Data Mining in Biomedical Imaging, Signaling, and Systems

Sumeet Dua, PhD, is currently an Upchurch endowed associate professor and the coordinator of IT research at Louisiana Tech University, Ruston. He also serves as adjunct faculty to the School of Medicine, Louisiana State University, Health Sciences Center in New Orleans. His areas of expertise include data mining, image processing, computational decision support, pattern recognition, data warehousing, biomedical informatics, and heterogeneous distributed data integration. The National Science Foundation (NSF), the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL), the Air Force Office of Sponsored Research, (AFOSR), and the Louisiana Board of Regents (LA-BoR) have funded his research. He frequently serves as a study section member (expert panelist) for the NIH's Center for Scientific Review and has served as a panelist for the NSF/Computing in Science in Engineering (CISE) Directorate. Dr. Dua has chaired several conference sessions in the area of data mining and bioinformatics, and is the program chair for the 5th International Conference on Information Systems, Technology, and Management (ICISTM-2011). He has given over 26 invited talks on data mining and bioinformatics at international academic and industry arenas, advised over 25 graduate theses, and currently advises several students in this field. Dr. Dua is acoinventor of two issued U.S. patents, has co-authored over 50 publications and book chapters, and is an author /editor of 4 books in data mining and bioinformatics.

Dr. Dua has received the Engineering and Science Foundation Award for Faculty Excellence (2006) and the Faculty Research Recognition Award (2007); he has been recognized as a Distinguished Researcher (2004-2010) by the Louisiana Biomedical Research Network (sponsored by NIH) and has won the Oustanding Poster Award at the NIH/National Cancer Institute (NCI) caBIG-NCRI Informatics Joint Conference; Biomedical Informatics wi