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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

W. Randolph Franklin

W. Randolph Franklin
Tue, 2010-05-18 02:00 — frankwr
Name: W. Randolph Franklin
Title:Professor
Department Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering
School Engineering
Website:http://wrfranklin.org/
Bio

Dr. Franklin has held visiting positions at UC Berkeley, the US Army Topographic Engineering Center, Ft Belvoir, the Dipartimento di Informatica e Scienze dell'Informazione, Universita di Genova, Italy, the Dept. de Science Geodesique, University of Laval, Quebec City, Canada, the Division of Information Technology, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization, Canberra, Australia, and the Institute of Systems Science, National Univer sity of Singapore. He also helped found two defunct hi-tech startups, Hudson Data Systems, and Attic Graphics, Inc. He is an incorporator and board member of the Institute for Infrastructure Asset Management.



Detailed info, including a resume, long bio, and research and teaching interests, is on his website. He welcomes questions.

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Education Ph.D. Applied Mathematics (Harvard University, 1978), A.M. Applied Mathematics (Harvard University, 1975), B.Sc. Computer Science (University of Toronto, 1973), 3 short courses from the Government Affairs Institute at Georgetown University, 2001-2002.

Malik Magdon-Ismail

Malik Magdon-Ismail
Sun, 2010-06-13 02:05 — magdon
Name: Malik Magdon-Ismail
Title:Professor
Department Computer Science
School Science
Center Data Science Research Center (DSRC) Network Science and Technology Center (NeST)
Website:http://www.cs.rpi.edu/~magdon
Bio After degrees at Yale and Caltech, Dr. Magdon-Ismail was a research scholar at Caltech before joining Rensselaer as Assistant Professor of Computer Science in 2000. His interests are in decision making from data in complex systems, including machine learning, computational finance and social and communication networks. He enjoys poker, bridge, squash, tennis and badminton.

For a full bio and more details, please visit his web page.
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Education B.S., Physics, Yale University, 1993. M.S., Physics California Institute of Technology, 1995. PhD., EE/Physics, California Institute of Technology, 1998.
Scholarly Works:
  • Malik Magdon-Ismail, "Permutation Complexity Bound on Out-Sample Error", Proc. 24th Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS), 2010.
  • Costas Busch, Malik Magdon-Ismail "Atomic Routing Games on Maximum Congestion", Theoretical Computer Science, Volume 410, Issue 36, Pages 3337-3347, 2009.
  • Malik Magdon-Ismail, Konstantin Mertsalov, "A Permutation Approach to Validation", Proc. 10th SIAM International Conference on Data Mining (SDM), pages 882-983, Columbus Ohio, April 29-May 1, 2010.
  • Sanmay Das, Malik Magdon-Ismail, "Collective Wisdom: Information Growth in Wikis and Blogs", ACM Conference on E-Commerce (EC 2010), pages 231-240, June 7-8 , Cambridge Massachusetts, 2010.
  • Costas Busch, Malik Magdon-Ismail, Marios Mavronicolas, "Universal Bufferless Packet Switching", Siam Journal on Computing, Volume 37, Issue 4, pages 1139-1162, 2007.
  • Malik Magdon-Ismail, and Joseph Sill "A Linear Fit Gets the Correct Monotonicity Directions", Machine Learning, Volume 70, Number 1 / January, 2008, pages 21-43.
  • Volkan Isler, Malik Magdon-Ismail "Sensor Selection in Arbitrary Dimension", IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering (TASE), Vol. 5, No. 4, pages 651-660, 2008.
  • Ali Civril, Malik Magdon-Ismail "On Selecting a Maximum Volume Sub-Matrix of a Matrix and Related Problems", Theoretical Computer Science, 2009.
  • Nathan Cole, Heidi Joe Newberg, Malik Magdon-Ismail, Travis Desell, Kristopher Dawsey, Warren Hayashi, Xinyang (Fred) Liu, Jonathan Purnell, Boleslaw Szymanski, Carlos Varela, James Wisniewski, "Maximum Likelihood Fitting of Tidal Streams with application to the Sagittarius Dwarf Tidal Tails", the Astrophysical Journal, Vol 683, pages 750-766 (2008).
  • Jeffery Baumes, Mark Goldberg, Mykola Hayvonovych, Malik Magdon-Ismail, William Wallace, Mohammed Zaki, "Finding Hidden Group Structure in a Stream of Communications", [Top 3 Paper Award], Proceedings of the 4th Symposium on Intelligence and Security Informatics (ISI 06), San Diego, CA, May 23-24 2006.

Lee Newberg

Lee Newberg
Sun, 2010-06-13 02:05 — newbel
Name: Lee Newberg
Title:Research Associate Professor
Department Computer Science
School Science
Website:http://www.rpi.edu/~newbel/
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Education S.B. Mathematics, MIT; S.B. Physics, MIT; M.S. Computer Science, UC Berkeley; Ph.D. Computer Science, UC Berkeley.
Scholarly Works:
  • Lee A. Newberg (2009) Error statistics of hidden Markov model and hidden Boltzmann model results. BMC Bioinformatics, 10, article 212. doi: 10.1186/1471-2105-10-212
  • Lee A. Newberg and Charles E. Lawrence (2009) Exact calculation of distributions on integers, with application to sequence alignment. Journal of Computational Biology, 16(1), 1-18. doi: 10.1089/cmb.2008.0137
  • Lee A. Newberg (2008) Significance of gapped sequence alignments. Journal of Computational Biology, 15(9), 1187-1194. doi: 10.1089/cmb.2008.0125
  • Lee A. Newberg (2008) Memory-efficient dynamic programming backtrace and pairwise local sequence alignment. Bioinformatics, 24(16), 1772-1778. doi: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btn308
  • Lee A. Newberg, William A. Thompson, Sean Conlan, Thomas M. Smith, Lee Ann McCue, and Charles E. Lawrence (2007) A phylogenetic Gibbs sampler that yields centroid solutions for cis regulatory site prediction. Bioinformatics, 23(14), 1718-1727. doi: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btm241
Recognitions:
  • NSF Graduate Fellowship
  • NIH Mentored Career Award