WORKSHOP CO-CHAIRS

WORKSHOP ORGANIZATION COMMITTEE

  • Yu Cao, University of Massachusetts Lowell, 198 Riverside St., Lowell, MA 01854, ycao(at)cs.uml.edu
  • Samah Jamal Fodeh, Yale University, 300 George street, Suite 575, New Haven, CT 06519, samah.fodeh(at)yale.edu
  • José D. Martín-Guerrero, University of Valencia, Avgda. de la Universitat, s/n. E46100 Burjassot (València) – Spain, Jose.D.Martin(at)uv.es
  • Daniela Stan Raicu, DePaul University, 243 S. Wabash Ave, Chicago, IL 60604 draicu(at)cdm.depaul.edu
  • Mohammad-Reza Siadat, Oakland University, 2200 N Squirrel Rd, Rochester, MI 48309, siadat(at)oakland.edu

PROGRAM COMMITTEE MEMBERS

  • Sameer Antani, NIH National Library of Medicine
  • Abbas Babajani-Feremi, University of Tennessee Health Science Center
  • Carlo Barbieri, Fresenius Medical Care
  • Paul Bradley, MethodCare, Inc.
  • Hamidreza Chitsaz, Colorado State University
  • Carlo Combi, Universita’ degli Studi di Verona, Italy
  • Rosa Figueroa, University of Utah
  • Jacob Furst, DePaul University
  • Adam Gaweda, University of Louisville
  • Maryellen Giger, University of Chicago
  • Hamid Soltanian-Zadeh, Henry Ford health System
  • Juan Gómez, University of Valencia, Spain
  • Ali Haddad, Yale University
  • Kourosh Jafari-Khouzani, Harvard University
  • Ian H. Jarman, Liverpool John Moores University, UK
  • Wen-Yang Lin, National University of Kaohsiung, Taiwan
  • Paulo J. G. Lisboa, Liverpool John Moores University, UK
  • Flavio Mari, Fresenius Medical Care, Bad Homburg, Germany
  • Theophilus Ogunyemi, Oakland University
  • Doug Redd, University of Utah
  • Ishwar Sethi, Oakland University
  • Emilio Soria, University of Valencia, Spain
  • Szilard Vajda, NIH National Library of Medicine
  • Joan Vila Francés, University of Valencia, Spain

SHORT BIOS OF THE ORGANIZERS

Dr. José D. Martín-Guerrero

University of Valencia

Dr. José D. Martín-Guerrero received a B.Sc degree in Theoretical Physics (1997), a M.Eng. degree in Electronics (1999) and a Ph.D. degree in Machine Learning (2004), all from the University of Valencia, Spain. He is currently an Associate Professor at the Department of Electronic Engineering, University of Valencia. His research interests include Machine Learning and Computational Intelligence, with special emphasis in Reinforcement Learning and Quantum Machine Learning. He is Co-Chair and founder Member of the Medical Data Analysis Task Force (Data Mining Technical Committee, IEEE Computational Intelligence Society) and the Principal Investigator of IDAL group.

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Dr. Mohammad-Reza Siadat

Oakland University

Dr. Mohammad-Reza Siadat is an Associate Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at Oakland University. He is the founding director of Biomedical Computing (BMC) lab. He was with Henry Ford Health System from 2005 to 2007. In 2003 and 2004, he served as a consultant at Harper University Hospital. His research interests include biomedical image processing, biomedical informatics, and decision support systems.

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Dr. Yu Cao

The University of Massachusetts Lowell

Dr. Yu Cao is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Computer Science, The University of Massachusetts Lowell since Aug, 2013. From 2010 to 2013, he was a faculty at The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga (UTC). From 2007 to 2010, he was a faculty at California State University, Fresno. Prior to that, he was a Visiting Fellow of Biomedical Engineering at Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota. He received his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science from Iowa State University in 2005 and 2007, respectively. He received the B.Eng. degree from Harbin Engineering University in 1997, the M.Eng. degree from Huazhong University of Science and Technology in 2000, all in Computer Science. His research has been supported by both NSF and NIH. He was a guest editor of a special issue Springer Multimedia Tools and Applications (MTAP), and a special issue in Journal of Multimedia (JMM).

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Dr. Daniela Stan Raicu

DePaul University, Chicago

Dr. Daniela Stan Raicu is a Professor of School of Computing in the College of Computing and Digital Media at DePaul University, Chicago. She is the founding Director of the DePaul Data Mining and Predictive Analytics (DaMPA) Center and co-director of the Medical Informatics (MedIX) Lab and the Intelligent Multimedia Processing (IMP) Lab. Her research interests include medical imaging, multimedia indexing and retrieval, machine learning and data mining. Daniela’s projects have been funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF), Argonne National Laboratory, Department of Education, and McArthur Foundation. Daniela holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Oakland University, Michigan, a M.A. in Computer Science from Wayne State University, Michigan, and a B.S. in Mathematics from University of Bucharest, Romania.

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Dr. Samah Jamal Fodeh

Yale School of Medicine

Dr. Samah Jamal Fodeh has a dual appointment as associate research scientist at the Yale Center for Medical Informatics (YCMI) at Yale School of Medicine and the Veterans Administration (VA) in West Haven, CT. She received her M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science from Michigan State University in 2006 and 2010, respectively. Her research has been supported by NIH and the VA. Her research interests include data mining, machine learning, information retrieval and information extraction.

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