Kendall Giles Assistant Professor Department of Statistical Sciences and Operations Research College of Humanities and Sciences Virginia Commonwealth University Senior Research Scientist Human Language Technology Center for Excellence (HLTCOE) Johns Hopkins University June-August, 2009 Contact Information Email: Mail: first two letters of first name + last name + @vcu.edu PO Box 843083 1001 West Main Street Richmond, VA 23284 Meta Data Curriculum Vitae Academic Bio Blog: Digging Deep

Research Interests

In general, my research interests fall in the intersection of computational statistics, computer science, and the decision sciences. Broadly speaking, my research involves the design and implementation of methods, algorithms, and systems for the analysis of complex datasets, the extraction of knowledge, and the visualization of information. In particular, keywords that would describe my research interests include statistical learning, visualization, text analysis, machine translation, network security, and high-dimensional data analysis.

Projects

• Machine Translation


• Computing and the Humanities


• Face Recognition


• Entity Relationship Diagram Clustering in Database Design


• Aerosol Filtration: Analysis and Prediction


• Data Fusion and Inference


• Iterative Denoising


• Webpage Reputation Scoring System

Funded Research

• "A Hierarchical and Iterative System for the Analysis of Streamed Text Data," Human Language Technology Center for Excellence, Baltimore, Maryland, May - September 2008, $7,512, PI.


• "The Design and Implementation of a System for Fusion and Inference from Multiple Disparate Data Sources," Johns Hopkins University, June 2009 - May 2014, $102,560, PI.

Selected Publications

• "Iterative Denoising," Kendall Giles, Michael Trosset, David Marchette, Carey Priebe. Computational Statistics, 24:3, October, 2008.
  
  
• "Disambiguation Protocols Based on Risk Simulation," Donniell Fishkind, Carey Priebe, Kendall Giles, Leslie Smith, Al Aksakalli. IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Part A, 37:5, 814-823, September, 2007.
  
  
• "Knowledge Discovery in Computer Network Data: A Security Perspective," Kendall Giles, Ph.D. Dissertation, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, October 2006.
  
  
• "Splitting Methods for Decision Tree Induction: An Exploration of the Relative Performance of Two Entropy-Based Families," Kweku-Muata Osei-Bryson, Kendall Giles, Information Systems Frontiers Journal, 8:195-209, Springer, 2006.
  
  
• "An Exploration of a Set of Entropy-Based Hybrid Splitting Methods for Decision Tree Induction," Kweku-Muata Osei-Bryson, Kendall Giles, Journal of Database Management, 15:3, 2004.
  
  
• "Exploration of a Hybrid Feature Selection Algorithm," Kweku-Muata Bryson, Kendall Giles, Boontaree Kositanurit, Journal of the Operational Research Society, 54:7, 790-797, 2003.
  
  

Teaching

Spring 2009

Stat 541: Applied Statistics for Engineers and Scientists

Stat 541: Applied Statistics for Engineers and Scientists

Fall 2008

Stat 543: Statistical Methods I

Stat 541: Applied Statistics for Engineers and Scientists

Spring 2008

Stat 544: Statistical Methods II

Stat 691: Mathematics of Knowledge and Search Engines

Events

• Summer Camp for Applied Language Exploration workshop on Machine Translation and Information Extraction, June 8 - July 31, 2009, Human Language Technology Center of Excellence, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland


• Seminar : "Knowledge Discovery with Iterative Denoising", 5:45PM, March 25, 2009, Department of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, George Mason University


• Seminar : "Knowledge Discovery with Iterative Denoising", 12PM, October 8, 2008, Computer Science Department, Virginia Commonwealth University

Previous Events

Students

Masters

• Bao-Tran Nguyen

Education

2007	Ph.D.	Johns Hopkins University	Computer Science
2004	M.S.	Johns Hopkins University	Computer Science
2002	M.S.	Virginia Commonwealth University	Information Systems
1993	M.S.	Purdue University	Electrical Engineering
1991	B.S.	Virginia Tech	Electrical Engineering

Trivia

• My Erdos Number is 4, via four different paths.

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