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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

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

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)

Roger H. Brown

Roger H. Brown
Fri, 2011-09-30 10:47 — wonden2
Name: Roger H. Brown
Title: Professor of Practice, Engineering and Science - Hartford
Department Computer Science
School Science
Website:http://www.ewp.rpi.edu/hartford/~rhb/RPI/Homepage.html
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Christopher D. Carothers

Christopher D. Carothers
Sun, 2010-06-13 02:05 — carotc
Name: Christopher D. Carothers
Title:Associate Professor
Department Computer Science
School Science
Center Scientific Computation Research Center (SCOREC)
Website:http://www.cs.rpi.edu/~chrisc/
Bio Chris Carothers is a Professor in the Computer Science Department at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. His research interest are in massively parallel systems focusing on modeling and simulation systems of all sorts. Prof. Carothers is an NSF CAREER award winner and is currently active in the DOE Exascale Co-Design Program associated with designs for next generation exascale storage systems as well as the NSF PetaApps Program, and the Army Research Center's Mobile Network Modeling Institute

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Education Ph.D., Computer Science Georgia Institute of Technology, September 1997

Barbara Cutler

Barbara Mary Cutler
Sun, 2010-06-13 02:05 — cutleb
Name: Barbara Mary Cutler
Title:Associate Professor
Department Computer Science
School Science
Center Data Science Research Center (DSRC) Experimental Media and Performance Arts Center (EMPAC)
Website:http://www.cs.rpi.edu/~cutler
Bio I'm an Associate Professor in the Computer Science Department and an EMPAC Affiliated Faculty member at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. My research interests include computer graphics, geometry processing, visualization, and design tools for architecture.
Previously I was a student and then Post-Doctoral Lecturer at MIT in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science doing research in the Computer Graphics Group which is part of the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL).
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Education PhD Computer Science 2003 Massachusetts Institute of Technology MEng Computer Science 1999 Massachusetts Institute of Technology BS Computer Science & Engineering 1997 Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Scholarly Works:
  • Interpreting Physical Sketches as Architectural Models Barbara Cutler and Joshua Nasman Advances in Architectural Geometry 2010, September 2010.
  • Dynamic Projection Surfaces for Immersive Visualization Theodore C. Yapo, Yu Sheng, Joshua Nasman, Andrew Dolce, Eric Li, and Barbara Cutler PROCAMS 2010 IEEE International Workshop on Projector-Camera Systems, June 2010.
  • Global Illumination Compensation for Spatially Augmented Reality Yu Sheng, Theodore C. Yapo, and Barbara Cutler Computer Graphics Forum, Eurographics 2010, April 2010.
  • A Spatially Augmented Reality Sketching Interface for Architectural Daylighting Design Yu Sheng, Theodore C. Yapo, Christopher Young, and Barbara Cutler IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, accepted October 2009.

Sanmay Das

Sanmay Das
Sun, 2010-06-13 02:05 — dass2
Name: Sanmay Das
Title:Assistant Professor
Department Computer Science
School Science
Website:http://www.cs.rpi.edu/~sanmay/
Bio Please see website
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Scholarly Works:
  • See website
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  • NSF CAREER Award (2010)

Petros Drineas

Petros Drineas
Sun, 2010-06-13 02:05 — drinep
Name: Petros Drineas
Title:Associate Professor
Department Computer Science
School Science
Website:http://www.cs.rpi.edu/~drinep/
Bio http://www.cs.rpi.edu/~drinep/DrineasCV.pdf
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Education Ph.D./M.Phil./M.Sc. in Computer Science (May 2003), Computer Science Department, Yale University BS/M.Sc. in Computer Engineering (July 1997), Computer Engineering and Informatics Department, University of Patras
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  • http://www.cs.rpi.edu/~drinep/publications.html

Peter Fox

Peter Fox
Sun, 2010-06-13 02:05 — foxp
Name: Peter Fox
Title:Professor and Tetherless World Constellation Chair
Department Computer Science Earth and Environmental Sciences IT and Web Science
School Science
Center Data Science Research Center (DSRC)
Constellation Tetherless World
Website:http://tw.rpi.edu/web/Person/PeterFox
Bio Peter Fox is Tetherless World Constellation Chair and Professor of Earth and Environmental Science and Computer Science at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Previously, he spent 17 years at the High Altitude Observatory of the National Center for Atmospheric Research as Chief Computational Scientist. Fox's research specializes in the fields of solar and solar-terrestrial physics, computational and computer science, information technology, and grid-enabled, distributed semantic data frameworks. This research utilizes state-of-the-art modeling techniques, internet-based technologies, including the semantic web, and applies them to large-scale distributed scientific repositories addressing the full life-cycle of data and information within specific science and engineering disciplines as well as among disciplines. Fox has spent over 25 years bridging science and distributed data and information systems to support community activities utilizing use case driven design. Fox is chair of the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics Union Commission on Data and Information and past chair of the AGU Special Focus Group on Earth and Space Science Informatics, is an associate editor for the Earth Science Informatics journal, is a member of the editorial board for Computers in Geosciences. Fox serves on the International Council for Science's Strategic Coordinating Committee for Information and Data.


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Education B.Sc. (Hons I), Monash University, Mathematics Ph.D. Monash University, Mathematics