Personnel - Graduate Students

Graduates of the Computer Science Doctoral Program, Alumni Urska (left) and Alex with Doctoral Student Hongli

Computer Science Doctoral Students (seated left to right: Liwu, Guangyi, Dr. Gary Livingston (Computer Science); standing left to right Jianping, Xiao Li

Biomedical Engineering and Computer Science Doctoral Student MaryBeth, and Computer Science Alumnus Howie

Mindy (Doctoral Computer Science Student)

Doctorate Students in Progress (*= CS Bioinformatics Option, **= Biomedical Engineering and Technology)

Hongli Li (*) – Data Exploration in Bioinformatics – Large   Pathways                                                            

Jianping Zhou (*)  – Partition and Cluster Result Comparisons  

John Sharko (*) – Interacting with Visualizations of Microarray Data Sets                                                   

Brian Drohan (**) – Breast Cancer Interoperability Tools and Risk Modeling                                                                        

Brian is a Biomedical Engineering doctoral student. As part of a group of UMass Lowell Bioinformatics students, Brian has worked with Dr. Kevin Hughes of Massachusetts General Hospital and the Avon Comprehensive Breast Evaluation Center. His work has focused on data analysis of patient records and the real time identification of high risk cancer patients through quantitative risk analysis. Working with the HL7 standards organization, Brian is collaborating on the development of a model for family history data aimed at providing clinical information systems interoperability. Other research activities include correlating gene expression as measured with quantitative PCR with phenotypic response to heat stress in fruit flies.

Mary Beth Smrtic (*) – Visual Analysis of Microarrays and Pathways                              

Christine Lawrence (**) – Breast Cancer Patient Risk Discovery System.           

Christine received her Bachelors of Science in Computer Science from Worcester Polytechnic Institute in 2000.  She received her Masters of Science in Biomedical Engineering and Biotechnology from the University of Massachusetts Lowell in 2005.  Her interests are visualization and data mining in bioinformatics and medical informatics.

Min Yu (*) – Real-time Interactive Large Data Set and Graph Visualization                  

Annabelle Cho (*) – Distributed High Performance Web Graphics 

Master Students in Progress    

Adam is a Computer Science major with an option in Bioinformatics. He has researched genetic pedigree graph drawing algorithms and has worked on implementing them within a computer visualization.  This new visual tool will aid doctors at the Avon Breast Cancer Center at Massachusetts General Hospital in breast cancer risk assessment.

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