The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded a Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award to FSU Assistant Professor Feifei Li of the Department of Computer Science.

The grant, which totals $498,138 over five years, will fund a project entitled “Novel Query Processing Techniques for Distributed Probabilistic Data.”

Li’s research focuses on finding ways to more efficiently retrieve important information from large sets of data, including data stored in multiple places or containing errors. He hopes the project will have a big impact on people who work in data mining.

“The new techniques we are developing will allow scientists and other users to derive useful query results and perform important data mining tasks much more efficiently and effectively,” Li said.

The CAREER award, which is given by the NSF to exemplary researchers early in their careers, has been cited as evidence of the importance of his work. “This CAREER award to Dr. Li shows that he and his students are tackling an important issue,” said Vice President for Research Kirby Kemper. “Enormous amounts of data from every area of study are located on servers all over the world, and we need to find an efficient way to mine this data if society is to benefit from it.”

To read more, go to http://www.fsu.edu/news/2011/02/09/li.nsf/