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

Faculty

• Eugene Agichtein, Assistant Professor, Computer Science
• James J. Lu, Associate Professor, Computer Science
• Li Xiong, Assistant Professor, Computer Science

Collaborators

• Adolfo Correa, Medical Epidemiologist, Center for Disease Control
• 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

• Archana Bhattarai, Ph.D.
• James Gardner, Ph.D.
• Qi Guo, Ph.D.
• Alvin Grissom, M.S.
• Abulimiti Haji, Ph.D.
• Pawel Jurczyk, Ph.D.
• Kanwei Li, M.S.
• Yandong Liu, Ph.D.
• Sebastien Siva, Ph.D.
• Lesi Wang, M.S.

Recent Graduates (and placement after graduation)

• 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)

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.

• 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), June, 2008.
• Saurav Sahay, Baoli Li, Ernest V. Garcia, Eugene Agichtein, Ashwin Ram. Domain Ontology Construction from Biomedical Text, Proceedings of the International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ICAI), 2007.

Project Pages

• Intelligent Information Access
• Assured Information Management and Sharing

• 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