (Univ. Buffalo) hosted ICFHR 2018 in Niagara Falls, USA. Richard Zanibbi was a Co-Chair; Mahshad Mahdavi, Thomas Choi, and Kenny Davila assisted with running the conference. Details can be found on the ICFHR 2018 website.
dprl, Spring 2019
left-to-right: Abishai DMello, Gavin Nishizawa, Parag Mali, Mahshad Mahdavi, Puneeth Kukkapu, Yancarlos Diaz, and Behrooz Mansouri
Best Applications Paper
ECIR 2019, Cologne, Germany
for Structural Similarity Search for Formulas using Leaf-Root Paths in Operator Subtrees by Wei Zhong and Richard Zanibbi
dprl, Spring 2021
rows LR, top-down: Abhisek Dey, Prof. Zanibbi, Matt Langsenkamp, Behrooz Mansouri, Yancarlos Diaz, Robin Avenoso, Ayush Kumar Shah
dprl, May 2022
Left-to-right: Ayush Kumar Shah, Matt Langsenkamp, Richard Zanibbi, Behrooz Mansouri, Abhisek Dey, and JP Ramissini
ICDAR 2023 (San Jose, Aug.)
Dr. Zanibbi was a Program Co-Chair alongside Gernot Fink, Rajiv Jain, and Koichi Kise.
Ayush Kumar Shah participated in the Doctoral Consortium and presented his work on recognizing math from images.
ICDAR 2024 (Athens, Greece)
Ayush Kumar Shah presenting his journal track (ICDAR/IJDAR) paper on the ChemScraper born-digital and visual parsers. This work was a collaboration between computer scientists at RIT and chemists at UIUC through the MMLI NSF AI Institute.
Paper:
Shah, A.K., Amador, B., Dey, A., Creekmore, M., Ocampo, B., Denmark, S. and Zanibbi, R. ChemScraper: leveraging PDF graphics instructions for molecular diagram parsing, IJDAR 27: 395-414.
Math IR Book
Richard Zanibbi, Behrooz Mansouri (dprl alumnus), and Anurag Agarwal published a book in the Foundations and Trends in Information Retrieval series. The book appeared in Jan. 2025 (final version PDF)
