Minoo Aminian Postdoctoral Research Associate Departments of Computer Science and Math Office: Amos Eaton 329 Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Troy, New York 12180-3590 E-mail: aminim at cs dot rpi dot edu Phone: (518)275-9839

	Ph.D. University at Albany

Research Summary: My research interest is in artificial intelligence and more specifically machine learning. I am interested in applying mathematical algorithms to datasets in order to analyze and figure out interesting patterns. I have done research in data mining, active learning, and multi-agents learning. Currently, I am also doing research in bioinformatics.

• Teaching
• Selected Recent Publications

Fall 2009:

• Introduction to Artificial Intelligence

Spring 2009:

• Introduction to Artificial Intelligence
• Beginning C programming for Engineers
• Calculus II

Fall 2008:

• Embedded Control
• Beginning C programming for Engineers
• Calculus I

Spring 2008:

• Database Systems
• Beginning C programming for Engineers

Fall 2007:

• Multivariabl Calculus and Matrix Algebra
• Beginning C programming for Engineers

Selected Publications:

• Minoo Aminian, Amina Shabeer, and Kristin Bennett, "Determination of Major Lineages of Mycobacterium tuberculosis using Mycobacterial Interspersed Repetitive Units", IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics & Biomedicine,Nov. 1-4, 2009, Washington D.C.

• K. Bennett, B. Yener, A. Shabeer, C. Ozcaglar, S. Vandenburg, R. Freiss, M. Aminian, "Computational methods for characterizing and understanding Mycobacteium tuberculosis complex genome data", Tuberculosis: Biology, Pathology and Therapy, Jan. 25-30, 2009, Keystone Symposium, Colorado.

• M. Aminian, K. Bennett,"Identification of 6 main phylogenetic lineages of Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex by Mycobacterial Interspersed Repetitive Units(MIRU)",Tuberculosis: Biology, Pathology and Therapy, Jan. 25-30, 2009, Keystone Symposium, Colorado.

• Minoo Aminian, "Active Learning for Reducing Bias and Variance of a Classifier Using Jensen-Shannon Divergence" The 4th International Conference on Machine Learning and Application (ICMLA-05), December 15-17, 2005,Los Angeles, CA.
  

• Minoo Aminian, "Active Learning with Scarecely Labeled Data via Bias Reduction" ICGST International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning(AIML-05), December 19-21, 2005, Cairo, Egypt.
  

• Minoo Aminian, "Co-Training from an Incremental EM Perspective," The 5th International Conference on Intelligent Data Engineering and Automated Learning (IDEAL-04), August 25-27, 2004, Exeter, UK.
  

• Davidson, Ian and Aminian, Minoo, "Using Central Limit Theorem for Belief Network Learning," The 8th International Symposium on Artificial Intelligence and Math, January 4-6, 2004, Fort Lauderdale, FL.