Research Interests

• Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
  Gene regulatory network
  Microarray daya analysis
  Clustering and classification
• High performance computing
  Parallel, Distributed and grid computing
• Information technology
  Web-based information retrieval
  Data mining and machine learning
  Database design
• Imaging and visualization
  3D image reconstruction
• Computational analysis and modeling
  Inverse problems
  Statisical analysis
  Numerical methods

Research Funds

1. National Science Foundation (NSF) RII-C2 (Co-PI), "Broadening Workstation Connectivity to Enhance Research Productivity and Student Preparation in Computational Sciences" $1.2 million, 06/01/2010 - 05/31/2012.
   
   
2. National Science Foundation EPSCoR, "Modeling Biological Networks" - subcontract ($1,090,000, Role: PI) of the "Modeling and Simulation of Complex Systems" grant totaling 20 Million, September 1st, 2009 - August 30, 2014.
   
   
3. Air Force Research Laboratory / ASU (PI), "Collection of Biofeature Data and Establishment of a Database for the Prediction of Human Behavior", $20,000, 5/1/2010 - 4/29/2011.
   
   
4. USB/University of Virginia/South Dakota State University (PI), "Management and Analysis of Soybean Microarray Data", $10,659. 1/1/2010 - 12/31/2010.
   
   
5. National Science Foundation (Co-PI) ACM-BCB: Conference on Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, $24,450, 02/01/10 ¨C 01/31/2011.
   
   
6. National Institute of health (NIH) / Tougaloo College, "Lipidomic and DNA Microarray Analysis Peripheral Blood in African American Adults with Type-II Diabetes", $45,038, 12/31/2009 ¨C 07/31/2010.
   
   
7. NSF (Co-PI) "Promoting Inter/Multidisciplinary Education and research, The International Joint Conference on Bioinformatics, System Biology and Intelligent Computing," $10,000, July 1st, 2009.
   
   
8. NSF EPSCoR, MCBC Seed Program (Co-PI), “Inferring gene regulatory networks from time-series microarray data,” $25,000, 2008.
   
   
9. USM Summer Faculty Research Grant, (P.I), “A Novel Statistical Approach to Reconstruction of Biomedical Optical Images for Diagnosis of Breast Cancer,” $9,713, 2008.
   
   
10. U.S. Army ERDC, (P.I.), "Bayesian Learning and Optimization Approaches to Microarray Data Analysis and Gene Regulatory Network Reconstruction," $439,608, 01/15/2008 - 01/14/2011
    
    
11. U.S. ARMY ERDC, (Co-PI) "Systematic Identification of Biomarkers to Predict the Risk of ORCs," $231,630, 01/10/2008 - 12/30/2010
    
    
12. U.S. Army ERDC, (Co-PI), "A Systems Biology Approach to Elucidation of RDX Neurotoxicity in Eisenia fetida (formerly Development of a Novel Earthworm Neurotransmission Network Model of Sublethal Neurotoxicity)," $748,000. 10/1/2007 - 9/30/2010.
    
    
13. 2007 NSF EPSCoR MCBC Seed Program (P.I.), "Parallel Multi-Class Support Vector Machine for Solving Large-Scale Classification Problems in Computational Biology and Bioinformatics", $25,000. 03/01/2007 - 2/28/2008.
    
    
14. US Army ERDC, (Co-PI) "Annotation and gene network construction for ordnance related compounds related EST sequences and gene expression data", $50,000 + $16,365 (extended), 5/12006 - 7/13/08.
    
    
15. Dean's Research Initiative Fund (P.I.) "A Novel Reconfigurable Middleware Infrastructure Supporting Distributed Computing of 3D Optical Image Reconstruction". $4,000, 2004 - 2005
    
    
16. University of Southern Mississippi Lucas Faculty Excellence Awards, (P.I.) "Image Segmentation Using Integrated Color-Edge Extraction and Seeded Region Growing Techniques". $5,000, 2004.
    
    
17. Dean's Research Initiative Fund (P.I.) "A New Approach to Optical Image Reconstruction and Visualization with Information Feedback and Image Classification". $6,000. 2003-2004

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