The Data Mining and Bioinformatics Lab (DBL)

Ambuj Singh

Research interests: network science, cheminformatics & bioinformatics, graph querying and mining, and databases.

Ambuj Singh received a Masters in Computer Science from Iowa State University in 1984 and a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Texas in 1989. He joined the University of California at Santa Barbara in 1989, where he is currently a Full Professor.

Misael Mongiovi

Research interests: data mining, network analysis, bioinformatics.

Misael Mongiovì received his M.Sc. degree in Computer Science in 2003, and a Ph.D. in 2007 from the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science at the University of Catania, headed by Prof. Alfredo Ferro. He has been a postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science at University of Catania and subsequently at the Blavatnik School of Computer Science at Tel Aviv University. He joined the University of California at Santa Barbara in October 2010 as a Research Scientist.

Kasturi Bhattacharjee

Research interests: Temporal graph mining.

Petko Bogdanov

Research interests: Querying and mining in networks.

Petko is currently involved in projects on mining dense components in time-evolving graphs, trust- and content-aware recommendation in social networks and synthesis and analysis of networks from collaboration. His past projects include nearest neighbors search in large graphs and molecular function prediction in gene networks.

Petko Bogdanov received his Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Systems and Technology from Technical University of Sofia, Bulgaria in 2005. He joined the University of California, Santa Barbara, PhD program in 2006.

Kyle Chipman

Research interests: data mining, protein networks, genetic interactions.

Nick Larusso

Research interests: data mining, machine learning, uncertain data analysis.

Nick Larusso received his BS. in Computer Science and Engineering from The Ohio State University in June of 2006.

Kathy Macropol

Research interests: data mining, bioinformatics, graph mining.

Kathy Macropol received her BS in Chemistry from the University of California, Los Angeles, and her MS in Computer Science from Cal State University, Channel Islands. She joined the University of California, Santa Barbara, PhD program in 2007.

Kathy's current research projects include working on clustering algorithms for large graphs, as well as the modeling and mining of time-evolving graphs.

Sayan Ranu

Research interests: cheminformatics, graph mining, data mining.

Sayan Ranu received his BS in Computer Science from Iowa State University, USA in 2006. He joined the University of California, Santa Barbara, PhD program in 2006.

Brian Ruttenberg

Research interests: data mining, bioimage informatics, uncertain data analysis.

Brian Ruttenberg received his BSE in Computer Engineering from the University of Michigan in 2000. He joined the University of California, Santa Barbara, PhD program in 2006.

Vishwakarma Singh

Research interests: bioimage informatics, data mining.

Vishwakarma Singh received his B.Tech. in Computer Science from Institute of Technology, Benaras Hindu University, India in 2003. He joined the University of California, Santa Barbara PhD program in 2006.