The Data Mining and Bioinformatics, Lab (DBL)

News

• Ambuj is leading a 595 seminar this quarter (Sp08) where we will discuss the latest papers covering topics in graph mining and uncertainty in data.

• Five students graduated in 2007

  • Vebjorn Ljosa (PhD degree): He worked on probabilistic databases to analyze and mine biomedical images. He is currently working as a research scientist in Broad Institute.
  • Arnab Bhattacharya (PhD degree): He worked on data mining and application of database methods to problems in bioinformatics and biomedical images. He has joined IIT Kanpur as assistant Professor.
  • Anand Meka(PhD degree): He worked on distributed indexing, spatio-temporal summarization and symbolic modeling in sensor networks. He is currently working in Oracle.
  • Huahai He (PhD degree): He worked on graph queries and mining for structural data in bioinformatics, including chemical compounds, protein structures, and biological pathways. He is currently working in Google.
  • Swaroop Jagadish (MS degree):Swaroop worked on classification of protein networks. He is currently working in Yahoo.

• A Bioimage workshop was held in January 2008: The workshop brings together interdisciplinary researchers to identify problems and present answers to multiscale bioimage data mining and informatics using cutting edge imaging technology (including fluorescence imaging, electron microscopy imaging, etc.) and quantitative analysis methods (including image data analysis, computer vision, data mining, machine learning, as well as other informatics methods). Nicholas Larusso and Brian Ruttenberg presented a poster on Probabilistic analysis of Retinal Neuron Morphology. Sayan Ranu presented a paper on Mining patterns on theme maps of phenotyped cells