FACULTY PROFILE 1. Name, current academic rank, and tenure status: Lee A. Becker, Associate Professor, Tenured. 2. Date of original appointment to this faculty, followed by dates and ranks of advancement: Original Appointment, 1984; Promotion to Associate Professor, 1989. 3. Degrees with fields, institutions, and dates Degree Field Institution Date ____________________________________________________________________ Ph.D. Slavic Linguistics University of Illinois 1978 ____________________________________________________________________ M.S. Computer Science Indiana University 1984 ____________________________________________________________________ B.A. Russian University of Illinois 1973 ____________________________________________________________________ 4. If you do not have a formal degree in computer science, describe any course work you may have taken, or other ways in which you have achieved competence in computer science; there is no necessity to repeat information here which is contained in later sections of this document. n/a 5. Conferences, workshops, and professional development programs in which you have participated to improve teaching and professional competence in computer science: Presenting Data and Information, March 2002 6. Other related computing experience including teaching, industrial, governmental, etc. (Where, when, description and scope of duties): -- 7. Consulting-list agencies and dates, and briefly describe each project: Real-Time Intelligent Systems, 1991, Validation and Verification of Activation Framework for Real-Time Expert Systems. 8. Department, college, and/or university committees of which you are a member: CS Undergraduate Committee, CS Program Committee, CS Accreditation Committee. 9. Principal publications of the last five years. Give in standard bibliographic format. Grecu, D., & Becker, L.A. (1998). Coactive Learning for Distributed Data Mining. In Fourth International Conference on Knowledge Discovery in Databases - KDD-98, . New York, NY: AAAI Press, (pp. 209-213). Grecu, D., & Becker, L.A. (1998). Using Agents to Investigate Strategies for Human Collaborative Learning. In 3rd International Conference on the Learning Sciences, Atlanta, GA, December 1998. (pp. 118-124). Leemans, P. & Becker, L.A. (2000). VIL: A Visual Inter Lingua, In Iconic Communication, Ed. Masoud Yazdani, Intellect Books, Bristol, United Kingdom, August 2000. Streeter, M. & Becker, L.A. (2001). Toward A Better Sine Wave. In Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference. San Mateo, CA: Morgan Kaufmann. Streeter, M. and Becker, L.A. (2001). Automated discovery of numerical approximation formulae via genetic programming. In Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference. San Mateo, CA: Morgan Kaufmann. 10. Other scholarly activity: grants, sabbaticals, software development, etc.: 1986. Expert Systems for Manufacturing. Digital Equipment Corporation. Co-principal Investigator (with D.C.Brown). $28,000. 1986. Expert System for Press Diagnosis. Wyman-Gordon Corporation. Co-principal Investigator (with D.C.Brown). $38,000. 1987. The Use of Evidence Flow Graphs for Performing Validation and Verification of Expert Systems. NASA. Co-principal Investigator (with P.G.Green). $29,997. 1987. Artificial Intelligence in Manufacturing. Artificial Intelligence Center, Digital Equipment Corporation. Co-prinicpal Investigator (with D.C.Brown). $29,860. 1987. A Diagnostic Expert System for the Ruthner Forging Machine. Wyman-Gordon Corporation. Co-principal Investigator (with A. Gerstenfeld). $25,000. 1988. An Expert System for Designing Conversion Process Plans. Wyman-Gordon Corporation. Co-principal Investigator (with A. Gerstenfeld). $30,000. 1989. Validation and Verification of Intelligent Systems. NASA. Co-principal Investigator (with R.J. Duckworth _& P. Green). $171,000. 1990. An Expert System for Designing Conversion Process Plans. Grant Extension from Wyman-Gordon Corporation. Co-principal Investigator (with A. Gerstenfeld). $32,000. 1990. Validation and Verification of Intelligent Systems. Air Force through NASA. Co-principal Investigator (with Prof. Duckworth and Peter Green). $96,000. 1991. Validations and Verification of Intelligent Systems. NASA & Air Force. Co-principal Investigator (with Professor R. J. Duckworth). $143,000 11. Scientific, professional, and honor societies of which you are a member: -- 12. Honors and awards: -- 13. Courses taught this and last academic year term-by-term. (This year is the year in which this report was prepared; last year was the year prior to this.) If you were on sabbatical leave, please enter the information for the previous year. Please list each section of the same course separately. year/term course number course title credits # students --------------------------------------------------------------------- 00-01: 2000 A CS4431 Database Systems I 1/3 56 2001 C CS4431 Database Systems I 1/3 66 2001 E CS4233 OO Anal. & Design 1/3 12 2001 E CS4431 Database Systems I 1/3 17 01-02: 2001 A CS4431 Database Systems I 1/3 52 2001 B CS4431 Database Systems I 1/3 71 2002 E CS4233 OO Anal. & Design 1/3 ?? 14. Other assigned duties performed during the academic year, with average hours per week. Indicate which, if any, carry extra compensation. If you are course coordinator for courses taught by other than full-time faculty, please indicate here which courses. Scheduling and staffing of courses (2 hrs/week), Reviewing Degree Reqts (1 hr/week) 2001 Spring CS546 Human Computer Interaction 3 hrs 15. Number of students for which you serve as academic advisor: 41 16. Estimate the percentage of your time devoted to scholarly and/or research activities: 20% Please give a brief description of your major research and scholarly activities: Genetic Programming, Machine Learning 17. If you are not a full-time faculty member, state what percentage of full-time you work:_____% Percentage of this time allocated to the computer science program being evaluated:______% n/a --------------