Research Bytes 3
Professors Michael Ciaraldi, Gary Pollice, and Carolina Ruiz
Professors Computer Science Department, WPI
October 8, 2004
11 a.m. - 12 noon
Fuller Labs 320
Abstract
Professors Michael Ciaraldi, Gary Pollice, and Carolina Ruiz will be giving 15 minutes presentations of their research areas. Everyone is invited to learn more about each professor's research area and the problems he or she is currently pursuing. Below are brief descriptions:
- Professor Ciaraldi
- Professor Ciaraldi works mostly with undergraduates, advising projects both on-campus and at two project centers. The Wall Street Project Center deals with financial companies, addressing problems such as system analysis, data mining, communications, and simulation. The MIT Lincoln Project Center deals with spaceflight, wargaming, weather forecasting, distributed computing, and data management. His other areas of interest include software engineering, embedded systems, computer music, networking, and robotics.
- Professor Pollice
- Professor Pollice will talk about his interests and current work in the areas of software tools that support software engineering and domain specific language definition and generation.
- Professor Ruiz
- Intelligent Techniques for Knowledge Discovery in Databases and Data Mining - Knowledge discovery is the process of finding general patterns/principles that summarize/explain a set of "observations". Very large databases have become the standard, making it impossible for human beings to mine the data "by hand" looking for interesting patterns. Automated tools are therefore needed to help discovery these patterns. I'll describe my current research projects with students and colleagues. They include data mining for genetic analysis, exploratory analysis of sleep data, mining of sequential data, and web mining.
Host
Neil T. Heffernan
Refreshments will be served.
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