People
Paul Anderson, Principal Investigator
Associate Professor
Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering
California Polytechnic State University
Lead Data Scientist, Ceterus
Dr. Paul Anderson graduated in 2004 from Wright State University with a B.S. degree in Computer Engineering. He received his Master of Computer Science in 2006 and his Ph.D. in Computer Science & Engineering in June 2010. After graduation, Dr. Anderson was awarded a Consortium of Universities Research Fellowship to study as a Bioinformatics and Computational Research Scientist for the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL). Dr. Anderson has published 30+ peer-reviewed articles in the fields of data science, data mining, machine learning, computational intelligence, metabolomics, genomics, e-Science, bioinformatics, cloud computing, biomedical informatics, cancer informatics, and computer science & engineering education.
At present, Dr. Anderson is an associate professor in the Computer Science and Software Engineering Department at California Polytechnic State University (Cal Poly). Prior to this appointment, Dr. Anderson was an associate professor at the College of Charleston where he was the director of the B.S. in Data Science (first such program in the country) and the M.S. in Data Science and Analytics (first such program in South Carolina). Dr. Anderson directs the Data Science Research Group at Cal Poly where his team specializes in developing and applying data mining, machine learning, and artificial intelligence to the fields of bioinformatics, genomics, biomedical informatics, and metabolomics. Complementary to this applied work, Dr. Anderson’s lab is interested in the foundations of data science with a current focus on explainable ranking algorithms and the rankability of data. He currently has multidisciplinary projects underway in genomics, metabolomics, toxicology, marine biology, cancer informatics, and medical and marine genomics. He is the director of the Institute for Graph Analytics and Research in Data Science (IGARDS) - a collaborative interdisciplinary institute aimed at broadening foundational data science research (http://igards.github.io). Dr. Anderson served as the primary investigator for the Omics NSF Research Experience for Undergraduates at the College of Charleston (http://omics.cofc.edu).
Lab Members
Currently looking for new lab members starting fall 2019.
Past Lab Members and Projects
Walter Blai
Katherine Duchinski
Abby Moore
Natural Language Processing and Word Representation for Classification. Sarah Wiegreffe
Optimization Methods for SVMs. Kaya Tollas
Algorithms in Bioinformatics. Luca Carvalho De Oliveira* and Leonardo De Melo Joao
Deep Neural Networks and Kernel Approximation Methods. Sonia Kopels
Natural Language Processing and Word Embedding. Matheus Rodrigues Freitag Sr
Creating a Feature Selection Pipeline Using Apache Spark. Cassios Marques
Data Science in Econometrics, Pasha Sadeghian
Advanced Algorithms for Data Science Research, Alexander Jacobs
Data Science Research: Support Vector Machines, David Moore
Exchange Rate Prediction based on interest rates, Daniel Hurlburt
Deep Learning Kernel Methods, Kellan Fluette
Learn2Mine - An Integral Learning Environment, Clayton Turner
Bioinformatics Infrastructure Development for Cancer Genomics. Matt Paul
Prediction and Annotation of Genomic Repeat Dynamics using Hidden Markov Models. Kelsey Yetsko
Exploring Expression Variability in Lung Cancer Patients through Deep-Learning Dimensionality Reduction. Victoria McCaffrey
ETS Transcription Factor Biomarker Identification. Connor Stanley
Bifrost: A Life Sciences Data Connector for Cloud Services. Jeremy Morgan
Collaborators
Dr. Amy Langville
Department of Mathematics, College of Charleston
Dr. Annalisa Calini
Department of Mathematics, College of Charleston
Dr. Frank Marí and Dr. Benjamin Neely
National Institute of Standards and Technology
Dr. Jihad Obeid
Center for Biomedical Information at the Medical University of South Carolina
Dr. Dennis Watson, Dr. Robert Wilson, Dr. Starr Hazard, and Dr. Patricia Watson
Center for Medical Genomics at the Medical University of South Carolina
Dr. Andrew Shedlock
Department of Biology, College of Charleston
Dr. Robert Chapman
Hollings Marine Laboratory
Dr. Fran VanDolah and Lab
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Dr. Michael Peterson
University of Hawaii at Hilo
Dr. Nicholas Reo
Magnetic Resonance Lab Wright State University
Dr. Nicholas DelRaso and Dr. Deirdre Mahle
Air Force Research Laboratory
Grier Allen (CEO)
BoomTown ROI
Edward Murray (CTO)
Ceterus