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Huzefa is Mason's nominee for Virginia-wide (SCHEV) award.
Huzefa has been selected to represent Mason as the university's Rising Star award nominee.
The Outstanding Faculty Awards are the Commonwealth's highest honor for faculty at Virginia's public and private colleges and universities. These awards recognize superior accomplishments in teaching, research, and public service. Within this program, the Rising Star awards recognize early-career faculty. For more information on the awards program, see this page.
Huzefa is the 2013 Volgenau School of Engineering Teacher Award Winner
Huzefa was selected for the Volgenau School of Engineering's Outstanding Teacher award. The award was presented at the VSE Annual Awards Gala on May 4th.
Azad defends his MS thesis.
Azad Naik successfully defends MS thesis "Using Multi-Task Learning for Large Scale Document Classification."
Zeehasham defends his doctoral dissertation.
Congratulations to Dr. Zeehasham Rasheed for successfully defending his doctoral thesis titled "Data Mining Framework for Metagenome Analysis."
Guo-Xian's paper accepted at IJCAI 2013.
Title: Protein Function Prediction by Integrating Multiple Kernels.
Authors: Guoxian Yu, Huzefa Rangwala, Carlotta Domeniconi, Guoji Zhang, Zili Zhang
Conference: 23rd International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI)
Location: Beijing, China
Dates: August 3-9, 2013
Acceptance Rate: 413/1473 submissions (28%)
Preprint: Coming Soon.
Huzefa is PC Co-Chair of BioKDD 2013 Workshop.
We welcome your excellent submissions to the BIOKDD 2013 workshop to be held in Chicago, IL along with ACM SIGKDD 2013.
Huzefa featured in Mason Research 2013
Check out article of our work on metagenome analysis: https://masonresearch.gmu.edu/2013/03/1315/
"Map-Reduce based Clustering for Metagenomes" Paper Accepted at HiCOMB 2013.
Title: A Map-Reduce Framework for Clustering Metagenomes.
Authors: Zeehasham Rasheed and Huzefa Rangwala
at 12th IEEE International Workshop on High Performance Computational Biology
Location: Boston, MA.
Date: May 20, 2013
Bib URL: http://www.cs.gmu.edu/~hrangwal/node/443
Huzefa awarded NSF Career Award for FY 2013
Huzefa awarded the NSF CAREER Award for FY 2013.
Title: CAREER: Annotating the Microbiome using Machine Learning Methods
Link to the project abstract: http://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1252318&HistoricalAwards...
Period of Performance: 03/01/2013-02/28/2018
Thanks to the MLBio+ members for helping with this achievement.
Watch this space for updates related to the project.
Huzefa featured in CFTE News Letter
Story about Teaching Innovation at the CFTE Newsletter:
http://ctfe.gmu.edu/faculty-spotlight-on-innovation-huzefa-rangwala/
