CHRISTOPH F. EICK
(Ph.D., Karlsruhe)
Associate Professor and
Co-Director UH
Data Mining & Machine Learning Group.
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
Dr. Eick's
Research Group
Office Hours
Fall 2009:
TU 11:30a-12:30p TH 1-2p (Through Th., December 3, 2009)
Exceptions: Office hours on Tu., November 24 will be 3-4p!
Research
Areas of Expertise:
Knowledge
Discovery and Data Mining
Machine Learning
Evolutionary Computing
Making Sense of Data
Databases
Artificial Intelligence
Current Research Projects
2009 Students
I have the previlege of working with the following students
in 2009:
PhD: Oner-Ulvi Celepcikay, Chun Sheng Chen, Rachsuda
Jiamthapthaksin, Ruth Miller, Vadeerat Rinsurongkawong, and
Sujing Wang.
Master Thesis: Fatih Akdag
Special Problems: Fatih Akdag and Namrata Agarwal
Undergraduates: Rebecca Kern
Recent Publications
- Statistics for Submissions in 2008: Dr. Eick, his collaborators, and students submitted 17 papers (14
conference, 2 journal, 1 workshop paper). 9 of these papers were accepted,
7 of the submitted papers were rejected, and one paper is still under review.
- Accepted and Submitted Papers
in 2009: So far, 1 journal paper, 6 conference papers,
1 workshop paper, and 1 book chapter have been accepted;
moreover, 3 journal papers and 1 conference paper are currently under review.
- List of Dr. Eick's Recent Publications and Submissions
- External Collaborators: Wei Ding (University of
Massachussetts, Boston), Jean-Philippe Nicot (Bureau of Economic Geology,
University of Texas at Austin), Tomasz F. Stepenski (Lunar and Planetary
Institute, Houston), Michael Twa (UH, College of Optometry), Xiaojing Yuan (UH,
College of Technology), Justin Thomas (John Hopkins).
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.
Recent and Current Service
2005/2006 I served on the Faculty Search Committee and I will serve
in that committee 2007/2009.
I also served as the Director of Graduate Studies for the Computer Science
Department from September 2001 to November 2004.
I am serving on the
program committee for the
IEEE International
Conference on Data Mining (ICDM, to be held in Miami, Florida,
December 6-9, 2009.), for the International
Conference on Machine Learning
and Data Mining (MLDM, to be held in Leipzig, Germany, July 21-23, 2009),
and for the SIAM
Data Mining Conference (SDM, to be held in Sparks, Nevada,
April 30-May 2, 2009).
2009/2010 Travel
Berlin (PKDD06) Talk 9/22/2006
Regensburg (DaWaK) Talk 9/05/2007
Irvine (ACM-GIS) Talk 11/06/2008
UL Lafayette Talk 5/01/2009
Beijing (ADMA) Talk 8/17/2009
CV
Research Overview
Spatial Data Mining
Recent Publications and Submissions
Older Publications
last updated: November 11, 2009
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