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Sibel Adali

Sibel Adali
Sun, 2010-06-13 02:05 — adalis
Name: Sibel Adali
Title:Associate Professor
Department Computer Science
School Science
Center Network Science and Technology Center (NeST)
Website:www.cs.rpi.edu
Bio Sibel Adali is an Assistant Professor in Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, which she joined in 1996 after her PhD from University of Maryland. At RPI, she leads the Multimedia Information Integration Lab. Her research focuses on heterogeneous distributed information systems, database interoperability, query optimization, and multimedia information systems
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Education Ph.D. 1996, Computer Science Department, University of Maryland at College Park, USA B.S. 1991, Computer Engineering and Information Science Department , Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey
Scholarly Works:
  • Sibel Adali, Brandeis Hill and M. Magdon-Ismail (October 2007). Information vs. Robustness in Rank Aggregation: Models, Algorithms and a Statistical Framework for Evaluation. Journal of Digital Information Management: Special Issue on Web Information Retrieval, 5(5), 292-307
  • Sibel Adali, Malik Magdon-Ismail and Brandeis Marshall (November 2007). A Classification Algorithm for Finding the Optimal Rank Aggregation Method. IEEE (pp.1 - 6). Ankara, Turkey: International Symposium on Computer and Information Sciences

Angel Garcia

Angel Garcia
Sun, 2010-06-13 02:05 — angel
Name: Angel Garcia
Title:Professor of Physics and Senior Constellation Professor in Biocomputation and Bioinformatics
Department Biomedical Engineering Chemical and Biological Engineering Physics, Applied Physics & Astronomy
School Science
Website:http://rpi.edu/dept/phys/faculty/profiles/garcia.html
Bio García received a Ph.D. in Theoretical Physics from Cornell University . He is a fellow of the American Physical Society and a member of the Biophysical Society, The Protein Society, the AAAS, and the American Chemical Society. He received the Edward Bouchard prize of the American Physical Society in 2006.
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Education Ph.D., Theoretical Physics, Cornell University. M.S., Physics, University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras B.S., Physics (Magna cum Laude), University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras
Scholarly Works:
  • S. Gnanakaran, R. Nussinovand A. E. García, “Atomic level description of amyloid beta dimer formation” J Amer. Chem Soc. (Communications) 128: 2158-2159 (2006) A.E. Garcia and J. N. Onuchic, “Folding a protein in the computer: Reality or hope?” (Commentary) STRUCTURE 13: 497-498 (2005)

Elliot Anshelevich

Elliot I. Anshelevich
Sun, 2010-06-13 02:05 — anshee
Name: Elliot I. Anshelevich
Title:Assistant Professor
Department Computer Science
School Science
Website:http://www.cs.rpi.edu/~eanshel/
Bio Elliot Anshelevich received his Ph.D. from Cornell University under the supervision of Jon Kleinberg in 2005. His research interests include network design problems, algorithmic game theory, local and decentralized routing algorithms, approximation algorithms, and information propagation in both social and computer networks. He is particularly interested in a range of problems defined on large decentralized networks, especially those involving strategic agents. Elliot lives in Troy, NY, where he has been a faculty member of the RPI CS department since 2006.
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Education Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, 2000-2005 Ph.D. Computer Science, August 2005 Thesis title: Design and Management of Networks with Strategic Agents Advisor: Jon Kleinberg Master of Science, May 2004 Rice University, Houston, Texas, 1996-2000 B.S. Computer Science, May 2000 Double major in Computer Science and Mathematics magna cum laude
Scholarly Works:
  • http://www.cs.rpi.edu/~eanshel/pubs.html

Ronald Bailey

Ronald Bailey
Sun, 2010-06-13 02:05 — bailer
Name: Ronald Bailey
Title:Associate Chairman
Department Chemistry and Chemical Biology
School Science
Website:http://www.rpi.edu/dept/chem/chem_faculty/profiles/baily.html
Bio Prior to joining Rensselaer in 1961, Bailey was a NATO Science Fellow at University College, London (1960-61) with Sir R. S. Nyholm.

Research Areas:
Coordination Chemistry
Synthesis and structural characterization of metal coordination compounds provide information on metal-ligand bonding. Two aspects of interest are, first, the modes of bonding of potentially ambidentate ligands with various metal ions, and second, mixed-metal complexes formed by organic ligands that bridge two different metal ions. Infrared and visible-UV spectroscopy, magnetic properties, X-ray diffraction, and electrochemical techniques are used in the characterization.
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Education Ph.D., McGill University, 1960 B.S., University of Manitoba, 1956

Blanca L. Barquera

Blanca L. Barquera
Sun, 2010-06-13 02:05 — barqub
Name: Blanca L. Barquera
Title:Associate Professor
Department Biology
School Science
Website:http://www.rpi.edu/dept/bio/faculty/profiles/barquera.html
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Scholarly Works:
  • Juárez,O.,Morgan, J.E., Nilges, M.J. and Barquera,B. 2010. Energy transducing redox steps of the Na+-pumping NADH:quinone oxidoreductase from Vibrio cholerae. PNAS 107:12505-12510.
  • Juárez, O., Athearn, K., Gillespie, P., Barquera, B. 2009. Acid residues in the transmembrane helices of the Na+-pumping NADH:quinone oxidoreductase (Na+-NQR) from Vibrio cholerae involved in sodium translocation. Biochemistry 48:9516-9524.

Donna L Bedard

Donna L Bedard
Sun, 2010-06-13 02:05 — bedard
Name: Donna L Bedard
Title:Research Professor
Department Biology
School Science
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Kristin P Bennett

Kristin P Bennett
Sun, 2010-06-13 02:05 — bennek
Name: Kristin P Bennett
Title:Professor
Department Computer Science Lally School of Management and Technology Mathematical Sciences
School Lally School of Management and Technology Engineering Science
Center Center for Biotechnology and Interdisciplinary Studies (CBIS) Data Science Research Center (DSRC) Rensselaer Exploratory Center for Cheminformatics Research (RECCR)
Website:http://homepages.rpi.edu/~bennek/
Bio Dr. Bennett
is an active researcher in the Mathematical Programming, Operations
Research, Machine Learning, Bioinformatics and Data Mining communities. She is
currently a Professor in the departments of Mathematical Sciences and Computer Science at Rensselaer. She founded and directs the NIH funded TB-Track Project which examines the molecular epidemiology of tuberculosis. She is co-PI of RPI's NSF Advance project for the advancement of women faculty at RPI and has expertise in gender issues and faculty advancement.
She was Program
Co-chair of the 2005 SIGKDD Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining
Conference. She has served as a program committee member of numerous conferences including
SIGKDD Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining Conference, AAAI
Conference, International Conference on Machine Learning, Neural
Information Processing Systems, IEEE Conference on Data Mining,
Computational Learning Theory, and SIAM International Conference on
Data Mining. She is a founding associate editor of ACM Transactions
on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining. She has organized multiple
data mining and machine learning clusters at INFORMS meetings. She
is a former associate editor of Naval Research Logistics, Machine
Learning Journal, SIAM Journal of Optimization, and IEEE
Transactions on Neural Networks. She serves on the advisory board of
the Journal of Machine Learning Research. She has experience
developing data mining approaches for chemistry, biology, and public
health related applications. She is PI and director of a project of the NIH
funded project: Discovering Hidden Groups Across Tuberculosis
Patient and Pathogen Genotype Data. She has one patent for
database indexing to support data mining earned while she was a
visiting researcher at Microsoft Research. She received both the
Rensselaer and NSF Early Career Awards, as well as the Boeing
Distinguished Educator Award for Women and Minorities.
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Education Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1993
Scholarly Works:
  • J. Zaretzki, C. Bergeron, P. Rydberg, T.-W. Huang, K. P. Bennett, and C. Breneman, �RS-Predictor: A new tool for generating and validating models capable of predicting sites of cytochrome P450-mediated metabolism,�, Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling, to appear, 2011
  • G. Moore, C. Bergeron, and K. P. Bennett, �Model Selection for Primal SVM�, Machine Learning, to appear, 2011.

Francine Berman

Francine Berman
Fri, 2010-07-02 11:56 — bermaf
Name: Francine Berman
Title:Vice President for Research & Professor of Computer Science
Department Computer Science
School Science
Website:http://www.cs.rpi.edu/~bermaf/
Bio Dr. Francine Berman is Vice President for Research and Professor of Computer Science at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. She is a Fellow of the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) and Senior Member of the IEEE. In 2009, Dr. Berman was the inaugural recipient of the ACM/IEEE-CS Ken Kennedy Award for influential leadership in the design, development, and deployment of national-scale cyberinfrastructure.

Prior to joining Rensselaer, Dr. Berman was Professor in the UC San Diego Department of Computer Science and Engineering, and first holder of the High Performance Computing Endowed Chair in the Jacobs School of Engineering. From 2001 to 2009, Dr. Berman served as Director of the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) where she led a staff of 250+ interdisciplinary scientists, engineers, and technologists. Dr. Berman is one of the two founding Principal Investigators of the National Science Foundation's TeraGrid project, and also directed the National Partnership for Advanced Computational Infrastructure (NPACI), a consortium of 41 research groups, institutions, and university partners with the goal of building national infrastructure to support research and education in science and engineering.

Dr. Berman has served on a broad spectrum of national and international leadership groups and committees including the National Science Foundation's Engineering Advisory Committee, the National Institutes of Health's NIGMS Advisory Committee, the Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology Board of Trustees, the National Academy of Sciences Board on Research Data and Information, and others. From 2007-2010, she served as co-Chair of the US-UK Blue Ribbon Task Force for Sustainable Digital Preservation and Access. Dr. Berman is currently Chair-Elect of the Information, Computing and Communication Section (Section T) of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). For her accomplishments, leadership, and vision, Dr. Berman was recognized by the Library of Congress as a Digital Preservation Pioneer, as one of the top women in technology by BusinessWeek and Newsweek, and as one of the top technologists by IEEE Spectrum.
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Education Ph.D. in Mathematics from University of Washington; M.A. in Mathematics from University of Washington; B.A. in Mathematics from University of California, Los Angeles
Scholarly Works:
  • Berman, F., “Making Cyberinfrastructure in Research and Education Real,” Educause Review, vol. 43, no. 4 (July/August 2008).
  • Berman, F., “Got Data? A Guide to Data Preservation in the Information Age,” Communications of the ACM, December 2008.
  • Berman, F., Fox, G., and Hey. T., editors, Grid Computing: Making the Global Infrastructure a Reality”, 1st Edition, John Wiley and Sons, LTD, England, 2003.
  • Berman, F., Wolski, R., Casanova, H., Cirne, W., Dail, H., Faerman, M., Figueira, S., Hayes, J., Obertelli, G. Schopf, J., Shao, G., Smallen, S., Spring, N., Su, A. and Zagorodnov, D., “Adaptive Computing on the Grid Using AppLeS,” IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, Vol. 14:4, 369-382, 2003.
  • Berman, F., "We Need a Data Census," Communications of the ACM, December 2010
  • Blue Ribbon Task Force on Sustainable Digital Preservation and Access (Berman is co-Chair), "Sustainable Economics for a Digital Planet: Ensuring Long-term Access to Digital Information". Final Report. 2010
Recognitions:
  • 2009 ACM/IEEE-CS Ken Kennedy Award
  • ACM Fellow (since 1999)
  • IEEE Senior Member (since 2005)
  • Named a "Digital Preservation Pioneer" by Library of Congress in 2008
  • IEEE Fellow (since 2010)

Chris Bjornsson

Chris Bjornsson
Mon, 2011-10-03 11:33 — bjornc
Name: Chris Bjornsson
Title:Research Assistant Professor
Department Biology
School Science
Center Center for Biotechnology and Interdisciplinary Studies (CBIS)
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Richard Bopp

Richard Bopp
Sun, 2010-06-13 02:05 — boppr
Name: Richard Bopp
Title:Associate Professor
Department Earth and Environmental Sciences
School Science
Website:http://ees2.geo.rpi.edu/bopp.html
Bio My research activities are focused on the Hudson River and surrounding waters. At present I am most involved with sediment core dating and the development of particle-associated pollutant chronologies. Other interests include particle-water partitioning of contaminants, nutrient cycling, gas exchange, atmospheric transport of contaminants and the use of halogenated organic compounds as tracers in surface and groundwater systems. My research has been applied to issues such as the transport and fate of PCBs in the Hudson, the effects of wastewater discharge to New York Harbor, and the impacts of offshore disposal of sewage sludge and dredged material. In the near future I will be addressing the effects of acid deposition on Adirondack lakes, through a program at Rensselaer's Fresh Water Institute.
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Education Ph.D., Columbia University B.S., Massachusetts Institute of Technology