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CS Colloquium: Sham Navathe (Georgia Tech)

Speaker: Sham Navathe, Georgia Tech

Talk Title: Challenges for Developing Practical Applications of Databases in Bioinformatics and Healthcare : Some Case Studies

Series: CS Colloquium

Abstract: In this talk the speaker will highlight the requirements and challenges of developing applications in bioinformatics and healthcare IT. He will relate his personal experiences in working with genomic and other bioinformatics data from public databases. He was involved in developing a mitochondrial genome database and tools for interpretation of microarray data based on biomedical literature in PubMed as well as a classifier and search engine for Public Health literature. He is presently involved with some healthcare IT projects related to analysis of unstructured clinical data, matching of patients to clinical studies, and integration of clinical and genetic data for certain diseases.

Biography: Navathe holds a Ph.D. from the University of Michigan in 1976, an M.S.from Ohio State in 1970 and a B.E. from Indian Institute of Science in 1968. He has over 150 refereed publications. He has been the primary advisor of 23 Ph.D. students placed in academia and industry. He has lectured in U.S., Canada, India, U.K., Germany, Italy, Holland, Switzerland, France, Sweden, Norway, Turkey, Australia, Hong Kong, Singapore etc. on topics related to data management and information systems.

His current research interests include data and text mining, enterprise information systems, human genome data management, GIS and biological data integration , mobile databases and synchronization, engineering data management, intelligent information retrieval, and web-based database applications.

http: //www.cc.gatech.edu/~sham
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shamkant_Navathe

Host: Shahram Ghandeharizadeh

Location: Seaver Science Library (SSL) - 150

Audiences: Everyone Is Invited

Contact: Assistant to CS chair