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Research Activities at CS Department
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).
- Di Wu and V.Lakshmi Narasimhan ,Kentucky Biomedical
Research Infrastructure Network (KBRIN) Research Grant, Novel Method for Protein
Structural Refinement using Coarse-Grained Models over a High Performance Computing
Environment, US$25,000, 2007.
- V.Lakshmi Narasimhan , Di Wu and R Mahmood , NSF
KY EPSCoR, Intensive Workshop on High Performance Computing for Informatics and
Bioscience, US$10,000, 2007.
- Dr. Narasimhan of Computer Science Department and
Dr. Wu of Mathematics Department have been jointly awarded a Proposal
Incentive Grant (PIF) of $22,600 for 2007 on the topic of: Meta-Analysis of Clinical
Cardiovascular Data Towards Evidential Reasoning for Cardiovascular Life Cycle Management.
- 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. Mostafa received a Homeland Security grant titled
"Enhancement Mitigation of Intrusion Threats in Supervisor Control and Data Acquisition
Systems in Chemical Plants and Other Critical Infrastructure."
- 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.
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Faculty |
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Interim Department Head
Art Shindhelm
Professors
Lakshmi Narasimhan,
Uta Ziegler,
Robert Crawford, Mustafa Atici
Associate Professors
James Gary, Guangming Xing
Assistant Professors
Ahmed Emam, Qi Li, Huanjing Wang ,Mostafa
G.Mostafa, Zhonghang Xia
Adjunct Faculty
Narinder S Gill
Instructors
Chun Shen, Rong
Yang, Qian Yuan |
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Faculty Details |
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| Dr. V L Narasimhan |
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| Office: TCCW 131 |
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| Phone: (270) 745 2637 |
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| Fax: (270) 745 4669 |
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| Web:http://www.wku.edu/~lakshmi.narasimhan |
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Degrees:
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B.Sc. University of Madras,
Madras, India, majoring in Physics with
Mathematics and (Distinction) Chemistry as
ancillaries. |
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B.E. Indian Institute of Science,
Bangalore, India, in the field of
Electronics and (Distinction) Communication
Engineering. |
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M.E. Madras Institute of Technology,
Madras, India, in the field of Electronics
and (Distinction) Computer Engineering. (now
part of Anna University, Chennai) |
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Ph.D. The University of Queensland,
Australia. Broad area of research: parallel
processing systems;specific area of work:
data-flow architectures, multiprocessor
systems and languages. |
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GCM Graduate Certificate in Management (Scientific Leadership), University of South
Australia.
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CELD Certificate in Executive Leadership
Development, Defense Science and Technology
Organization (DSTO), Australia. |
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GCPTT Graduate Certificate in the Practice of
Tertiary Teaching (2005: Presently enrolled),
The University of Newcastle, Newcastle,
Australia. |
Areas of Research Interest:
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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. Robert Crawford |
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| Professor |
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| Office: TCCW 110A |
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| Phone: (270) 745-6248 |
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| Fax: (270) 745-6449 |
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| Web:http://www.wku.edu/~robert.crawford |
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Degrees:
| 1965 |
BS University of Chicago |
| 1969 |
MA Indiana University |
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Ph.D. in Mathematics, Indiana University |
Areas of Research Interest:
Graphics.
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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 122 |
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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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Areas of Research Interest:
Data Mining,Computer Vision,Machine Learning,Bioinformatics,Multimedia
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| Dr. Mostafa G.Mostafa |
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| Assistant Professor |
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| Office: TCCW 113B |
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| Phone: (270) 745-6183 |
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| Fax: (270) 745-6449 |
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| Web:http://www.wku.edu/~mostafa.mostafa/ |
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Degrees:
| 1999 |
MS in Computer Science, University
of Louisville |
| 2003 |
Ph.D in Computer Science,University of Louisville |
Areas of Research Interest:
Networking,Database Management Systems,Programming,Artificial
Intelligence.
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| Narinder S Gill, M.D. |
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| Adjunct Faculty(Associates in Physician Services) |
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| Office: TBD |
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| Phone: (718) 501-8406 |
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| Web:http://www.wku.edu/~narinder.gill/ |
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Degrees:
| 2005 |
Board Certified, American Board of Internal Medicine |
| 1987 |
M.D.(India) Internal Medicine, V.S.S. Medical College, India. |
| 1983 |
M.B.B.S.(India) V.S.S. Medical College, India. |
Areas of Research Interest:
Application of Computerized data base in the management of Clinical Diseases
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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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| Fax: (270) 745-6449 |
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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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| Fax: (270) 745-6449 |
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| Web:http://www.wku.edu/~art.shindhelm/hera/ |
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Degrees:
| 1967 |
BS in Mathematics, Muhlenberg
College |
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MS in Mathematics, Syracuse University |
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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 112 |
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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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| Mrs. Rong Yang |
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| Instructor |
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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 |
Areas of Research Interest:
Database Systems, Programming Languages.
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| Mr. Qian Yuan |
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| Instructor |
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| Glasgow Campus 204 & TCCW 112 |
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| (270) 659-6920 (GC 204) |
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| (270) 745-7072 (TCCW 112) |
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| Fax: (270) 745-6449 |
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| Web:http://www.wku.edu/~qian.yuan/ |
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Degrees:
| 2001 |
MS in Computer Science, Western
Kentucky University |
Areas of Research Interest:
Wireless Networks and Mobile Computing.
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| Dr. Zhonghang Xia |
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| Assistant Professor |
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| Office: TCCW 119 |
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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 |
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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 115 |
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| Phone: (270) 745-2911 |
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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). |
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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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