CURRENT RESEARCH PROJECTS:

•  “Stream Clustering Algorithms in Mixed Domains with Soft Two-way Semi-Supervision”, PI, National Science Foundation – Data Intensive Computing, $450,000, 2009-2012.  
•  “Architecture Analysis of Peer-to-Peer Data Exchanges”, PI, KY Science & Engineering Foundation, $99,413.00, Jul. 2008-Jun. 2010. 
• “CAREER: New Clustering Algorithms Based on Robust Estimation and Genetic Niches with Applications to Web Usage Mining”, PI, National Science Foundation – Intelligent Information Systems - Information and Data Management, $300,080, 2002-2007
• "Solar Loop Mining for the Coronal Heating Problem" PI, NASA - Applied Information Systems Research Program (AISR), $385,000, 2004-2007.
• “Mining Solar Images to Support Astrophysics Research”, PI, National Science Foundation– Science & Engineering Informatics, $200,000, 2004-2007.
• “Transforming the NSTCenter from Website to Knowledge Portal ”, co-PI, Innovative Productivity Inc. as a sub-contract from the US . Navy, $119,000 , Jan. 2005-Dec. 2005.

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SUPERVISED DOCTORAL DISSERTATIONS:

• Leon, Elizabeth, "Scalable and Adaptive Evolutionary Clustering for Noisy and Dynamic Data ", completed Aug. 2005 (currently Assistant Professor at National University of Colombia).
• Zhang, Zhiyong, "Focused Image Search in the Social Web",  completed 2008 (currently at Yahoo! Inc.).
• Rojas, Carlos, "Learning from Evolving Transactional Data Streams ", completed Dec. 2009 (currently Postdoctoral Research Scientist at Oakridge National Labs).
• Saka, Esin, "Swarm-based Clustering and Visualization for Web usage Mining", proposal passed, in candidacy toward final dissertation defense.
• Zhuhadar, Leyla, "Automated Discovery, Categorization and Retrieval of Personalized Semantically
  Enriched E-learning Resources", completed Dec. 2009 (currently Research Scientist at Western Kentucky University & Adjunct Assistant Professor at University of Louisville).
• Nurcan Durak, TBD.
• Sofiane Sellah, TBD.
• Basheer Hawwash, TBD.

SUPERVISED MASTERS THESES:

• Petenes, Christopher, “ An Intelligent Web Personalization System with a Fuzzy Recommendation Engine” .
• Pavuluri, Mrudula, “ A Study of New Intelligent Recommender Systems for Web Personalization”.
• Rojas, Carlos, “Clustering using a Robust Estimator”.
• Cardona, Cesar, “A New Immune System Model to Cluster Data Streams”.
• Goswami, Suchandra, “A Generalized Framework for Discovering Localized Error Tolerant Frequent Patterns using Dynamic Error Tolerance”.
• Leon, Elizabeth, “ Investigation of New Evolutionary Clustering Models and application to Unsupervised Anomaly Detection”.
• Basheer Hawwash, "Mining and Tracking Evolving Web User Trends from Very Large Web Server Logs"

SUPERVISED MASTERS PROJECTS:

• Cerwinske, Jeff, “Investigation of a Real time Recommender System based on Mining Evolving Web Clickstreams ”
• Parupudi, Kiran, “Text Clustering Analysis of Web Snippets from Yahoo Search Results”.
• Noru, Madan, “ Clustering of Nucleotide Gene Sequences using Hierarchical Unsupervised Niche Clustering ”.
• Yarramsetti, Ravi , “An Integrated Tool for Hierarchical Unsupervised Niche Clustering”
• Jammi, Snigdha, “Web Usage Mining with Kohonen’s Self Organizing Feature Maps”.
• Ealla, Vidyasagar, “Java Implementation of Hierarchical Clustering Algorithms for Data and Web Mining”
• Dakuri, Ratna, “Web Usage Mining – Association Rules Discovery from World Wide Web Transactions”
• Dunna, Satish, “Design of an Optimal Classifier for Automatic Web Recommendations”.
• Nibbaragandla, Kiran, “An Intelligent Web Agent for Automatic Taxonomy Generation”.
• Vishnubhatla, Venkat, “Data Mining of the ACT and Enrollment Data at the University of Memphis”.
• Tiruvanallur, Gautam, “Design of a Flexible Web Log Preprocessing System”.
• Valluripari, Chakradar, “VHDL Design of an Artificial Immune System Prototype”.

Shaver, Billy, “Keyword Search in a Text Corpus”