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Current Students
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Name, Degree |
Thesis |
Expected Graduation |
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Erin Boggess, PhD, Bioinformatics and Computational Biology |
Multivariate statistical analysis for NGS |
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Jesse Walsh, PhD, Bioinformatics and Computational Biology |
Biological pathway database analysis and links to genome-wide models |
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Yao (Al) Fu, PhD, Bioinformatics and Computational Biology |
Transcription factor activity discovery |
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Divya Mistry, PhD, Bioinformatics and Computational Biology;
co-major Prof. Basil Nikolau. |
Biological Network Analysis |
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Candan Herdem, PhD, HCI |
" Emotion detection using mobile devices" |
December, 2013 |
 | Ruolin Liu, PhD, Bioinformatics and Computational Biology | Alternative Splicing in Plant Systems | |
Recent Graduates |
 | Ming Jia, PhD, CompE | “Visualizing biological data in Google Earth”, August 2011 Now at Google. | |  | Wengang Zhou, PhD, Bioinformatics and Computational Biology;
co-major Prof. Xun Gu. | “Machine learning methods for omics data
integration,” May 2010, now at Pioneer Hybrid,
Senior Bioinformatics Specialist. | May 2010 |  | John Van Hemert, PhD, Bioinformatics and Computational Biology;
co-major Prof. Basil Nikolau. |
“Methods for
Integrated Biochemical Pathway Analysis”, Degree
granted, December 2010. Mr. Van Hemert has received the Grape Research
Coordination Network Fellowship in 2009 to conduct research at the University
of Padua, Italy, the Cornette Fellowship from the BCB program for a strong
record of research, accomplishments, and the Iowa State University Research
Excellence Award, Now at Pioneer Hybrid.
| Decemb;er 2010 |  | Preeti Bais,PhD, Bioinformatics and Computational Biology; co-major
Prof. Basil Nikolau. | “Bioinformatics
methods for metabolomics based biomarker detection in functional genomics
studies” Now at Stemina, Madison, WI. | December, 2011 |  | David Kabala, PhD, CompEng |
“Developing
virtual reality applications: The design and evaluation of virtual reality
development tools for expert and novice users”, now at Aecholon Technologies.
| December 2011 | | Valerie Williams, MS, HCI | | |
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Matt Moscou, PhD, Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Co-major
Prof: Roger Wise |
“Deciphering the transcriptional regulation and response of barley to
obligate fungal biotroph invasion,” now at The Sainsbury
Laboratory, John Innes Centre, United Kingdom. |
May 2010 |
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Matt Studham, PhD, Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Co-major
Prof: Gustavo MacIntire |
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August, 2010 |
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Tian Xia, PhD, Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Co-major
Prof: Xun Gu |
“Network Modeling in Systems Biology” |
May 2010 |
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Rien Beal, MSEE |
A Low Voltage Rail-to-Rail Operational
Amplifier with Constant Operation and Improved Process Robustness |
August 2009 |
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Lisa McGarthwaite, MS HCI |
MS Dissertation title:
BioN: a novel interface for biological network
visualization
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May 2008 |
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Yuting Yang PhD Comp Engineering |
“Interactive Visualization of Metabolic Networks using Virtual Reality”
, now at Intel. |
January 06 |
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Xiaopeng Fang PhD Mech. Eng Co-major professor Jim Bernard |
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March, 2006 |
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Jo Etzel, PhD Computational Biology Interdepartmental Major.
Co-major professor Ralph Adolphs |
“Algorithms and Procedures to Analyze Physiological Signals in
Psychophysiological Research,” now at University Medical Center
Groningen, Netherlands. |
March, 2006 |
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Pan Du, PhD EE, Computational Biology |
“Multi-scale genetic network inference based on time series gene
expression profiles,” Won research excellence award. |
December, 2005 |
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Zach Cox, MS EE |
“FCModeler: Fuzzy Analysis of Metabolic Networks” (pdf)
Now employed at Charles River Software, Boston MA
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August, 2002 |
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Christopher Kirk, MS CprE |
“Adaptive Fuzzy Intrusion Detection” |
December, 2002 |
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Bin Shao PhD Ag Eng/EE
Co-major professor: |
Image processing system for thermal comfort in swine. Employed at
Motorola. |
Graduated May 2004 |
Past Students - Masters Degrees
- 1. Klaus Zimmerman, MSEE, “Computational Complexity Reduction in
Fractal Image Compression by Adaptive Codebook Clustering,” October 1996.
- John Bendle (co-major Professor with J. Vogel ), MSEE, “Fuzzy Control
of an Automated Payload Return System,” May 1997.
- Jian Hong, MSEE, “Autonomous Star Identification Using Fuzzy Neural
Logic Networks,” May 1998.
- Jeremy Eccles, MSEE, “An evolvable virtual ecosystem: Applying genetic
algorithms, artificial neural networks, and fuzzy systems to virtual
environments,” August 1998.
- Annie Lum, Masters EE, Thesis Title: “Intelligent Signal Processing
Methods for Interference Suppression,” May 1999.
- Hemlata Ahir, MSEE, Thesis Title: “Simulation of a Wideband CDMA
System,” May 2000.
- Lit Min Lee, MSCpE, Thesis Title: “Rapid correlated database
generation for traffic simulation,” August 2000.
- Aaron Honecker, MSEE, Thesis Title: “Anomaly Intrusion Detection: a
Distributed ARTMAP Neural Network Approach,” August 2001.
- Jayme Hero, MS Cpre, May 2004.
- Bernard Lwakabamba MS EE, December 2004.
- Eric Eekhoff MS EE,"Architectures for Wireless Sensor Networks",
March 2004.
- Xiaoyuen Tang, MS Cpre, "BarleyExpress: A MIAME-enhanced
database frontend," February, 2004.
- Jian Gong, MSEE, March 2005.
Past Students - Ph.D
- Jong Bae Choi, Ph.D. EE, Thesis Title: “Data Fusion Using Expected
Output Membership Functions,” August, 1999. Dr. Choi was awarded a travel
scholarship to present his research at the IEEE World Congress on
Computational Intelligence, in Anchorage, Alaska in 1998.
- Seoyoung Lee, PhD EE, “Interference Suppression for DS/CDMA Systems in
Non-Gaussian Impulsive Channels,” May 1998. Dr. Lee was awarded a travel
scholarship to present his research at MILCOM, in Monterey, CA in 1997.
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