Group Information
KDD Lab Wiki: Publications, Projects, Group Members
About the KDD Lab (old, being migrated to wiki)
Resources on the Web (old, being migrated to wiki)
Announcements
Past Announcements (1999 - 2008)
New Announcements
- Fri 16 Apr 2010: The KDD group welcomes Scarlett Sidwell, a new M.S.E. student starting in fall, 2010.
- Tue 23 Mar 2010: The publications section has been updated with 2009 Q4 and forthcoming 2010 papers (WWW 2010, ISI 2010).
- Wed 03 Mar 2010: A mail announcement has gone out to the KSU CIS undergrad mailing list (CIS-UGRADS@listserv.ksu.edu) inviting applications to the 2010 Data Sciences Summer Institute (DSSI).
- Sat 13 Feb 2010: Congratulations to Dr. Waleed Aljandal, a Ph.D. alum (2008), on being named head of the Department of Computer Science at Imam University (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia).
- Sun 17 Jan 2010: The KDD Lab IRC channel (#kdd) is hosted on orome.homelinux.net. (Consult this post for instructions on how to connect.)
- Wed 13 Jan 2010: Surya Teja Kallumadi, a graduate RA, is now a Ph.D. student.
- Wed 13 Jan 2010: The KDD group welcomes Ming Yang, a new Ph.D. student.
- Tue 15 Dec 2009: Congratulations to Surya Teja Kallumadi on a successful M.S. thesis defense.
- Mon 07 Dec 2009: Congratulations to Damian Tamayo on a successful M.S.E. final presentation.
- Sat 05 Dec 2009: The KDD group welcomes Aaron Ortbals, a new undergraduate research programmer.
- Thu 19 Nov 2009: Thanks to Wesam Elshamy (a Ph.D. candidate) and Andrew Berggren (an undergrad research programmer) for representing the KDD group at the 2009 Workshop in the National Institute of Standards and Technology Text Analysis Conference series (NIST TAC).
- Sat 17 Oct 2009: The KDD group welcomes Chris Ramsey, a new undergraduate research programmer.
- Tue 13 Oct 2009: Welcome to a new KDD Lab research collaborator: Dr. Jessica C. Murphy of the University of Texas - Dallas Literary Studies Program.
- Thu 09 Oct 2009: The publications section has been updated with 2009 papers (SARA 2009, ICDM 2009, etc.).
- Thu 17 Sep 2009: A new member orientation guide has been added to the KDD Lab wiki.
- Thu 03 Sep 2009: The KDD group welcomes Srinivas Peddola, a new M.S. student and graduate research programmer.
- Sun 23 Aug 2009: The KDD Lab wiki has been upgraded.
- Mon 24 Aug 2009: Daniel Greene, an undergraduate alum (B.S. 2009), is now an M.S.E. student.
- Mon 24 Aug 2009: The KDD group welcomes Mustafa Mohammed, a new M.S.E. student.
- Mon 17 Aug 2009: The KDD group welcomes Raj Preetam Tirumalae, a new M.S. student.
- Mon 17 Aug 2009: The KDD group welcomes Manikanta Babu Karanam, a new M.S. student.
- Fri 07 Aug 2009: The KDD group welcomes Swathi Bujuru, a new M.S. student.
- Sun 02 Aug 2009: Please join us in celebrating the 10th anniversary of the KDD Lab! A commemorative event has been created on Facebook.
- Thu 30 Jul 2009: Today, Dr. William Hsu marks the tenth anniversary of his arrival in Manhattan, Kansas to join the faculty of Kansas State University.
- Tue 21 Jul 2009: The KDD group welcomes Dinesh Reddy Singireddy, a new M.S. student.
- Tue 30 Jun 2009: Congratulations to Dr. Haipeng Guo, a Ph.D. alum (2003), on receiving tenure and promotion to the rank of Associate Professor and department chair in the Technology division at Beijing Normal University / Hong Kong Baptist University United International College (BNU-HKBU UIC) in Zhuhai, China.
- Wed 20 May 2009: Surya Teja Kallumadi is now a graduate research assistant in the KDD group.
- Tue 19 May 2009: Congratulations to Tim Weninger, an M.S. alum (2008) and research associate of the KDD Lab, on being named a 2009 National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Fellow!
- Thu 07 May 2009: Congratulations to Abhijit Erande on a successful M.S. final presentation.
- Tue 21 Apr 2009: The KDD group welcomes Andrew Berggren, a new undergraduate research programmer.
- Fri 17 Apr 2009: Congratulations to Jincheng Gao on a successful M.S.E. final presentation.
- Tue 14 Apr 2009: Congratulations to Sowji Karumuri on a successful M.S.E. final presentation.
- Tue 31 Mar 2009: Congratulations to Tim Weninger, an M.S. alum (2008) and research associate of the KDD Lab, on being named a 2009 National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate (NDSEG) Fellow!
- Fri 27 Mar 2009: Congratulations to James A. Louis on a successful M.S.E. final presentation.
- Wed 25 Mar 2009: The job postings page has been updated with the hiring notices for the undergrad research programmer positions and undergrad sysadmin position.
- Mon 02 Feb 2009: Tim Weninger, an M.S. alum (2008) of the KDD Lab, is now a full-time research associate.
- Sat 24 Jan 2009: A retrospective video has been posted to YouTube for the 2008 Data Sciences Summer Institute (DSSI) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC).
- Thu 15 Jan 2009: Jack Hart, an undergraduate alum (B.S. 2009), is now an M.S. student.
- Tue 06 Jan 2009: The Geneva network has been rebuilt, and the KDD Lab IRC channel (#kdd) is back up on mandos.homelinux.net. (Consult this post for instructions on how to connect.)
- Fri 02 Jan 2009: The KDD group welcomes Sohini Roy Chowdhury, a new M.S. student and graduate research assistant (co-advised by Dr. Caterina Scoglio).
- Fri 02 Jan 2009: Welcome to a new KDD Lab research collaborator: Dr. Caterina Scoglio, director of the Sunflower Networking Group in the Kansas State University Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and co-director (with Dr. Morgan Scott) of EpiCenter, the K-State Center for Complex Network Approach to Epidemiological, Biological and Sociological Modeling and Simulation.
- Sun 14 Dec 2008: The KDD group welcomes Svitlana Volkova, a new M.S. student and graduate research assistant.
- Thu 11 Dec 2008: Congratulations to Chris Meyer on a successful M.S. thesis defense.
- Wed 10 Dec 2008: Congratulations to Robert Foster on a successful M.S. thesis defense.
- Thu 04 Dec 2008: Congratulations to Waleed Aljandal on being the second KDD Lab Ph.D. student to defend his dissertation!
- Mon 01 Dec 2008: Congratulations to Tim Weninger on a successful M.S. thesis defense.
- Thu 20 Nov 2008: Congratulations to Shuang Hao on a successful M.S. thesis defense.
- Thu 13 Nov 2008: Congratulations to Hussain Almohri on a successful M.S. thesis defense.
- Thu 08 Oct 2008: Congratulations to Vikas Bahirwani on a successful M.S. thesis defense.
- Thu 25 Sep 2008: Congratulations to Jing Xia on a successful M.S. thesis defense.
- Sat 13 Sep 2008: The KDD group welcomes N. Sowjanya Karumuri, a new M.S.E. student.
- Wed 10 Sep 2008: The KDD group welcomes Surya Teja Kallumadi, a new M.S. student (co-advised by Dr. Gurdip Singh).
- Wed 03 Sep 2008: Welcome back to Jincheng Gao (Ph.D. Geography 2006), now an M.S.E. candidate.
- Fri 18 Jul 2008: The DSSI 2008 posters are now online on the KDD Lab wiki.
- Fri 18 Jul 2008: Congratulations to Martin Paradesi on a successful M.S. thesis defense.
- Mon 28 Jul 2008: The KDD group welcomes Sam Henke, a new undergraduate research programmer.
- Fri 09 May 2008: Congratulations to Steve Stampbach on a successful M.S.E. final presentation.
- Thu 08 May 2008: Welcome back to James A. Louis, who has been on hiatus from the M.S.E. program.
- Mon 21 Apr 2008: Congratulations to Eric F. Davis on a successful M.S.E. final presentation.
- Fri 14 Mar 2008: The KDD group welcomes Robert L. Foster, Jr., a new M.S. student (co-advised by Dr. David Gustafson).
- Fri 28 Mar 2008: The KDD group welcomes Landon Fowles, a new undergraduate systems administrator.
- Sun 09 Mar 2008: The KDD group welcomes Danny Jones, a new undergraduate research programmer.
Job Opportunities
Undergraduate research programmer positions - spring, 2009Courses and Recommended Reading
- CIS 530: Principles of Artificial Intelligence
- CIS 560: Database System Concepts
- CIS 730: Artificial Intelligence
- Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach, Second Edition, S. J. Russell and P. Norvig. Prentice Hall, 2002. ISBN: 0137903952
- CIS 732 (formerly CIS 798): Machine
Learning and Pattern Recognition
- Machine
Learning, T. M.
Mitchell. McGraw-Hill,
1997. ISBN: 0070428077
- CIS 830: Advanced Topics in Artificial Intelligence
- Machine Learning, T. M. Mitchell. McGraw-Hill, 1997. ISBN: 0070428077
- CIS 636/736: Computer Graphics
- Computer
Graphics: Principles and Practice, Second Edition in C,
J.
D. Foley, A.
vanDam, S. K.
Feiner, and J.
F. Hughes. Addison-Wesley,
1996. ISBN: 0201848406
- CIS 690: Implementation
of High-Performance Data Mining Systems
- Data
Mining: Practical Machine Learning Tools and Techniques with Java
Implementations,
I. H. Witten and
E. Frank.
Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, 1996.
ISBN: 1558605525
- Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach, Second Edition, S. J. Russell and P. Norvig. Prentice Hall, 2002. ISBN: 0137903952
- Machine Learning, T. M. Mitchell. McGraw-Hill, 1997. ISBN: 0070428077
- Machine Learning, T. M. Mitchell. McGraw-Hill, 1997. ISBN: 0070428077
- Computer Graphics: Principles and Practice, Second Edition in C, J. D. Foley, A. vanDam, S. K. Feiner, and J. F. Hughes. Addison-Wesley, 1996. ISBN: 0201848406
- Data Mining: Practical Machine Learning Tools and Techniques with Java Implementations, I. H. Witten and E. Frank. Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, 1996. ISBN: 1558605525