Dr. Eick's First Students of the New Millennium

Years 2000-2003 Students and Topics:

• Methodologies, Techniques, and Environments for Database Clustering Tae Wan Ryu
• Using evolutionary programming and heuristic search to challenge popular encryption methods. Clifton Davis
• Tools and Techniques for Ontology Generation Kuo-Chieh Ting
• Brokering in Agent-based Systems Nidal Zeidat
• Distance Preserving Mappings for Scientific Data Visualization Using Hill Climbing and Evolutionary Computing Charoenchai Sutippantupat
• Comparing Distance Based Concept Learning Techniques with Neural Networks and Discriminant Analysis Waree Rinsurongkawong
• Designing a Database for Microarray Chip Production and Microarray Experiments Sin-Chieh Liu
• Tools and Methodologies for Disease Profiling and Sensitivity Analysis using Generalized Belief Networks Feng Chen & Chinfu Chou
• Using XML for Standardization, Information Exchange and Electronic Commerce --- A Comparitive Study Jun Lu
• Techiques, Concepts, and Tools for Genomic Data Exchange Jie Xu
• Concept Learning Techniques for Microarray Data Collections Xiaoyong Li
• Tools for the Automatic Generation of Trouble Shooting Wizards from Empirical Data Michael Olmsted Kelly
• Comparison between Different Reinforcement Learning Algorithms for a Robotics Application Yudong He
• A Tool for Similarity Assessment in Relational Databases Chun Yi Koo
• Identification of Craters and other Complex Objects in Astronomical Images Victor Negrete
• Learning Similarity Functions for Classification Tasks Alain Rouhana
• Supervised Clustering Algorithms for Summary Generation Zhenghong Zhao

If you are interested in starting a thesis in Spring 2004, please submit a detailed resume no later than December 12, 2003. I will make a decision which students to take no later than January 2, 2004. Only students that have at most 9 hours of their course work towards the Master Degree left will be considered!