last updated: September 9, 2024
CHRISTOPH F. EICK
(Ph.D., Karlsruhe)
Associate Professor, and
Director UH
Data Analysis and Intelligent Systems Lab (UH-DAIS)
Department of Computer Science
University of Houston, Houston, TX
77204-3010.
Office: 573 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
Fall 2024: TU 4:10-5p TH 8:50-10a (August 22-November 26;
using MS Teams (or send
an e-mail to ceick@uh.edu and I call you back; Tuesday's you can also visit me in my office ))
Exceptions: none
Research
Areas of Expertise:
Knowledge
Discovery and Data Mining
Evolutionary Computing
Data Science
Geographical Information
Systems (GIS)
Artificial Intelligence
Recent and Planned Research Projects:
Spatial and Spatio-temporal Data Analysis Frameworks
St**2—Tools for Data Storytelling
Collocation Mining
Supervised and Traditional Clustering Algorithms
Knowledge Extraction from Social Media Posts and Happiness Analysis
Threshold-based Association Analysis for Continuous Variable
Disaster Computing
Computational Frameworks to Fight Modern Slavery
Students
I have or had the privilege of conducting research with the following students
in the last 18 months:
PhD Students: Steve Aigbe, Karima Elgarroussi, Md. Mahin, Raunak Sarbajna, and Janet Anagli.
Master Students: Aparna Budhavarapu, Anjana Kummari, Anusha Nemilidinne, Hoang Vo, Parth Sanghani and Akhil Talari.
Undergraduate Students: Max Broekhuis, Max Deniz Burduroglu, Lingwei Kong, Ashish Nare, Dwija Parikh and
Tuyen Cao.
Visiting/Exchange Students: Riya Brahmbhatt, Haard Metha and Oumaima Mouali.
Contributing Alumni: Sujing Wang and Paul Amalaman.
Teaching
Websites for Courses I teach:
Graduate Articial Intelligence (COSC 6368)
Undergraduate Articial Intelligence (COSC 4368; updated on January 15, 2024)
Data Science I (COSC 3337)
Undergraduate Data Mining (COSC 4335)
Graduate Data Mining (COSC 6335)
Graduate Machine Learning (COSC 6342)
Advanced Machine Learning (COSC 7362)
Evolutionary Programming (COSC 6367)
Recent and Current Service
2011-2013, I served as the Associate Chairman for the Department of Computer
Science. I served on the Faculty Search Committee 2005-2006 and 2007-2010 and 2014-16.
I also served as the Director of Graduate Studies for the Computer Science
Department from September 2001 to November 2004.
In recent years I served on the
program committee for the
IEEE International
Conference on Data Mining 2006-2013 and 2016-2023 (ICDM), for the International
Symposium on Methodologies for Intelligent
Systems (ISMIS), the Transdisciplinary
AI Conference
and AAAI 2019 (took place in
Honolulu, Hawaii end of January 2019).
2024 Travel
UH-DAIS Research