CHRISTOPH F. EICK
(Ph.D., Karlsruhe)
Associate Professor,
Associate Chairman, and
Director UH
Data Mining & Machine Learning Group (UH-DMML)
Department of Computer Science
University of Houston, Houston, TX
77204-3010.
Office: 589 Philip G. Hoffman (PGH)
Phone: (713) 743-3345 (leave message)
Fax: (713) 743-3335
WWW: http://www.cs.uh.edu/~ceick/ceick.html
Email: ceick at uh dot edu
Office Hours
Spring 2012: TU 2-3:20p TH 1-1:40p (starting
January 12, 2012 until May 8, 2012)
Exceptions: No office hour on Th., May 3.
Research
Areas of Expertise:
Knowledge
Discovery and Data Mining
Machine Learning
Evolutionary Computing
Making Sense of Data
Geographical Information
Systems
Databases
Artificial Intelligence
Current Research Projects
Extracting Regional Knowledge
from Spatial Datasets
Methodologies for
Analyzing Related Datasets
Polygon Analysis of Spatial
Data
Clustering
Algorithms with Plug-in Fitness Functions and Other Non-Traditional Clustering
Approaches
Summarizing and Understanding Location and Motion Data
Students
I have the previlege of working with the following students
in the 2010/2011 academic year:
PhD: Zechun Cao, Chun Sheng Chen,
Ruth Miller, Anurag Nagar, Vadeerat Rinsurongkawong and
Sujing Wang.
Master Thesis: Fatih Akdag, Panitee Charoenrattanaruk,
Nivedita Rai, and Chong Wang.
Undergraduates: Nauful Shaikh
Publications/Collaborations
- Papers published
in 2009: 1 journal paper, 7 conference papers,
1 workshop paper, and 1 book chapter have been accepted.
- Papers published in 2010: 3 journal papers, 2 conference
papers, and 1 workshop paper have been accepted.
- List of Dr. Eick's Recent Publications and Submissions
- External Collaborators: Abraham Bagherjeiran (Yahoo!,
California), Oner Ulvi Celepcikay (Cosmos Foundation), Wei
Ding (University of Massachussetts, Boston), Germain Forestier (Universite
de Haute Alsace, Mulhouse, France), Rachsuda
Jiamthakthapsin (Assumption University, Thailand),
Jean-Philippe Nicot (Bureau of Economic Geology, University of Texas at Austin), Tomasz F. Stepenski (Lunar and Planetary
Institute, Houston), Justin Thomas (John Hopkins), Michael Twa (UH, College of
Optometry), Xiaojing Yuan (UH, College of Technology).
- Interested in
collaborating with UH-DMML?
Teaching
In Spring 2007, I teach
Advanced Artificial
Intelligence and
Evolutionary Programming.
In Fall 2007, I teach
Data Mining.
In Spring 2008, I teach
Artificial
Intelligence Programming and
Evolutionary Programming.
In Fall 2008, I teach
Data Mining.
In Spring 2009, I teach the
graduate artificial
intelligence course and
the graduate machine learning course.
In Fall 2009, I teach
Data Mining.
In Spring 2010, I teach
Evolutionary Programming.
In Fall 2010, I teach
Data Mining.
In Spring 2011, I teach
the graduate machine learning course.
In Fall 2011, I teach
Data Mining.
In Spring 2012 I teach
Evolutionary Programming.
Recent and Current Service
Currently, I am the Associate Chairman of the Deparment of Computer
Science. 2005/2006 and 2007/2010, I served on the Faculty Search Committee.
I also served as the Director of Graduate Studies for the Computer Science
Department from September 2001 to November 2004.
Since 2005, I am serving on the
program committee for the
IEEE International
Conference on Data Mining (ICDM, to be held in Vancouver, Canada,
December 11-14, 2011) and for the International
Conference on Machine Learning
and Data Mining (MLDM, to be held in Berlin, Germany, July 15-20, 2012).
2012 Travel
Irvine (ACM-GIS) Talk 11/06/2008
UL Lafayette Talk 5/01/2009
Beijing (ADMA) Talk 8/17/2009
Hyderabad (PAKDD) Talk 6/23/2010
Bangalore Talk 6/29/2010
Ghent (ParCo) Talk 8/31/2011
CV
2010 UH-DMML Research Overview
Spatial Data Mining
Recent Publications and Submissions
Older Publications
last updated: December 31, 2011
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