News & Events Archive - 2005

Hu Article Is Featured in IEEE Newsletter
An article by Dr. Xiaolin Hu is featured in the December issue of the IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society eNewsletter. The article is based on a paper recently published by the IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics. (Posted 12/14/05)

Zelikovsky Wins Two Best Poster Awards
Dr. Alex Zelikovsky recently won Best Poster awards at two conferences. One award was for a poster titled "Yield-Driven Multi-Project Reticle Design and Wafer Dicing" (with A. B. Kahng, I. I. Mandoiu, and X. Xu), presented at the 25th SPIE BACUS International Symposium on Photomask Technology in October. The other award was for the poster "2SNP: New Scalable Phasing Method" (with Ph.D. student Dumitru Brinza), presented at the Fifth Georgia Tech International Conference on Bioinformatics in November. (Posted 12/1/05)

Ph.D. Student Wins Best Student Paper Award
Bo Jin, a Ph.D. candidate advised by Dr. Yan-Qing Zhang, won a best student paper award at the 2005 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology. The symposium was held on November 14-15 in San Diego. (Posted 11/21/05)

Departmental Colloquium on November 11
Professor David Lowenthal (Department of Computer Science, University of Georgia) will present a colloquium on Friday, November 11, from 1:30-2:30 p.m. in the department conference room. The topic is "Client-Centered Energy Savings for TCP Downloads." (Posted 10/31/05)

Pan Delivers Speeches in China
Dr. Yi Pan delivered two keynote speeches and one invited speech at three conferences during a trip in China in September. He gave a keynote talk entitled "Protein Structure Prediction and Understanding Using Machine Learning Methods" at the 5th International Conference on Computer and Information Technology (CIT2005), which was held on September 21-23 in Shanghai, and a keynote talk entitled "Public Computing and Its Scheduling Strategies" at the 2005 Symposium on Information, Electronics, and Control Technologies (IECT 2005), held on September 29 in Chengdu. He also gave an invited talk at a regional symposium in Chengdu during the trip. (Posted 10/24/05)

Beyah to Participate in IEEE Symposium Panel
Dr. Raheem Beyah has been invited to participate in a panel on wireless and mobile security for distributed systems at the 24th IEEE Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems (SRDS 2005). This conference is the pre-eminent forum for researchers and practitioners interested in distributed systems and design and development, particularly with properties such as reliability, availability, safety, security, and real time. SRDS 2005 will be held October 26-28 in Orlando, Florida. (Posted 10/24/05)

Hu Is Awarded Three-Year NSF Grant
Dr. Xiaolin Hu recently was awarded a research grant from the National Science Foundation. The grant is for collaborative research between Texas A&M University and Georgia State University. The goal of the research is to develop a dynamic data-driven real-time decision support system for wildland fire spread prediction and containment that integrates simulation and stochastic optimization. The three-year project will start in December. (Posted 9/22/05)

IEEE International Conference to Be Held at Georgia State
The 2006 IEEE International Conference on Granular Computing (IEEE-GrC 2006) will be held at Georgia State on May 10-12, 2006. Granular computing is a general computation theory for effectively using granules such as classes, clusters, subsets, groups, and intervals to build an efficient computational model for complex applications with huge amounts of data, information, and knowledge. It has begun to play important roles in bioinformatics, e-business, security, machine learning, data mining, high-performance computing, and wireless mobile computing in terms of efficiency, effectiveness, robustness, and uncertainty. The conference will bring together researchers from universities, laboratories, and industry to present state-of-the-art research results and methodologies in theory and applications of granular computing.
     The conference is sponsored by the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society. Dr. Yi Pan is one of the conference's general co-chairs, Dr. Yan-Qing Zhang is a co-chair of the program committee, Dr. K. N. King is a publicity co-chair, and Dr. Anu Bourgeois and Dr. Raj Sunderraman are local arrangements co-chairs. (Posted 9/14/05; updated 9/21/05)

Georgia State to Host Biocomputing Workshop
On October 27, Georgia State's SouthEast Collaborative Alliance Biocomputing Center will host the Second SECABC Fall Workshop on Biocomputing. The goal of the workshop is to bring together researchers, developers, and students to discuss various aspects of biocomputing and their applications. Authors are invited to submit abstracts that demonstrate original unpublished research in all areas of biocomputing for possible oral or poster presentation. The deadline for abstract submission is October 13, 2005. The workshop is sponsored by the Departments of Biology, Chemistry, and Computer Science; the BioMedical Computational Center; and the Molecular Basis of Disease Program. The co-chairs of the workshop are Dr. Robert Harrison and Dr. Yi Pan. (Posted 9/2/05)

CS Faculty Members Promoted
Congratulations to the following CS faculty members, who were recently promoted:

The promotions are effective Fall 2005. (Posted 9/2/05)

Pan Is Awarded Three-Year NSF Grant
Dr. Yi Pan recently received a research grant from the National Science Foundation for his project entitled "High Performance Rough Sets Data Analysis in Data Mining," in which he will apply high performance computing and rough sets to data mining. The three-year project started in July. (Posted 8/15/05)

Pan Gives Keynote Address
Dr. Yi Pan delivered a keynote speech at the 2005 IEEE International Conference on Granular Computing held in Beijing on July 25-27. He was one of six keynote speakers. Other keynote speakers included Professor Lotfi A. Zadeh (the father of fuzzy logic) from the University of California at Berkeley. (Posted 8/15/05)

Zhang Receives Outstanding Service Award
Dr. Yan-Qing Zhang received the Outstanding Service Award at the 2005 IEEE International Conference on Granular Computing. The conference was held in Beijing on July 25-27. (Posted 8/15/05)

Madiraju Earns Ph.D. Degree
Graduate student Praveen Madiraju was awarded the Ph.D. degree on August 7, making him the third person to earn a Ph.D. from the Department of Computer Science. The title of his dissertation was "Global Semantic Integrity Constraint Checking for a System of Databases." His advisor was Dr. Raj Sunderraman. This fall, Dr. Madiraju is joining the Department of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science at Marquette University as an assistant professor of computer science. (Posted 8/15/05)

Beyah and Li Join Department
Two new assistant professors, Dr. Raheem Beyah and Dr. Yingshu Li, will join the department in August.
     Dr. Beyah received a B.S. in electrical engineering from North Carolina A&T State University in 1998. He earned M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical and computer engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 1999 and 2003, respectively. Dr. Beyah has been a member of the research faculty in Georgia Tech's Communications Systems Center since August 2001. Prior to joining Georgia Tech, he worked as a consultant in the Network Solutions group at Accenture (formerly Andersen Consulting). Dr. Beyah's research interests include network security, security visualization, and Internet traffic characterization. He is a member of IEEE, ACM, and NSBE.
     Dr. Li received her B.S. degree in computer science from Beijing Institute of Technology in 2001. She earned M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in computer science from the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, in 2003 and 2005. Her research interests include wireless networks, optimization algorithm design, and computational biology. She has published around 20 papers in top journals and conferences, including Journal of Combinatorial Optimization, Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, Theoretical Computer Science, Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing, International Journal of Bioinformatics Research and Applications, IEEE INFOCOM, and IEEE IPCCC. She is also one of the editors of the books Combinatorial Optimization in Communication Networks and Advances in Wireless Sensor Networks. She is a member of the IEEE. (Posted 7/12/05)

Ph.D. Student Leads Ongoing KDD Cup 2004 Contest
Ph.D. candidate Yuchun Tang is participating in the ongoing ACM KDD Cup 2004 Protein Homology Prediction Contest. As of July 12, his solution ranked first out of 107 overall. (Posted 7/12/05)

Ph.D. Students Participate in Data Mining Cup Contest
Yuchun Tang and Bo Jin, two Ph.D. candidates advised by Dr. Yan-Qing Zhang, participated in the Data Mining Cup Contest 2005. 531 students from 176 universities in 41 countries took part in the competition, which lasted from April 1, 2005, to April 30, 2005. More than 160 solution models were submitted. Mr. Tang's solution ranked 19th (1st in the U.S.) with 10722 points, and Mr. Jin’s solution ranked 27th (3rd in the U.S.) with 10175 points; the top-ranked solution received 12297 points. This year's Data Mining Cup Contest dealt with the problem of using data mining to determine whether a person who places an order online will eventually pay for the goods they ordered. (Posted 7/12/05)

Zhang Is Co-Chair and Tang Is Publicity Chair of 2005 IEEE-ICDM Workshop
Dr. Wen-Ran Zhang (Georgia Southern University), Dr. Yan-Qing Zhang, and Dr. Xiaohua Tony Hu (Drexel University) are co-chairs of the 2005 IEEE-ICDM Workshop on MultiAgent Data Warehousing and MultiAgent Data Mining (MADW-MADM2005). Ph.D. candidate Yuchun Tang is serving as publicity chair for the workshop, which will be held in New Orleans on November 27, 2005, in conjunction with the Fifth IEEE International Conference on Data Mining. The workshop will bring together researchers from diverse areas including data mining, data warehousing, multiagent systems, artificial intelligence, computational intelligence, machine learning, neuroscience, robot control, and other related areas to lay the foundation for MADW and MADM. (Posted 7/12/05)

Ph.D. Student Publishes Monograph
Haibin Wang, a Ph.D. student in computer science, is the primary author of a recently published monograph titled Interval Neutrosophic Sets and Logic: Theory and Applications in Computing. His co-authors were two GSU faculty members, Dr. Raj Sunderraman and Dr. Yanqing Zhang, along with Dr. Florentin Smarandache of the University of New Mexico. The monograph can be purchased in book form or downloaded as a PDF file. (Posted 6/28/05)

Fraser Retires from GSU
Dr. Martin Fraser will retire on June 30 after 33 years of service to Georgia State University. He was honored at a luncheon on June 24 at City Grill in downtown Atlanta. Dr. Fraser was the first chair of the Department of Computer Science, serving from the inception of the department on July 1, 1999 until his retirement. He previously served as chair of the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science from June 1998 through June 1999. Among his achievements as chair was the creation of the Ph.D. program in computer science. On July 1, Dr. Fraser will be awarded the rank of Professor Emeritus in recognition of the quality of his research, teaching, and service contributions. (Posted 6/24/05)

Pan Joins Editorial Boards of Two IEEE Journals
Dr. Yi Pan was recently selected to serve on the editorial boards of IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems and IEEE Transactions on NanoBioscience, which are premier journals in their areas. (Posted 6/24/05)

Hu Will Be Program Chair of 2006 DEVS Integrative M&S Symposium
Dr. Xiaolin Hu will be the program chair of the DEVS Integrative M&S Symposium of the 2006 Spring Simulation Multiconference (SpringSim '06) sponsored by the Society for Modeling and Simulation International. The symposium, which will be held in Huntsville, Alabama, on April 2-6, 2006, provides a forum for scientists and professionals to present recent developments in the theory and applications of DEVS-based modeling and simulation. (Posted 6/24/05)

Owen Is Elected SIGGRAPH President
Dr. Scott Owen has been elected president of ACM SIGGRAPH. He will serve a three-year term beginning July 1. SIGGRAPH (Special Interest Group on Computer Graphics), which has over 6,300 members, is the world's leading organization for researchers, artists, developers, filmmakers, scientists, and other professionals who share an interest in computer graphics and interactive techniques. It is best known for the annual SIGGRAPH conference, which last year was attended by over 27,000 people. SIGGRAPH's parent organization is the Association for Computing Machinery, the world’s first and largest computing society. (Posted 5/25/05)

Bioinformatics Journal Is Launched
Inderscience Publishers recently published the inaugural issue of International Journal of Bioinformatics Research and Applications. Unlike many other bioinformatics journals, the new journal's objective is to publish outstanding original research papers as well as high-caliber survey papers focusing on bioinformatics research from a computer scientist's perspective. Dr. Yi Pan is editor-in-chief of the journal. (Posted 5/25/05)

Computer Science Students Receive Awards at Honors Day
Five computer science students were presented with departmental awards at the annual Arts and Sciences Honors Day ceremony. The following list shows all awards and the winners:

Outstanding Senior Award

Outstanding Graduate Research Award

Outstanding Teaching by a Graduate Student Award

The ceremony was held on April 14 at GSU's Rialto Center for the Performing Arts. (Posted 4/20/05)

Bourgeois Is Co-Chair of Workshop on Mobile Ad-hoc and Ubiquitous Sensor Networks
Dr. Anu Bourgeois and Dr. Wei Lou (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University) are co-chairs of the First International Workshop on Mobile Ad-hoc and Ubiquitous Sensor Networks (MASN 2005). The workshop will be held at Nanjing University in China on November 2-5, 2005, in conjunction with the Third International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing and Applications. The workshop will provide a forum for researchers to exchange ideas, discuss solutions, and identify future directions for the field of wireless ad hoc and sensor networks. (Posted 3/14/05)

Bourgeois, Fraser, and Weeks Become IEEE Senior Members
Dr. Anu Bourgeois, Dr. Martin Fraser, and Dr. Michael Weeks recently attained Senior Member status in the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, which recognizes ten years of achievements as a member. (Posted 3/14/05)

Hu Is Program Co-Chair of DEVS Integrative M&S Symposium
Dr. Xiaolin Hu is a program co-chair of the DEVS Integrative M&S Symposium of the 2005 Spring Simulation Multiconference (SpringSim '05) sponsored by the Society for Modeling and Simulation International. The symposium, which will be held in San Diego on April 3-7, provides a forum for scientists and professionals to present recent developments in the theory and applications of DEVS-based modeling and simulation. (Posted 3/8/05)

Pan and Zelikovsky Chair Workshop on Bioinformatics Research and Applications
Dr. Yi Pan and Dr. Alex Zelikovsky are co-chairs of the 2005 International Workshop on Bioinformatics Research and Applications (IWBRA 2005). The workshop will be held at Emory University on May 22-25, 2005, in conjunction with the International Conference on Computational Science 2005. The workshop's goal is to bring together researchers, developers, and practitioners to discuss various aspects of bioinformatics and computational biology and their applications. (Posted 2/3/05)

Zelikovsky Is Co-Chair of Workshop on Self-Assembling Wireless Networks
Dr. Alex Zelikovsky and Dr. Ion Mandoiu (University of Connecticut) are co-chairs of the 1st ACIS International Workshop on Self-Assembling Wireless Networks (SAWN 2005). The workshop will be held at Towson University in Maryland on May 23-25, 2005, in conjunction with the 6th ACIS International Conference on Software Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, Networking, and Parallel/Distributed Computing. The workshop will bring together industry practitioners and researchers working on all aspects of self-assembling wireless networks. (Posted 2/3/05)

College Announces New Chair for Computer Science
Dean Lauren Adamson is pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. Yi Pan as the new chair of the Department of Computer Science. Dr. Pan will replace Dr. Martin Fraser, who has served as department chair since 1998 and is retiring at the end of the academic year after 32 years with Georgia State.
     In his research, Dr. Pan studies parallel and distributed computing, optical networks, wireless networks, and bioinformatics. His groundbreaking work on computing using reconfigurable optical buses has inspired extensive subsequent work by many researchers. He is also co-inventor on several patents and has received awards and funding from the National Science Foundation, the National Institutes of Health, the Air Force Office of Scientific Research, the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, and the Mellon Foundation.
     Dr. Pan has published more than 80 journal papers and has presented more than 90 papers at refereed conferences. He has also co-edited 16 books, contributed several book chapters, and organized several international conferences and workshops. He is the founding editor of the Nova Science Book Series on mobile computing and has served as an editor-in-chief or editorial board member for eight journals.
     Dr. Pan received a Ph.D. degree in computer science from the University of Pittsburgh in 1991. He joined the faculty at Georgia State in 2000 and became a full professor in the fall of 2004. (Posted 1/12/05)

Department Awards First Ph.D. Degrees
On December 18, 2004, the Department of Computer Science achieved a major milestone when it awarded its first Ph.D. degrees. The graduates, Ajay Katangur and Bryson Payne, were honored at a special luncheon on December 17 at City Grill in downtown Atlanta. Dr. Katangur's dissertation was titled "Routing Algorithms and Performance Evaluation for Optical Multistage Networks with Limited Crosstalk." His advisor was Dr. Yi Pan. Dr. Katangur is an assistant professor at Texas A&M - Corpus Christi. Dr. Payne's dissertation was titled "Accelerating Scientific Computation in Bioinformatics by Using Graphics Processing Units as Parallel Vector Processors," and his advisor was Dr. Scott Owen. Dr. Payne is an assistant professor at Georgia College and State University. (Posted 1/12/05)