2003 BISC FLINT-CIBI INTERNATIONAL JOINT WORKSHOP

ON

SOFT COMPUTING FOR INTERNET AND BIOINFORMATICS

 

Speakers



Prof. Ruzena Bajcsy

CITRIS Director

284 HMMB,
University of California at Berkeley, CA 94720-1776
email: bajcsy@eecs.berkeley.edu

www: http://www.citris.berkeley.edu/
phone: +1 (510) 642-9423



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. Peter Norvig

Director of Search Quality Google Inc.
email: pnorvig@google.com
www: http://www.norvig.com/ 

phone: (650) 623-4248,  fax: (650) 618-1499



Prof. Saeid Nahavandi

School of Engineering and Technology
Deakin University,
Waurn Ponds Campus,
Geelong 3217, Australia
email: nahavand@deakin.edu.au
www: http://www.deakin.edu.au/engineering/research/intelligentsa/  
phone: (61)3-522-71231, fax: 61 3 52272167


Prof. Olfa Nasraoui
Assistant Professor,
Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering
206 Engineering Science Bldg.
The University of Memphis
Memphis, TN 38152-3180
email: onasraou@memphis.edu
www: http://archer.ee.memphis.edu/www.ee.memphis.edu/people/faculty/nasraoui/nasraoui.html 
phone: (901) 678-3251,  fax (901) 678-5469



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. Frank Olken
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Computational Research Division
Mailstop 50B-3238
1 Cyclotron Road
Berkeley, CA 94720-8147
email: olken@lbl.gov
www:
http://www.lbl.gov/~olken
phone: 510-486-5891,  fax: 510-486-4004



Prof. Sankar K. Pal

Fellow IEEE, Distinguished Scientist & Head
Machine Intelligence Unit, Indian Statistical Institute
203, B.T.Road, Kolkata 700 108, INDIA
email: sankar@isical.ac.in, skpal@ieee.org
www: http://www.isical.ac.in/~sankar
phone:(+91)(+33) 2578-3357(Direct), 2577-8085/8086/2088 Extn.3101 (O)
fax:(+91)(+33) 2578-3357, 2577-3035/6680/6925



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. Alexander Ryjov
Chair of Mathematical Foundations of Intelligent Systems
Department of Mechanics and Mathematics
Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia
email: ryjov@mech.math.msu.su



Prof. Thomas Sudkamp

Department of Computer Science
Wright State University
Dayton, OH 45435
email: tsudkamp@cs.wright.edu
www:
http://www.cs.wright.edu/~tsudkamp
phone: 937-775-5118,  fax: 937-775-5133



Dr. James G. Shanahan

Senior Research Scientist
Clairvoyance Corporation
5001 Baum Boulevard Suite 700
Pittsburgh, PA  15213-1854
email: J.shanahan@clairvoyancecorp.com
www: www.clairvoyancecorp.com
phone: 412-621-0570 x 310, fax:  412-621-0569



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. Horst D. Simon
Director, National Energy Research Scientific Computing (NERSC) Center
Director, Computational Research Division
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
One Cyclotron Road, M/S: 50B-4230
Berkeley, California 94720
email: hdsimon@lbl.gov
www: http://www.nersc.gov/~simon/
phone: (510) 486-7377, fax: (510) 486-4300




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. Tomohiro Takagi
Department of Computer Science,
Meiji University
1-1-1 Higashi-Mita, Tama-ku,
Kawasaki-shi, Kanagawa-ken 214-8571 Japan
email: Takagi@cs.meiji.ac.jp 
www: http://www.hi.cs.meiji.ac.jp/
phone: +81-44-934-7469



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



Sergio Guadarrama

Berkeley Initiative in Soft Computing (BISC)
Computer Science Division- Department of EECS
University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720
email: sguada@eecs.berkeley.edu

www: http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~sguada/
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: