Tel: (281) 283-3802 Secretary: (281) 283-3860

Research interests: - Natural language processing: context-based spelling errors, text mining, text categorization, machine learning, data mining. - Bioinformatics: Gene selection, Biomedical term classification and disambiguation, Biomedical concept similarity, gene and GO term similarity. - Also: operating and distributed systems.

- Publications

New: Intl. J. of Rapid Manufacturing

Special issue on Data Mining and Knowledge Managements

Paper Submission: March 31 2009;

Notification of Results: May 15 2009; Final copy: July 31 2009;

Teaching:

o Spring 2009

§ CSCI 5531 Advanced Operating Systems

§ CSCI 3331 Computer Organization and Assembly Language

Selected Services

- Program Chair (conferences): SEDE-2008 ; SEDE-2009

- Program Committee Member:

ACM SAC-2009 (DTTA); PAKDD-2009 (Thailand); KDIR-2009 (Portugal); SIAM SDM-2008; IEEE BIBE 2008;

IEEE WCCI/CEC-2008 (Hong Kong); IEEE CDS-2007(Toronto, Canada); BMEI-2008(China); IEEE ICADIWT 2008;

ACIT-2007(Syria); CATA-2007; IEEE BIBE 2007; 3rd IADC 2007(San Diego, CA); ICIT-2007 (Jordan);

IEEE 2007 CEC (Singapore); IST-AWSN'07(Canada); ITNG-2007 (Bioinformatics Track);

IEEE BIBE-2006 (Boston, MA); CATA 2006; SEDE-2006; ACIT-2006 (Jordan); ACIT-2005; CATA-2005;

IASSE-2005; ACIT-2004; CATA-2004; CSITeA’04; CAINE-2003 (Las Vegas); ACIT-2003 (Egypt)

- Journal Reviewer/technical committee member: IAJIT, JBI, SBAJ, TKDE

MS Thesis Supervised:

- Noushin Ghaffari: Exploring Machine Learning and Text Mining in Information Extraction Using Gene Expression Profiles and Biomedical Literature. April 2006.

- Hoa A. Nguyen: New Semantic Similarity Techniques Applied in the Biomedical Domain and WordNet. November 2006

- Duc Duong: Using Text Mining to Extract Gene and Protein Synonyms from Biomedical Texts. July 2007

- Elham Khabiri: Using Semantic Similarity Measures in the Biomedical Domain for Functional Similarity of Genes based on Gene Ontology. November 2007

- Anurag Nagar: Functional Analysis of Genes Using the Gene Ontology: Gene Similarity, Clustering,

and Classification. April 2008.

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Editor:

- Proceedings of the 16^th Intl. conference on Software Engineering and Data Engineering SEDE-2007, Las Vegas, NV, USA.

- Proceedings of SEDE-2008, Los Angeles, CA, USA.