last updated: October 24, 2025
Paintings below: 1. Pablo Picasso: Femme au beret et a la robe quadrillee, 1937;
2. Max Ernst: Le chant de la grenouilles, 1957; 3. Anselm Kiefer: Rorate Caeli Desuper, 2016; 4. Wols: Oiseau, 1949;
5. Wassily Kandinsky: Rot-Gelb-Blau, 1925; 6. Roberto Matta: Angoisse, 1942.
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 2025: TU 8:45-10a TH 4-4:45p (August 26-December 4 on MS Teams and F2F in
573 PGH on Thursday)
Exceptions: no Officehour Nov. 2 and Nov. 4!
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
Collocation Mining
Supervised and Density-based Clustering Algorithms
Threshold-based Association Analysis for Continuous Variable
Disaster Computing
Frameworks for Landscape Generation
Students
I have or had the privilege of conducting research with the following students
in the last 3 years:
PhD Students: Steve Aigbe, Karima Elgarroussi, Md. Mahin, Raunak Sarbajna, and Janet Anagli.
Master Students Aparna Budhavarapu, Jennifer A. Csicsery-Ronay, Anjana Kummari, Anusha Nemilidinne,
Parth Sanghani, Akhil Talari and Hoang Vo.
Undergraduate Students:Mohamed Amr Abdelgalil Max Broekhuis, Max Deniz Burduroglu, Tuyen Cao,
Lingwei Kong, Ashish Nare, Adam Nelson-Archer and Aleia Sen.
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)
2024/2025 Travel
2024/2025 UH-DAIS Research
"Supervised Clustering" Talk at HPE Data Science Institute, Houston, March 2022
"Threshold Correlation" Talk at ACM SIGSPATIAL GeoAI, Hamburg, November 2023
"Continuous Variable Co-Location Mining" Talk at IEEE ICDM SSTDM, Abu Dhabi, December 2024
Md Mahin's "Continuous Spatial Variable Threshold Association Mining" Talk at IEEE BigData, Washington D.C., December 2024