Current Group Members and Affiliates

Faculty and Affiliates

• Professor Shing I Chang
  Kansas State University, Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Systems, Soft Computing Lab director
  Affiliate, KDD Lab
• Professor Sanjoy Das
  Kansas State University, Electrical Engineering and Computer Engineering (EECE)
• Professor William H. Hsu
  Kansas State University, Department of Computing and Information Sciences
  KDD Lab director
• Professor Lev Kapitanski
  Kansas State University, Department of Mathematics
• Professor Judith L. Roe
  Kansas State University, Division of Biology
• Professor Stephen M. Welch
  Kansas State University, Department of Agronomy
• Michael Welge
  National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA), Automated Learning Group (ALG) director
  Adjunct researcher, KDD Lab
• Professor Maria Zamfir-Bleyberg
  Kansas State University, Department of Computing and Information Sciences
  AI and Databases group, co-director

Graduate Students

• Siddharth S. Chandak
  M.S. student
  Machine Learning in Java (MLJ): Web Navigation Prediction and Visualization for Collaborative Filtering
  Bayesian Network Tools in Java (BNJ): Inference by Conditioning with Applications to Bioinformatics
• Vinod K. Chandana
  M.S. student
  Bayesian Network Tools in Java (BNJ) / High Perfomance Computing and Distributed Systems
  Parallel Genetic Programming for Learning Bayesian Networks from Data
• Roby Joehanes
  Ph.D. student
  Bayesian Network Tools in Java (BNJ) / Robotics and Intelligent Agents
  Fast Inference in Graphical Models / Probabilistic Methods for Robotics
• James A. Louis
  M.S.E. student
  Machine Learning in Java (MLJ)
  Software for Supervised Inductive Learning
• Acharaporn (Ann) Pattaravanichanon
  M.S.E. student
  Bayesian Network tools in Java (BNJ): Relational Database (RDB) Interfaces
• Edwin Rodríguez
  M.S. student
  Machine Learning in Java (MLJ): Co-evolution in Genetic Programming for Multi-Agent Tasks
  Genetic and Evolutionary Computation KSU Investigation and Experimentation Studio (GECKIES)
• Christopher Zhong
  M.S. student
  Machine Learning in Java (MLJ)

Undergraduate Students

• Jason J. Kieffaber
  Computer Engineering
  Systems Administration: Windows 2000/XP and BSD Servers
• Chris H. Meyer
  Computer Science
  Systems Administration
  Bayesian Network tools in Java (BNJ): GUI development
• Silpan Patel
  Computer Engineering
  Bayesian Network tools in Java (BNJ): Learning Wizard
• James W. Plummer
  Computer Engineering
  Systems Administration: Linux systems, accounts, and software
  Machine Learning in Java (MLJ): instance-based learning (IBL) inducers, genetic programming wrappers
  Bayesian Network tools in Java (BNJ): Inference Wizard

Student Affiliates

• Cindy Forgie
  M.S.E. student
  Computer Science
  KDD Group graduate teaching assistant: Summer 2001 (CIS690)
• Scott J. Harmon
  M.S. student
  Robotics: RoboSim, the Multi-Robot Simulator
  Genetic and Evolutionary Computation KSU Investigation and Experimentation Studio (GECKIES)
• Sham N. Kashyap
  M.S. student
  Machine Learning in Java (MLJ): Explaining Code Growth in Genetic Programming for Multi-Agent Tasks
• Eric T. Matson
  Ph.D. student (Multi-Agent Systems Lab)
  Computer Science
• Jesse A. Reichler
  Ph.D. student
  Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC)
  Founder, UIUC Artificial Neural Networks and Computational Brain Theory (ANNCBT) Group
• Cecil P. Schmidt
  Ph.D. student
  Case-Based Learning and Reasoning
• Lindsey D. Warren
  B.S. student
  Electrical Engineering and Computer Engineering
  Computing Research Association (CRA) Collaborative Research Experience for Women (CREW) project: tutoring and critiquing in math education
• Ryan A. Williams
  Computer Science
  Bayesian Networks in Java (BNJ): link structure learning in relational graphical models, bioinformatics applications