Curriculum Vitae

Knowledge representation, peer-to-peer knowledge exchange, adaptive systems, medical, bioinformatics, and information systems.

University of Missouri Columbia, College of Engineering
PhD in Computer Science, August 2008
Title: "Knowledge Representation and Exchange of Visual Patterns using Semantic Abstractions"
Advisor: Dr. Chi-Ren Shyu
University of Missouri, College of Business
Master of Business Administration in Finance and Management Information Systems, May 2002
Cumulative GPA 3.67/4.00
University of Bucharest, Romania, School of Engineering
B. S. in Industrial Engineering, June 1990
Cumulative GPA 3.4/4.0

Assistant Professor of Information Science, Pennsylvania State University, Information Science Department (July 2008 - present)
Instructor, University of Missouri Columbia, Department of Computer Science, CS4380/CS4380 - Database Management Systems I (Winter 2008)
Instructor, University of Missouri Columbia, Department of Computer Science, CS2830 - Introduction to the Internet, WWW and Multimedia Systems (Fall 2005, Winter 2006, Winter 2007)
Teaching Assistant, University of Missouri Columbia, Department of Computer Science, CS8370 - Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery (Fall 2007)
Research Assistant, University of Missouri Columbia, Division of Plant Sciences, (August 2003 - May 2004)
Teaching Assistant, University of Missouri Columbia, Department of Computer Science, Database Management System I, (September 2003 - August 2004)
Research Assistant, University of Missouri Columbia, Information, Access Technology Services, (August 2004 - May 2005)

Database Programmer-Analyst, University of Missouri Columbia, Information, and Access Technology Service (August 2002 - September 2003, May 2005 - January 2007)
Web Systems Coordinator, University of Missouri Columbia, Information, and Access Technology Service (July 2000 - August 2002)

Publications:

A.S. Barb, C. -R. Shyu, and Y. Sethi, Knowledge Representation and Sharing Using Visual Semantic Modeling for Diagnostic Medical Image Databases. IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine, 9(4): 538-553 (2005).
C.-R. Shyu, J. Harnsomburana, J. Green, A.S. Barb, T. Kazic, M. Schaeffer, and E. P Coe. Searching and Mining Visually-Observed Phenotypes of Maize Mutants, to be published in Journal of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, Vol. 5, No. 6, December 2007.
C.-R. Shyu, M. Klaric, G. Scott, A.S. Barb, C. Davis, and K. Palaniappan, GeoIRIS: Geospatial Information Retrieval and Indexing System - Content Mining, Semantics Modeling, and Complex Queries, in IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, Special Issue on Image Mining, Vol. 45, No. 4 , April 2007; 839-852
A. Barb, C. R. Shyu, "Visual Association Rule Mining for Semantic Search", to be submitted to the IEEE TKDE journal (in preparation)

A.S. Barb, C. -R. Shyu, Range Queries Using User-Specific Semantics for Modeling Content-based Information in Geospatial Domain, in Proc. of International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, July 2007.
C.-R. Shyu, A.S. Barb, and C. Davis. Mining image content associations for visual semantic modeling in geospatial information retrieval and indexing, in Proc. of International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, No. 5622 , July 2005.
A.S. Barb, C. -R. Shyu, Y. Sethi, "Semantics Integration and Knowledge Exchange for Diagnostic Medical Image Databases", IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Bioengineering, BIBE-04, Taichung, Taiwan, ROC, May 2004.
A.S. Barb, C. -R. Shyu, "Semantics Modeling in Diagnostic Medical Image Databases Using Customized Fuzzy Membership Function", IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems, FUZZ-IEEE-03, St. Louis, May 2003.
A.S. Barb, C. -R. Shyu, "A Semantic Query Approach for Diagnostic Image Database Management - Content-based Access and Knowledge Exchange Using XML", IIIS Proceedings on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics, Vol. 8, Orlando, July 2002.
A.S. Barb, C. -R. Shyu, Ontology Driven Content Mining and Semantic Queries for Satellite Image Databases, in Proc. of International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2008.

Reviewer for the International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2008.
Reviewer for the International Conference on Cybernetics and Information Technologies, Systems and Applications, 2005.
Reviewer for the International Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing Conference, 2005.

Student member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) since 2004.
Student member of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) since 2005.
Third place at the CSGSC Mini Poster Conference, Columbia MO, 2005.

Researched methods for capturing experts' conceptual change when using CBIR applications;
Researched customization methods for adjusting system settings to analyst preferences;
Evaluated level of expertise of individual analysts;
Evaluated methods to adapt shared knowledge using to a new individual's knowledge.

Studied tacit knowledge exchange through peer-to-peer networks;
Researched methods of knowledge sharing and information exchange in the domain of image database retrieval;
Evaluated automatic methods of knowledge discovery using peer-to-peer interactions.

Researched methods of integrating knowledge from a domain ontology into semantic discovery processes.
Developed models of knowledge sharing using a domain ontology.

Essence - Evolutionary System for Semantic Exchange of Information in Collaborative Environments.
GeoIRIS - Geospatial Information Retrieval and Indexing System.
VPhenoDBS - Visual Phenotype Database.

Vice President, Membership, Toastmasters International, Club #4492-District 8, (June 2004 - December 2004)
Vice President, Public Relations, Toastmasters International, Club #4492-District 8, (January 2004 - June 2004)