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 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: Max Broekhuis, Max Deniz Burduroglu, Lingwei Kong, Ashish Nare, Adam Nelson-Archer and Tuyen Cao.
Contributing Alumni: Sujing Wang and Paul Amalaman.

Teaching

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, 2014-16 and 2021-2023. 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).