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Congratulations!

Tanwishta Saha will be interning with Intel, Portland, USA.

Sam Blasiak will be interning with FDA in Maryland, USA.

At Annual Awards Ceremony held in Spring 2012, the Computer Science Department at George Mason University:

Huzefa Rangwala awarded the "Outstanding Teaching Award"

Tanwishta Saha awarded the "Outstanding Graduate Teaching Assistant Award".

Check the story from last year's award ceremony: http://www.cs.gmu.edu/~hrangwal/node/280

Link to the evaluation report for CASP 9 experiment: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/prot.23161/full

Mason Disorder Prediction Server , back engine driven by SVMPrat is top 5 based on ACC score, top 4 based on MCC score and top 22 based on AUC score.

Previous Story: http://www.cs.gmu.edu/~hrangwal/node/210

Title : Transductive Multi-label Ensemble Classification for Protein Function Prediction.

Authors: Guoxian Yu**, Carlotta Domeniconi, Huzefa Rangwala , Guoji Zhang* and Zhiwen Yu*

** - Guoxian-Yu is a visiting research student scholar at Computer Science, George Mason University.

* - South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, China

Title: Improving network response times using social information.

Authors: Sharath Hiremagalore, Chen Liang, Angelos Stavrou and Huzefa Rangwala

Abstract & Citation Information: http://www.cs.gmu.edu/~hrangwal/node/380

Journal: Social Network Analysis and Mining (Springer)

Link to the article: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s13278-012-0065-9

Preprint [Coming Soon!]

More Accolades for Eric & Marvin!

• Won $1000 scholarship for participating in the Siemens Science Fair Regional Competition at Georgia Tech University.
• Received honorable mention for submission to Poster on the Hill 2012 event.

Congratulations to Dr. Nuttachat Wisittipanit for successfully defending his thesis.

Nuttachat will be joining Mae Fah Luang University located in Chiang Rai, Thailand as a faculty member beginning Fall 2012.

Co-advised by Huzefa Rangwala & Patrick Gillevet .

Thesis: Machine Learning Approach for Profiling Human Microbiome.

Sam Blasiak & Zeehasham Rasheed have been awarded fellowships to attend SIAM SDM 2012.

Besides presenting their recent work, they will participate in doctoral symposium at the conference.

Panel related to career opportunities was organized as part of ICDE 2012, thanks to a NSF award from III .

Panelist Information: http://www.icde12.org/Site/?page_id=476

Scholarship Awardees: http://www.icde12.org/Site/?page_id=505