Scott Jensen

Indiana University, Ph.D. Candidate

Scott Jensen is a graduate student in the Computer Science Department at Indiana University. His research focus is on metadata management (with a particular focus on scientific grid environments), data grids, services and SOA, XML, XML-Relational storage, and RDF. His disertation work is focussed on identifying the characteristics of XML-based metadata and differences from general XML storage that can be exploited to provide faster query response for grid portals while using a flexible, scalable, and adaptable generic relational data structure that can be applied to varied scientific domains using different metadata schemas and data hierarchies.

Craig Shue

Indiana University, Ph.D. Candidate

Craig Shue is a graduate student in the Computer Science Department at Indiana University. His research interest lies in networking, security, and distributed systems. His latest work has focused on new designs for the future of the Internet. In particular, he is interested in creating an addressing scheme which can help us move away from a separate DNS infrastructure while also providing flexibility for future address space expansion and advanced services, such as host mobility and anycasting.

Dr. Juliana Freire

University of Utah

Juliana Freire is an Associate Professor at the School of Computing at the University of Utah. Before, she was member of technical staff at the Database Systems Research Department at Bell Laboratories (Lucent Technologies) and an Assistant Professor at OGI/OHSU. An important theme is Professor Freire's work is the development of data management technology to address new problems introduced by emerging applications, including the Web and scientific applications. Her recent research has focused on two main topics: Provenance management for computational tasks and Web mining. Professor Freire is an active member of the database community, having co-authored over 70 technical papers and holding 4 U.S. patents. She is a recipient of an NSF CAREER and an IBM Faculty award. She has chaired or co-chaired several workshops and conferences, and she has participated as a program committee member in over 50 events. Her research has been funded by grants from the National Science Foundation, Department of Energy and the University of Utah.

University of Louisville

Antonio Badia is an associate professor in the Computer Engineering and Computer Science Department at the University of Louisville. He received his PhD in Computer Science from Indiana University in 1997. Some of his research is supported by grants from the National Science Foundation, including a CAREER award. His research interests include Databases (especially query languages, data models, metadata, conceptual modeling, heterogeneous information integration, data warehousing, cooperative query answering), applied logic, artificial intelligence, information extraction, and question answering.

Dr. Filippo Menczer

Indiana University

Between 1988 and 1991 Filippo was affiliated with Domenico Parisi's ALife Group at the Italian National Research Council in Rome. There he worked on the statistical mechanics of evolutionary models simulating ecological environments.

Between 1991 and 1998 Filippo worked with Rik Belew in the AI Lab at the University of California, San Diego. His dissertation focused on interactions between individual reinforcement learning and evolutionary computation based on local selection schemes. He applied these adaptive algorithms to study cognitive models of distributed agents in complex environments, including both ecological simulations and Web crawling applications. At UCSD Filippo wrote the LEE open source artificial life simulation tool, distributed with Linux and used in experimental and instructional settings.

Between 1998 and 2003 Filippo was an assistant professor in the Department of Management Sciences at the University of Iowa, and in 2002 he was appointed to the faculty of the interdisciplinary graduate program in Applied Mathematical and Computational Sciences. At Iowa Filippo's research focused on scalable applications of text, data, and Web mining, particularly adaptive crawling and searching algorithms. He developed the MySpiders system, which allows users to launch personal adaptive agents who crawl the Web on their behalf. His work on the connection between the Web's content and link structure was featured on the BBC World Service.

Filippo has been the recipient of Fulbright, Rotary Foundation, and NATO fellowships, and is a fellow-at-large of the Santa Fe Institute. In 2002 he received a CAREER Award from the National Science Foundation. Filippo joined Indiana University in 2003 as an associate professor of informatics and computer science.

Indiana University

Predrag Radivojac is an assistant professor at the School of Informatics at Indiana University. He received his PhD in Computer and Information Sciences from Temple University in 2003. Before joining School of Informatics, he was a post-doctoral fellow at Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, focusing on bioinformatics. His research interestes include protein bioinformatics, computational proteomics, and machine learning/data mining.

Indiana University, Ph.D. Candidate

Jacob Ratkiewicz is a PhD student in the Indiana University School of Informatics, working with Professor Filippo Menczer. He received a B.S. in Computer Science with highest distinction from Indiana University at South Bend in 2003, and a M.S. from Indiana University at Bloomington in 2005. His current research interests include the topology of the Web, information retrieval in structured and unstructured text, and issues in security and privacy, especially related to malware, click-fraud, and phishing.

Indiana University, Ph.D. Candidate

Joey Morwick is a 3rd year PhD student in the Computer Science Department at Indiana University. He graduated with a BS in Mathematics and Computer and Information Science from Ohio State University in the summer of 2003, and a MS in Computer Science from Indiana University in Spring 2007. His current research focuses on complex case representations for Case Based Reasoning with applications into eScience.

Indiana University

Edward Robertson is a professor at the School of Informatics at Indiana University. His research areas include database systems theory and practice, enterprise architectures and information systems modeling, software engineering.

University of Iowa

Eunjin (EJ) Jung is an assistant professor at the University of Iowa. She received M.S. and Ph.D. in Computer Sciences from the University of Texas at Austin. Her research interests are security and fault-tolerance in computer networks and distributed, p2p, and grid systems, privacy and anonymity in databases, security policy management, and usable security. Her current projects include anti-phishing toolbar, safe file search in p2p networks, privacy support in medical databases, and XACML policy management.

ISI Foundation, Turin, Italy

Dr. Ciro Cattuto received a PhD in theoretical Physics from the University of Perugia (Italy). After a few experiences in the software industry, he worked at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor and then moved to the Frontier Research System of the RIKEN Institute (Japan) as a post-doctoral Fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science. After three years in Tokyo, he received a grant at the "Centro Studi e Ricerche Enrico Fermi" and he moved to Roma, where he was affiliated to the Physics Department of the University of Roma "La Sapienza". In May 2008 he joined the Complex Networks Lagrange Laboratory (CNLL) at the ISI Foundation.

Mathias Niepert

Indiana University, Ph.D. Candidate

Mathias Niepert is a fourth year Ph.D. student in the Computer Science Department at Indiana University. He works on two different yet related projects. Together with his advisor Dirk Van Gucht and Marc Gyssens, he is developing a general theoretical framework for implication problems such as the implication problems for probabilistic conditional independence statements and the implication problem for disjunctive association rules. It involves methods from mathematical logic, probability theory, lattice theory, and data mining. The second research project is concerned with the design of algorithms that populate and extend an ontology for the discipline of Philosophy. Together with Colin Allen and Cameron Buckner,he developed InPhO, a system that combines statistical text processing, human expert feedback, and logic programming to extend and populate dynamic ontologies. InPhO will be integrated in the editorial workflow of the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, providing a unique opportunity to harness the knowledge of its editors and authors for our purposes.

Sofia Brenes

Indiana University, Ph.D. Candidate

Sofia graduated from the Instituto Tecnologico de Costa Rica with a BS in Computer Engineering. After working as a Visiting Research Associate at the Institute for Human and Machine Cognition for two years, she came to IU where she got her Master's degree in 2005. She is currently working with her advisor, Melanie Wu, on her PhD thesis.