Syed joins the lab this Fall 2009.

Check out our work on chemical genetics using multi-task, semi-supervised SAR models.

Multi-Assay-Based Structure−Activity Relationship Models: Improving Structure−Activity Relationship Models by Incorporating Activity Information from Related Targets by X. Ning, H. Rangwala, and G. Karypis

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Huzefa will be member of the Siam Data Mining Conference SDM 2010 to be held in Columbus, Ohio from April 29 – May 1, 2010.

Huzefa will be a member of the program committee for the workshop HICOMB held in Atlanta, GA.

Grant Details

III: Medium: Collaborative Research: Computational Methods to Advance Chemical Genetics by Bridging Chemical and Biological Spaces

Estimated Total Award Amount:$331,537
Projected Duration:48 Months

PI: Rangwala Institution:George Mason University State:Virginia District:11

This is in collaboration with Drs. Karypis and Walters at University of Minnesota, Twin Cities.

I have openings for two graduate students in computer science. Please check if you fulfill the requirements below before applying:

1. You must be a PhD in Computer Science student.
2. You must know how to program in either C, C++, or Java.
3. You must know at least one scripting language: Perl, Python, or awk
4. You must have interests in applying data mining techniques to problems in bioinformatics
5. You must have taken my class in "Data Mining", "Biological Sequence Analysis" or "Biological Data Mining".

Ammar Naqvi submits a paper about using network-based methods for analyzing microbiome.

Our paper titled has been accepted for presentation at the 2009 International Conference on Web Information Systems and Mining (WISM’09) to be held in Shanghai, China. The paper is titled "Digging Digg: : Comment Mining, Popularity Prediction, and Social Network Analysis" by Salman Jamali and Huzefa Rangwala.

Huzefa presents posters at the M3-SIG and ISMB meeting in Stockholm, Sweden.