CSEE Research Review – Program Friday , May 1 , 2009

CSEE Research Review – Program Friday, May 1, 2009 Technology Center, South Campus Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) www.csee.umbc.edu/events/research review A celebration of research accomplishments by UMBC CSEE faculty and students in 2008–2009. Free and open to the public (space limited to 125). Ample free parking. Reception (9:00am–9:20am), with coffee, orange juice, doughnuts Opening Remarks, Charles Nicholas, Chair, Dept. of CSEE (9:20am–9:30am) Session I (9:30am–10:40am) – Each talk is 20mins. Charles Nicholas “Who wrote this document?” Adam Anthony (Advisor: Marie desJardins), MAPLE Lab – Honorable mention research by PhD student Fast relational clustering using the block modularity clustering objective Peter A. Hamilton (Advisor: Marie desJardins), MAPLE Lab – Award for best Research by BS student Applying swarm rule abstraction to a wireless sensor network domain Break (10:40am–11:00am) Session II (11:00am–12:10noon) Tim Finin, ebiquity Group Creating and exploiting a web of (semantic) data Aaron Curtis (Advisor: Marc Olano), VANGOGH Lab – Honorable mention research by MS student Real-time soft shadows on the GPU via Monte Carlo Sampling Deepak Chinavle (Advisor: Tim Oates), Coral Lab – Award for best research by MS student Adversarial classification: An ensemble-based approach Free Lunch, in Lobby (12:10noon–1:00pm),with sandwiches, hot entree, salad, drinks, and brownies Student Poster Session (1:00pm–2:10pm) – vote for three best posters using Range Voting Session III (2:10pm–3:30pm) Marc Olano, VANGOGH Lab Simulation in real-time computer games Fusan Yaman, Research Assistant Professor, MAPLE & Coral Labs A context driven approach for workflow mining Muhammad A. Talukder (Advisor: Curtis Menyuk), Photonics Lab – Award for best research by PhD student Analytical and computational study of self-induced transparency mode locking in quantum cascade lasers