Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Minnesota | | pdf cv

 

 

RESEARCH INTEREST

 

Data mining, machine learning, information retrieval, clustering, cloud computing, mass collaboration

 

EDUCATION

 

University of Minnesota – Twin Cities

Ph.D., Computer Science, 2011 - 2016 (expected). GPA: 3.65/4.0

 

Texas State University-San Marcos

Masters, Computer Science, 2009 - 2011. GPA: 4.0/4.0

Thesis: Personalized and Collaborative Clustering of Search Results

 

Texas State University-San Marcos

Post Graduate Certificate, Computer Science, 2008 - 2009. GPA: 4.0/4.0

 

Moody Bible Institute

BA in Bible/Theology, Ancient Languages, 1997 - 2001. GPA: 3.3/4.0 - Honors

 

PUBLICATIONS

 

· David C. Anastasiu, Byron J. Gao, Xing Jiang, and George Karypis. A Novel Two-box Search Paradigm for Query Disambiguation. World Wide Web Journal (2011)

· Byron J. Gao, David Buttler, David C. Anastasiu, Shuaiqiang Wang, Peng Zhang, and Joey Jan. User-centric Organization of Search Results. IEEE Internet Computing (2011)

· David C. Anastasiu, Byron J. Gao, David Buttler. ClusteringWiki: personalized and collaborative clustering of search results (SIGIR'11)

· David C. Anastasiu, David Buttler, Byron J. Gao. A Framework for Personalized and Collaborative Clustering of Search Results (CIKM'11)

· Byron J. Gao, David C. Anastasiu, Xing Jiang. Utilizing Contextual Terms for Query Disambiguation. (COLING'10)

· Walter Cai, David C. Anastasiu, Mingji Xia, and Byron J. Gao. OLAP For Multicriteria Maintenance Scheduling. (DMIN'09)

· Byron J. Gao, Mingji Xia, Walter Cai, David C. Anastasiu. The Gardener's Problem for Web Information Monitoring. (CIKM'09)

 

AWARDS AND HONORS

 

· Outstanding Graduate Student - Texas State University - 2010 (1 given in College of Science)

· Graduate Research Excellence - Texas State University - 2010

· Alpha Chi Honor Society member and Golden Key Honour Society member

 

MISCELLANEOUS

 

· US Citizen

· Hard working, self disciplined, detail oriented, strong work ethic, team player

· Six years of previous IT industry experience in systems development and integration; developed mission-critical n-tier global web applications for the Life Sciences industry

· Programming Languages: Java/JEE, C++, C, Perl, PHP, MySQL, PL/SQL, HTML, JavaScript, and others

 

REFERENCES

 

· available upon request.