Event Details
The Future of Computer Science Education and Research
Presenter: Dr. Krzysztof (Krys) Cios - Computer Science and Engineering Department, University of Colorado at Denver
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Date: Thu, June 19, 2003
Time: 09:30:00 - 10:30:00
Place: CIT 105
ABSTRACT
Dr. Krzysztof (Krys) Cios holds a Ph.D., Computer Science, University of Mining and Metallurgy, Krakow, 1984; a MBA, University of Toledo, 1994; and a D.Sc., Machine Learning, Polish Academy of Sciences, 1999. He is currently Professor and Chair, Computer Science & Engineering Department, University of Colorado at Denver. Dr. Cios was a member of the Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, University of Toledo, 1985-99. Dr. Cios's primary research interests are in data mining and knowledge discovery, with focus on machine learning and networks of spiking neurons. He developed a family of very efficient hybrid decision-tree and rule-based inductive machine learning algorithms (one earned the Norbert Wiener Outstanding Paper Award from Kybernetes). His work in networks of spiking neurons resulted in finding a clustering structure in data without prior specification of the number of clusters. For about dozen years Dr. Cios has been doing research in the area of bioinformatics at the Medical College of Ohio, and at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, where he is currently working on protein identification and quantification methods, and on automating diabetic retinopathy diagnosis from eye images.
Dr. Cios is a candidate for the Chair of the Department of Computer Science. In this talk, Dr. Cios will outline his vision for the future of Computer Science education and research.