The Computing Innovation Fellows Project

Mentors interested in:
Scientific/Medical Informatics

e.g., includes bioinformatics, computational biology, clinical informatics, public health informatics, chemical informatics…

• Jaerock Kwon at Kettering University (Flint, MI)
  Keywords: computational neuroscience, computational neuroanatomy, neuroinformatics, neural networks, neuroevolution, machine learning, sensorimotor learning, temporal aspects of brain function. 29July
• Irfan ESSA at Georgia Tech (Atlanta, GA)
  Keywords: Computational Video, Computational Photography, Activity Recognition, Computational Journalism, Human Behavior Modeling and Analysis, Human Robot Interaction, Sports Visualization, Interacting with and Authoring Video. 14July
• Ricardo Vilalta at University of Houston (Houston, TX)
  Keywords: machine learning, data mining, pattern recognition. 8July
• John Kececioglu at The University of Arizona (Tucson, AZ)
  Keywords: Computational biology and bioinformatics, algorithm design and implementation, combinatorial optimization. 1July
• Marlon Pierce at Community Grids Lab, Indiana University (Bloomington, IN)
  Keywords: Cloud Computing, Distributed computing,Web architectures, parallel computing, Grids, message oriented middleware 11June
• Steve Roach at The University of Texas at El Paso (El Paso, TX)
  Keywords: runtime monitoring, deductive synthesis, automated software engineering, automated testing, scientific computation 11June
• Jim Hurley at Intel Labs (Santa Clara, CA)
  Keywords: Ray Tracing, Rendering, Micro-Polygon, Physical Simulation, Global Illumination, Social Networking, Image Processing, Statistical Algorithms, Audio Propogation, Rasterization, GPU, Larrabee, Algorithms, Amaturn Content Creation, Mobile Internet Devices 10June
• Lydia Kavraki at Rice University (Houston, TX)
  Keywords: robot motion planning, hybrid systems, task planning, geometric computing, computational structural biology, bioinformatics 10June
• Umit Catalyurek at The Ohio State University (Columbus, OH)
  Keywords: Parallel Computing, combinatorial scientific computing, runtime systems for data-intensive computing, scheduling, bioinformatics and high-performance computing in biomedicine. 9June
• Jeffrey Taekman at Duke University Human Simulation and Patient Safety Center (Durham, NC)
  Keywords: Clinical Research, Educational Technology, Human Factors, Informatics, Computer-Assisted Instruction, Education- Medical, Interactive 3-D environments, Mobile Computing, Internet, Patient Safety, Research Design, Peer Review, Serious Games,Simulation 9June
• Ann Chervenak at University of Southern California Information Sciences Institute (Los Angeles, CA)
  Keywords: distributed data management, replica management, distributed scientific collaborations, workflow, data staging, policy driven data placement, distributed computing, data mirroring 8June
• Aniket Kittur at Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh, PA)
  Keywords: social computing, HCI, peer production, social collaboration, sensemaking, insight, wiki, Wikipedia, distributed cognition, collective intelligence, higher order cognition, categorization, scientific discovery 8June
• Javier Cabrera at Rutgers University (Hill Center, Bush Campus, Piscataway,NJ)
  Keywords: Bioinformatics, gene networks, gene ontology, gene expressions, biological processes, pattern recognition, DNA barcode. 8June
• Xin Li at Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh, PA)
  Keywords: Computer Aided Design, Neural Signal Processing, Machine Learning 7June
• Colin Dewey at University of Wisconsin-Madison (Madison, WI)
  Keywords: bioinformatics, computational biology, genomics, biological sequence analysis, sequence alignment, phylogeny, genomics, genome assembly 5June
• Jason Corso at State University of New York at Buffalo (Buffalo, NY)
  Keywords: computer vision, medical imaging, computational biomedicine, machine intelligence, machine learning, Bayesian, perceptual interfaces and smart environments. 5June
• Ramesh Raskar at MIT Media Lab (Boston, MA)
  Keywords: Computational imaging, Signal processing, Applied optics, Computer graphics and vision, Medical Imaging, Thermal and ultrasound sensing, Computational photography, Hardware electronics, Art, Online photo collections, Visual social computing. 4June
• Subir Biswas at Michigan State University (Lansing, MI)
  Keywords: Embedded Networks, Medical Instrumentation Networks, Social Network Protocols, Body Area Networks, Vehicular Communication, Cognitive Network Access, Controlled Network Mobility 4June
• Alexander Gray at Georgia Institute of Technology (Atlanta, GA)
  Keywords: machine learning, data mining, statistics, high dimensionality, massive datasets, optimization, algorithms, automated program synthesis, computational geometry, linear algebra, data-intensive/distributed computing, astrophysics, mass spec, SVMs 4June
• Gary Miller at Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh, PA 15217)
  Keywords: keyword, keyword, keyword, ... 4June
• Jed Pitera at IBM Almaden Research Center (San Jose, CA)
  Keywords: High Performance Computing, supercomputing, simulation, parallel algorithms, computational chemistry, computational biology, materials science, Markov models, statistical mechanics, self-assembly, computer-aided engineering 4June
• Terran Lane at University of New Mexico (Albuquerque, New Mexico)
  Keywords: Machine learning, scientific data mining, neuroscience, bioinformatics, interdisciplinary data analysis, networks, graphs, topology, applications 4June
• Manolis Kellis at MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab / Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard (Cambridge, MA)
  Keywords: Computational Biology, Genomics, Epigenomics, Regulatory Motifs, Regulatory Networks, BioInformatics, Cancer, Development, Small RNAs, Evolutionary Genomics, Phylogenomics, Phylogenetics, Comparative Genomics 4June
• Lei He at University of California, Los Angeles (Los Angeles, CA)
  Keywords: VLSI circuits and systems, programmable logic including FPGA, low power computer architecture, computer-aided design, robust circuit and system design, numerical and combinatorial optimization, Robust circuits and systems, programmable logic including FPGA, low power and energy, solar energy and smart grid 4June
• Jinbo Xu at Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago (Chicago, IL)
  Keywords: protein sequence alignment, homology search, protein threading, protein structure prediction, biological network alignment 3June
• Truong Nguyen at University of California, San Diego (UCSD) (San Diego, CA)
  Keywords: Video processing, image processing, filter banks and wavelets, image analysis and understanding, 3D - multiview signal processing, machine learning, signal processing for medical devices 3June
• Alok Choudhary at Northwestern University (Evanston, IL)
  Keywords: High-Performance Computing, Data Intenstive Computing, Parallel I/O and storage, data mining, computer architecture, security, business, medical and bioinformatics applications, power aware systems 3June
• Vladimir Pavlovic at Rutgers University (New Brunswick, NJ)
  Keywords: probabilistic modeling, computer vision, sequence modeling, machine learning, bayesian models, bayesian networks, image and video retrieval, bioinformatics 3June
• Donna Slonim at Tufts University (Boston area, Massachusetts)
  Keywords: computational biology, machine learning, data mining, protein-protein interaction networks, biological networks, bioinformatics, genomics, algorithms 3June
• Insup Lee at University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA)
  Keywords: real-time systems, embedded systems, cyber-physical systems, high-confidence medical software systems, formal methods, quantitative trust managment 2June
• Kobus Barnard at University of Arizona, Computing Science (Tucson Arizona)
  Keywords: learning 3D stochastic geometric models, extracting biological form from image data, grammar representations, L-systems, image annotation, region labeling, color constancy, shadow detection, educational video 2June
• Min Song at New Jersey Institute of Technology (Newark, NJ)
  Keywords: Biomedical Text Mining, Information Extraction, Information Retrieval, Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing 2June
• Jeongkyu Lee at University of Bridgeport (Bridgeport, CT)
  Keywords: Multimedia database, data mining, video processing, medical videos, ontology, video retireval, image retrieval, kinematic analysis 1June
• Yolanda Gil at University of Southern California, Information Sciences Institute (Los Angeles, CA)
  Keywords: intelligent user interfaces, knowledge collection from web volunteers, knowledge-rich problem solving, artificial intelligence in social networking sites, semantic web, scientific workflows. 1June
• Kevin Karplus at University of California, Santa Cruz (Santa Cruz, CA)
  Keywords: bioinformatics, protein structure prediction, protein design, hidden Markov models, neural nets, optimization 1June
• Jun Huan at University of Kansas (Lawrence, KS )
  Keywords: Data mining and machine learning: theory, algorithms, & applications, Bioinformatics and Biomedical Informatics: functional genomics, chemical genomics, metabolomics, & systems biology 1June
• Michael Coen at University of Wisconsin-Madison (Madison, WI)
  Keywords: Biologically inspired machine learning, unsupervised machine learning, inductive bias, computational cognitive and neuroscience 31May
• Vikas Singh at University of Wisconsin - Madison (Madison, WI)
  Keywords: computer vision, biomedical imaging 31May
• Daphne Koller at Stanford University (Stanford, CA)
  Keywords: statistical machine learning, probabilistic models, computer vision, computational systems biology 31May
• Lori Clarke at University of Massachusetts (Amherst, MA)
  Keywords: Analysis of concurrent and distributed systems, finite-state verification, requirements engineering, safety analysis, analysis based process improvement 30May
• Pradip Bose at IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center (Yorktown Heights, NY)
  Keywords: power-aware microarchitectures, reliable systems, technology-aware design and tools, pre-silicon modeling, verification-aware microarchitectures, 3D-integrated chip architectures 29May
• Jude Shavlik Jude Shavlik at University of Wisconsin (Madison, WI)
  Keywords: machine learning, bioinformatics, computational biology, data mining, information extraction, medical informatics, advice taking, transfer learning 29May
• Jason Nieh at Columbia University (New York, NY)
  Keywords: software systems, operating systems, virtualization, file and storage systems, cloud computing, mobile computing, thin-client computing, network computing, Web systems, high-performance computing, security, performance evaluation. 29May
• Tin Kam Ho at Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent (Murray Hill, NJ)
  Keywords: statistical pattern recognition, statistical machine learning, statistical signal processing, data mining, visual analytics, compressive sensing, network traffic analysis, speech analytics, prosody, recommender systems, service personalization, eHealth 29May
• Noshir Contractor at Northwestern University (Evanston, IL)
  Keywords: social networks, knowledge networks, network recommender systems, web crawling, text mining, statistical modeling of large scale networks, computational modeling of large scale networks, socio-technical design of cyberinfrastructure, petascale apps 28May
• Mark Craven at University of Wisconsin - Madison (Madison, WI)
  Keywords: machine learning, computational biology, bioinformatics, active learning, natural language processing, time series, abduction 28May
• Bruce Donald at Duke University (Durham, NC)
  Keywords: Computational biology, computational chemistry, drug design, protein design, computational structural biology, micro-robotics. 28May
• Pietro Perona at California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, CA, USA)
  Keywords: Computational Vision, Visual Psychophysics, Modeling of biological vision, Visual Recognition, Perceptual Categorization, Human-Machine Interfaces, Animal Behavior, Analysis of Behavior, Measuring Behavior, Ethometrics 28May
• Doina Caragea at Kansas State University (Manhattan, KS)
  Keywords: machine learning, data mining, semantic web, ontologies and information integration, learning from heterogeneous data sources, gene regulatory networks, protein-protein interaction networks. 27May
• Gary Olson at University of California, Irvine (Irvine, California)
  Keywords: CSCW, HCI, software engineering, scientific collaboration, virtual teams 27May