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Sanmay Das joins the Computer Science Dept.
 Faculty
Kristin Bennett
Professor, Ph.D. (University of Wisconsin, Madison)
Research Interests: Mathematical programming, machine learning, support vector machines, neural networks, artificial intelligence, parallel optimization, tabu search, automated drug discovery, data mining, bioinformatics

Sanmay Das
Assistant Professor, Ph.D. (Massachusettes Institute of Technology)
Research Interests: Machine learning; computational finance and economics; multi-agent systems; information retrieval and biomedical informatics.

Petros Drineas
Assistant Professor, Ph.D. (Yale)
Research Interests: Design and analysis of algorithms, in particular randomized and approximation algorithms; linear algebra algorithms and their applications in data mining.
  • NSF, Early Career Awards
  • Co-Organized two workshops: Data Mining for Bioinformatics at KDD 2007 and Algorithms for Modern Massive Datasets at Stanford. Co-organizer of the Geometric Algorithms CS Theory Day, 2006.
Mark Goldberg
Professor, Ph.D. (Institute of Mathematics, Academy of Science)
Research Interests: Experimental design and analysis of algorithms; combinatorics and graph theory; applications to social networks.
  • Co-Organized DIMACS workshop Computational Methods for Dynamic Interaction Networks
Malik Magdon-Ismail
Associate Professor, Ph.D. (CalTech)
Research Interests: Theory, algorithms and applications of computational learning systems; computational finance; bioinformatics, social and communication network analysis.
  • Co-Organized DIMACS workshop Computational Methods for Dynamic Interaction Networks
  • Editorial Board: Neurocomputing
Mohammed J. Zaki
Associate Professor, Ph.D. (University of Rochester)
Research Interests: Data mining and knowledge discovery; bioinformatics; generic programming, high performance computing.
  • NSF, DOE Early Career Awards.
  • Editorial Boards: IEEE-TKDE, Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, Statistical Analysis and Data Mining, Scientific Programming, International Journal of Data Mining and Bioinformatics, International Journal of Data warehousing and Mining, The Open Artificial Intelligence Journal.
  • Program Co-Chair: SIAM International Conference on Data Mining, 2008, and SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, 2009.
Current Students
Jon Purnell
Ali Civril
Mykola Hayvanovich
Justin Chen
Andrey Sarayev
Vineet Chaoji
Mohammad Al Hasan
Saeed Salem
Abhinab Ray
Konstantin Mertsalov
Stephen Kelley
Asif Javed
Jamey Lewis

Past Students (First Employer)
Weichia Su (KBC Financial, HK)
Dave Siebecker (Raytheon)
Tina Liu (Lehman Brothers)
Victor Boyarshinov (Amici LLC)
Eli Bocek Rivele (Dreamworks Animation)
Benjarath Phoophakdee (Thai Govt.)
Feng Gao (Microsoft)
Zujun Shentu (Oracle)
Lizhuang Zhao (Amazon)
Yongqiang Zhang (Oracle)
Bouchra Bouqata (GE Research)
Karlton Sequeira (Amazon)
Eric Breimer (Siena College)
Darren Lim (Siena College)