Special Issue Guest Edited by Prof. Obradovic
A special double issue of Statistical Analysis and Data Mining journal guest edited by Prof. Obradovic and Prof. H. Liu from Arizona State University is published in Dec. 2008 (vol. 2, no. 3-4). This issue contains extended papers of the best studies selected from submissions to the Ninth SIAM International Conference on Data Mining (SDM’09).
Dr. Obradovic gives a keynote lecture at BIBM 2008
On Nov. 04 Dr. Zoran Obradovic, Director of Center for Information Science and Technology, gave a keynote lecture at the IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine. This multidisciplinary conference brought together computational scientists from several disciplines and from several continents who exchanged research results in databases, algorithms, interfaces, visualization, modeling, simulation and ontology as applied […]
IST Center Welcomes Dr. Haibin Ling
Haibin Ling whose research interests are in Computer Vision, Medical Imaging, Human Computer Interaction, Machine Learning has joined the CIS Department. Professor Ling received the B.S. degree in mathematics and the MS degree in computer science from Peking University, China, in 1997 and 2000, respectively, and the PhD degree from the University of Maryland, College Park, in […]
Dr. Latecki has been awarded a new four year NSF grant
Dr. Latecki has been awarded a new four year grant from National Science Foundation. His project is aimed at Simultaneous Contour Grouping and Medial Axis Estimation. Project website: http://knight.cis.temple.edu/~shape/partshape/contour
SIAM SDM 09
Dr. Zoran Obradovic is serving as a Program Chair for 2009 SIAM International Conference on Data Mining (SDM 09) which is one of the premier peer-reviewed forums for sharing research results related to knowledge extraction from large, complex and noisy datasets. Jointly with his program co-chair Prof. Huan Liu from Arizona State University, Prof. Obradovic […]
Recruiting: Tenure-Track Assistant Professor
The Computer and Information Sciences (CIS) Department and the Center for Information Science and Technology (IST) at Temple University are recruiting for a tenure-track position at the Assistant Professor level. The position is contingent upon completion of a Ph.D. in computer science or a related field by August 15, 2008. Applicants are expected to have significant research accomplishments […]
IST Center Welcomes Dr. Alexander Yates
Dr. Alexander P. Yates has joined the CIS Department and the IST Center as Assistant Professor. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Washington while working in the laboratory of Dr. Oren Etzioni. Dr. Yates’research interests include computational linguistics and artificial intelligence, specifically information extraction from the Web, entity resolution, natural language interfaces, parsing, machine […]
The ISTZORAN Group wins the Protein Disorder Prediction category at regions at the seventh Critical Assessments of Structure Prediction experiments meeting (CASP 7), Nov. 26-30, 2006.
The VSL2 predictor of intrinsically disordered protein regions developed by the ISTZORAN group has been rated as the best model at the 7th Critical Assessments of Structure Prediction experiments meeting (CASP 7). An older version of this model was the best model at CASP6. You can try the VSL2 predictor or download the VSL2 predictor package and set it up on […]
Dr. Slobodan Vucetic received CAREER award from NSF. CAREER: Memory-Constrained Predictive Data Mining
Dr. Slobodan Vucetic received CAREER award from National Science Foundation. CAREER: Memory-Constrained Predictive Data Mining
Information Science and Technology Center Report for Sept 2000 – Sept 2005 Period
September 2005 marked five years from inauguration of Information Science and Technology (IST) Center at Temple University. The main mission of the IST Center is advanced research and education aimed toward solving challenging problems in data mining, machine learning, multimedia databases, data compression, biomedical informatics, pattern recognition, computer vision, robot mapping, computational genomics, and artificial […]