FLINT-CIBI 2003: Speakers

Dr. Michael R. Berthold
Director of Data Analysis, Tripos Inc.
President, NAFIPS
601 Gateway Blvd, Suite 720
South San Francisco, CA 94080, USA
email: berthold@tripos.com
www: http://www.icsi.berkeley.edu/~berthold/
phone: +1 (650) 553-8004, fax: +1 (650) 553-8005

Dr. Miguel Delgado
Department of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence,
University of Granada, 18071 Granada, Spain
email: mdelgado@ugr.es

Dr. Chris Ding
Staff Computer Scientist
NERSC Division, Building 50F, Rm 1608
Lawrence Berkeley National Lab
1 Cyclotron Rd, Berkeley, CA 94720
email: CHQDing@lbl.gov
www: http://www.nersc.gov/~cding
phone: 510-486-6901, fax: 510-486-5812

Prof. Voula C. Georgopoulos
Professor of Informatics
Dept. of Speech and Language Therapy
Technological Educational Institute of Patras
Patras, Greece
and
Health Sector Head
Technological Research Center of Patras
email: voulag@otenet.gr
phone: +306972790344

Prof. Adam Gaweda
Instructor of Medecine
Kidney Disease Program
Health Sciences Center, University of Louisville
615 South Preston
Louisville, Kentucky 40202
email: Adam.Gaweda@kdpnw.kdp-baptist.louisville.edu
www: http://ci.uofl.edu/adam/
phone: (502) 852-0766, fax: (502) 952-7643

Prof. William A. Gruver
Intelligent Robotics and Manufacturing Systems Laboratory
School of Engineering Science
Simon Fraser University
Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada V5A 1S6
email: gruver@cs.sfu.ca
www: http://www.ensc.sfu.ca/research/irms/personnel/gruver.html
phone: 604-291-4339, fax: 604-291-4951

Dr. Isabelle Guyon
ClopiNet
955 Creston road
Berkeley, CA 94708, USA
email: isabelle@clopinet.com
www: http://clopinet.com/isabelle/
http://clopinet.com/isabelle/Projects/NIPS2003/#challenge
phone: (510) 524-6211

Babak Hodjat
CTO
Dejima Inc. (www.dejima.com)
160 W Santa Clara St. #102
San Jose, CA 95113
email: Babak.Hodjat@dejima.com
phone: (408) 535 0850 x 4515, fax: (408) 535 0859

Prof. C. Anthony Hunt
Associate Professor
Department of Biopharmaceutical Sciences
School of Pharmacy
513 Parnassus Ave., S926
University of California
San Francisco, CA 941430446
email: hunt@itsa.ucsf.edu
www: http://bioeng.berkeley.edu/graduate/cvs/Hunt.html
phone: (415) 476-2455/476-2657, fax: (415) 514-2008

Prof. Mo Jamshidi
Regents Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
AT&T Professor of Manufacturing Engineering
Director, Autonomous Control Engineering (ACE) Center
The University of New Mexico
Albuquerque, NM 87131 USA
email: jamshidi@eece.unm.edu, moj@cybermesa.com
www: http://ace.unm.edu/

Dr. Robert I. John
Reader in Computer Science
Head of Division of Artificial Intelligence & Computer Modelling
De Montfort University
email: rij@dmu.ac.uk
www: http://www.cse.dmu.ac.uk/~rij
phone: (44) 116 2078491, fax: (44) 116 2541891

Prof. Nikola Kasabov
Director, Knowledge Engineering and Discovery Research Institute
Chair of Knowledge Engineering, School of Computer and Information Sciences
Auckland University of Technology (AUT), New Zealand
email: nkasabov@aut.ac.nz
www http://www.kedri.info
phone: +64 9 917 9506 ; fax: +64 9 917 9501

Prof. James Keller
Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department
Editor-in-Chief, IEEE TFS
217 Engineering Building West
University of Missouri-Columbia
Columbia, MO 65211-2060
email: KellerJ@missouri.edu
www: http://www.missouri.edu/~kellerj
phone: (573) 882-7339, fax: (573) 882-0397

Prof. Mohammad Khoshnevisan
Griffith University
Gold Coast Campus
Queensland, Australia
email: m.khoshnevisan@griffith.edu.au
www: http://www.gu.edu.au/text/school/acf/Staff/khoshnevisan.html
phone:(61)7-555-2876

Prof. Victor Korotkich
Associate Professor
Faculty of Informatics and Communication
Mackay Campus
Central Queensland University
Mackay QLD 4740, Australia
email: v.korotkich@cqu.edu.au
phone: + 61 7 4940 7455, fax: + 61 7 4940 7407

Dr. Galina Korotkich
Faculty of Informatics and Communication
Mackay Campus
Central Queensland University
Mackay QLD 4740, Australia
email: g.korotkich@cqu.edu.au\

Dr. Dilip B. Kotak
System Integration, Testing & Evaluation
National Research Council Canada Institute for Fuel Cell Innovation
3250 East Mall, Vancouver, B.C. V6T 1W5, Government of Canada.
email: Dilip.Kotak@nrc-cnrc.gc.ca
phone: 604-221-3045, fax: 604-221-3001
and Adjunct Professor
Intelligent Robotics and Manufacturing Systems Laboratory
School of Engineering Science, Simon Fraser University
Burnaby, BC V5A 1S6 Canada
www: http://www.ensc.sfu.ca/research/irms/personnel/kotak.html

Dr. John A. Meech
Professor of Mineral Processing and Director of CERM3,
(The UBC Centre for Environmental Research in Minerals, Metals, and Materials),
Department of Mining Engineering,
The University of British Columbia,
6350 Stores Road,
Vancouver, B.C., V6T 1Z4, CANADA
Email: cerm3dir@mining.ubc.ca or jameech@dccnet.com
www: http://www.mining.ubc.ca/faculty/meech/
Phone: (604) 822-3984 Fax: (604) 822-5599

Prof. Sunanda Mitra
Professor and Director of Computer Vision and Image Analysis Laboratory
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Mail Stop 3102
Texas Tech University
Lubbock, Texas 79409-3102
email: Sunanda.Mitra@coe.ttu.edu
www: http://www.coe.ttu.edu/ee/mitra.htm
phone: (806) 742-1381, fax : (806) 742-1245

Dr. Juan C. Meza
Department Head
High Performance Computing Research
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
One Cyclotron Road, MS: 50B-2239
Berkeley, CA 94720
email: JCMeza@lbl.gov
www: http://crd.lbl.gov/~meza
phone: 510 486-7684, fax: 510 495-2998

Prof. Lawrence J. Mazlack
Associate Professor
ECECS Department
University of Cincinnati
Cincinnati, Ohio
email: mazlack@uc.edu
www: http://www.ececs.uc.edu/~mazlack/

Dr. Charles Ortiz
Program Manager
Teambotics: Collaborative software and robotic environments
Artificial Intelligence Center
SRI International
333 Ravenswood Ave, Menlo Park, CA 94025
e-mail: ortiz@AI.SRI.COM
www: http://www.ai.sri.com/~ortiz/
phone: (650) 859-4461, fax: (650) 859-3735

Dr. Enrique H. Ruspini
Principal Scientist
SRI Institute Fellow
Artificial Intelligence Center
SRI International, 333 Ravenswood Avenue
Menlo Park, California 94025, USA
email: ruspini@ai.sri.com
www: http://www.ai.sri.com/~ruspini
phone: 650 859 2314, fax: 650 859 3735

Prof. Florentin Smarandache
Math Department, University of New Mexico,
200 College Road, Gallup, NM 87301, USA.
email: smarand@unm.edu
phone: (505) 863-7647, fax: (505) 863-7532

Prof. Amit Sheth
Large Scale Distr. Info. Sys. Lab
Department of Computer Science
University of Georgia
415 Graduate Studies Research Center
Athens GA 30602-7404
email: amit@cs.uga.edu
www: http://lsdis.cs.uga.edu/~amit
phone: (706) 542-2310, fax: (706) 542-2966

Dr. Marcus Thint
BT Exact
9749 Vineyard Court
Boca Raton, FL 33428, USA
email: marcus.2.thint@bt.com
phone: 561-451-8081 , fax: 561-451-8081

Prof. S-M. Vincent Tseng
Assistant Professor
Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering
National Cheng Kung University
Tainan, Taiwan, R.O.C.
Co-Director, Database Lab, NCKU, Taiwan
Co-Director, BISC SIG on Data Mining, UC-Berkeley, USA
email: tsengsm@mail.ncku.edu.tw
www: http://dbserver.csie.ncku.edu.tw/~tsengsm
phone: 06-2757575 ext 62536, fax: 06-2747076

Prof. Burhan Turksen
Director-Knowledge/Intelligence Systems Laboratory
Department of Mechanical & Industrial Engineering
University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario
M5S 3G8, Canada
email: turksen@mie.utoronto.ca
www: http://ww.mie.utoronto.ca/staff/profiles/turksen.html
phone: (416) 978-1278, fax: (416) 946-7581

Prof. Dr. Rainer Unland
University of Duisburg-Essen
Institute for Computer Science and Business Information Systems (ICB)
Practical Computer Science, especially Data Management Systems and Knowledge Representation
Schuetzenbahn 70, 45117 Essen, Germany
email: UnlandR@informatik.uni-essen.de
www: http://dawis.informatik.uni-essen.de/site/staff/unlandr/
phone: (+49) 201-183 3421, fax: (+49) 201-183 4460

Dr. Mihaela Ulieru
Associate Professor
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Faculty of Engineering
The University of Calgary
Calgary, Alberta, Canada T2N 1N4
email: ulieru@enel.ucalgary.ca
www: http://www.ucalgary.ca/~ulieru
phone: (403) 220-8616, fax: (403) 282-6855

Prof. Paul P. Wang
ECE Department
Box 90291
Duke University
Durham,NC,27708-0291
email: ppw@ee.duke.edu
phone: 919-660-5259, fax: 919-660-5293

Prof. Syozo Yasui, Dr. Eng.
Division of Higher Brain Functions,
Computational and Cognitive Brain Science,
Kyushu Institute of Technology,
Kitakyushu 808-0196, Japan
email: yasui@brain.kyutech.ac.jp
www: http://www.brain.kyutech.ac.jp/~yasui
phone: +81-93-695-6108

Danis Yadegar
Founder, President, Chairman, and CEO
ARSIN Corporation
4800 Great America Parkway, Suite 425
Santa Clara, CA 95054-1228, USA
email: dyadegar@arsin.com
www: http://www.arsin.com/

Yuchun Tang
Ph.D. Candidate
email: tyczjs@yahoo.com
www: http://www.student.gsu.edu/~ytang3

Dr. Yanqing Zhang
Assistant Professor
Dept. of Computer Science
Georgia State University, U.S.A.
email: yzhang@cs.gsu.edu
www: http://www.cs.gsu.edu/~cscyqz
phone: 404 651 0682, fax: 404 463 9912

Prof. Lotfi. A. Zadeh
Director, Berkeley Initiative in Soft Computing (BISC)
Professor in the Graduate School, Computer Science Division
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences
University of California
Berkeley, CA 94720 -1776
email: zadeh@cs.berkeley.edu
www: http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/People/Faculty/Homepages/zadeh.html
phone(office): (510) 642-4959, fax (office): (510) 642-1712
phone(home): (510) 526-2569, fax (home): (510) 526-2433, (510) 526-5181
BISC Homepage URLs:
URL: http://www-bisc.cs.berkeley/
URL: http://zadeh.cs.berkeley.edu/

Dr. Masoud Nikravesh
BISC Associate Director
BTExact Technologies (British Telecom-BT); Senior Research Fellow
Chair: BISC-FLINT, ES, and RT, CIBI
Berkeley Initiative in Soft Computing (BISC)
Computer Science Division- Department of EECS
University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720
email: Nikravesh@cs.berkeley.edu
www: http://www-bisc.cs.berkeley.edu/
phone: (510) 643-4522; fax: (510) 642-5775
Staff Scientist
Lawrence Berkeley National Lab,
Imaging and Collaborative Computing Group
email: Masoud@media.lbl
www: http://vision.lbl.gov/

Prof. Sema Alptekin
Berkeley Initiative in Soft Computing (BISC)
Computer Science Division- Department of EECS
University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720
email: alptekin@eecs.berkeley.edu
www: http://www-bisc.cs.berkeley.edu/
phone: (510) 642-5047; fax: (510) 642-5775

Dr. Souad Souafi-Bensafi
Berkeley Initiative in Soft Computing (BISC)
Computer Science Division- Department of EECS
University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720
email: sbensafi@eecs.berkeley.edu
www: http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~sbensafi/
phone: (510) 643-4523; fax: (510) 642-5775

Dr. Martine De Cock
Berkeley Initiative in Soft Computing (BISC)
Computer Science Division- Department of EECS
University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720
email: mdecock@eecs.berkeley.edu
www: http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~mdecock/
phone: (510) 642-3909; fax: (510) 642-5775

Dr. Mahnaz Hassibi
Berkeley Initiative in Soft Computing (BISC)
Computer Science Division- Department of EECS
University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720
email: mhassibi@cs.berkeley.edu
www: http://www-bisc.cs.berkeley.edu/
phone: (510) 642-5047, fax: (510) 642-5775

Gamil Serag-Eldin
Berkeley Initiative in Soft Computing (BISC)
Computer Science Division- Department of EECS
University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720
email: gamil@eecs.berkeley.edu
www: http://www-bisc.cs.berkeley.edu/
phone: (510) 643-4524; fax: (510) 642-5775

2003 BISC FLINT-CIBI INTERNATIONAL JOINT WORKSHOP

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SOFT COMPUTING FOR INTERNET AND BIOINFORMATICS

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