The Data Mining and Bioinformatics Lab (DBL)

News

• James, Minh, Nazli and Qin have joined the DBL lab
• Tamer Kahveci is awarded tenure at the University of Florida.
• Misael Mongiovi joins the lab as research scientist.
• UCSB Part of Army's $16.75M Information Network Research Center: A team of UCSB computer scientists is part of a consortium chosen to establish an Information Networks Academic Research Center (INARC) by the US Army as a part of its Network Science Collaborative Technology Alliance (NS CTA). The information networks multi-campus collaborative effort is led by the University of Illinois, and also includes IBM and City University of New York. The total effort will be funded at about $16.75 million, of which the UCSB team will receive approximately $3.6 million.
• New NSF grant on building a retinal map :The project is interdisciplinary and brings together researchers at the University of Utah and UCSB. Students on the project will get a broad training in retinal neurobiology, computer science and electrical engineering.
• New NSF grant on Techniques for Integrated Analysis of Graphs with Applications to Cheminformatics and Bioinformatics:This project aims to develop a set of scalable querying and mining tools for graph databases by integrating techniques from databases and data mining. The proposed research work is theoretical as well as empirical. New theoretical ideas and algorithms are being developed and these are being applied to the domains of Cheminformatics and Bioinformatics.
• Six undergraduate students and a high school student worked as interns in the Summer.
• Brian Ruttenberg awarded a Dean's Graduate Fellowship.
• Tamer Kahveci, an alum, received an NSF career award.
• Ali Rathore, a summer intern, won the award for "best presentation" in Sigma Xi for his poster on Cheminformatics.
• Nick Larusso awarded an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship.