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Awards
2008:

• NSF EAPSI Award: Went to Taiwan to study & do research at National Central University with Dr. Tak-Wai Chan (Chan's Circle)

Publications
2009:

• ParaSOM: An Efficient Self-Organizing Map for Parallel Multidimensional Input Processing and Clustering (Accepted: ANNIE 2009)
• NIPSOM: Parallel Architecture and Implementation of a Growing SOM (Accepted: The Computer Journal)
• The Relationship Between Motivation and Student Achievement: A Case Study in a SimCalc Classroom [link] (Accepted: PMENA 2009)
• The Use of TurSOM for Color Image Segmentation (Accepted: SMC 2009)
• Evaluating miRNA Expression Integrity in FFPE Samples with qRT-PCR by Using Patient-matched Formalin-fixed and Fresh-frozen Tissues from Renal Cell Carcinoma (RCC) Patients (Poster/Abstract) (Accepted: NEAUA 2009)
• Assessing the Potential of the Htert Cell Line as a Model of Normal Bladder Urothelium via Analysis of miRNA Expression (Poster/Abstract) (Accepted: NEAUA 2009)
• MicroRNA Profiling Can Distinguish Normal From Neoplastic Urothelium (Poster/Abstract) (Accepted: NEAUA 2009)
• What Happens When the Research Ends? Factors Related to the Sustainability of a Research-based Initiative SRI Technical Report (Draft)
• Democratizing Access to Core Mathematics Across Grades 9-12: A Longitudinal Study (Poster/Abstract) (Accepted: UMassD Sigma Xi 2009)
• SOM's for Machine Learning (book chapter - proposal accepted:   Machine Learning)
• Color Objects Recognition with TurSOM (Poster/Abstract)(Accepted: ICCNS 2009)
• TurSOM: A Turing Inspired Self-Organizing Map (Accepted: IJCNN 2009)
• Growing Mechanisms and Cluster Identification with TurSOM (Accepted: IJCNN 2009)

2008:

• Identification of Patterns via Region-Growing Parallel SOM Neural Network (ICMLA 2008)
• Role of Initialization in SOM Networks - Study of Self-Similar Curve Topologies (ANNIE 2008) Awarded Best Paper
• Hilbert Curve Initialization for Faster & Optimal Convergence of Self-Organizing Maps (Submitted for review)
• A comparative analysis quality & convergence measure for Self-Organizing Systems (Submitted for review)

2007:

• RADDACL: A Recursive Algorithm for Clustering and Density Discovery of Non-linearly Separable Data (IJCNN 2007)

2006:

• A Convergence and Optimization Study of Growing Parallel SOM through a Genetic Algorithm (DASC 2006)
• Constructing an Architecture for an Interactive Education Database - Issues of Design and Implementation (IADIS Web Applications and Research 2006)

2005:

• Alzheimer's Detection Using Neural Network Techniques and Enhanced EEG Measurements (IASTED Circuits, Signals, and Systems 2005)
• Alzheimer's Detection with EEG and ICA (Poster/Abstract) (UMassD Sigma Xi 2005)