Brief Bios of SIS Faculty Candidates

• Joseph Kabara, Thursday, February 27th, 2003
  Research Interest: Design of wireless communication networks to capacity requirements; Information assurance in wireless networks; Embedding neural networks in communication networks;educational libraries for handheld wireless devices; sensor/actuator networks.
  
  
• Madhusudhan Govindaraju, Wednesday, March 12th, 2003
  Madhusudhan Govindaraju is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Extreme! Computing Lab at Indiana University. His interests are in the areas of Grid computing, Distributed Object Systems, High Performance RMI, Web Services, Component Based Technologies and Problem Solving Environments. He has been actively involved in the design and implementation of a system named XCAT, that is based on the Common Component Architecture (CCA) specification. He completed his M.S. in Computer Science from Indiana University in 1996. In 2002 he received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Indiana University. The title of his Ph.D. thesis was: "An open framework code generation toolkit for distributed systems based on XML schemas."
  
  
• Jiang Li , Thursday, March 13th, 2003
  My research focuses on computer networks, encompassing flow and congestion control, multicast, peer-to-peer networking, and overlay-based services. I am also interested in network security, and beginning to explore wireless networking. I prefer teaching courses which introduce the latest computer networking technology and practice. A tentative list includes Computer Networks, Network Programming, Network Simulation and Experimentation, and Web Programming. Besides, I am capable of teaching various courses of computer systems, architecture and languages.
  
  
• Filippo Menczer, Friday, March 14th, 2003
  Dr. Menczer developed the MySpiders system, which allows users to launch personal adaptive agents who search the Web on their behalf. He also wrote the LEE artificial life simulation tool, distributed with Linux and used in experimental and instructional settings. Dr. Menczer and his Adaptive Agents Research Group (AARG!) pursue interdisciplinary research interests in Web, text, and data mining, Web intelligence, distributed information systems, adaptive agents, e commerce, evolutionary computation, machine learning, neural networks, complex systems, artificial life, and agent based computational economics.
  
  
• Miles Efron, Monday, March 17th, 2003
  Miles Efron is a doctoral candidate in the School of Information and Library Science at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. His research focuses on information retrieval, machine learning, data mining, and digital libraries. His current work articulates mathematical similarities among the family of Generalized Vector Space models of IR in efforts to define an optimal model, in the statistical sense. In spring 2003 he will defend his thesis, "Eigenvalue-based Estimators for Optimal Dimensionality Reduction in Information Retrieval" (Advisor, Greg Newby). More information on Miles' research and experience is available at http://www.ibiblio.org/mefron
  
  
• James B. D. Joshi, Friday, March 21st, 2003
  Mr. Joshi is a PhD Candidate in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN. His areas of interest include Information Systems Security, Database Systems and Distributed Multimedia Systems.
  
  
• Amanda Spink, Monday, March 24th, 2003
  Amanda Spink is Associate Professor at School of Information Sciences and Technology at The Pennsylvania State University. Her extensive research includes theoretical and applied studies of cognitive information retrieval, Web retrieval, digital libraries, relevance, feedback, and information seeking and human information behavior theories and models. Her recent studies have identified trends in Web searching, and modeled human information related behaviors, including successive searching and multitasking.
  
  
• Jaudelice Cavalcante de Oliveira, Tuesday, March 25th, 2003
  Research Interest: Next Generation Internet (IP QoS), Networking, Computer Communications, Wireless Networks.
  
  
• William Cohen, Wednesday, March 26th, 2003
  I'm mainly interested in learning and statistical techniques applied to information extraction; information retrieval; and information integration problems, especially matching entity names.
  
  
• Jeffrey Pomerantz, Friday, March 28th, 2003
  Jeffrey Pomerantz is a Ph.D. candidate at the School of Information Studies at Syracuse University. His dissertation develops specifications according to which an automated question triage system can be built, by bridging the gap between current work in digital reference and question answering systems. He has taught courses in networking, information architecture, and social informatics.
  
  
• Peter Wu, Monday, March 31st, 2003
  Research Interest: Object-oriented methods in programming, modeling, analysis and design; applications in interactive systems; production planning; workflow automation; information systems.