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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.

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.

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

Peter Kramer

Peter Kramer
Sun, 2010-06-13 02:05 — kramep
Name: Peter Kramer
Title:Associate Professor
Department Mathematical Sciences
School Science
Center Data Science Research Center (DSRC)
Website:http://homepages.rpi.edu/~kramep/
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Education Ph.D., Princeton University
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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.

Rahmi Ozisik

Rahmi Ozisik
Tue, 2010-05-18 02:00 — ozisik
Name: Rahmi Ozisik
Title:Associate Professor
Department Materials Science and Engineering
School Engineering
Center Center for Biotechnology and Interdisciplinary Studies (CBIS) Computational Center for Nanotechnology Innovations (CCNI) Data Science Research Center (DSRC) New York State Center for Polymer Synthesis Rensselaer Nanotechnology Center (RNC) Scientific Computation Research Center (SCOREC)
Website:http://www.rpi.edu/~ozisik/
Bio
  • 2008 - Present Associate Professor of Materials Science and Engineering
    Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, USA
  • 2002 - 2007 Assistant Professor of Materials Science and Engineering
    Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, USA
  • 2005 Summer - Visiting scientist at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico
  • 2001 - 2002 Post Doctoral Research Associate, Institute of Polymer Science
    The University of Akron, Akron, Ohio, USA (Ronald K. Eby).
  • 2000 - 2001 Post Doctoral Research Associate, Institute of Polymers
    Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich, Switzerland (Ulrich W. Suter).
  • 1996 - 1999 Research Assistant, Department of Polymer Science
    The University of Akron, Akron, Ohio.
  • 1992 - 1996 Research Assistant, Department of Polymer Engineering
    The University of Akron, Akron, Ohio.
  • 1990 - 1991 Teaching Assistant, Department of Mechanical Engineering
    Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey.
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Education Ph.D. Polymer Science (University of Akron, Akron, Ohio, 1999) M.S. Polymer Engineering (University of Akron, Akron, Ohio, 1996) B.S. Mechanical Engineering (Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey, 1990)
Scholarly Works:
  • D. Rende, L. Ozgur, N. Baysal, R. Ozisik, “A Computational Study on Carbon Dioxide Storage in Single Walled Carbon Nanotubes” J. Comput. Theoretical Nanoscience 2012, 9, 1658-1666.
  • Y. Yuan, D. Rende, C. Altan, S. Bucak, R. Ozisik, D.-A. Borca-Tasciuc, “Effect of Surface Modification on Magnetization of Iron Oxide Nanoparticle Colloids” Langmuir 2012, 28, 13051-13059
  • K. Goren, O. B. Okan, L. Chen, L. S. Schadler, R. Ozisik, “Supercritical carbon dioxide assisted dispersion and distribution of silica nanoparticles in polymers” J. Supercritical Fluids 2012, 67, 108-113.
  • L. Chen, B.K. Goren, R. Ozisikk, L.S. Schadler, “Controlling bubble density in MWNT/polymer nanocomposite foams by MWNT surface modification” Composites Science and Technology 2012, 72, 190-196.
  • G. Subramanian, R. Ozisik, “Simultaneous Estimation of the Phase Content and Lamellar Thickness in Isotactic Polypropylene by the Simulated Annealing of Wide-Angle X-Ray Scattering Data” J. Appl. Polym. Sci. 2010, 117, 2386-2394.
  • L. Chen, L. S. Schadler, R. Ozisik, “The influence of carbon nanotube aspect ratio on the bubble densities of polymer/carbon nanotube composite foams” Polymer 2010 51, 2368-2375.
  • D. Rende, N. Baysal, R. Ozisik, “Carbon dioxide sequestration by carbon nanotubes: Application of graph theoretical approach” 2010, Computational Materials Science 2010 48, 402-408.

Carlos A Varela

Carlos A Varela
Sun, 2010-06-13 02:05 — varelc
Name: Carlos A Varela
Title:Associate Professor
Department Computer Science
School Science
Center Data Science Research Center (DSRC) Network Science and Technology Center (NeST)
Website:http://www.cs.rpi.edu/~cvarela/
Bio Dr. Carlos A. Varela received his B.S. with honors, M.S., and Ph.D. in Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Dr. Varela is Associate Editor and Information Director of the ACM Computing Surveys journal, and has served as Guest Editor of the Scientific Programming journal. Dr. Varela is a recipient of several research grants including the NSF CAREER award, two IBM SUR awards, and two IBM Innovation awards. His current research interests include web-based and internet-based computing, middleware for adaptive distributed systems, concurrent programming models and languages, and software development environments and tools. For more information on Prof. Varela's group's research, please visit the Worldwide Computing Lab at http://wcl.cs.rpi.edu/
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Education Dr. Carlos A. Varela received his B.S. with honors, M.S., and Ph.D. in Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Scholarly Works:
  • Carlos Varela and Gul Agha. Programming Dynamically Reconfigurable Open Systems with SALSA. ACM SIGPLAN Notices. OOPSLA'2001 Intriguing Technology Track Proceedings, 36(12):20-34, December 2001.
  • J. Field and C. Varela. Transactors: A Programming Model for Maintaining Globally Consistent Distributed State in Unreliable Environments. In ACM Conference on Principles of Programming Languages (POPL 2005), Long Beach, CA, pages 195-208, January 2005.
  • Kaoutar El Maghraoui, Travis J. Desell, Boleslaw K. Szymanski, and Carlos A. Varela. The Internet Operating System: Middleware for Adaptive Distributed Computing. International Journal of High Performance Computing Applications (IJHPCA), Special Issue on Scheduling Techniques for Large-Scale Distributed Platforms, 20(4):467-480, 2006.
  • Carlos A. Varela. Programming Distributed Computing Systems: A Foundational Approach. MIT Press, 2012.
  • All publications available at: http://wcl.cs.rpi.edu/bib/Author/VARELA-CA.html
Recognitions:
  • NSF CAREER Award 2005
  • IBM Innovation Awards 2004, 2003
  • ACM Computing Surveys Associate Editor, 2007-Present
  • IEEE e-Science Best Paper (Finalist) Award, 2007
  • IEEE CC-Grid Best Paper Award (Nomination), 2007
  • IEEE HPDC HPC-GECO Best Paper Award, 2006
  • ACM/IEEE CCGrid Program Chair, 2011

Bulent Yener

Bulent Yener
Sun, 2010-06-13 02:05 — yener
Name: Bulent Yener
Title:Professor, Director, Data Science Research Center
Department Computer Science
School Science
Center Data Science Research Center (DSRC)
Website:http://www.dsrc.rpi.edu/
Bio I am a Professor in the Department of Computer Science and the Director of Data Science Research Center (please join us at the kick off event: the NSF-RPI workshop Multiscale Modeling of Complex Data) at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) in Troy, New York. I am also the co-Director of Pervasive Computing and Networking Center at RPI.

I received MS. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science, both from Columbia University , in 1987 and 1994, respectively. Before joining RPI, I was a Member of the Technical Staff at the Bell Laboratories in Murray Hill, New Jersey.

My current research interests include bioinformatics, medical informatics, and security and privacy. I have been serving on the Technical Program Committees of leading IEEE conferences and workshops. Currently I am an associate editor of ACM/Kluwer Winet journal and the IEEE Network Magazine. I am a Senior Member of the IEEE Computer Society.

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Education PhD in Computer Science from Columbia University in 1994.