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Y. Alp Aslandogan

Department of Computer Science
Prairie View A&M University

Martin Street, SR Collins Room 325
Engineering Tech Bldg.
PRAIRIE VIEW, TEXAS 77446-0970
tel: (936) 857-5715
email: lifeglass-at-sbcglobal.net

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Teaching

Advanced Database Management Systems
Object Oriented Analysis and Design
Research Topics in Data Mining: This course explores relational, text, time-series, sequence, web and multimedia mining. The main textbook for this course is "Data Mining: Concepts and Techniques" by Han and Kamber. However, we will also use other texts as well as conference and journal articles.
Machine Learning for Data Mining: This course explores machine learning techniques for various data mining tasks such as classification, clustering, outlier analysis and trend analysis.
Medical Informatics: Text book (tentative): Medical Informatics: Knowledge Management and Data Mining in Biomedicine, Springer, 2005.
Information Visualization: Text book: Collin Ware, Morgan Kaufmann, 2004.
Database Systems: Text book: Elmasri & Navathe, Addison Wesley, 2004.

Research

Interests:
- Database Systems: Object-Relational Databases, Data Mining (Knowledge Discovery in Databases), Indexing Multimedia Databases, Database-driven Web Publishing, Visual Query Languages and Interfaces;
- Multimedia Information Retrieval: Content-based Image Retrieval, Information Extraction on the Web; Concept-based and Context-sensitive Information Access.
- Biomedical Informatics: Biomedical data mining, image mining, change detection and monitoring in various medical image modalities.
- Computers in Educational Technology: Automated generation of animated, multimedia concept presentations; concept-based access to educational or instructional multimedia; learner modeling and applications to educational information retrieval.
Projects:
- Multimedia Web Search Agents (Project DIOGENES).
- Medical Data Mining and Computer Assisted Skin Cancer Screening (Project DESCARTES).
- Computer-assisted Learning via Automated Multimedia Concept Presentations (Project AVICENNA).
Education: PhD, Computer Science, The University of Illinois at Chicago; MSc, Computer Science, Case Western Reserve University; BSc, Computer Science and Mathematics, Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey.
Curriculum Vitae

Activities

Technical Committee Co-chair, IEEE Emerging Technologies Conference (ETC 2005, 2006), Richardson, TX.
Secretary, IEEE Dallas Section, 2006.
Special track co-chair, Bioinformatics, IEEE International Conference on Information Technology: Coding and Computing (ITCC 2005 and 2004).
Special Sessions and Workshops Chair, The 2005 International Symposium on Collaborative Technologies and Systems (CTS 2005), Saint Louis, Missouri, USA, May 15-19, 2005.
Area Co-editor, IEEE Distributed Systems Online, Distributed Multimedia. http://dsonline.computer.org/
Program Committee Member, IEEE International Conference in Information Reuse and Integration (IRI), 2006, 2005 (http://www.cs.fiu.edu/IRI05/), 2004 (http://www.cs.fiu.edu/IRI04/) and 2003: http://parks.slu.edu/IRI2003/.
Program Committee Member, ICPP 2003: The International Conference on Parallel Processing: http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/~icpp2003/
Invited Speaker, "Context-sensitive and Concept-based Information Access", Sabre Research Labs, Southlake, TX, June 22, 2004.
Invited Speaker, "Data Mining in Biomedicine and Evidence Combination Methods", Computer Science seminar series, Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences, Sabanci University, Istanbul, April 20, 2004.
Invited Speaker, "Internet2 and Implications for the Medical Profession", American Heart Association Southwest Regional Cardiovascular Review Symposium, Fort Worth Botanic Garden, Texas, April 23, 2003.
Reviewer for IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, ACM Multimedia Systems Journal, International Journal of Image and Graphics, IEEE Internet Computing, IEEE Pattern Recognition.
Review panel member for NSF Information and Data Management Program, 2004.
Review panel member for NSF Science and Engineering Information Integration and Informatics Program, 2004.
Reviewer for NSF International Opportunities for Scientists and Engineers Program, 2002.
CSE@UTA Advisory Council member.
Society Memberships: ACM (SIGIR, SIGMM, SIGMOD), IEEE Computer Society, Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE).

Selected Publications

Rahul Joshi, Y. Alp Aslandogan, "Concept-based Web Search using Domain Prediction and Parallel Query Expansion", in IEEE International Conference on Information Reuse and Integration, Waikoloa, Hawaii, September 16-18, 2006.
Mehmet Malcok, Y. Alp Aslandogan, Aydin Yesildirek, "Fractal Dimension and Similarity Search in High Dimensional Spatial Databases", in IEEE International Conference on Information Reuse and Integration, Waikoloa, Hawaii, September 16-18, 2006.
M. Emre Celebi, Y. Alp Aslandogan, William V. Stoecker, Hitoshi Iyatomi, Hiroshi Oka, and Xiaohe Chen "Unsupervised Border Detection in Dermoscopy Images" to appear in Skin Research and Technology.
M. Emre Celebi, Hassan Kingravi, Y. Alp Aslandogan, Willam V. Stoecker, "Blue-White Veil Detection in Dermoscopy Images Using Machine Learning Techniques", to appear in SPIE Medical Imaging, San Diego, CA, 11-16 February 2006.
M. Emre Celebi, Y. Alp Aslandogan, W.V. Stoecker "Automatic Border Detection in Dermoscopy Images", 6th World Congress on Melanoma, Vancouver, BC, Canada, September 2005.
K.L. Tsui, V. Chen, W. Jiang, Y. Alp Aslandogan, “Data Mining Methods and Applications,” in Springer Handbook of Engineering Statistics, June 2005.
M. Emre Celebi, Y. Alp Aslandogan, Paul R. Bergstresser, "Human Perception-driven, Similarity-based Access to Image Databases", in Proceedings of the 18th FLAIRS Conference, Clearwater Beach, FL, May 2005.
M. Emre Celebi, Wenzhao Guo, Y. Alp Aslandogan, Paul R. Bergstresser: Skin Lesion Segmentation Using Clustering Techniques. FLAIRS Conference 2005: 364-369.
M. Emre Celebi, Y. Alp Aslandogan, Paul R. Bergstresser: Mining Biomedical Images with Density-Based Clustering. ITCC (1) 2005: 163-168.
M. Emre Celebi, Y. Alp Aslandogan: A Comparative Study of Three Moment-Based Shape Descriptors. ITCC (1) 2005: 788-793.
Rifat Ozcan, Y. Alp Aslandogan, "Concept Based Information Access", in Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Information Technology: Coding and Computing, Las Vegas, NV, April 2005, pp 794-799. An earlier version is available as a CSE technical report: "Concept-based Information Retrieval Using Ontologies and Latent Semantic Analysis," Technical Report CSE-2004-8, November 2004.
M. Emre Celebi, Y. Alp Aslandogan, Paul M. Bergstresser, "Unsupervised Border Detection of Skin Lesion Images", in Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Information Technology: Coding and Computing, Las Vegas, NV, April 2005.
Ibrahim Noorzaie, Y. Alp Aslandogan, and M. Emre Celebi, "A System for Distributed Image Acquisition, Content-Analysis and Similarity Retrieval”, in IEEE International Conference on Information Reuse and Integration, Las Vegas, November 2004.
Gaurav Jain, Abbasali Ginwala, and Y. Alp Aslandogan, “An Approach to Text Classification Using Dimensionality Reduction and Combination of Classifiers”, in IEEE International Conference on Information Reuse and Integration, Las Vegas, November 2004.
Velmurugan Mariappan, Y. Alp Aslandogan, "Vizipen: A System for Automatic Generation of Multimedia Concept Presentations", in E-Learn 2004: World Conference in E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education, Washington, DC, Nov. 1-5, 2004.
Y. Alp Aslandogan, Clement T. Yu, Ravishankar Mysore, Bo Liu, "Robust Content Based Image Indexing Using Contextual Clues and Automatic Pseudofeedback" in ACM/Springer Multimedia Systems Journal special issue in Multimedia Document Management Systems, Vol.9, No.6, June 2004, pp.548-560.
Pallavi Boppana, Y. Alp Aslandogan, "The 3C Architecture: An XML Topic Maps-Based Framework for Integrating Content, Context and Common Knowledge About Multimedia", IEEE International Conference on Information Integration and Reuse, Las Vegas, NV, 2003.
M. Emre Celebi, Y. Alp Aslandogan, "Content Based Image Retrieval Incorporating Models of Human Perception", in IEEE International Conference on Information Technology, Coding and Computing, Las Vegas, NV, April 2004.
Gauri Mahajani, Y. Alp Aslandogan, Stan Taylor, "Evidence Combination in Medical Data Mining", in IEEE International Conference on Information Technology, Coding and Computing, Las Vegas, NV, April 2004, pp. 219-226.
Mitali S. Gokhale, Y. Alp Aslandogan, Stan Taylor, "A Visualization Oriented Data Mining Tool for Biomedical Images", in IEEE International Conference on Information Integration and Reuse, Las Vegas, NV, 2003.
Wenzhao Guo, Y. Alp Aslandogan, "Mining Skin Lesion Images with Spatial Data Mining Methods", Technical Report CSE-2003-20, July 2003.
Sharma Chakravarthy, Y. Alp Aslandogan, Ramez Elmasri, Leonidas Fegaras, Jung-Hwan Oh, “Database Research at UT Arlington”, SIGMOD Record 32(1): 73-80 (2003).
Ravishankar P. Mysore, Y. Alp Aslandogan, "Diogenes: A Distributed Search Agent," Technical Report CSE-2003-24, July 2003.
Manu Aery, Naveen Ramamurthy, Y. Alp Aslandogan, "Topic Identification of Textual Data," Technical Report CSE-2003-25, July 2003.
Raman Adaikkalavan, Laali Elkhalifa, Y. Alp Aslandogan, "Topic Identification Through Ontology-based Concept Generalization," Technical Report CSE-2003-26, July 2003.
Y. Alp Aslandogan, S. Vana, P. Boppana, V. Mariappan, L.Stvan. "Empowering Educators in Visual Learning: Information Extraction and Visualization for Automatic Generation of Multimedia Presentations." Proceedings of SITE '03 (Society for Information Technology and Teacher Education), Albuquerque, NM.
Y. Alp Aslandogan, Clement T. Yu, "Automatic Feedback for Content Based Image Retrieval on the Web." IEEE ICME 2002.
Y. Alp Aslandogan, Clement T. Yu, "Evaluating Strategies and Systems for Indexing Person Images on the Web." ACM Multimedia 2000, Los Angeles, CA. (Best Student Paper Award)
Y. Alp Aslandogan, Clement T. Yu, "Multiple Evidence Combination in Image Retrieval: Diogenes Searches for People on the Web ." ACM SIGIR 2000, Athens, Greece.
Y. Alp Aslandogan, Clement T. Yu, "Experiments in Using Visual and Textual Clues for Image Hunting on the Web." (Book chapter) In “Advances in Visual Information Systems: 4th International Conference, VISUAL 2000, Lyon, France, November 2000 Proceedings”, Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes in Computer Science (ISSN: 0302-9743), 1929:2000, Jan. 2000, pp.108 – 119.
Y. Alp Aslandogan, Clement T. Yu, "Techniques and Systems for Image and Video Retrieval" , in IEEE TKDE Special Issue on Multimedia Retrieval January/February 1999.
Y. A. Aslandogan, C. Thier, C. T. Yu, J. Zou, and N. Rishe, "Using Semantic Contents and WordNet(TM) in Image Retrieval" , in Proceedings of ACM SIGIR Conference, Philadelphia, PA, July 1997.
Y. A. Aslandogan, C. Thier, C. Yu, "A System for Effective Content Based Image Retrieval", ACM Multimedia '96 pp.429-30 (Prototype Demonstration).
Y. A. Aslandogan, C. Thier, Clement T. Yu, C. Liu and K. R. Nair, "Design, implementation and evaluation of SCORE (a System for COntent based REtrieval of Pictures)", IEEE-ICDE-11, pp. 280-287, March 1995.
Y. A. Aslandogan "VQL: A Visual Query Language for Unified Database Access", M.Sc. Thesis, Case Western Reserve University, June 1994.
K. Vadaparty, Y. Aslandogan and G. Ozsoyoglu, "Towards a Unified Database Access", ACM-SIGMOD Conference 1993, pp.357-366.

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alp@cse.uta.edu, 10/26/2006