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Faculty Research Areas Labs/Centers Meetings

Faculty Research Areas Labs/Centers Meetings. Areas. Artificial Intelligence Bio-Informatics Databases Graphics, Image Processing and Multimedia Networks Pervasive Computing Software Engineering Systems and Architecture Security. Manfred Huber Farhad Kamangar.

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Faculty Research Areas Labs/Centers Meetings

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  1. Faculty Research AreasLabs/CentersMeetings Fall 2007

  2. Areas • Artificial Intelligence • Bio-Informatics • Databases • Graphics, Image Processing and Multimedia • Networks • Pervasive Computing • Software Engineering • Systems and Architecture • Security Fall 2007

  3. Manfred Huber Farhad Kamangar Artificial Intelligence Fall 2007

  4. Manfred Huber Research Projects • Personal Service Robots • Hierarchical Skill Acquisition • CONNECT - Information Technologies for the Disabled Contact: huber@cse.uta.edu (GACB114) Fall 2007

  5. Farhad Kamangar Research Projects • Computer Vision • Neural Networks • Robotics • CONNECT - Information Technologies for the Disabled Contact: kamangar@cse.uta.edu (GACB 112) Fall 2007

  6. Dr. Nikola Stojanovic 301 Nedderman Hall Phone:(817) 272-7627 E-mail:nick@cse.uta.edu URL:http://ranger.uta.edu/~nick Bio-Informatics Dr. Jean Gao 338 Nedderman Hall Phone:(817) 272-3628 E-mail:gao@cse.uta.edu URL:http://crystal.uta.edu/~gao Fall 2007

  7. Biology in One Slide Human 3 billion bases Genome: 25,000 - 30,000 genes ~5% in functional regions ~200,000 exons ~50% repeat content Fall 2007 Modified from Serafim Batzoglou, 2003, reproduced with permission

  8. The Role of Computation in Modern Biology Essential • DNA sequencing and assembly • Microarray analysis (Dr. Gao) • Protein 3D reconstruction Complementary • Gene finding, genome annotation • Protein Identification, Mass Spectrometry (Dr. Gao) • Phylogeny, comparative genomics (Dr. Stojanovic) • Discovery of regulatory sites and pathways (Dr. Stojanovic) • Applications • DNA sequencing and assembly • Sequence analysis (comparison, annotation) • Microarray analysis • Evolutionary analysis • Promoter hunting • Pathway detection • And many more… • Tools • String algorithms • Alignment algorithms • Hidden Markov models • Statistical algorithms • And many more… Fall 2007

  9. Sharma Chakravarthy Ramez Elmasri Leonidas Fegaras Gautham Das Databases Fall 2007

  10. Information Technology Laboratory (NH 232)Prof. Sharma ChakravarthyEmail: sharma@cse.uta.edu, URL: http://itlab.uta.edu/sharma Funding Sources: NSF, Spawar, Rome Lab, ONR, DARPA, TI, MCC Select Publications • Q. Jiang, R. Adaikkalavan, and S Chakravarthy, NFMi: An Inter-Domain Network Fault Management System, ICDE, 2005 • Q. Jiang, and S. Chakravarthy, Scheduling Strategies for Processing Continuous Queries Over streams, BNCOD July 2004. • S. Chakravarthy, R. Beera, and R. Balachandran, DB-Subdue: Database Approach to Graph Mining. in PAKDD, 2004. • S. Chakravarthy, A. Sanka, J. Jacob, N. Pandrangi, A Learning-Based Approach for Fetching Pages in WebVigiL, SAC, 2004. • P. Mishra, S. Chakravarthy: Performance Evaluation and Analysis of K-Way Join Variants for Association Rule Mining. BNCOD 2003 • P. Mishra, S. Chakravarthy: Performance Evaluation of SQL-OR Variants for Association Rule Mining. DaWaK 2003 • N. Pandrangi, J. Jacob, A. Sanka, S. Chakravarthy: WebVigiL:User Profile-Based Change Detection for HTML/XML Documents. BNCOD 2003: 38-57 • R. Adaikkalavan, S. Chakravarthy: SnoopIB: Interval-Based Event Specification and Detection for Active Databases. ADBIS 2003 • Q. Jiang, S. Chakravarthy: Queueing Analysis of Relational Operators for Continuous Data Streams. CIKM 2003: • H. Engstrom, S. Chakravarthy and B. Lings, A Systematic Approach to Selecting Maintenance Policies in a Data Warehouse Environment, EDBT, March 2002 …. Select Projects • Active Technology(Push Paradigm using ECA Rules) • WebVigiL:General Purpose Change Monitoring for the web http://berlin.uta.edu:8081/webvigil • Mining:Graph, Text, Association Rules • Stream Processing • Information Filtering & classification • Prediction of Event Patterns/Sequences • Information Security • Data warehousing People Mr. Qingchun Jiang Mr. Raman Adaikkalavan Mr. Dhawal Bhatia Mr. Akshay Arora Mr. Srihari Padmanaban Mr. Vihang Garg Mr. Sunith Shrestha Ms. Gunpreet Jaggi Mr. Nikhil Deshpande Mr. Balakumar Kendai Group Meeting: 1 to 2:30 Pm Friday in 315 NH Fall 2007

  11. Ramez Elmasri Professor • Databases • Distributed XML Querying and Caching • Object-Oriented Databases • Keyword-based XML Query Processing • Sensor Networks • Energy-Efficient Querying of Sensor Networks • Combining RFID and Sensor Networks • Indexing of Sensor Networks Data • Bioinformatics • Modelling Complex Bioinformatics and Biomedical Data • Mediators for Accessing Heterogeneous Data Sources Fall 2007

  12. Leonidas Fegaras Associate Professor (PhD: UMass 1993) Areas of interest: • Databases • Web Databases and XML • Object-Oriented Databases • Query Processing and Optimization • Data Management on Peer-to-Peer Systems • Programming Languages • Functional Programming • Program Optimization Fall 2007

  13. Research Review Gautam Das • Database Exploration • Web/Information Retrieval searching techniques in databases • OLAP, Data Warehouse, Approximate Query Processing • Data Mining • Clustering, Classification, Similarity models, Time-Series Analysis • Algorithms • Graph Algorithms, Computational Geometry • More information available at • http://ranger.uta.edu/~gdas/website/research.htm Fall 2007

  14. Ishfaq Ahmad Multimedia Authoring, Compression, Communication Video Processing, Next Generation TV Network Security Parallel Algorithms Dr. Gutemberg Guerra-Filho Computer Vision, Graphics, and Robotics Graphics Image Proc., Multimedia Fall 2007

  15. Prof. Ishfaq Ahmad • Dr. Ahmad works closely with federal agencies, Arlington police and multimedia industry. • Several projects in power-aware video compression, multimedia systems, next generation TV are being pursued in his lab. Fall 2007

  16. Ishfaq Ahmad Resources Management in Parallel and Distributed Systems Power Management in Data Center and Distributed Systems High-Performance Fall 2007

  17. Institute for Research in Security (IRIS) http://www.iris.uta.edu/ Ishfaq Ahmad A Multi-disciplinary center focusing on infrastructure, people, and environmental security Fall 2007

  18. Sajal Das Mohan Kumar Gergley Zaruba Hao Che Yonghe Liu Kalyan Basu Networks Fall 2007

  19. Sajal K. Das Center for Research in Wireless Mobility and Networking (CReWMaN) Sajal K. Das, Kalyan Basu, Mohan Kumar Yonghe Liu, Hao Che das@cse.uta.edu URL: http://crewman.uta.edu Woolf Hall 411,413, Tel: 2-7409 [Networking, Mobile Computing and Parallel Computing Research Group] Fall 2007

  20. Mohan KumarPervasive and Mobile Computing Sensor Systems • Pervasive Computing • Middleware • Service creation, composition and deployment • Prototype development • Sensor networks and smart environments • Information Fusion in pervasive/sensor environments • Uniform Information Access in • Distributed, mobile and pervasive systems • Caching, prefetching, and broadcasting • Data management • Peer-to-Peer (P2P) Systems • Information and service sharing • Efficient communication and collaboration • Security and privacy • Active and Overlay Networking • Novel protocols • Role in mobile, pervasive and P2P computing Recommended courses before starting thesis work: CSE5311, CSE5346,CSE5306 and CSE5347/5355 Directed Study Fall 2007

  21. Student Skills/Requirements • Must be motivated • Have strong CS and E background – algorithms, networking and systems • Have excellent Math and Programming Skills • Must be creative and willing to take on a challenge What should new students do? Contact Kumar and/or students Brent Lagasse, Sagar Tamhane or Bridget Beamon in the PICOLab Teaching CSE 5311 Design and Analysis of Algorithms Spring/Fall Semesters CSE 6345 Mobile/Pervasive Computing Spring or Fall Semester Mohan Kumar PICO Research Lab and CReWMaN Department of Computer Science and Engineering http://ranger.uta.edu/~kumar http://pico.uta.edu/ Room: 333NH; Office Hours: Tuesday 1:30-3:00 PM and Wednesday 2:30 Pm – 4:00 PM or by appointment Email: kumar at cse.uta.edu Fall 2007

  22. Gergely Zaruba Research Projects • Personal Area Networks • Heterogeneous Wireless Networks • Architecture, Admission Control and Handoff • Optical Networks • Optical Burst Switching, Routing, QoS Provisioning • Traffic Modelling Contact: kamangar@cse.uta.edu (GACB 112) Fall 2007

  23. Hao Che • Embedded hardware/software design for NG network processors • Traffic engineering • Implementation issues and software development • MPLS path protection and fast rerouting • Routing redundancy • Traffic modeling for wireless networks Contact: http://crystal.uta.edu/~hche/ Fall 2007

  24. Yonghe Liu • Sensor network and security • Prototyping and experimental study • Theoretic design and analysis • Cross layer optimization • Channel dependent performance • Software security • Design and analysis In need of • Strong mathematic skill (probability/signal processing/number theory/etc), or • Strong programming skill (hardware/software) Contact: http://ranger.uta.edu/~yonghe/ Fall 2007

  25. Software Engineering David Kung Yu Lei Arthur Reyes David Levine Fall 2007

  26. David Kung • Agent-Oriented Software Engineering • Testing Object-Oriented Software • Expert System for Design Patterns • Formal Methods for Quality Assurance • Fault Tolerance and Automatic Recovery Using Dynamic Class Diversity Contact: http://ranger.uta.edu/~kung/kung.html Fall 2007

  27. Yu Lei • Concurrent and real-time software systems • Race analysis, Deterministic Execution Environment, Reachability Testing, State Exploration-Based Verification • Automated software testing • Object-Oriented Testing, Component-Based Testing, Combinatorial Testing Contact: http://ranger.uta.edu/~ylei Fall 2007

  28. Software Engineering • Software has become pervasive in modern society • Directly contributes to quality of life • Malfunctions cost billions of dollars every year, and have severe consequences in a safe-critical environment • All about building bettersoftware in better ways, especially for large-scale development • Requirements, design, coding, testing, maintenance, configuration, documentation, deployment, and etc. Fall 2007

  29. SERC • Faculty: Drs. David Kung and Jeff Lei • Major Research Projects • Agent-oriented software engineering • Object-oriented software testing and maintenance (OOTWorks) • Automated analysis, testing, and verification of concurrent software systems (RichTest) • Combinatorial testing of software systems (FireEye) • Structural testing of security systems Fall 2007

  30. Arthur Alexander Reyes, Ph.D. • Autonomous Vehicles Laboratory • Faculty Advisor, along with MAE, IE faculty • AUVSI Student UAV Competition • 2004 team didn’t place • 2005 team won 1st Place Overall • 2006 team won 3rd Place Overall • Teaches • CSE 4310/5323 Software Eng. Processes • CSE 4321 Software Testing • CSE 4392 Game Development (new) • http://ranger.uta.edu/~reyes/ Fall 2007

  31. High Throughput Computational Science: Clusters and Grids:: David Levine David Levine, CSE@UTA Projects: (Computers applied to:) High Energy Physics, Bioinformatics, Medical Informatics, People with Disabilities, Streaming Processing, Other… Fall 2007

  32. Embedded Systems :: Roger Walker Embedded Systems for Transportation Applications: • Real-time Multi-core Systems for Embedded Applications • Stochastic Modeling From Sensor Measurements • Development of Special Measurement Systems for Transportation Related Applications Contact: http://ranger.uta.edu/~walker/ Fall 2007

  33. Information Security Donggang Liu Matt Wright Nan Zhang Fall 2007

  34. Wireless and System Security :: Donggang Liu • Security in wireless sensor networks • key management, security of services such as localization, routing, clustering etc. • Integrity of wireless embedded devices • Code integrity, tamper-resistant techniques • Software and system security • Security testing, detection of malicious code Contact: http://ranger.uta.edu/~dliu Fall 2007

  35. Network Security and Privacy:: Matthew Wright • Anonymous Communications • timing analysis, performance, new defenses • Stepping-Stone Detection • Interplay between attack and defense • Incentives in Security and Privacy • Trust in complex, ad-hoc environments Contact: http://ranger.uta.edu/~mwright Fall 2007

  36. Data Security and Privacy :: Nan Zhang • Security/Privacy in Databases and Data Mining • Privacy-Preserving Data Mining and OLAP • Secure Data Sharing Contact: http://ranger.uta.edu/~nzhang Fall 2007

  37. Data Security and Privacy :: Nan Zhang • Internet Security/Privacy • Worm Detection • Smart Adversaries Contact: http://ranger.uta.edu/~nzhang Fall 2007

  38. Computer Science and Engineering DepartmentThe University of Texas at Arlington Assist Laboratory F. Kamangar, M. Huber, D. Levine, G. Zaruba Fall 2007

  39. Information Technologies for Persons with Disabilities and Health Care • Assistance for Persons with Disabilities • Communication devices and technologies • Intelligent assistive devices • IT for improved care • Information Technologies for Healthcare and Aging • Automatic health monitoring • Intelligent environments • IT to improve uniform communication needs Fall 2007

  40. Connect - Intelligent Communication Technologies for Disability & Health Care • Intelligent communication services connect individuals with care providers and with important information • Seamlessly connected devices • Adaptive interfaces • Universal underlying software architecture • Intelligent information analysis and interpretation • Seamless, omnipresent access to information Fall 2007

  41. Assistive Technologies • Computer Technologies Can Enhance Assistive Devices • Ayuda – Intelligent wheelchair • Autonomous navigation capabilities • Environment sensing • Integration of computer control and user instructions • Force feedback technologies to enhance interaction capabilities for persons with physical disabilities Fall 2007

  42. Health Monitoring and Intelligent Environments for Aging in Place • Wirelessly Connected Sensors Provide Health Information and can Improve Quality of Life • Health sensors can monitor conditions and detect problems • Wireless communications permit continuous monitoring • Prediction and modeling technologies facilitate automatic analysis of the data • Communication technologies allow connectivity to physician • Sensors in the environment allow automation of important functions and assistance • Monitoring and assistance for Aging in Place Fall 2007

  43. Computer Science and Engineering DepartmentThe University of Texas at Arlington AI and Robotics Laboratory M. Huber, F. Kamangar Fall 2007

  44. Adaptation and Learning in Robots and Computer Systems • Personal Service Robots • Service robots have to interact with people • Programmability by unskilled users • Robustness in real world situations • Variable Autonomy • Robots have to be easy to program • Robots should understand any kind of user command • Cognitive Development • Computer systems have to learn how to act and reason in the world Fall 2007

  45. Robot Imitation – Programming by Demonstration • Learning to Sense • Imitating robots have to be able to interpret their observations • Learning to Relate Human Demonstrations to Robot Actions • Learning to extract the important aspects of human actions • Translating human actions into corresponding robot controls • Learning to Interpret Task Requirements • Robots have to be able to learn to ignore dangerous commands Fall 2007

  46. Hierarchical Skill Learning / Cognitive Development • Learning Behavioral Strategies • Adaptation to unknown conditions • Automatic extraction of subtasks • Hierarchical Learning • Learning with abstract actions • Learning using state abstractions • Facilitation of incrementally more complex behavior Fall 2007

  47. Robot Activities and Platforms • Robot Soccer (RoboCup) • Autonomous robotic soccer with robot dogs • Student team • Computer Game Trials • UCT – Urban Combat Testbed Fall 2007

  48. HERACLEIA Fall 2007

  49. Participating Faculty Professor Fillia Makedon Bioinformatics Mobile and Pervasive Computing Professor Heng Huang Bioinformatics Multimedia and Video Processing Fall 2007

  50. HERACLEIA Security Projects Open Collaboration System: How can we enable any entity to join a collaboration group in a P2P environment? • Entities can log on to system with any names they want. • Collaborative groups can be created by any entity and share files in a P2P fashion. • Our OC System supports operations on groups, roles and shared files. Certified Authority Project: • Short-lived certificates(SLC) are used to prevent unofficial information propagation which can take place due to various causes • We use forward secure signatures in SLCs and cut off the cost for the revocation. Fall 2007

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