Vasileios Megalooikonomou
Curriculum Vitae
March 5, 2001
Department of Computer and Information Sciences
Temple University
303 Wachman Hall
1805 N. Broad Street
Philadelphia, PA 19122
215-204-5774, 215-204-5082 (fax)
vasilis@cis.temple.edu
http://www.cis.temple.edu/~vasilis
Data Mining,
Data Compression,
Multimedia Database Systems,
Visualization Systems for Medical Databases,
Medical Informatics.
- Sept. 2000 - Present.
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Assistant Professor,
Department of Computer and Information Sciences,
Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
- Sept. 1999 - Aug. 2000.
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Visiting Assistant Professor,
Department of Computer Science, Dartmouth College, Hanover,
New Hampshire.
- Sept. 1999 - Present.
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Research Faculty, The Dartmouth Experimental Visualization Laboratory
(DEVLAB).
Research Faculty, The Brain Imaging Lab, Dartmouth Medical School.
- Sept. 1997 - Sep. 1999.
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Faculty Research Associate, Neuroimaging Laboratory, Department of
Radiology, Johns Hopkins University, School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland.
- Jan. 1992 - Aug. 1997.
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Ph.D. in Computer Science, University of Maryland, Baltimore County.
Research Topic: Quantization for Distributed Estimation with Unknown
Observation Statistics.
Developed a compression scheme for distributed estimation satisfying
communication constraints in the case where the distribution of
observations is unknown. Developed algorithms
based on a generalization of classification and regression trees.
Advisor: Dr. Yaacov Yesha.
GPA: 4.0/4.0.
- Jan. 1992 - Jan. 1995.
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M.S. in Computer Science, University of Maryland, Baltimore County.
Research Topic: Kolmogorov Incompressibility Method in Formal Proofs -
A Critical Survey.
Considered applications of the incompressibility method of Kolmogorov
complexity in the areas of lower bounds, average case analysis of
algorithms, formal language theory, and random graphs.
Advisor: Dr. Yaacov Yesha.
GPA: 4.0/4.0.
- Sept. 1986 - June 1991.
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B.S. in Computer Engineering and Informatics, University of Patras,
Greece.
Diploma Thesis: Neural Networks and Biological Information Processing.
Advisor: Dr. John S. Nicolis.
GPA: 8.8/10.0 (rank: top 3%).
Upsilon Pi Epsilon, Computer Science Honor Society member.
Academic Achievement Fellowship, Fund of State Fellowships, Greece (Sept. 1988 - July 1991).
Rotary Club Fellowship, Greece (Dec. 1991).
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) member.
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) member.
- Jul. 1995 - Sep. 1997.
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Medical Informatics Network - Cooperative Information System, Department of
Pathology, School of Medicine, University of Maryland at Baltimore:
- Investigator, image processing and knowledge based computer
support for the Cytoskeleton Injury Study, Department of Pathology.
- Researcher, DICOM Reference Architecture Project for the Imaging Physics
Division of Radiology.
- Lead systems engineer, project manager, and coordinator of the work
with the collaborative units of the School of Medicine: Departments of
Pathology, Radiology, Surgery, Medicine, and Physiology.
- Jun. 1993 - Jun. 1995.
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Division of Medical Informatics, School of Medicine, University of Maryland
at Baltimore:
- Unix systems administrator (software, hardware and network maintenance)
- Unix systems programmer of a high performance, distributed, computing
facility (SunOS, Solaris, SPARCstations)
- Database designer and administrator, database programmer (Oracle RDBMS,
SQL, Pro*C, C).
- Oct. 1988 - Dec. 1991.
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Computer Technology Institute (CTI), Patras, Greece:
- Oct. 1990 - Dec. 1991.
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VMS systems programmer, networking. Performed several software engineering
projects for the Computer Center.
- Oct. 1989 - Sept. 1990.
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Systems manager of a network of personal computers running NOVELL
NetWare OS. Assisted in the administration of a network of SUN
workstations running SunOS. Evaluation of H/W and S/W products for LANs
of PC's.
- Oct. 1988 - Sept. 1989.
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Computer Center Operator.
- Sept. 2000 - Present.
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Assistant Professor, Department of Computer and Information Sciences,
Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania:
Teaching graduate courses in Database Systems, and a graduate seminar in
Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining.
- Sept. 1999 - Aug. 2000.
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Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science,
Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire:
Teaching courses in Database Systems, Graphics, Artificial Intelligence,
Theory of Computation, and Discrete Mathematics.
- Jan. 1992 - Aug. 1997.
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Teaching Assistant, Computer Science and Electrical Engineering
Department, University of Maryland, Baltimore County:
Assisted teaching graduate and undergraduate courses in
Analysis of Algorithms, Automata Theory and Formal Languages, Discrete
Structures, Symbolic and Algebraic processing, Numerical Analysis, Coding
Theory and Applications, Operating Systems, Computer Architecture,
and Introduction to Computers and Programming.
- Jul. 1995 - Jan. 1996.
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Medical Informatics Network - Cooperative Information System, Department of
Pathology, School of Medicine, University of Maryland at Baltimore:
Delivered lectures in a graduate course on medical applications of
relational databases. Trained staff of the Medical Informatics Lab in Unix
and Network administration.
- Oct. 1989 - Sept. 1990.
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Computer Technology Institute (CTI) and Computer Engineering and Informatics
Department, University of Patras, Greece:
Trained freshmen undergraduates in Unix, MS-DOS, and Netware OS.
Trained members of the Computer Center in Netware OS management.
Master's Theses Committees Member:
- James Shain, "Automatic Detection and Retrieval of Moving Lips in Digital
Video", Dartmouth College, 2000.
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Ling Cheng, "TROI - A Training and Research System for Tracing Regions of
Interest in Brain Images", Dartmouth College, 2000.
Co-advising with Fillia
Makedon at Dartmouth College:
- Co-Principal Investigator, (with Fillia Makedon
and Andrew Saykin), National Science Foundation,
- ``Mining Human Brain Data: Analysis,
Classification, and Visualization of Probabilistic 3D Objects'', $654,000,
10/2000 - 10/2003.
- Co-Investigator, (with Edward Herskovits and
Christos Davatzikos), National Institutes of Health, R01 AG13743,
- ``Spatially Oriented Database for Digital Brain Images'', $848,138,
1999-2002.
- Reviewer - Funding Agencies:
- National Science Foundation (NSF) Grant Review Panel, 2001.
- Reviewer/referee - Journals:
- Pattern Recognition.
Archives of General Psychiatry.
- Reviewer/referee - Conferences:
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The IBM Centre for Advanced Studies Conference (CASCON) '97,
International Conference of Distributed Computing Systems '96,
Digital Libraries Forum '95, '96,
International Conference on Tools for Artificial Intelligence '95,
ACM SIGCOMM '94 Conference.
- Member of Program Committees:
- The World Multiconference on
Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics (SCI) '99 and the International
Conference on Information Systems Analysis and Synthesis (ISAS) '99,
Orlando, Florida, July 31-Aug. 4, 1999,
- The World Multiconference on
Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics (SCI) '98 and the International
Conference on Information Systems Analysis and Synthesis (ISAS) '98,
Orlando, Florida, July 12-16, 1998.
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"Data Mining in Multimedia/Medical Databases", Department of Statistics,
Temple University, PA, Mar. 2001.
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"Data Mining in Multimedia/Medical Databases", Center for Information Science
and Technology, Temple University, PA, Oct. 2000.
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``Mining Structure-Function Associations in a Brain Image Database'',
Department of Computer Science, University of Houston, TX, Apr. 2000.
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``Data Mining Methods and their Applications to Brain Mapping''
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science,
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, WI, Apr. 2000.
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``Mining Structure-Function Associations in a Brain Image Database'',
Department of Computer Science, Florida State University, Tallahassee,
FL, Apr. 2000.
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``Mining Structure-Function Associations in a Brain Image Database'',
Department of Computer Science, State University of New York at Albany, NY,
Mar. 2000.
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``Mining Structure-Function Associations in a Brain Image Database'',
Department of Computer and Information Sciences, Temple University,
Philadelphia, PA, Mar. 2000.
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``Mining Lesion-Deficit Associations in a Brain Image Database'', Department
of Computer Science, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, NC, Mar. 2000.
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``Mining Lesion-Deficit Associations in a Brain Image Database'', Department
of Computer and Information Science, Polytechnic University, Brooklyn, NY,
Feb. 2000.
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``Discovering Associations between Structures and Functions in the Human
Brain'', Department of Cognitive Neuroscience, Dartmouth College, Hanover,
NH, Feb. 2000.
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``Mining Lesion-Deficit Associations in a Brain Image Database'', Department
of Computing and Information Science, Queen's University, Ontario, Canada,
Jan. 2000.
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``Mining Lesion-Deficit Associations in a Brain Image Database'', Department
of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, University of Maryland,
Baltimore County, MD, Dec. 1999.
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``Seeing through the Forest: Mining Lesion-Deficit Associations in a Brain
Image Database'', CIMIC (Center for Information Management, Integration and
Connectivity), Rutgers University, NJ, June 1999.
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``Target-based compression: Issues in Quantization for Distributed
Estimation'', Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of
Colorado, Denver, CO, May 1999.
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``Target-based compression: Quantization for distributed estimation with
unknown observation statistics'', Department of Computer Science, Dartmouth
College, NH, Feb. 1999.
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``Designing neural network quantizers for distributed estimation'',
Department of Computer Science, Georgetown University, DC, Feb. 1999.
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``Storage Consideration in Quantization for Distributed Estimation'',
School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Ohio University, OH,
July 1998.
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``Quantization for Distributed Estimation with Unknown Observation
Statistics'', Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering, Auburn
University, AL, May 1998.
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``Quantization for Distributed Estimation'', Department of Computer Science,
Wayne State University, MI, Jan. 1998.
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``Distributed Estimation in the case of Unknown Statistics'', Department of
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Evansville, IN,
July 1997.
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``Quantizers for Distributed Estimation'', School of Computer and Information
Science, Georgia Southwestern State University, GA, June 1997.
- V. Megalooikonomou, and E. H. Herskovits,
"Mining Structure-Function Associations in a Brain
Image Database", chapter in "Medical Data Mining and
Knowledge Discovery, K.J. Cios (ed.), Springer-Verlag, 2001.
- V. Megalooikonomou and Y. Yesha,
"Quantizer Design for Distributed Estimation with
Communication Constraints and Unknown Observation Statistics",
IEEE Transactions on Communications, Vol. 48, No. 2, pp. 181-184,
2000.
- V. Megalooikonomou, James Ford, Li Shen, Fillia Makedon, and
Andrew Saykin,"
Data mining in brain imaging", Statistical
Methods in Medical Research, Vol. 9, No. 4, pp. 359-394, 2000
(invited paper).
- V. Megalooikonomou, E. H. Herskovits, and C. Davatzikos,
"A Simulator for Evaluating Methods
for the Detection of Lesion-Deficit Associations",
Human Brain Mapping, Vol. 10, No. 2, pp. 61-73, 2000.
- L. Shen, L. Cheng, J. Ford, F. Makedon, V. Megalooikonomou,
T. Steinberg,
"
Mining the Most Interesting Web Access Associations",
in Proceedings of the World Conference on the WWW and Internet (WebNet)
San Antonio, Texas, pp. 489-494, Nov. 2000.
- E. H. Herskovits, V. Megalooikonomou, C. Davatzikos, A. Chen,
R. N. Bryan, and J. Gerring,
"
Is the spatial distribution of brain lesions
associated with closed-head injury predictive of subsequent development
of attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder? Analysis with brain image
database",
Radiology, Vol. 213, No. 2, pp. 389-394, 1999.
- V. Megalooikonomou, C. Davatzikos, and E. H. Herskovits,
"Mining Lesion-Deficit Associations in a
Brain Image Database", in Proceedings of the ACM SIGKDD
International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining,
San Diego, CA, pp. 347-351, Aug. 1999.
- E. H. Herskovits, V. Megalooikonomou, C. Davatzikos,
J. Gerring, R. N. Bryan, "Evaluation of Closed-Head
Injury Data with a Brain-Image Database: Statistical Analysis and
Simulation", presented in the 5th International Conference on
Functional Mapping of the Human Brain (HBM99), Dusseldorf, Germany, June,
1999.
- V. Megalooikonomou and Y. Yesha,
"Design of Neural Network Quantizers for
a Distributed Estimation System with Communication Constraints",
in Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference Acoustics,
Speech, Signal Processing (ICASSP), Seattle, Washington, pp. 3469-3472,
May 1998.
- E. H. Herskovits, V. Megalooikonomou, C. Davatzikos,
R. N. Bryan, J. Gerring, "Spatial distribution of
brain lesions associated with closed-head injury: Association with subsequent
development of attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder", abstract,
Radiology, Vol. 209, pp. 479-479, Suppl. S, Nov. 1998.
- V. Megalooikonomou and Y. Yesha,
"Quantization for Distributed Estimation
with Communication and Storage Constraints", in Proceedings of 35th
Annual Allerton Conference on Communications, Control, and Computing,
Urbana, Illinois, pp. 102-112, Sept. 1997.
- V. Megalooikonomou and Y. Yesha,
"
Quantization for Distributed Estimation with
Unknown Observation Statistics",
in Proceedings of the 31st Annual
Conference on Information Sciences and Systems, Baltimore, Maryland,
pp. 138-143, Mar. 1997.
- K. A. Elliget and V. Megalooikonomou,
"Automated identification and visualization
of actin cytoskeleton injury in anoxic NRK-52E renal epithelial cells via
volume investigation", abstract, Molecular Biology of the Cell,
Vol. 8, pp. 1560-1560, Suppl. S, Nov. 1997.
- V. Megalooikonomou,
"Quantization for Distributed Estimation with Unknown
Observation Statistics", Doctoral Dissertation, Computer Science,
University of Maryland, Baltimore County, 1997.
- V. Megalooikonomou,
"Kolmogorov Incompressibility Method in
Formal Proofs: A Critical Survey", Technical Report TR CS-97-01,
Departmemt of Computer Science Electrical Engineering, University of
Maryland, Baltimore County, Jan. 1997.
- V. Megalooikonomou (editor), with K. A. Elliget and
N. DeClaris,
"Image Based Study of Cytoskeleton Injury",
Progress Report, Medical
Informatics Network Project, Department of Pathology, School of Medicine,
University of Maryland at Baltimore, Sept. 1996.
- V. Megalooikonomou,
"Neural Networks and Biological Information
Processing", Diploma Thesis, Department of Computer Engineering
and Informatics, University of Patras, Greece, June 1991.
- V. Megalooikonomou and Y. Yesha,
"Quantization for Distributed Estimation using Neural
Networks", submitted to Information Sciences.
- V. Megalooikonomou and Y. Yesha,
"Designing Space Efficient Quantizers for
Decentralized Estimation", submitted to IEEE Transactions
on Neural Networks.
Papers in preparation
- V. Megalooikonomou, C. Davatzikos, and E. H. Herskovits,
"Robust Methods for Discovering Brain Lesion-Deficit
Associations".
- J. Ford, F. Makedon, V. Megalooikonomou, C. Owen,
"Symbolic Representation of Multimedia Stimuli for
Event related fMRI".
- N. DeClaris and V. Megalooikonomou,
"Heuristic Visualization and Feature Extraction of
3-Dimensional Networks of High Complexity".
- B. F. Trump, N. DeClaris, K. A. Elliget, V. Megalooikononou,
and P. C. Phelps, "A Heuristic Approach to Knowledge
Acquisition of Cellular Injury".
Date of birth: January 29, 1969.
Place of birth: Athens, Greece.
Languages: English, French, Greek.