Data and Information Management; Informatics

We are interested in a variety of research questions related to the analysis, management and retrieval of medical, public health, web and biological data.

People

Faculty

Eugene Agichtein, Assistant Professor, Computer Science
James J. Lu, Associate Professor, Computer Science
Joan Smith, Adjunct Professor, The Woodruff Library and Computer Science
James Taylor, Assistant Professor, Biology and Computer Science
Li Xiong, Assistant Professor, Computer Science

Collaborators

Adolfo Correa, Medical Epidemiologist, Center for Disease Control
George H.L. Fletcher, Assistant Professor, Eindhoven University of Technology
Ernest V Garcia, Professor, Radiology
Kim Gernert, Director, BIMCORE
Vicki Hertzberg, Associate Professor, Biostatistics
Ashwin Ram, Associate Professor, Georgia Tech
Lance Waller, Professor, Biostatistics
Phillip Wolff, Assistant Professor, Psychology
Hongyuan Zha, Professor, Georgia Tech

Graduate Students

Abulimiti Aji, Ph.D.
Liyue Fan, Ph.D.
James Gardner, Ph.D.
Slawomir Goryczka, Ph.D.
Qi Guo, Ph.D.
Alvin Grissom, M.S.
Pawel Jurczyk, Ph.D.
Sebastien Siva, Ph.D.
Pu Shi, M.S.
Yun Zhu, M.S.

Recent Graduates (and placement after graduation)

Kanwei Li, M.S. 2009 (Emory University, the Taylor Lab)
Yandong Liu, M.S. 2009 (Carnegie Mellon, Language Technologies Institute)
Lesi Wang, M.S. 2008 (Amazon)
Dongfang Zhao, M.S. 2008 (Information Distribution and Marketing Inc.)
Daniel Dougherty, M.S. 2008 (U. of Virginia, Computer Science PhD Program)
Lin Liu, M.S. 2008 (U. of Missouri-Rolla, Industrial Engineering MS Program)
Akanksha Srivastava, M.S. 2008 (Blue Cross Blue Shield)
Kumudhavalli Rangachari, M.S. 2007 (Vitrue Inc.)
Robin Lohfert, M.S. 2007 (Dorian Software Creations Inc.)
Chris LaRosa, M.S. 2006 (Georgia Tech, International Affairs MS program)
Johnny Healey, M.S. 2006 (Emory Digital Library Research)
M. Jeremy Scoggins, M.S. 2005 (Warner Robins Air Force Base)
Ali Pirani, M.S. 2005 (BIMCORE)
Travers Franckle, M.S. 2005 (Vocalocity)
Saurabh Pathak, M.S. 2005 (Yahoo)
Sungryong Kim, B.S/M.S. 2004 (Chimera Capital)
Jian-An (Andy) Zhu, M.S. 2004 (Mount Sinai Hospital)
Sonali Renjen, M.S. 2004 (Choices Quilts)
Tejus Parikh, M.S. 2003 (Vocalocity)
Alex Dunegan, M.S. 2003 (Boston College, Carroll School of Management MBA program)
Alec Shkolnik, B.S/M.S. 2003 (MIT, Computer Science PhD program)

Research

Select Recent Papers Following are sample papers involving members of the group. Please refer to individual member pages for more complete lists of projects and papers.

Koskovsky Pond S, Wadhawan S, Chiaromonte F, Ananda G, Chung W, Taylor J, and Nekrutenko Windshield splatter analysis with the Galaxy metagenomic . Genome Research, October 2009.
Qi Guo, Ryan P. Kelly, Selden Deemer, Arthur Murphy, Joan A. Smith, Eugene Agichtein: EMU: the emory user behavior data management system for automatic library search evaluation. Proceedings of the Joint International Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL `09), 2009.
Saurav Sahay, Sougata Mukherjea, Eugene Agichtein, Ernest V Garcia, Shamkant Navathe, Ashwin Ram. Discovering Semantic Biomedical Relations utilizing the Web, ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data (special issue on Bioinformatics), 2008.
Pawel Jurczyk, James J. Lu, Li Xiong, Janet D. Cragan, Adolfo Correa. FRIL: A Tool for Comparative Record Linkage, Proceedings of the AMIA Annual Symposium (AMIA `08), 2008.
James Gardner, L. Xiong. HIDE: A Health Information DE-identification System. Proceedings of the 21st IEEE International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems (CBMS `08), June, 2008.

Project Pages

Courses

CS458: Introduction to Databases
CS485/INFO511: Database Models, Systems, and Techniques
CS554: Database Systems
CS558: Artificial Intelligence
CS570: Data Mining
CS571: Natural Language Processing
CS572: Information Retrieval
CS573: Data Security and Privacy
CS584/INFO530+560R: Geographic Information Systems
CS730: Topics in Data and Information
CS740: Topics in Computationl and Life Sciences