Students

Tim Alcon (Honavar, Greenlee). Ph.D. Student in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology. Interests: Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, Systems Biology. Molecular Networks. Tim is supported by an MGET fellowship funded by the United States Department of Agriculture. Expected Graduation: Fall 2009.

Cornelia Caragea (Honavar). Ph.D. Student in Computer Science. Interests: Machine Learning, Bioinformatics, Data Mining, Probabilistic Relational Models. Cornelia is being supported by a teaching assistantship in Computer Science. Expected Graduation: Summer 2009.

Haitao Cheng (Jernigan, Margaritis). Ph.D. Student in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology. Interests: Sequence analysis, Algorithms in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, Protein structure and interactions. Ongoing research includes Regulatory Protein Molecular Model Construction Protein secondary structure predictions Protein-protein interaction, protein networks. Expected Graduation: Summer 2009.

Oliver Couture (Tuggle and Honavar). Ph.D. Student in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology. Interests: Bioinformatics, Genetic Regulatory Networks, Gene Expression Analysis. Oliver has been supported by a fellowship funded by the United States Department of Agriculture and a research assistantship funded by the United States department of Agriculture.Expected graduation: Fall 2008.

Yasser El-Manzalawy (Honavar). Ph.D. Student in Computer Science. Interests: Machine Learning, Data Mining, Intelligent Agents, Information Integration from Semantically Heterogeneous Distributed Data Sources. Yasser is funded by a scholarship from the Egyptian Government. Expected Graduation Summer 2009.

Changsung Kang (Tian). Ph.D. Student in Computer Science. Interests: Causal Reasoning and Learning, Machine Learning, Combinatorial Optimization. Changsung is funded by a Research assistantship supported by the National Science Foundation. Expected Graduation: Summer 2008.

Neeraj Koul (Honavar). Ph.D. Student in Computer Science. Interests: Information Integration, Semantic Web. Neeraj is employed at Unigraphics Solutions in Ames. Expected Graduation: Fall 2010.

Brian Patterson (Margaritis). Ph.D. Student in Computer Science. Interests: Machine Learning (Bayesian networks, Hidden variables, continuous variables), alternative representations of uncertainty, computational complexity theory. Brian is funded by a teaching assistantship from the department of Computer Science.

Ganesh Ram Santhanam (Honavar, Basu). Ph.D. Student in Computer Science. Interests: Semantic Web, Service-oriented computing. Ganesh is supported in part by a research assistantship funded by a grant from the National Science Foundation. Expected Graduation: Spring 2011.

Jivko Sinapov (Stoytchev, Honavar). Ph.D. Student in Computer Science. Interests: Machine Learning, Developmental Robotics. Expected Graduation: Spring 2010.

Fadi Towfic (Honavar, Greenlee). Ph.D. Student in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology. Interests: Computational Systems Biology; Genomics; Gene and Protein Networks. Machine Learning. Fadi is supported by a fellowship funded by an Integrative Graduate Education and Research Training (IGERT) grant from the National Science Foundation. Expected Graduation: Spring 2011.

Kewei Tu (Honavar). Ph.D. Student in Computer Science. Interests: Machine Learning, Probabilistic Relational Models, Learning from multiple sensory modalities, Semantic Web. Kewei is funded in part by a teaching assistantship in Computer Science. Expected graduation: Summer 2010.

George Voutsadakis (Honavar and Slutzki). Ph.D. Student in Computer Science. Interests: Knowledge representation, Description Logics, Modular Description Logics, Federated Reasoning, Privacy-Preserving Inference, Semantic Web. George is supported in part by a research assistantship funded by a grant from the NSF Industry-University Research Center in Information Assurance and in part by an instructorship in Mathematics. Expected Graduation: Summer 2010.

Oksana Yakhnenko (Honavar). Ph.D. Student in Computer Science. Interests: Machine Learning, Multi-relational learning, Learning from Semantically Heterogeneous data, Probabilistic Relational Models, Data Visualization, Learning from Sequence Data. Oksana is funded by a graduate teaching assistantship in Computer Science and a research assistantship funded by the National Science Foundation. Expected Graduation: Fall 2009.

Michael Terribilini (Dobbs, Honavar). Ph.D. Student in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology. Michael is interested in Bioinformatics and Computational Biologgy and Characterization of Protein Sequence-Structure-Function Relationships. Michael has been funded by an IGERT fellowship funded by the National Science Foundation and a teaching assistantship from the BCB graduate program. Expected Graduation: Summer 2008.

Feihong Wu (Honavar and Jernigan). Ph.D. Student in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology. Feihong is interested in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology and Characterization of Protein Sequence-Structure-Function Relationships. Feihong has been funded by a research assistantship from the Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (BCB) graduate program. Expected Graduation: Summer 2009.

Pete Zaback (Honavar, Dobbs). Ph.D. Student in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology. Interests: Bioinformatics and Computational Biology. Sequence and Structure based analysis of Protein-Protein Interfaces. Pete is supported by a graduate research assistantship funded by the Iowa State University Graduate College and a teaching assistaship in Genetics, Development, and Cell Biology. Expected Graduation: Spring 2009.