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Date
Funding News
April
2013

Congratulations to Prof. Ramaswamy for winning a grant from NSF for his project on building Cloud-based Big-Data techniques for federated Internet of Things.

May
2012

Congratulations to Prof. Perdisci and Prof. Liu for winning the NSF CAREER awards. The CAREER award is NSF's most prestigious grant award for young faculty.

April
2012
Prof. Doshi receives supplemental funding from the Army and NSF to recruit several undergraduate students for performing research in supported projects.
November
2011
UGA, through the efforts of Prof. Taha, is selected by NVidia as a 2011-2012 CUDA Teaching Center. NVidia will donate high-performance GPUs and partially fund a TA for teaching CUDA C/C++ programming.
August
2011
Congratulations to Prof. Perdisci and Prof. Li for winning a grant from NSF for their project on developing tools for detecting malicious domain names.
September
2009
Prof. Doshi was awarded a 3-year grant by the Army Research Office for his project titled 'Strategic State Estimation in Uncertain and Mixed Multiagent Settings'. Prof. Adam Goodie of Psychology is the Co-PI.
August
2008
Prof. Doshi (PI) received a two year grant from AFOSR for his project titled "Individual Decision Making in Large-Scale and Uncertain Multiagent Environments". Prof. Doshi will collaborate with Prof. Goodie (Co-PI) of the Psychology Dept., UGA.
April
2008
Prof. Doshi received a grant from NIH for the project titled "Semantics and Services enabled Problem Solving Environment for Trypanosoma-cruzi". Prof. Doshi participates in a 4-year, $1.5M grant, which will be shared almost equally between Wright State University, UGA (Prof. Rick Tarleton and Prof. Doshi) and Stanford University.
July
2007
Profs. Kang Li (PI) and L. Ramaswamy (Co-PI) received a three year grant from NSF for a project titled "Adaptive Attacks and Defenses in Denial of Information". The research will be performed in collaboration with Georgia Tech.
March 2007 Prof. Doshi received a one-year grant from Microsoft Research for his research proposal titled 'Semantic Reconciliation with Disparate Sensor Meta-Data for Automatic Publication'. His was one of the approximately 15% of the total proposals that were selected for funding. The competition received proposals from all over the world.
July
2006
Dr. Liming Cai has recently been awarded an NIH research grant on his computational biology project "Searching Genomes for Non-Coding RNAs by Their Structure" (co-PIs: Russell Malmberg of Plant Biology and Michael McEachern of Genetics at UGA) with the amount of $232,552 for the first year and total amount of $716,352 for three years.
September 2005 National Science Foundation awarded a grant on "SemGrid: Semantic Discovery on Adaptive Services Grid," PI: Amit Sheth, Co-PIs: I.B. Arpinar, K. Kochut, J.A. Miller, Award # IIS 0545243, October 15, 2005 - December 31, 2007, $100,000.
April
2005
LSDIS lab is awarded phase II of project "An Ontological Approach to Financial Analysis & Monitoring" (Amit Sheth, PI; Budak Arpinar, Co-PI). UGA component of this phase award from ARDA (with CTA, Inc. as a partner) is $162,500. Expected total award amount if phase III is awarded is $325,000. Further details from SemDis project web site.
May
2005
LSDIS lab received $32,000 cash gift from the Athens Heart Center and welcomes it as our newest institutional sponsor. ; Dr. Subodh Agrawal 's vision and insight that LSDIS's research in the Semantic Web and ontology-driven integration/analysis can be of significant value to healthcare, including cardiology practices, gets us energized to seek more impact of our research.
April
2005
Profs. Amit Sheth and John Miller were once again awarded IBM Eclipse Innovation Grant (EIG) (a $27,000 cash gift) for their research related to the METEOR-S project. As part of the IBM Scholars Program, the EIG competition was highly competitive. IBM received over 360 international submissions and selected around 50 proposals for funding in the range of $10,000-$30,000 each. Awardees are selected by a panel of experts from IBM Research and D evelopment, and external reviews of proposals are sought to assist in the selection process.

Eclipse is an open-source community that creates technology and an open universal platform for tools integration. Eclipse also offers significant value to researchers and educators, by providing an industrial-strength infrastructure for conducting research and developing curricula in many areas of computer science and computer engineering, with particular relevance to programming languages, development tools, collaboration and programming e nvironments. METEOR-S project has developed tools related to Web Services,Web Processes, and Semantic Web Services that will be offered as plug-ins for Eclipse.  Eclipse is also used extensively in the courses taught by Profs. Sheth and Miller. 

More information is [here].

In 2004, Prof. Sheth and Miller were also awarded a $28,000 cash gift from the same program.

Jan
2005
UGA partners with University of Pennsylvania for bio-defense and infectious disease research project.

The University of Georgia signed a five-year $3.0 million subcontract to develop a database that will contain comprehensive information about some pathogens on a bio-defense priority list established by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease. The subcontract teams UGA with the University of Pennsylvania to develop a “virtual database” that serves as a single access point to genomic and related information about parasites in the phylum Apicomplexa, which includes organisms that cause malaria and toxoplasmosis.

NIAID, part of the National Institutes of Health, awarded a total of eight contracts in 2004 to establish national Bioinformatics Resource Centers, including the Penn/UGA award.

Jessica Kissinger, assistant professor of genetics and member of UGA's Center for Tropical and Emerging Global Diseases, is the principal investigator for UGA; co-principal investigators a re Eileen Kraemer, associate professor of computer science, and John A. Miller, professor of computer science.

More information is [here].

Date
Honors & Awards
April
2013

MS student, Jennifer Rouan, wins a prestigious Anita Borg memorial scholarship from Google. Jennifer is a research assistant at the CUDA teaching center under the supervision of Prof. Taha. Congratulations!

April
2013

Celebrations! Team SecDawgs led by Prof. Li and composed of 12 students from the CS dept. places third in an international internet security competition, iCTF, among 100 teams. Doctoral student, Aryabrata Basu and Prof. Johnsen (Computer Systems Engg.) won the best poster award at the 2013 IEEE 3DUI conference. THINC lab's ontology alignment tool, Optima+, developed by doctoral student Uthayasanker Thayasivam and Prof. Doshi is tied second in a key track at the annual ontology alignment competition, OAEI 2012, among 21 tools.

January
2013
Congratulations to Prof. Ramaswamy and his collaborators at IBM for having a patent granted for their invention "Methods and systems for detecting fragments in electronic documents".
November
2012
Prof. Tianming Liu's research on a new map of the brain is featured in the Fall 2012 issue of the UGA Research Magazine.
April
2012

Congratulations to Ph.D. students, Anirban Mukhopadhyay (advisor: Prof. Bhandarkar) for winning UGARF's James L. Carmon Scholarship, and Uthaya Thayasivam (advisor: Prof. Doshi) for winning Grad. School's Doctoral Dissertation Completion Award for 2012-2013.

January
2012
Congratulations to Prof. Bhandarkar for receiving a US patent on virtual surgical systems and methods based on his research. Dr. Tollner from engineering is a co-inventor on the patent.
September
2011
UGA's Red and Black student newspaper features CSCI 4530/6530 (taught by Prof. Potter) and CSCI 4550/6550 (taught by Prof. Doshi) in its quirky curriculum series.
May
2011
Congratulations to Prof. Taha whose article in Math. and Computers in Simulation Journal received the 3rd IMACS 2011 most successful papers award.
April
2011
Congratulations to Prof. Doshi for winning the Creative Research Medal for his research on decision making in multiagent settings. This prestigious medal is selectively awarded by UGA for outstanding research or creative activity within the past 5 years that focuses on a single theme identifiable with UGA.
August
2009
Congratulations to Prof. Taha for being elected as Vice President of the IMACS and for publishing two articles in prestigious journals related to Mathematics of Simulation.
August
2009
Computer Science Department alumna Dr. Chunmei Liu won the 2009 NSF CAREER award for her project titled, "CAREER: A Complete System for Protein Identification with Computational Approaches". Dr. Liu received her Ph.D. in Computer Science at University of Georgia in 2006 and is currently an assistant professor at Howard University, Washington DC. The NSF CAREER award is the most prestigious award to faculty in their early careers.
May
2009
Congratulations to Prof. Ramaswamy and his collaborators at IBM for having a patent granted for their invention, "System and method for achieving different levels of data consistency" (United States Patent 7,395,279).
May
2009
Congratulations to Prof. Doshi for winning the 2009 NSF CAREER award for his project titled, "Scalable Algorithms for Individual Decision Making in Multiagent Settings". The CAREER award is the most prestigious grant that NSF awards to early career faculty.
May
2009
Congratulations to MS student Kalesha Bullard for winning a NSF graduate fellowship. Kalesha will use it to fund her studies toward a MS in CS and MS in Bio and Agri Engg.
May
2009
Congratulations to MS student Sharon Paradesi for winning a Systers Pass-it-on grant from the Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology. Sharon will use the grant to travel to LA and present her paper in ICWS 2009.
March
2008
Congratulations to Tomasz Oliwa (advisor: Prof. Rasheed), BJ Wimpey (Prof. Potter) and, Anousha Mesbah and John Harney (both Prof. Doshi) for winning the first, second and joint third prizes respectively, in the recent CS Research Day poster competition. The event featured over 40 posters by graduate student researchers. 
March
2008
Congratulations to graduate students Bradley Barnes, Kushel Bellipady and John Harney for winning UGA's Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award. This recognition is given to TAs whose teaching performance ranks in the top 10% of all TAs at UGA.
December
2008
Prof. Funk's mother, Harriet Mayor Fulbright, will be the Graduate School's commencement speaker in December 2008.
July
2008
Congratulations to Ph.D. candidate, Haibo Zhao, for winning the 2008-09 UGA's Dissertation Completion Award. Haibo's research on Web services is supervised by Prof. Doshi.
May
2008
Prof. Don Potter and the AI Center are featured in an article in the Athens Banner-Herald local newspaper.
March
2008
Congratulations to Prof. Eileen Kraemer for winning the Best Paper award at the ACM Southeast Conference, for their paper "A Study of the Performance of Steering Tasks under Spatial Transformation of Input". The paper was co-authored with Professor M. Eduard Tudoreanu (Edi), a former student of Prof. Kraemer. The study described in the paper was performed as part of the UGA Human-Computer Interaction class.
March
2008
Congratulations to Bobby McKnight, Pooya Shareghi and Brian Smith for receiving the Outstanding Teaching Assistant Awards.
October
2007
Congratulations to Prof. Hamid Arabnia who was awarded the Outstanding Achievement Award in recognition of his leadership and outstanding research contribution to the field of Supercomputing at the Seventh IEEE BIBE at Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, October 15, 2007. This award was presented by President of IEEE/SMC.
March
2007
Congratulations to our graduate student, Semmy Purewal, who received the Excellence in Teaching Award. It is the first time a CS student received this award.

Congratulations to our graduate students Yong Wei, Bradley Wimpey, and Rabia Jafri, who received the Outstanding Teaching Assistant Awards.

May
2006
Congratulations to Semmy Purewal,
who won the Patricia Cross Future Leaders Award. The award will be given in Association of American Colleges and Universities 2007 Annual Meeting (New Orleans, LA, January 2007). This national award recognizes graduate students who are committed to developing academic and civic responsibility in themselves and others, and who show exemplary promise as future leaders of higher education.
May
2006
Congratulations to graduate students Chris Bennett, Fred Maier and Ananda Chowdhury for winning the University's Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award! This award is given yearly to the top 10% of TAs at the University.

Additionally, Chris Bennett has been selected to participate in the University's TA Mentor program for the 2006-2007 school year. This is an award given to 15 graduate students throughout the University per year. In addition to a $1500 scholarship, Chris will spend the year attending seminars and workshops related to professional development, teaching and preparation for a career in academia. This marks the second year in a row that a graduate student from the Computer Science department has been selected for this honor, as Semmy Purewal was selected as a TA Mentor for the 2005-2006 academic year.

Also, Semmy Purewal's Teaching Portfolio has been accepted to the University's Teaching Portfolio Certification Program for this year.

May
2006
Starting with just 11% acceptance rate at the most prestigious conference in the area, two of three LSDIS papers accepted for the 15th World Wide Web Conference, Edinburg UK (WWW2006) are nominated for best paper and best student paper, respectively.

This, along with Prof. Sheth's invited talk "Semantic empowerment of Health Care and Life Science Applications" and his participation at the World Wide Web Consortium's Advisory Committee meeting make our department and its LSDIS lab as the most prominent organization at this mega event. See more information at: http://www2006.org/tracks/ and http://lsdis.cs.uga.edu

Nominated for Best Paper (and identified as the best paper in the Semantic Web track) at the 15th World Wide Web Conference, Edinburg UK, May 2006:

Semantic Analytics on Social Networks: Experiences in Addressing the Problem of Conflict of Interest Detection Boanerges Aleman-Meza*, Meenakshi Nagarajan*, Cartic Ramakrishnan*, Li Ding**, Pranam Kolari**, Amit P. Sheth*, I. Budak Arpinar*, Anupam Joshi**, Tim Finin**, *LSDIS Lab, Dept. of Computer Science. University of Georgia, USA, **Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering University of Maryland, USA

Nominated for Best Student Paper at the 15th World Wide Web Conference, Edinburg UK:

Semantic WS-Agreement Partner Selection Nicole Oldham, Kunal Verma, Amit Sheth, Farshad Hakimpour, LSDIS Lab Computer Science University of Georgia, USA

November
2005
Prof. Amit Sheth has been elected an IEEE Fellow, effective January 1, 2006. This honor is in recognition for his contributions to information integration and workflow management.
October 2005 After a 12 hour long drive, including a few visits to roadside power outlets to recharge the laptop batteries that were necessary for hours of playing Unreal Tournament over a custom built VAN (Van Area Network), 7 UGA CS students, 6 competitors and Maggie Bradley, their coach (chauffeur), arrived to Melbourne, FL to participate in the 2005 ACM Southeast Regional Programming Contest.

Their division (Division 1) included 45 teams.

A. J. Beamon, Alex Crane, and George Vulov (Team 1) took 9th place, answering 5 of the 10 given questions.

Cody Boisclair, Cole Sherer, and Brandon Treadway (Team 2) took 17th place, answering 3 of the 10 questions.

The high difficulty of this year's questions and the quality of the teams present make these rankings awesome.

The full rankings and the pictures will be posted on the UGA-ACM website soon.

Date
Keynote and Invited Talks
December 2008 Congratulations to Prof. Hamid Arabnia for delivering keynote talks in two IEEE conferences, ICPADS'08 and FGCN'08.
December
2008
Prof. Doshi was invited to the SensorNet 2.0 panel at the Microsoft Research Faculty Summit held in Seattle in July 2007. The MSR summit is an annual invitation-only event attended by several faculty members from universities in the US and abroad.
May
2006
Prof. Thiab Taha is invited to give a Keynote talk at the First International Conference on Mathematical Sciences, 15-17 May, 2006, Gaza, Palestine.
March
2006
Prof. Amit Sheth gives the keynote address "Semantic Web applications in Financial Industry, Government, Health care and Life Sciences" at the AAAI Spring Symposium on Semantic Web meets eGovernment (SWEG'06), March 27-29, 2006, Stanford University, CA.
November
2005
Prof. Amit Sheth gave a keynote "Semantics Enabled Industrial and Scientific Applications: Research, Technology and Deployed Applications" at the First Online Metadata and Semantic Research Conference, November 21-30, 2005.
November
2005
Prof. Amit Sheth gave a featured talk “Semantics for Scientific Experiments and the Web– the implicit, the formal and the powerful,” Featured Talk, BISCSE 2005: Forging New Frontiers, “Where Fuzzy Began,” Berkeley CA, November 2-6, 2005.
August
2005
Prof. Amit Sheth gave a keynote talk at the First International IFIP/WG 12.5 Working Conference on Industrial Applications of Semantic Web (IASW - 2005), Jyv�skyl�, Finland, August 25-27, 2005.
April
2005
Prof. Amit Sheth gave the inaugural keynote at the First European Young Researchers Workshop on Service Oriented Computing , April 21-22 - 2005, Leicester , U.K
Date
Panels and Major Review Committee
February 2006 Prof. Thiab Taha is a senior editor of the International Journal "Mathematics and Computers in Simulation".
February
2006
Prof. Thiab Taha is the "Guest Editor of the Special Issue of the Journal Mathematics and Computers in Simulation on Nonlinear Waves: Computation and Theory-V., 2006".
Date
Publications and Talks at Technical Events
July
2011
Prof. Funk publishes breakthrough research on a unifying approach toward multiprocessor scheduling in the top journal, Real-Time Systems. This article extends research, which had previously received a best-paper award in a conference.
January
2011
Dr. Bhandarkar, and his former student, Dr. Chowdhury (PhD 2007), published a book on Computer Vision-guided Virtual Craniofacial Surgery. The book will be published by Springer in their Advances in Pattern Recognition series.
November
2010

Congratulations to our recent PhD graduate Dr. Osama Al-Haj Hassan, Prof. Ramaswamy and Prof. Miller for receiving the best paper award at CoopIS 2010.

October
2010

UGA puts out a press release on Profs. Goodie (Psychology) and Doshi’s research on studying strategic reasoning exhibited by humans. It's featured on the UGA homepage and in several other science news blogs.

October
2010

Congratulations to Prof. Liu and his students whose paper in ACM Multimedia 2010 has been nominated for the best student paper award.

August
2010
Prof. Liu's published article on a computational model for cortical folding was reported on by the prestigious Stanford journal, Biomedical Computation Review.
July
2010
Congratulations to Prof. Funk for receiving the best paper award at the Euromicro Conference for Real-Time Systems for her paper titled "DP-FAIR: A Simple Model for Understanding Optimal Multiprocessor Scheduling", which she co-authored with colleagues from the University of California at Santa Cruz.
August 2009 Congratulations to Prof. Liu whose paper in MICCAI 09 was selected as one of three runner-ups for the Young Scientist Awards in the category of Medical Image Computing: Shape Analysis.
July
2009
Congratulations to Prof. Doshi, Prof. Ramaswamy and Prof. Miller and their students for having 5 papers accepted in ICWS 2009, a premier conference in the field of Web services. ICWS had an acceptance rate of 15.6% this year.
July
2009
Congratulations to Prof. Liu for publishing three papers in MICCAI 2009, a premier conference in the field of medical imaging, with an acceptance rate of 32% this year.
November
2008
Congratulations to Prof. Doshi and his students for having four articles recently accepted in various prestigious journals.
March
2008
M. Eduard Tudoreanu and Eileen Kraemer won the "Best Paper" award at the ACM Southeast Conference, for their paper "A Study of the Performance of Steering Tasks under Spatial Transformation of Input". Professor Tudoreanu (Edi) earned his DsC from Washington University in St. Louis, but spent several years at UGA studying with his advisor, Professor Kraemer. The study described in the paper was performed as part of the UGA Human-Computer Interaction class.

PhD student Shaohua Xie and Professor Eileen Kraemer co-authored a paper with colleagues at Michigan State University that will appear at ICSE 2008 (International Conference on Software Engineering), entitled "A Study of Student Strategies for the Corrective Maintenance of Concurrent Software", by Scott D. Fleming, Eileen Kraemer, R. E. K. Stirewalt, Shaohua Xie, and Laura K. Dillon.

PhD student Shaohua Xie and Professor Eileen Kraemer co-authored a paper with colleagues at Michigan State University that will appear at MISE 2008 (Modeling in Software Engineering), entitled "Using Formal Models to Objectively Judge Quality of Multi- threaded Programs in Empirical Studies", by and Laura K. Dillon, R. E. K. Stirewalt, Eileen Kraemer, Shaohua Xie and Scott D. Fleming.
September
2007
S. Chattopadhyay (Ph.D.,CS) co-authors two papers in ACM Multimedia 2007. Siddhartha's papers were co-authored with Profs. Bhandarkar, Ramaswamy and Li. Also, Dr. Y. Wei, a recently graduated Ph.D. student, has his paper, co-authored with Prof. Bhandarkar and Prof. Li, accepted at ACM Multimedia 2007, and an article with Prof. Bhandarkar and Prof. Li accepted for publication in the ACM TOMCCAP.
March
2007
"Design and Evaluation of a Diagrammatic Notation to Aid in the Understanding of Concurrency Concepts" by Shaohua Xie, Eileen Kraemer, and R.E.K. Stirewalt has been accepted for the Software Engineering Education Track of ICSE 2007.

Shaohua Xie is a PhD student in the UGA CS Dept and REK Stirewalt is her collaborator, and an Associate Professor at Michigan State University.

August 2006 Prof. Lowenthal's two journal papers were accepted recently:

Vincent W. Freeh, David K. Lowenthal, Feng Pan, Robert Springer, Nandani Kappiah, Barry Rountree, and Mark Femal. Analyzing the Energy-Time Tradeoff in High Performance Computing Applications To appear in IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems

Chris Bentley, Scott A. Watterson, David K. Lowenthal, and Barry Rountree. Implicit Array Bounds Checking on 64-bit Architectures. To appear in ACM Transactions on Architecture and Code Optmization

August
2006
The year 2006 represents 50 years of AI research, an occassion that is being celebrated with special issues of AI journals and expanded programs at AI conferences, most notably the prestigious AAAI conference held at Boston that was attended by many researchers. From our department, Prof. Doshi participated in AAAI by organizing a workshop and presenting two papers in the main technical program of the conference.
October 2005 Graduate students Chunmei Liu and Yinglei Song have co-authored with Dr. Liming Cai three research papers accepted by recent and upcoming competitive international conferences in bioinformatics CSB'05, WABI'05, and PSB'06 (with acceptance rates 15% ~ 30%).
September
2005
Dr. Ramaswamy's paper entitled "A Distributed Approach to Node Clustering in Decentralized Peer-to-Peer Networks" has appeared in this month's issue of IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (Vol 16, Number 9). The complete list of authors (in the order appearing in the paper) are: Lakshmish Ramaswamy, Bugra Gedik (Gatech) and Ling Liu (Gatech).
September
2005
Maciej Janik (CS PhD student), and Dr. Kochut have a paper at the upcoming ISWC 2005 in Galway, Ireland, in November.
September 2005 Josh Brown (recent MSCS graduate) was recently notified that his research work had been accepted for presentation at a conference in Mexico; details: W.J. Brown and W.D. Potter, "Using Iterated Local Search With Adaptive Memory to Find Snake-In-The-Box Codes," in the 4th Mexican International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, MICAI'05, Monterrey, Mexico, November 14-18, 2005.

Daniel Tuohy (former CS undergraduate) is currently in Spain to present a paper related to music generation; details: D.R. Tuohy and W.D. Potter, "A Genetic Algorithm for the Automatic Generation of Playable Guitar Tablature", in the International Computer Music Conference, Barcelona, Spain, September 5-9, 2005.

Chris Bennett (CS PhD student) will soon be visiting Cyprus in order to attend the CSDA'05 conference and present his latest research work; details: C. Bennett and W.D. Potter, "Sorting Feature Retention and Algorithm Selection Through Input Sampling," in Proceedings of the 3rd IASC World Conference on Computational Statistics and Data Analysis, CSDA'05, Limasol, Cyprus, October 28-31, 2005.

B.J Wimpey (CS PhD student) recently returned from Italy where he presented a robotics paper; details: H. Uchiyama, L. Deligiannidis, W.D. Potter, B.J. Wimpey, D. Barnhard, R. Deng, and S. Radhakrishnan, "A Semi-Autonomous Wheelchair with HelpStar", in the Proceedings of the 18th Int. Conf. On Industrial & Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence and Expert Systems, IEA/AIE'05, pp. 809-818, Bari, Italy, June, 2005.

September 2005 Recent Ph.D graduate Mario Nakazawa, M.S. graduate Wenduo Zhou, and Prof. David Lowenthal have an upcoming paper in Supercomputing 2005 entitled "The MHETA Execution Model for Heterogeneous Clusters". This year's Supercomputing accepted only 25% of submissions. Prof. Lowenthal also has another paper with collaborators at NC State entitled "Just In Time Dynamic Voltage Scaling: Exploiting Inter-Node Slack to Save Energy in MPI Programs"
Date
Technical Event Organizations
August
2012

Prof. Taha is the general chair of the Eighth IMACS conference on Nonlinear Evolution Equations and Wave Phenomena to be held at the GA Center in March 2013. For more info please visit waves.uga.edu.

April
2011

The seventh IMACs conference on Nonlinear Evolution Equations and Wave Phenomena chaired by Prof. Taha will be held at UGA in April. It is sponsored by NSF, IMACS, UGARF, Franklin College, President's Venture Fund and the CS dept.

August
2009
The IMACS WORLD CONGRESSS on Computational and Applied Mathematics & Applications in Science and Engineering August 3-7, 2009 will be held at The University of Georgia’s Center for Continuing Education. For more information contact Prof. Thiab Taha/Chair and Conference Coordinator and for more details about the conference see http://www.uga.edu/imacs/
March
2009
Prof. Thiab Taha is the Chair and Coordinator of the following premiere conference: The Sixth IMACS International Conference on Nonlinear Evolution Equations and Wave Phenomena: Computation and Theory March 23-26 , 2009 will be held at The University of Georgia Center for Continuing Education Athens, Georgia, USA
April
2006
Prof. Thiab Taha is the Chair and Conference Coordinator of the upcomming "Fifth IMACS International Conference on Nonlinear Evolution Equations and Wave Phenomena: Theory and Computation", to be held in Athens, GA, April 16-19, 2007.

More inforamtion on the conference will be available soon on: www.cs.uga.edu/~thiab/waves2006.html.

November
2006
Prof. Budak Arpinar is awarded by Semantic Web Science Association to organize International Semantic Web Conference 2006 in Athens, GA. The International Semantic Web Conference is a major international forum at which research on all aspects of the Semantic Web is presented. The International Semantic Web Science Association, ISWSA , is the Association that organizes the academic conferences on Semantic Web technology.
September
2006
Prof. Amit Sheth is Program Co-Chair, 4th International Conference on Business Process Management (BPM 2006), Vienna, Austria, September 5-7, 2006.
September
2006
Prof. Amit Sheth is Organization Committee Co-Chair, Advances in Semantics for Web services Workshop (semantics4ws'06), at BPM 2006, Vienna, Austria, September 4, 2006.
July
2006
Prof. Amit Sheth is Program Co-Chair, AI-Driven Technologies for Services-Oriented Computing (AAAI-06 Workshop), Boston, MA, July 16-17, 2006.
July
2006
Prof. Amit Sheth is Chair of Organization Committee, the International Workshop on Distributed Applications for B2B Integration (DABI 2006), to be held in conjunction with 26th ICDCS, Lisboa, Portugal, July 4-7, 2006.
June
2006
Prof. Amit Sheth is Chair of Organizing Committee, ESWC'06 Industry Forum Day Business Applications of Semantic Web technology, Budva, Montenegro, June 11-14, 2006.
April
2006
Prof. Amit Sheth is Chair of Steering Committee, Semantic Web Services Challenge 2006: Challenge on Automating Web Services Mediation, Choreography and Discovery, Stanford University & ESWC, 2006.
April
2006
Prof. David Lowenthal is co-program chair of the Second Workshop on High-Performance, Power-Aware Computing, to be held in Rhodes, Greece in April 2006. The workshop is co-located with IPDPS 2006. For more details see: http://fortknox.csc.ncsu.edu/proj/hppac

April
2006
Prof. Budak Arpinar will serve as the PC Co-Chair and Prof. Amit Sheth will serve as the General Chair for the 3rd International Workshop on the Semantic Web and Database Workshop (SWDB 2006), Co-located with ICDE 2006 (The 22nd International Conference on Data Engineering), in April 2006. Details at the workshop web site: http://lsdis.cs.uga.edu/swdb06/

April
2006
Profs. Lakshmish Ramaswamy and Amit Sheth will serve as the PC Chairs for the International Workshop on Semantics enabled Networks and Services (SeNS 2006), Co-located with ICDE 2006 (The 22nd International Conference on Data Engineering), in April 2006. Details at the workshop web site: http://lsdis.cs.uga.edu/SenS/

March
2006
Prof. Amit Sheth will co-organize AAAI Spring Symposium on Semantic Web meets eGovernment (SWEG'06), March 27-29, 2006, Stanford University, CA.
March
2006
Prof. Amit Sheth will co-organize AAAI Spring Symposium on Semantic Web meets eGovernment (SWEG'06) , March 27-29, 2006, Stanford University , CA.
August
2005
As a follow up of "The Third IMACS International Conference on Nonlinear Evolution Equations and Wave Phenomena: Computation and Theory" held in Athens, GA,USA, 7-10, April 2003; 2 Special Issues on Nonlinear waves: computation and Theory III and IV have appeared in the Journal of " Mathematics and Computers in Simulation", Transaction of IMACS, Vol. 69, Issues 3-4, 5-6, May and August 2005 respectively.

Dr. Thiab Taha served as the Program Chair of the Conference and a Guest Editor of the Special Issues.

Date
Program Committees
August 2006 Prof. Lowenthal is serving onthe ACM PPOPP program committee this coming year (2007). www.ppopp.org
November 2005 Prof. Lowenthal is serving on the program committee of the International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium, to be held in Rhodes, Greece, in 2006.
September 2005 Dr. Ramaswamy will be serving as a PC member of 26th International Conference on Disrtibuted Computing Systems (ICDCS - 2006), to be held in Lisboa Portugal. The web page is available at http://icdcs2006.di.fc.ul.pt/
September 2005 Dr. Funk is on two TPC's. OPODIS (9th International Conference on Principles of Distributed Systems to be held in Pisa, Italy December 12 - 14) and RTAS (12th IEEE Real-Time and Embedded Technology and Applications Symposium to be held in San Jose, California April 4 - 7, 2006).
October 2005 Prof. Cai serves on two Program Committees: IWBRA 2006 (International Workshop on Bioinformatics Research and Applications, Reading, UK) and IEEE GrC 2006 (IEEE International Conference on Granular Computing, Atlanta).
Date
Projects and Software
July
2010
Researchers in the adversarial modeling group of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory use Prof. Doshi's research on decision making in multiagent settings toward countering money laundering.
March
2006
LSDIS lab's collaboration with IBM resulted in a member submission "Web Services Semantics: WSDL-S" to the World Wide Web consortium (W3C). On March 21, W3C launched "Semantic Annotations for WSDL Working Group" which recognizes UGA-IBM submissions on WSDL-S as the input.
October 2005 LSDIS lab has a collaboration with Athens Heart Center (AHC), the largest cardiology practice in Athens, GA. Building upon LSDIS's experitse in the Semantic Web, the collaboration has lead to the development and deployement of an Active Semantic Electronic Patient Record system. This system is also entering continuous usage in the AHC practice, and is one of the earliest Semantic Web applications developed and used that exploit multiple ontologies, semantic and lexical annotation and rule processing. A description and demonstration of the system now deployed at AHC is available at: http://lsdis.cs.uga.edu/projects/asdoc/ and http://www.w3.org/2005/04/swls/. LSDIS students and staff who contributed under the guidance of Prof. Amit Sheth include, Jon Lathem, Matthew Eavenson, Cory Henson, and Dev Palaniswami.
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Faculty and Staff News
November
2005
Prof. Liming Cai and his wife Dr. Ying Gao had a new baby girl, Lillian Yuan Cai, weighted 7 lbs & 14 ozs, & 21.5 inches long, on 9:52am November 25, 2005. Everyone in the family is doing great!

August
2005
Prashant Doshi and Lakshmish Ramaswamy will be joining the Computer Science Department at UGA as Assistant Professors, in August, 2005.

Prashant Doshi recently completed his PhD studies in Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Chicago . His research interests concentrate on service-oriented computing, semantic Web services discovery, dynamic workflow composition, Artificial Intelligence, sequential decision theory, and game theory. You may find more information on his research, publishing, and teaching at his personal web site .

Lakshmish Ramaswamy recently completed his PhD studies in the College of Computing at Georgia Tech . His research interests include large-scale distributed systems, World Wide Web, overlay networks and peer-to-peer systems, and distributed databases. You may find more information on his research, publishing, and teaching at his personal web site .

August
2005
Dr. Julia Couto joins us as an Instructor. Dr. Couto arrives from James Madison University where she served as an Assistant Professor. Previously, she received her PhD in Computer Science from the Universidad Politecnica de Madrid.
July
2005
Rachel Sparrow Lowenthal was born on July 25, 2005 to Jennie Sparrow and Professor David Lowenthal. Rachel weighed 5 lbs. 4 oz. at birth.
June
2005

Emmy Isabelle Balch was born on June 23, 2005 to Professor Maria Hybinette (UGA) and Professor Tucker Balch (GaTech). Emmy weighed 6 lbs. 12 oz. and was 19 in. in length.

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Miscellaneous
August
2006
Ananda Chowdhury, doctoral candidate in Computer Science, has been invited to participate in the NIH National Graduate Student Research Festival held on October 12 and 13, 2006 on the NIH campus, Bethesda, MD. The invitees were selected based on a nation-wide competition amongst senior doctoral students in the final year of their degree program. 250 outstanding doctoral students drawn from various disciplines related to the Life Sciences, Biomedical Sciences, and Mathematical, Engineering and Computational Approaches to Biology and Biomedicine were invited to participate in the Research Festival. Ananda will give a presentation based on his doctoral research in Computer Vision-guided Reconstructive Craniofacial Surgery to NIH scientists and researchers while attending the Research Festival.
June
2006
Graduate student Chunmei Liu will take a position of Assistant Professor in Computer Science at Howard University beginning August, 2006. Chunmei is completing her Ph.D study under the supervision of Dr. Liming Cai with a dissertation titled "Tree Decomposable Models for Efficient Bioinformatics Algorithms".
February
2006
Prof. Thiab Taha has been selected to be a "Member of the Board of Directors of the International Association for Mathematics and Computers in Simulation (IMACS)", starting Aug. 2005.
February
2006
Prof. Thiab Taha is the "IMACS (International Association for Mathematics and Computers in Simulation) Events Coordinator", starting December 2005.
 
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