[CDM / Google Scholar / ResearchGate]

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Thiru Ramaraj is an Assistant Professor at the School of Computing, DePaul University, Chicago, USA. He received his BE in Computer Science & Engineering. from Annamalai University, India, MS & PhD in Computer Science from Ball State University and Montana State University respectively. His research focus is mainly on Computational Biology and applied bioinformatics. Before joining DePaul University, Thiru was a Bioinformatics Research Scientist at the National Center for Genome Resources (NCGR), Santa Fe, NM from 2010 – 2019 where he and his team primarily focused on developing computational workflows for high-throughput DNA/RNA sequence data analysis. He has active collaborations with Biologists, Biochemists across several Universities and research institutions. Thiru’s research work is primarily funded by the National Science Foundation.

[CDM / Google Scholar / ResearchGate / NCBI]

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Roselyne Tchoua is an Assistant Professor at the School of Computing, DePaul University, USA. Her interests gravitate around making seemingly inaccessible technology or manageable amounts of data more reachable. She joined DePaul Center for Data Science to continue working in the fascinating space between computer science and other science fields, extracting insight from data using machine learning, natural language processing techniques and crowdsourcing. She received her PhD in computer science from the University of Chicago, focusing on Hybrid Human Machine Scientific Information Extraction. During her graduate studies, she collaborated with scientists at the Institute of Molecular Engineering and the National Institute of Standards and Technology to extract polymer names and properties from the literature. Before going to the University of Chicago, she was a scientist at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) in the Scientific Data Group. She has seven years of experience working with scientific applications. At ORNL, she implemented and maintained online simulation data management and collaboration tool for High Performance Computing scientists.

[CDM / Google Scholar / ResearchGate / Dblp]

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Dr. John McDonald received his Ph.D. in Mathematics from Northwestern University in 1996, and joined DePaul’s faculty in the fall of 1998. He was instrumental in the formation of the degrees in Computer Graphics and Animation. In 2007 he was an IPAX fellow at Sony Imageworks.

[CDM / ResearchGate]

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Sharief Oteafy is an Assistant Professor at the School of Computing, DePaul University, USA, where he is the director of the Next Generation Networking (NexGeN) lab. He received his PhD from Queen’s University in Canada, focusing on adaptive resource management in agile Sensing Networks. His current research focuses on Information Centric Networks, dynamic architectures for interoperability in the Internet of Things, and managing the proliferation of Big Sensed Data (BSD). He is currently a key player in the design of the Tactile Internet Architecture, under the development of the IEEE P1918.1 Standard Working Group. He is actively engaged in the IEEE Communications Society (ComSoc), and is a professional member in both IEEE and ACM. Dr. Oteafy co-authored a book on “Dynamic Wireless Sensor Networks”, published by Wiley, presented 50+ publications and delivered multiple IEEE tutorials on IoT and BSD. He co-chaired a number of IEEE symposia and workshops in conjunction with IEEE ICC and IEEE LCN, and served on the technical program committee of numerous IEEE and ACM symposia. He is currently an Associate Editor with IEEE Access, and on the editorial board of Wiley’s Internet Technology Letters.

[CDM / Web / Google Scholar / Dblp]

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Tanu Malik is an Assistant Professor at the College of Computing and Digital Media and the co-Director of the Data Systems and Optimization Lab at DePaul. Her research is in broad area of scientific data management, and currently spans topics such as efficient databases for scientific research, data provenance management, and data virtualization techniques for reproducible science. Tanu has actively collaborated with astronomers, geoscientists, and urban scientists across several institutions. Her research is funded by the National Science Foundation, the Department of Energy, and the Sloan Foundation. She has a doctorate from the Johns Hopkins University, and a bachelors from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur.

[CDM / ResearchGate / Google Scholar / Dblp]

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Dr. Alexander Rasin is an Assistant Professor in the College of Computing and Digital Media (CDM) at DePaul University. He received his Ph.D. and M.Sc. in Computer Science from Brown University, Providence. He is a co-Director of Data Systems and Optimization Lab at CDM and his primary research interest is in database forensics and cybersecurity applications of forensic analysis. Dr. Rasin’s other research projects focus on building and tuning performance of domain-specific data management systems — currently in the areas of computer-aided diagnosis and software analytics. Several of his research projects are supported by NSF.

[CDM / ResearchGate / Google Scholar / Dblp]

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Marina Girju is assistant professor of marketing at the Richard H. Driehaus College of Business, DePaul University. Her main research interests are in studying variation in consumption, and supply and demand factors that affect individual consumer behavior. She has published in the Journal of Retailing and Review of Marketing Science. Since 2002, she has been a reviewer for the Small Business Innovation and Research and Education programs at the National Science Foundation. She has over 10 years of industry experience in various market research, sales and marketing positions with top market research companies and suppliers in the U.S. market. Girju worked in the technology industry, consumer packaged good industries, for the World Bank and not-for-profit organizations. At DePaul, she teaches various marketing classes, including Marketing Research, Predictive Choice Models and Principles of Marketing, with a strong emphasis on current marketing projects, so students can immediately use the theory and practice in their current internships and careers. She speaks fluent Spanish and French and has traveled extensively in Europe, Middle East and South America.

[College of Business]

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Jonathan F. Gemmell is an Assistant Professor in the School of Computing at DePaul University. He holds a BA in Classics, an MS in Computer Science and a PhD in Computer Science. His research focuses on the social web, data analysis and artificial intelligence. He is a faculty member at the Web Intelligence Laboratory. He has published dozens of articles in international peer-reviewed conferences and journals. His previous business experience includes trading foreign currency derivatives on the floor of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange and managing a trading and investment group.

[CDM / ResearchGate / Google Scholar / Dblp]

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Jacob D Furst is a Professor in the College of Computing and Digital Media (CDM) at DePaul University. His research interests are in medical informatics with applications of machine learning and data mining to medical image processing and computer vision. His current work concentrates on being able to generate semantically meaningful information about lung nodules in computed tomography images of the human torso. Dr. Furst also has a strong interest in computer security and is the director of the DePaul Information Assurance Center. He has helped design two majors and three courses in the CDM security curriculum. He has taught Secure Electronic Commerce, Social Aspects of Information Security, Information Systems Security, Host Based Security, and Introduction to Networking and Security. Dr. Furst earned his PhD in computer science from UNC Chapel Hill; he has a master’s degree in education and a bachelor’s degree in English literature.

[CDM / ResearchGate / Dblp]

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