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Research Activities at Computer Science
What is new?
Computer Science Faculty
- Dr. Uta Ziegler is a co-Pi of an NSF grant awarded
on August 20th, 2007 with the title Collaborative Research: Exploring the Space
of Large Knots and Links.
- Dr. Uta Ziegler is a co-Pi of a grant through Army
Research Lab (ARL) with the title Cyberdefense.
- Dr. Ziegler and several collaborators published
a paper in the Journal of Physics which was selected for inclusion in the IOP Select
(only 10% of the accepted papers are selected).
- Dr. Zhonghang Xia was awarded a Kentucky NSF-EPSCoR
grant in May 2006 with the title "An agent framework for information retrieval and
recommendation".
- In spring 2006, Rong Yang taught an on-line class
taken by high-school students at different high-schools. Students received college
credit as well as high school credit.Teaching such a "dual-enrollment" class on-line
was a first for WKU.
- Dr. Gary is a co-PI on a Kentucky Space Grant Consortium
Grant which investigates the dark matter component of the universe.
- Dr. Xing received a Kentucky NSF EPSCoR Research
Enhancement Grant titled "XML and Key Support using RDBMS" for the time from June
2005 to May 2006.
Computer Science Students:
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Aditya Tadakaluru
A graduate student in Computer Science, presented a paper related to his thesis
at the International Conference on Computational Intelligent Modeling in Control
and Automation, held in Vienna, Austria, Nov. 28-30, 2005
- Onur Ascigil
A graduate student, presented work
related to his thesis at the 36th Annual Research Conference organized by WKU.
- Thao A Nguyen
An under graduate student in Computer
Science, was selected for the 2006 SIPHER Summer Research Program at Vanderbilt.
AI Lab
The Artificial Intelligence(AI) Laboratory is designed to be the center where research
and experimentation in the various areas of AI is performed. Currently there are
four Evolution brand ER1 robots there where students explore the robot's capabilities
in the areas of voice recognition, sensor control, and obstacle avoidance . It is
expected that other hardware/software used in other subfields of AI will be housed
here in the near future.
More details
Other Research Labs
Coming soon
Research Groups
Coming Soon...
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Faculty Details |
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| Dr. Mustafa Atici |
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| Professor |
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| Office: TCCW 110B |
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| Phone: (270) 745-5093 |
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| Fax: (270) 745-6449 |
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| Web:http://www.wku.edu/~mustafa.atici/ |
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Degrees:
| 1986 |
BS in Mathematics, University
of Ege Izmir-Turkey |
| 1991 |
MS in Mathematics, University of Nebraska |
| 1994 |
MS in Computer Science and Engineering,University
of Nebraska |
| 1996 |
Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering,
University of Nebraska |
Areas of Research Interest:
Cryptography,
Combinatorics and their interactions and Graph Theory.
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| Dr. Ahmed Emam |
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| Assistant Professor |
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| Office: TCCW 135 |
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| Phone: (270) 745-5011 |
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| Fax: (270) 745-6449 |
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| Web: http://www.wku.edu/~ahmed.emam/ |
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Degrees:
| 1995 |
MS in Computer Science, University
of Cairo |
| 1998 |
MS in Computer Science, University of Louisville |
| 2000 |
Ph.D. in Computer Science, University of
Louisville |
Areas of Research Interest:
Data Mining, Text Mining, Information Retrieval System, Database and
Data Warehouse.
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| Dr. James Gary |
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| Associate Professor |
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| Office: TCCW 110A |
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| Phone: (270) 745-6373 |
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| Fax: (270) 745-6449 |
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| Web:http://garyj.tccw.wku.edu/~jgary/ |
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Degrees:
| 1982 |
BA in Physics/Mathematics, Indiana
University |
| 1985 |
MS in Computer Studies, North Carolina State
University |
| 1995 |
Ph.D. in Computer Science, University of
Kentucky |
Areas of Research Interest:
Computer Vision, Computer Graphics, and Parallel
and Distributed programming.
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| Dr. Qi Li |
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| Assistant Professor |
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| Office: TCCW 135 |
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| Phone: (270)745-6225 |
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| Fax: (270) 745-4669 |
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| Web:http://www.wku.edu/~qi.li |
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Degrees:
Areas of Research Interest:
Data Mining,Computer Vision,Machine Learning,Bioinformatics,Multimedia
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| Dr. David Erbach |
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| Professor |
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| Office: TCCW 137A |
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| Phone: (270) 745-4642 |
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| Web:http://www.wku.edu/~david.erbach/ |
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Degrees:
| 1969 |
BA in Mathematics and French, University of Nebraska-Lincoln |
| 1977 |
Ph. D., Cambridge University |
Areas of Research Interest:
combinatorics, group theory, algebraic number theory, expert systems, automated risk analysis, software quality management, using of computer games as teaching tools.
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| Ms. Chun Shen |
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| Instructor |
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| Office: TCCW 120 |
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| Phone: (270) 745-6495 |
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| Web:http://www.wku.edu/~chun.shen/ |
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Degrees:
| 1999 |
MS in Mathematics, Western Kentucky
University |
| 2001 |
MS in Computer Science, Western Kentucky
University |
Areas of Research Interest:
Programming Languages,
Artificial Intelligence.
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| Dr. Art Shindhelm |
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| Professor |
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| Office: TCCW 134 |
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| Phone: (270) 745-6247 |
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| Web:http://www.wku.edu/~art.shindhelm/hera/ |
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Degrees:
| 1967 |
BS in Mathematics, Muhlenberg
College |
| 1970 |
MS in Mathematics, Syracuse University |
| 1974 |
Ph.D. in Mathematics, Syracuse University |
| 1984 |
MS in Computer Science, S.U.N.Y. at Stony
Brook |
Areas of Research Interest:
Automated Reasoning, Fuzzy Logic.
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| Ms. Dr. Huanjing Wang |
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| Assistant Professor |
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| Office: TCCW 119 |
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| Phone: (270)745-2672 |
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| Fax: (270)745-4669 |
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| Web:http://www.wku.edu/~huanjing.wang |
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Degrees:
| 2002 |
MS in Computer Science, University of Alabama |
| 2005 |
Ph.D in Computer Science, University of Alabama |
Areas of Research Interest:
Knowledge Discovery/Data Mining, Database Application, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning.
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| Dr. Guangming Xing |
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| Associate Professor |
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| Office: TCCW 126 |
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| Phone: (270) 745-8848 |
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| Fax: (270) 745-6449 |
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| Web:http://www.wku.edu/~guangming.xing/ |
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Degrees:
| 1996 |
BS in Computer Science, Nankai
University, China. |
| 2001 |
Ph.D. in Computer Science, University of
Georgia |
Areas of Research Interest:
Algorithm Design and Analysis, Automata Theory
and Implementation, Semi-Structured Database,
Content-based Network Service.
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| Dr. Rong Yang |
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| Assistant Professor |
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| Office: TCCW 114 |
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| Phone: (270) 745-2940 |
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| Fax: (270) 745-6449 |
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| Web:http://www.wku.edu/~rong.yang/ |
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Degrees:
| 1996 |
MS in Computer Science, Western
Kentucky University |
| 2007 |
Ph.D in Computer Science, University of Louisville |
Areas of Research Interest:
Database Systems, Programming Languages.
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| Dr. Zhonghang Xia |
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| Assistant Professor |
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| Office: TCCW 111 |
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| Phone: (270) 745-6459 |
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| Fax: (270) 745-6449 |
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| Web:http://www.wku.edu/~zhonghang.xia/ |
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Degrees:
| 2003 |
MS in Computer Science,
University of Texas at
Dallas |
| 2004 |
Ph.D in Computer Science,University of Texas
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Dallas |
Areas of Research Interest:
Multimedia Computing and Networking, Distributed
Systems, Data Mining, E-Commence, Neural Networks,
and Combinatorial Optimization.
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| Dr. Uta Ziegler |
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| Professor |
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| Office: TCCW 137A |
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| Phone: (270) 745-4642 |
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| Fax: (270) 745-6449 |
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| Web:http://www.wku.edu/~uta.ziegler/ |
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Degrees:
| 1984 |
Equivalent of a Bachelors degree from Friedrich-Alexander University (Germany). |
| 1987 |
MS in Computer Science, Florida State University. |
| 1991 |
Ph.D. in Computer Science, Florida State University |
Areas of Research Interest:
Artificial Intelligence, Intelligent Tutoring Systems, Neural Networks.
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