Computational Learning Approaches to Data Analytics in Biomedical Applications

Dr. Al-Jabery is a Deputy-Chief engineer in Barah Oil Company. He obtained his Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer engineering from Missouri S&T in 2018, his BS, and M.Sc. in Computer Engineering at the University of Basrah in Iraq in 2005 and 2009 respectively. He has more than 6 years of experience as an IT engineer. He worked for ExxonMobil, South Oil Company-Iraq, and International Organization of Migration (IOM). His research interests are Reinforcement learning, Clustering, Data analysis, Power optimization, and Artificial Neural network. Dr. Obafemi-Ajayi is an Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering at Missouri State University (MSU) in the Engineering Program, a joint program with Missouri S&T. She completed a post-doctoral fellowship with the Applied Computational Intelligence Lab at S&T May 2016, working on clustering and genomic data analysis related to Autism. She obtained her PhD in Computer Science from Illinois Institute of Technology. Her research interests are machine learning, bioinformatics, and data mining. Dr. Olbricht is an Associate Professor in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at Missouri S&T. She earned her Ph.D. in Statistics from Purdue University. Her research interests include Markov models, regression analysis, statistical genomics, and bioinformatics. Dr. Wunsch is the Mary K. Finley Missouri Distinguished Professor, Missouri University of Science and Technology (Missouri S&T). He received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Washington, Seattle. His research interests include clustering, adaptive resonance and reinforcement learning architectures (hardware and applications), bioinformatics. He is the author of nine books and over a dozen book chapters, including Neural Networks in Micromechanics from Springer and Clustering from Wiley IEEE Press.