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Education
2003-2008, University of Arkansas at Little Rock, Little Rock, AR, USA
Doctor of Philosophy, Applied Science, emphasizing Applied Computing
Research Interests
Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery
- Clustering of multidimensional data
- Feature engineering
- Text mining
Computer Vision
- Quantification of tumor regions
- Vessel detection in histopathological images
- Unsupervised image normalization
- Hierarchical design of subimages
- Color models
Bioinformatics
- Statistical analysis of microarray data
- Protein-Protein interaction networks
- Color models for medical images
Complex Networks
- Clustering of meaning groups
- System level analysis
- Centrality ranking of objects
Grid Computing
- Parallelization of sequence search algorithms
- Clustering of virtual slides
- Work load prediction
- Distributed GPUs
Talks
- Delineation of Malignancy in Histological Images of Head and Neck Cancer, TOBB University of Economics and Technology, May 2009
- Mining Concept Associations for Knowledge Discovery in Medline Corpus, Second Annual Conference of the MidSouth Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Society, October 2004, Little Rock, Arkansas
- Concept Associations in Large Textual Databases, Acxiom Conference on Applied Research in Information Technology, February 2005, Conway, Arkansas
Patent
- Image Processing Apparatus and Method for Histological Analysis, Gal Shafirstein, Xiaowei Xu, Mutlu Mete (USPTO # 7,853,089 )
Professional Services
- Reviewer for Evolutionary Bioinformatics, Libertas Academia
- Reviewer for IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering
- Reviewer for IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering
- Session chair at IEEE Bioinformatics and Biomedicine, November 2-4, 2007, Silicon Valley, California
- Regular judge/reviewer for I-SWEEEP (The International Sustainable World Project Olympiad) and Dallas Science Fair