Carolina Ruiz

CURRICULUM VITA
October 2006

Department of Computer Science Phone: (508) 831-5640
Worcester Polytechnic Institute Fax: (508) 831-5776
Worcester, MA 01609 e-mail:
U. S. A. URL= http://www.cs.wpi.edu/~ruiz/

 

Education and Professional Experience


EDUCATION

Ph.D. in Computer Science. 1996
University of Maryland College Park.

MS in Computer Science. 1990
University of Los Andes. Bogotá, Colombia.

BS in Mathematics. 1989
University of Los Andes. Bogotá, Colombia.

BS (5 year degree) in Computer Science. 1988
University of Los Andes. Bogotá, Colombia.


CURRENT POSITION

Associate Professor (with tenure), Since 2004
Department of Computer Science
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Worcester, MA 01609, USA.


PREVIOUS POSITIONS

Assistant Professor, 1996 - 2004
(on leave of absence 1996-1997 visiting the University of Pittsburgh)
Department of Computer Science
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Worcester, MA 01609, USA.

Visiting Assistant Professor, 1996-1997
Department of Computer Science
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, PA 15260, USA.

 

 

Research


RESEARCH INTERESTS


MY KDD RESEARCH GROUP

Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining Research Group (KDDRG)


INVITED TALKS AT CONFERENCES AND UNIVERSITY COLLOQUIA

  • "Deductive Database Integration and Knowledge Discovery".
    Thirteenth International Conference on Applications of Prolog.
    Tokyo, Japan. October 2000.

  • "From Logical Rules to Association Rules".
    University of Economics, Prague.
    Laboratory for Intelligent Systems Seminar.
    Prague, Czech Republic. November, 1999.

  • "Deductive Data Mining".
    University of Maryland
    Workshop in Honor of Jack Minker, October 1998.

  • "Inductive Learning in a Deductive Framework".
    University of Pittsburgh
    Computer Science Seminar.
    Pittsburgh PA, USA. June 1997.

  • "Knowledge Based Systems with Multiple Forms of Negation".
    York University
    Computer Science Seminar.
    York Ontario, Canada. November 1996.

  • "Knowledge Based Systems with Multiple Forms of Negation".
    McMaster University
    Computer Science and Systems Seminar.
    Hamilton Ontario, Canada. November 1996.

  • "Knowledge Based Systems with Multiple Forms of Negation".
    University of Pittsburgh
    Intelligent Systems AI Research Seminar.
    Pittsburgh PA, USA. November 1996.

  • "Knowledge Based Systems with Multiple Forms of Negation".
    University of North Texas
    Computer Science Colloquium.
    Denton TX, USA. March 1996.

  • "Knowledge Based Systems with Multiple Forms of Negation".
    Kansas State University
    Computing and Information Sciences Colloquium.
    Manhattan KS, USA. March 1996.

  • "Knowledge Based Systems with Multiple Forms of Negation".
    Worcester Polytechnic Institute
    Computer Science Colloquium.
    Worcester MA, USA. February 1996.

  • "Logic Programs with Multiple Forms of Default Negation".
    University of Maryland, College Park
    Logic and Artificial Intelligence Seminar.
    College Park MD, USA. April 1995.

  • "Computing Stable and Partial Stable Models of Extended Disjunctive Logic Programs".
    University of Maryland, College Park
    Logic and Artificial Intelligence Seminar.
    College Park MD, USA. Oct. 1994.

  • "On Extended Disjunctive Logic Programs".
    University of Maryland, College Park
    Logic and Artificial Intelligence Seminar.
    College Park MD, USA. April 1993.

  • "Kripke Models and Logic Programs".
    University of Maryland, College Park
    Logic and Artificial Intelligence Seminar.
    College Park MD, USA. June 1992.


ADVISING OF GRADUATE AND UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH

 

Publications

Authors marked with one asterisk (*) are graduate students and
authors marked with two asterisks (**) are undergraduate students.


BOOK CHAPTERS

  • S.A. Alvarez, C. Ruiz , and T. Kawato**. More Efficient Mining over Heterogeneous Data using Neural Expert Networks. In Multimedia Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery (V.A. Petrushin and L. Khan, eds.) Springer. 2007. ISBN: 978-1-84628-436-6.

  • S.A. Alvarez, C. Ruiz , and V. Dignum. Data mining and web knowledge management. In O. Bartenstein, U. Geske, M. Hannebauer, and O. Yoshie, editors, Web Knowledge Management and Decision Support. Fourteenth International Conference on Applications of Prolog, INAP 2001 Revised Papers, chapter 4, pages 235-236. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 2543. Springer-Verlag, 2003.

  • C. Ruiz and J. Minker. Computing stable and partial stable models of extended disjunctive logic programs. In J. Dix, L.M. Pereira, and T.C. Przymusinski, editors, Nonmonotonic Extensions of Logic Programming, pages 205-229. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 927. Springer-Verlag, 1995.


RESEARCH ARTICLES IN JOURNALS


RESEARCH ARTICLES IN CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS

  • A. Bodnari**, T. Matsumura**, C. Ruiz, M.M. Murphy, J.P. Simons, G.F. Whalen, and J.F. Tseng. "Computationally Enhanced Medical Decision Support for Pancreatic Cancer". In Proceedings of the 2009 American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) Spring Congress". Poster paper. Orlando, FL. May 2009.

  • J. Hayward*, S.A. Alvarez, C. Ruiz, M. Sullivan, J. Tseng, and G. Whalen. "Knowledge Discovery in Clinical Performance of Cancer Patients." In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (BIBM08), pp. 51-58. Philadelphia PA, USA. Nov. 2008.

  • Z.A. Pardos*, J. Beck, C. Ruiz, and N.T. Heffernan. "The Composition Effect: Conjunctive or Compensatory? An Analysis of Multi-Skill Math Questions in ITS". In Proceedings of the First International Conference on Educational Data Mining. Montreal, Canada. 2008. pp. 147-156.

  • Z.A. Pardos*, N.T. Heffernan, C. Ruiz, and J. Beck. "Effective Skill Assessment Using Expectation Maximization in a Multi Network Temporal Bayesian Network". The Young Researchers Track at the 20th International Conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems. Montreal, Canada. 2008. pp. 31-40.

  • D. Thakkar*, C. Ruiz, E.F. Ryder. "Hypothesis Driven Specialization of Gene Expression Association Rules". In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (BIBM2007). pp. 48-55. Fremont, CA. USA. Nov. 2007.

  • Z.A. Pardos*, M. Feng*, N.T. Heffernan, C. Linquist-Heffernan, C. Ruiz. "Analyzing Fine-Grained Skill Models Using Bayesian and Mixed Effects Methods". Educational Data Mining Workshop. Held in conjunction with the 13th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education (AIED 2007). Marina Del Rey, CA. USA. July 2007.

  • N. Lloyd*, N.T. Heffernan, C. Ruiz. "Predicting Student Engagement in Intelligent Tutoring Systems Using Teacher Expert Knowledge". Educational Data Mining Workshop. Held in conjunction with the 13th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education (AIED 2007). Marina Del Rey, CA. USA. July 2007.

  • S. Floyd*, S.A. Alvarez, C. Ruiz, J. Hayward*, M. Sullivan, J. Tseng, G. Whalen. "Improved Survival Prediction for Pancreatic Cancer using Machine Learning and Regression". The Society for Surgery of the Alimentary Tract (SSAT). SSAT Track of Digestive Disease Week. Washington DC, USA. May 2007.

  • J. Hayward*, S.A. Alvarez, C. Ruiz, J. Tseng, M. Sullivan, G. Whalen. "Survival of Patients with Pancreatic Cancer Predicted using Machine Learning Techniques". Society of Surgical Oncology's 60th Annual Cancer Symposium. Washington DC, USA. March 2007.

  • A. Varde*, E. Rundensteiner, C. Ruiz, D. Brown, M. Maniruzzaman and R. Sisson Jr. "Designing Semantics-Preserving Cluster Representatives for Scientific Input Conditions". In Proc. of ACM Fifteenth Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2006). Washington DC, USA. November 2006.

  • A. Varde*, E. Rundensteiner, C. Ruiz, M. Maniruzzaman and R. Sisson Jr. "Effectiveness of Domain-Specific Cluster Representatives for Graphical Plots". In 3rd International ACM SIGMOD Workshop on Information Quality in Information Systems (IQIS 2006). Chicago, US, June 2006.

  • A. Varde*, E. Rundensteiner, C. Ruiz, D. Brown, M. Maniruzzaman and R. Sisson Jr. "Integrating Clustering and Classification for Estimating Process Variables in Materials Science". In AAAI Member Abstracts and Posters Track at the Twenty-First National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-06), Boston, Massachusetts. July 16 - 20, 2006.

  • A. Varde*, E. Rundensteiner, C. Ruiz, M. Maniruzzaman and R. Sisson Jr. "Learning Semantics-Preserving Distance Metrics for Clustering Graphical Data". In Proc. of the Sixth International Workshop on Multimedia Data Mining (MDM/KDD2005). Held in conjunction with the Eleventh International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD2005). Chicago, IL. USA. August 2005.

  • K.A. Pray*, C. Ruiz. "Mining Expressive Temporal Associations From Complex Data". International Conference on Machine Learning and Data Mining MLDM'2005. Springer Verlag. Leipzig, Germany. July 9-11, 2005.

  • P. Laxminarayan*, C. Ruiz, S.A. Alvarez, M. Moonis. "Mining Associations over Human Sleep Time Series". 18th IEEE International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems. Dublin, Ireland, June 22-24, 2005.

  • A. Varde*, E. Rundensteiner, C. Ruiz, M. Maniruzzaman and R. Sisson Jr. "Data Mining over Graphical Results of Experiments with Domain Semantics." ACM SIGART's 2nd International Conference on Intelligent Computing and Information Systems ICICIS 2005. pp. 603-611, Cairo, Egypt, March 5-7, 2005.

  • M. EL Sayed*, E.A. Rundensteiner, and C. Ruiz . FS-Miner: Efficient and Incremental Mining of Frequent Sequence Patterns in Web logs. In 6th ACM International Workshop on Web Information and Data Management (WIDM'04). pp 128-135, Washington DC, USA, November 12-13, 2004.

  • J. Freyberger*, N. Heffernan, C. Ruiz. Using Association Rules to Guide a Search for Best Fitting Transfer Models of Student Learning. Workshop on Analyzing Student-Tutor Interaction Logs to Improve Educational Outcomes. Proc. of 7th Annual Intelligent Tutoring Systems Conference, Maceio, Brazil. 2004.

  • A. Icev*, C. Ruiz , and E. Ryder. Distance-Enhanced Association Rules for Gene Expression. In Proc. of the Third ACM SIGKDD Workshop on Data Mining in Bioinformatics (BIOKDD2003). Held in conjunction with the Ninth International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD2003). pp. 34-40. Washington DC, USA. August 2003.

  • S. Alvarez, T. Kawato**, and C. Ruiz. Mining over Loosely Coupled Data Sources using Neural Experts. In Proc. of the Fourth International Workshop on Multimedia Data Mining (MDM/KDD2003). Held in conjunction with the Ninth International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD2003). Washington DC, USA. August 2003.

  • C. Shoemaker* and C. Ruiz . Association rule mining algorithms for set-valued data. In Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Proc. of the Fourth International Conference on Intelligent Data Engineering and Automated Learning. Revised Papers. Vol. 2690. g, March 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science Vol. 2690. pp. 669-676. Springer-Verlag. June 2003.

  • F. Tan**, B. Murphy**, D. Phu**, I. Pushee**, C. Ruiz , J. Krushkal, and E. Ryder. Identifying promoter motifs and predicting gene expression patterns in C. elegans using data mining tools. In Proc. of the Thirteenth International C. elegans Conference, Los Angeles, CA, June 2001.

  • C. Ruiz . Deductive database integration and knowledge discovery. In Proc. Thirteenth International Conference on Applications of Prolog, Tokyo, Japan, Oct. 2000.

  • M. Sao Pedro*, C. Shoemaker*, M. Pungliya*, C. Ruiz , S.A. Alvarez, M. Ward, M. Stevens, E. Ryder, and J. Krushkal. Computational population-based techniques in identifying genetic variants associated with simulated complex disorder in a general population. In Proc. of the Twelfth Genetic Analysis Workshop (GAW12), pages 415-419. Southwest Foundation for Biomedical Research, Oct. 2000.

  • C. Shoemaker*, M. Sao Pedro*, S.A. Alvarez, and C. Ruiz . Prediction vs. description: Two data mining approaches to the analysis of genetic data. In Proc. of the Twelfth Genetic Analysis Workshop (GAW12), pages 449-453. Southwest Foundation for Biomedical Research, Oct. 2000.

  • W. Lin*, S.A. Alvarez, and C. Ruiz . Collaborative recommendation via adaptive association rule mining. In R. Kohavi, M. Spiliopoulou, and J. Srivastava, editors, Proc. Intl. Workshop on Web Mining for E-Commerce (WebKDD2000). In conjunction with the Sixth Conference on Knowledge Discovery in Databases (KDD'2000), pages 35-41, Aug. 2000.

  • D. Seipel, J. Minker, and C. Ruiz . A characterization of the partial stable models for disjunctive databases. In J. Maluszynski, editor, Proceedings of the Fourteenth International Logic Programming Symposium (ILPS'97), pages 245-259. MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass., Oct. 1997.

  • J. Aronis, C. Ruiz , and B. Buchanan. Knowledge and data integration for discovery. In Proceedings of the Workshop on Research and Development Opportunities in Federal Information Services, May 1997. Arlington, VA. ( http://www.isi.edu/nsf/).

  • J. Minker and C. Ruiz . Mixing a default rule with stable negation. In Proceedings of the Fourth International Symposium on Artificial Intelligence and Mathematics, pages 122-125, Jan. 1996.

  • J. Minker and C. Ruiz . On extended disjunctive logic programs. In J. Komorowski and Z.W. Ras, editors, Proceedings of the Seventh International Symposium on Methodologies for Intelligent Systems, ISMIS'93, pages 1-18. Lecture Notes in AI. Springer-Verlag, June 1993.


EDITOR OF CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS

  • U. Geske, C. Ruiz , and D. Seipel, editors. Proceedings of the Seventh International Workshop on Deductive Databases and Logic Programming DDLP'99, Tokyo, Japan, September 1999. GMD - German National Research Center for Information Technology. Included also in the Proceedings of the International Conference on Applications of Prolog (INAP99).

  • P. Fraternali, U. Geske, C. Ruiz , and D. Seipel, editors. Proceedings of the Sixth International Workshop on Deductive Databases and Logic Programming DDLP'98, Manchester, UK, June 1998. GMD - German National Research Center for Information Technology.

  • U. Geske, C. Ruiz , and D. Seipel, editors. Proceedings of the Fifth International Workshop on Deductive Databases and Logic Programming DDLP'97, Leuven, Belgium, July 1997. GMD - German National Research Center for Information Technology. ISBN 3-88457-317-9. July 1997.


THESES


TECHNICAL REPORTS

 

Teaching


TEACHING RECOGNITION

  • Received the highest teaching evaluations among all courses taught in the CS department:
    • during D term 2002.
    • during A term 1999.

  • Received the highest teaching evaluations among all courses taught by tenured/tenure-track faculty in the CS department:
    • during C term 2002.
    • during the Fall 1999 semester.


COURSES TAUGHT AT WPI


PRIOR TEACHING EXPERIENCE

  • Invited Lecturer.
    Dept. of Computer Science. Univ. of Pittsburgh. 1997

    • lectured in the graduate course on artificial intelligence.


    Dept. of Computer Science. Univ. of Maryland at College Park. 1995-1996

    • lectured in the graduate course on artificial intelligence.
    • lectured in the advanced undergraduate/graduate course on database design.

  • Graduate Teaching Assistant. 1990-1992
    Dept. of Mathematics. Univ. of Maryland at College Park.

    • taught an introductory course on probability,
    • conducted discussion sessions for freshman calculus,
    • graded a course on computational methods for scientists and engineers.

  • Instructor. 1989-1990
    Dept. of Computer Science. Univ. of Los Andes.

    • taught an introductory course on formal methods in computer science,
    • taught a data structures course.

  • Teaching apprentice. 1988-1989
    Dept. of Mathematics. Univ. of Los Andes.

    • taught a course on algebra and trigonometry for freshmen.
 

Professional Activities


WORKSHOP ORGANIZER


MEMBER OF PROGRAM COMMITTEES


REFEREE FOR JOURNALS, CONFERENCES, AND GRANT PROPOSALS

  • Referee for Journal Papers
    • Theory and Practice of Logic Programming Journal.
    • IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering.
    • IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics.
    • Artificial Intelligence Journal.
    • Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence.
    • Journal of Logic Programming.
    • Data & Knowledge Engineering Journal.
    • Journal of Intelligent Information Systems.
    • Logic Journal of the Interest Group in Pure and Applied Logics.

  • Referee for Book Chapters
    • Collection of papers selected from the Workshop on Logic-Based Artificial Intelligence. June 1999.

  • Referee for Conference Papers
    • First Ph.D. Workshop in CIKM (PIKM2007). In conjunction with the ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2007). Lisboa, Portugal. November 2007.
    • Seventeenth International Conference on Applications of Declarative Programming and Knowledge Management (INAdP2007). Wuerzburg, Germany. 2007.
    • Sixteenth International Conference on Applications of Declarative Programming and Knowledge Management (INAdP2005). Fukuoka, Japan. October, 2005.
    • Fifteenth International Conference on Applications of Declarative Programming and Knowledge Management (INAdP2004). Berlin, Germany. March 2004.
    • First ACM Symposium on Applied Computing Special Track on Declarative Data Mining (SAC-DDM 2002). Madrid, Spain, March 2002.
    • Fourteenth International Conference on Applications of Prolog (INAP2001). Tokyo, Japan. October 2001.
    • Ninth International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM'2000). Washington DC. November 2000.
    • Thirteenth International Conference on Applications of Prolog (INAP2000). Tokyo, Japan. September 2000.
    • Non-monotonic Extensions of Logic Programming (NMELP'96) at JICSLP. Bonn, Germany. 1996.
    • International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI'95). Montr\'eal, Canada. 1995.
    • Third International Conference on Logic Programming and Nonmonotonic Reasoning (LPNMR'95). Lexington, KY. USA. 1995.
    • International Conference on Tools with AI (ICTAI'95). 1995.
    • Fourth International Conference on Logic Programming and Automated Reasoning (LPAR'94). 1994.
    • Third International Conference on Logic Programming and Automated Reasoning (LPAR'93). 1993.
    • Joint International Conference and Symposium on Logic Programming (JICSLP'92). Washington, DC. USA. 1992.

  • Reviewer for Grant Proposals
    • National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Computer & Information Science & Engineering (CISE). Division of Information and Intelligent Systems (IIS). Fall 2007.
    • National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Computer & Information Science & Engineering (CISE). Division of Information and Intelligent Systems (IIS). Spring 2007.
    • National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director's Roadmap Initiative. 2005.
    • National Science Foundation (NSF) Program in Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science. Spring 2004.


PARTICIPANT IN PROFESSIONAL MEETINGS

  • The IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine. Silicon Valley, CA, USA. November 2007.
  • Fourth Virtual Conference on Genomics & Bioinformatics. September 2004.
  • Tenth ACM International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD2004). Seattle WA, USA. August 2004.
    Participant in the following Workshops at KDD2004:
    • Fourth Intl. Workshop on Data Mining in Bioinformatics (BIOKDD04).
    • Fifth Intl. Workshop on Multimedia Data Mining (MDM/KDD2004).
    • Third Intl. Workshop on Mining Temporal and Sequential Data.
    • Sixth Intl. Workshop on Web Mining and Web Analysis (WEBKDD 2004).
  • Third Virtual Conference on Genomics & Bioinformatics. September 2003.
  • Ninth ACM International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD2003). Washington DC, USA. August 2003.
    Participant in the following Workshops at KDD2003:
    • Third Intl. Workshop on Data Mining in Bioinformatics (BIOKDD03).
    • Fourth Intl. Workshop on Multimedia Data Mining (MDM/KDD2003).
  • Eighth ACM International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD2002). Edmonton, Canada. July 2002.
    Participant in the following Workshops at KDD2002:
    • Second Intl. Workshop on data Mining in Bioinformatics (BIOKDD02).
    • Second Intl. Workshop on Temporal Data Mining.
  • Sixth International Conference on Knowledge Discovery in Databases (KDD2000). Boston, MA. USA. August 2000.
    Participant in the following Workshops at KDD2000:
    • Web Mining for E-Commerce.
  • Seventeenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI'2000). Austin, TX. USA. July 2000.
  • Workshop on Soft Computing. Marianska u Jachymova, Czech Republic. November 1999.
  • Fifth International Conference on Knowledge Discovery in Databases (KDD99). San Diego, CA. USA. August 1999.
  • Fifteenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI'98). Madison, WI. USA. July 1998.
  • Fifteenth International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML'98). Madison, WI. USA. July 1998.
  • Sixth International Workshop on Deductive Databases and Logic Programming (DDLP'98). Manchester, UK. June 1998.
  • Fourteenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI'97). Providence, Rhode Island USA. July 1997.
  • Fifth International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law (ICAIL-95) College Park, MD. USA. 1995.
  • International Logic Programming Symposium (ILPS'94). Ithaca, NY. USA. 1994.
  • Joint International Conference and Symposium on Logic Programming (JICSLP'92). Washington, DC. USA. 1992.


MEMBER OF PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES

  • The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).
  • The ACM Special Interest Group on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining(SIGKDD).
  • The American Telemedicine Association (ATA).


PATENTS

  • "Focus: A Data Model and User Interface for Database Applications".
    Inventors: Keith A. Pray (CS and Bioengineering Institute), Prof. Carolina Ruiz (CS), and Prof. William R. Michalson (ECE).
    Provisional patent application submitted to the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), Washington DC. November 2003.
 


SERVICE AT WPI

  • Campus-wide Service

    • Co-founder and co-director (with Prof. Matthew Ward) of the
      WPI Center for Research in Exploratory Data and Information Analysis (CREDIA).

    • President's representative to the Humanities and Arts Department Head Search Committee. 2006-2007.

    • Member of the WPI Committee on Academic Policy (CAP). 2008-2011.

    • Participant in WPI's Mentoring Program For New Faculty. Served as mentor of a junior faculty member during 2006-2007.

    • Judge for Graduate Research Achievement Day (GRAD) 2007 and 2008.

    • President's representative to the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department Head Search Committee. 2002-2003.

    • Faculty representative to the WPI Community Council. 2003-2004.

    • Member of the Bioinformatics Faculty Search Committee. 2002-2003.

    • Member of the WPI Committee on Academic Operations (CAO). 1998-2001.

    • Member of the ad hoc Committee on Maternity Benefits. 1999-2000.

    • Organized and hosted several Campus-wide Colloquia during the 1998-2000 academic years.

  • Departmental Service

 


HONORS AND AWARDS

  • Advisor, Provost's MQP Award for Computer Science, 2006.
    Improved Two-Dimensional Warping
    Co-advised with Prof. Sergio A. Alvarez (Boston College).
    Student: Piotr Mardziel.

  • Advisor of the Graduate Research work that won First Prize in the Science Category at WPI's Graduate Research Achievement Day (GRAD) 2006. "Mining Oncology Data: Knowledge Discovery in Clinical Performance of Cancer Patients". Student: John Hayward.

  • Research Grant from the University of Massachusetts Medical School. $29,474. "Oncological Data Analysis". Sept 2005 - May 2006.

  • 2005 WPI Undergraduate Summer Research Fellowship. $3,000. Undergraduate Student: Jonathan Rudolph. Faculty Advisors: Prof. Carolina Ruiz (CS) and Prof. Elizabeth Ryder (BB).

  • Elected faculty member of Upsilon Pi Epsilon, The International Honor Society in the Computing and Information Disciplines. Inducted in May 2004.

  • Research Grant from the WPI Research Development Council. July 2002 - June 2003. $13,770. A Data Mining Approach to the Analysis of Sleep Data.

  • Research Grant from the Norfolk County Sheriff Office (NCSO). Feb. to July, 2002. $14,866. Norfolk County Sheriff Office Database Development. Co-investigator: William R. Michalson.

  • Research Grant from the WPI Research Development Council. January 2000. $19,000. Computational Algorithms for Analysis of Genomic Data. Co-investigators: Sergio Alvarez, Julia Krushkal, C. Ruiz, Elizabeth Ryder, and Mark Stevens.

  • Advisor, Provost's MQP Award for Computer Science, 2001.
    Transform-Based Similarity Methods for Sequence Mining
    Co-advised with Prof. Sergio A. Alvarez.
    Student: Tara Halwes.

  • Advisor, Provost's MQP Award for Computer Science, 1999.
    TinFOIl: A System for Learning Rules from Examples
    Co-advised with Prof. Sergio A. Alvarez.
    Student: Matthew Berube.

  • Advisor, Provost's MQP Award for Computer Science Honorable Mention, 2001.
    Motif- and Expression-Based Classification of DNA
    Co-advised with Prof. Elizabeth Ryder and Prof. Julia Krushkal.
    Students: Brian Murphy, David Phu, Ian Pushee, and Fred Tan.

  • Teaching Recognition

    • Received the highest teaching evaluations among all courses taught in the CS department:
      • during D term 2002.
      • during A term 1999.

    • Received the highest teaching evaluations among all courses taught by tenured/tenure-track faculty in the CS department:
      • during C term 2002.
      • during the Fall 1999 semester.

  • Travel Grant from the CRA Conference Experiences for Women Program. $1000 to be used to cover travel expenses for a female graduate student (Janet Burge) for the Fifteenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Madison, WI. July 26-30, 1998.

     

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