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Jean X. Gao, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor                                                                                                                                    Email: gao AT uta.edu       
Computer Science and Engineering Department                                                                                                   
338 Nedderman Hall                                                                                                                                 Phone: (817)272-3628    Fax: (817)272-3784
University of Texas at Arlington                                                                                                            Personal  web page:  http://crystal.uta.edu/~gao
Arlington, TX 76019                                                                                                                                 Lab web page: http://visionlab.uta.edu                                                                                                               

PhD,   Electrical & Computer EngineeringPurdue University,  2002
MS,     Biomedical Engineering,  Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology,  1996
BS,      Biomedical Engineering, School of Medicine,  Shanghai Medical University, 1990
             (a six-year interdisciplinary program)               

Honors:

New:        Workshop on High-Throughput Data Analysis for Proteomics and Genomics

                                          in Conjunction with IEEE BIBM

Research Interests:

Research Lab:  BioComputing and Vision Lab (BioVIL)


      Sponsors:

               We gratefully acknowledge the support from the following sponsors for our research:

Teaching: 

 CSE2315     Discrete Structure       Spring    ,  Spring 2008  

CSE5370  Bioinformatics              Every Fall:      Fall 2008   

CSE 5367 Pattern Recognition                 Every Spring: Spring 2009

CSE5392.502  Bioinformatics       

CSE5392 Pattern Recognition and Decision Making Processes          



Office Hours:  (For students out of my research group)

Mon, Wed:           12:00pm -- 1:00pm.
Tue, Thu, Fri:       by appointment


         Collaborators (past and current):

          -- Kevin Rosenblatt,  Pathology Department, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center

          -- John Schorge, Department of Obsterics and Gynaecology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center

          -- Kate Luby-Phelps, Cell Biology Department, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center

          -- Spencer Brown, Michel Saint-Cyr, Plastic Surgery Department, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center

          -- Gary Arbique, Radiology Department, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center

          --  Liping Tang, Bioengineering Department, University of Texas at Arlington

          -- Youngjoong Joo, Electrical Engineering Department, Arizona State University

          --  Sungyong Jung, Electrical Engineering Department, University of Texas at Arlington



          For New PhD Students:

                I am constantly looking for PhD students in 1) Bioinformatics; and 2) Medical Imaging.  Students with
                strong background in statistics/probability,   machine learning/data mining,  OR computer vision/image processing,
                are encouraged to apply.  Hard working, self-motivated, and productive students are very welcome.  Please send your
                resume to "gao@uta.edu".


Selected Publications (need to be updated .... Please check BioVIL) :

--  J.  Oh, J. Gao,  A. Nandi, P. Gurnani, L. Knowles, J. Schorge, and K. Rosenblatt, “Multicategory classification using extended SVM-RFE and Markov blanket on SELDI-TOF mass spectrometry data,” Proceedings of IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (CIBCB), San Diego, CA, Nov 14-15, 2005.

-- J. Gao, "New discoveries of image display size on observer performance,"
Academic Radiology (Elsevier), vol. 13, no. 4, 2006.

--  N. Thakoor and J. Gao, “Shape classification based on generalized Gaussian descent method with hidden Markov model descriptor,"
Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) (blind review,  acceptance rate: 20.4%,  245 out of  1200), Beijing, China, Oct 15-21, 2005.

 --  J. Gao, A. Kosaka, and A. Kak, "A Multi-Kalman Filtering Approach for Video Tracking of Human-Delineated Objects in Cluttered Environments", Computer Vision and Image Understanding, vol. 99, no. 1, pp. 1-57, 2005. (A humongous paper of my PhD work.)

  --  N. Thakoor and J. Gao, “Automatic Video Object Shape Extraction and its Classification with Camera in Motion,” Proc. IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (IEEE ICIP),  Genova, Sept 11-14, 2005.

  --   Y. Kim and J. Gao, "A New Semi-Supervised Subspace Clustering Algorithm on Fitting Mixture Models," Proc. IEEE Symposium on  Computational  Intelligence  in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (CIBCB),  San Diego, CA,  Nov 14-15,  2005.

 
--   J. Gao, A. Kosaka, and A. Kak, “A Deformable Model for Human CT Liver Extraction,” Academic Radiology (Elsevier), vol.  12, no. 9, 1178-1189, 2005.

  --  J.H. Oh and J. Gao, "Peptide identification by tandem mass spectra: an efficient parallel searching approach," Proc. IEEE Symposium on Bioinformatics and Bioengineering (BIBE) (full paper acceptance rate 18%), Minneapolis, MN, Oct 19-21, 2005.

  --  Q. Wen and J. Gao, “Shape-Based 3D Vascular Tree Extraction for Perforator Flaps,” Proc. of SPIE Medical Imaging, vol. 5747, San Diego, CA, Feb 12-17, 2005.

  --  Q. Wen, J. Gao, A. Kosaka, H. Iwaki, K. Luby-Phelps, and D. Mundy, “A particle filter framework using optimal importance function for protein molecules tracking,” Proc. IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (IEEE ICIP),Genova, Sept 11-14, 2005.

  --  Y. B. Kim, J. H. Oh, and J. Gao, "Emerging Pattern based Subspace Clustering of Microarray Gene Expression using Mixture
Models," Proceedings of International Conference on Bioinformatics and its Applications (ICBA), 2004. (acceptance rate: 28%)

 --  J. H. Oh, Y.B. Kim, and J. Gao, "A Two-Way Searching Algorithm for De Novo Peptide Sequencing via Tandem Mass
Spectrometry," Proceedings of International Conference on Bioinformatics and its Applications (ICBA), 2004. (acceptance rate:
28%)

 --  J. Gao, "Object Shape Delineation During Tracking Process", Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Image
Processing (ICIP), Barcelona, Spain, 2003.


  -- J. Gao, " Self-Occlusion Immune Video Tracking of Objects in Cluttered Environments,"  Proceeding of IEEE International  
Conference on Advanced Video and Signal Based Surveillance (AVSS03), July, Miami, FL, 2003.

  -- J. Gao and A. Kosaka, "Multi-Visit of Kalman Filtering for Semantic Object Tracking," Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (IEEE ICME), pp. 837-840, Japan, August, 2001.

   -- J. Gao, A. Kosaka, and A. Kak, “Interactive Color Image Segmentation Editor Driven by Active Contour Model,” Proceedings of  IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (IEEE ICIP, acceptance rate 45%), vol. 3, pp. 245-9, Kobe, Japan, 1999.

 

Jean X Gao


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