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.

- Publications

- short bio

Intl. J. of Rapid Manufacturing Special issue on Data Mining and Knowledge Management

Teaching:

o Fall 2009

§ CSCI 3331 Computer Organization and Assembly Language

§ CSCI 4931 Advanced Software Development with Java

§ CSCI 5132 Internet Protocols

Selected Services

- Program Chair (conferences): SEDE-2008 ; SEDE-2009; BICoB-2010

- Program Committee Member: (selected conferences)

ACM SAC-2010 (DTTA); 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);

IEEE 2007 CEC (Singapore); ACIT-2003 (Egypt); ITNG-2007; IEEE BIBE 2007; BMEI-2008(China);

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 {implementation: http://search.cpan.org/~btmcinnes/UMLS-Similarity-0.17/lib/UMLS/Similarity/nam.pm }

- 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.

____________________________________________________________________________________________

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.

- Proceedings of SEDE-2009, June 2009, Las Vegas, NV USA.

- Intl J. of Rapid Manufacturing (IJRapidM), Special Issue on Data Mining and Knowledge Management. September 2010. http://www.inderscience.com/browse/callpaper.php?callID=1135

Conference Chair:

§ Program co-chair of SEDE-2007: 16th Int’l conference on Software Engineering and Data Engineering, Las Vegas, USA, July 2007.

§ Program co-chair of SEDE-2008, Los Angeles, USA, July 2008.

§ Program co-chair of SEDE-2009, Las Vegas, USA, July 2009.

§ Program chair: BICoB-2010 2nd International Conference on Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, to be held in Hawaii, March 2010. http://sce.uhcl.edu/bicob10/