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Curriculum Vitae
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Education
Ph.D. in Statistics, August
1996, University of Connecticut, Storrs.
Dissertation: Bayesian Approaches to Meta-Analysis.
Advisor: Dr. Dipak K. Dey.
Master of Science in Statistics,
May 1993, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT. Bachelor of Arts in
Mathematics, May 1990, Westfield State College, Westfield, MA.
Bachelor of Science in Computer
Science and Linguistics, May 1979.
Honors: Natural Language Processing, University of Massachusetts,
Amherst, MA.
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- Professional
Experience
September 2006 to Present: Professor of
Statistics and Data Mining
Department of Mathematical Sciences, CCSU
January 2001 to Present: Director,
Data Mining @ CCSU
Master of Science and Certificate Programs in Data Mining
Department of Mathematical Sciences, CCSU
July 2006 to Present: Book Series Editor
Wiley Series on Methods and Applications in
Data Mining
John Wiley and Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ
May
2006 to Present: Data
Mining Consultant
The
Economist Intelligence Unit, The Economist Magazine, New York, NY
January 2005 to December 2006: Data
Mining Consultant
University of Connecticut Department
of Statistics, Storrs, CT
June
2003 to December 2006: Data
Mining Consultant
Sonalysts,
Inc., Waterford, Connecticut
August 2001 to August 2006: Associate
Professor of Mathematical Sciences
Department of Mathematical Sciences, CCSU
April 2000 to September 2001: Educational Research
Consultant
Connecticut Academy Science Assessment Project
Conn Academy for Education in Math, Science, and Technology, Middletown,
CT
August 2000 to August 2001: Diversity Research
Consultant
United Technologies Corporation, Hartford, CT
August 1996 to August 2001:
Assistant Professor of Mathematical Sciences
Department of Mathematical Sciences, CCSU
Summer 2000: Visiting Assistant Professor of Statistics
Graduate Liberal Studies Program, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT
January 1992 to May 1996: Statistics
Lecturer, Dept. of Statistics, University of Connecticut
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Books
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Data Mining books
written by Dr. Larose
and published by John Wiley and Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ
Discovering
Knowledge in Data:
An Introduction to Data Mining
Data Mining Models and Methods
Data
Mining the Web: Uncovering
Patterns in Web Content, Structure, and Usage
(With Zdravko Markov,
Ph.D. )
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Discovering Statistics,
An
Introductory Textbook
This
four-color introductory statistics textbook is being published by W.H.
Freeman, an imprint of
Bedford
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Freeman, and Worth. ISBN: 1-4292-0646-2.
To appear: January 2009.
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Ready,
Set, Run!
A Student Guide to SAS Software
for Microsoft Windows
With Chun Jin, Ph.D.
McGraw-Hill, 1998.
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Publications
1. A Bayesian Meta-Analysis of the
Relationship Between Duration of Estrogen Exposure and Endometrial Cancer
in Meta-Analysis in Medicine and Health Policy,
D. Berry and D. Stangl, Eds., Marcel-Dekker, New York, 2000.
2. Hands-On Statistics: Fun Activities for Learning
Inference
Proceedings
of the Section on Statistics Education,
American Statistical Association, Alexandria, Virginia, 2000.
3.
Bayesian Duration-Response Meta-Analysis of Estrogen and Endometrial Cancer
Proceedings of the Section on Bayesian Statistical Science, American Statistical Association, Alexandria, Virginia, 1998.
4. Modeling Publication Bias Using
Weighted Distributions in a Bayesian Framework
Computational Statistics and Data Analysis, Vol 26, 279-302, 1998.
5. Grouped Random Effects Models
for Bayesian Meta-Analysis
Statistics in Medicine, Vol. 16, 1817-1829, 1997.
6. Weighted Distributions Viewed in the Context of
Model Selection: a Bayesian Perspective
Test, The Journal of the Spanish Statistical
Society, Vol. 5, 1, 227-246, 1996.
7. Publication Bias Models Using
Weighted Distributions in a Bayesian Setting
1995 Proceedings of the Section on Bayesian Statistical Science, American Statistical Association, Alexandria, Virginia, 1995.
8. Modeling Heterogeneity and
Extraneous Variation using Weighted Distributions
Model-Oriented Data Analysis 4, Kitsos and Muller, eds, Physica
Verlag, Heidelberg, Germany, 1995.
Publications 4 - 7 are co-authored with Dr. Dipak
K. Dey.
Publication 8 is co-authored with Dr. Dipak K. Dey and Dr. Fengchun Peng.
Extramural Grants
September 2004 -
December 2006
Phase II: Storage Efficient Data Mining for High-Speed Data Streams
United
States
Air Force, Office of Scientific Research
STTR AF03-T011:
$750,000
Data Mining Project Consultant
Sonalysts, Inc., Waterford, CT, and the
University of Connecticut
June 2003 - June 2004
United
States
Air Force, Office of Scientific Research
STTR AF03-T011:
$100,000
Data Mining Project Consultant
Phase I: Storage Efficient Data Mining for High-Speed Data Streams
Sonalysts, Inc., Waterford, CT, and the University of Connecticut
January 2001.
$50,000.
Connecticut
Distance Learning Consortium.
Program Director: Developing an Online Master of
Science in Data Mining
CSU System Office has
matched these funds with a further $50,000
January 2001.
$25,000. Connecticut
Distance Learning Consortium.
Program Director:
Developing an Online Undergraduate
Certificate in Data Mining
CSU System Office has
matched these funds with a further $25,000
Intramural Grants
April
2006.
AAUP University
Research Grant.
$4000
Predicting
Interesting Weather Patterns by Modeling Data Streams
April
2005.
AAUP University
Research Grant.
$3500
Meta-Modeling and
Model Averaging in Classification Data Mining
April
2005.
Summer Curriculum Development Grant.
$2200
Data
Mining Methods and Models: A New Second-Semester Data Mining Book
April
2004.
AAUP University
Research Grant.
$4500
Mining Data Streams Using Non-Linear Probability-Based
Decision Models
April
2004.
Summer Curriculum
Development Grant.
$1200
Discovering
Knowledge in Data: A New Book to Introduce Students to Data
Mining
April
2002.
CCSU Strategic Planning Grant.
$15,000, Carol
Jones, Project Manager:
Promotion
and Development of Graduate Education at CCSU
April
2002.
AAUP University Research Grant.
$2985.
Estrogen
Therapy and Cancer of the Endometrium: Which Lifestyle Factors Affect
a Woman's Risk?
April
2002. Summer Curriculum Grant.
$1966.
Evaluation
of Learning Outcomes in Online Courses
February
2002. Teaching Excellence Forum Mini-Grant. $500.
Assessment
of Learning Outcomes in the Online Data Mining Programs
January
2001.
CCSU Strategic Planning
Project Grant.
$23,375, Kristine
Larsen, Project Manager:
Implementing
the TEAM approach in the Honors Program,
and providing support for
thesis writing across the campus.
April
2001.
AAUP University Research Grant.
$3970.
Which
Factors Influence a Woman's Risk of Developing Breast Cancer When
Taking Estrogen?
April
2001.
Summer
Curriculum Development Grant. $2242 Project Director
With Joan Calvert, Chun Jin, and Daniel Miller
Developing
an Online Master of Science and Certificate in Data Mining
April
2000.
AAUP University Research Grant.
$3950.
Discovering
Statistics:
Developing a Statistics Textbook
that Reaches Out to
Liberal Arts Majors and Other Non-Math Majors
April
2000.
Summer Curriculum Grant, $2068
(With Chun Jin).
A New Course Curriculum Leading to Certification in SAS Programming
April 1999. AAUP
University Research Grant, $3960.
Estrogen Therapy and Breast Cancer:
Does Longer Duration Increase a Woman's Risk?
April
1999. Summer Curriculum Grant, $955.
Investigating the Efficacy of Online
Instruction: Comparing Learning Outcomes between Online and Traditional Sections of
Statistics 215, Statistics for the Behavioral Sciences
April 1998. AAUP University
Research Grant, $3199.
Does Longer Duration of Estrogen Exposure
Increase a Woman's Risk of Developing Endometrial Cancer?
April 1998. Summer Curriculum Grant,
$1932 (with Dr. Chun Jin).
Developing Computer Assignments Using SPSS for
Windows for Stat 215, Statistics for the Behavioral Sciences
Presentations
Gender, Age, Ethnicity and Student Performance in Online Statistics Courses
AMATYC Annual Conference,
Minneapolis, MN, November 2007.
Invited Author Presentation: Data Mining Methods and Models
62nd
Annual Deming Conference on Applied Statistics, Atlantic City, NJ, December
2006.
Invited
Speaker, Session Chair and Organizer: Web Usage Mining
International
Chinese Statistical Association Annual Conference, UConn, Storrs, June 2006.
Invited
Speaker: Getting from Data to Knowledge
Center
for Internet Data Research and Intelligent Systems, UConn School of Business,
February 2006.
- Demographic Factors and
Student Performance in Online Statistics Courses
June Baker Higgins Gender Studies Conference, CCSU, April, 2005.
Exploratory Data Analysis in
Data
Mining
Connecticut
State University
Academic
Computing Conference, WCSU, April, 2005.
Invited Speaker: An Introduction to the CART and C4.5 Algorithms in Data
Mining
New England Statistics Symposium, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, April, 2005.
Decision Trees in Data
Mining
Decision Trees in Data Mining
Dept of Mathematical Sciences Colloquium
Series, CCSU, April, 2005.
Go Study, Young Man! The Effect of Gender, Age, Ethnicity
on Student Performance in Online Statistics Courses
Teaching Excellence Forum Lunch Presentation
Series, CCSU, March, 2005.
Data Mining: An Introduction and Application
Faculty Development Workshop, CCSU, November, 2004.
Data Mining: Statisticians Needed!
University of Connecticut
Statistics Department Colloquium Series, UConn, Storrs, October,
2004.
Examining the Effect of Gender, Age, Ethnicity on Student
Performance in Online Statistics Courses
Connecticut Conference for the Enhancement of
Learning and Teaching, Manchester CTC, October, 2004.
Data Mining Models for Predicting Response to Direct Mail Marketing
Connecticut
State University
Academic
Computing Conference, CCSU, April, 2004.
Invited
Speaker: Modeling
Response to Direct Mail Marketing Using Data Mining Methods
Mini-Conference
on Data Mining, Conn Chapter of American Statistical
Association, Bristol-Myers / Squib, Wallingford, CT,
March, 2004.
Mine Your Own Business: The Online MS in Data Mining at CCSU
Connecticut
State University
Research Conference,
SCSU, April, 2002.
Developing
the World's First Online MS in Data Mining
Connecticut
State University Academic Computing Conference, WCSU,
April, 2001.
Developing
Online Programs in Data Mining at CCSU
Center
for Internet Technology in Education Second Annual Conference,
Denver, Colorado, March 2001
Using
Item Response Theory as a Tool to Assess the Science Prowess of
Connecticut's Children
Connecticut Academy for Education in Math, Science and
Technology, Middletown, Conn., September 2000.
Hands-On Statistics: Fun Activities for
Learning Inference
JSM 2000 Joint Statistical Meetings,
Indianapolis, Indiana, August, 2000.
The CCSU / SAS Certification Project
First Annual SAS Academic Conference: Best Practices in Academia,
The SAS
Institute,
Cary, North Carolina, June, 2000.
Online Learning is Fine - For the Right
Person!
Conference
on Teaching Technology: Introductory Statistics,
SCSU, New Haven, CT, April, 2000.
Does Longer Duration of Estrogen Increase a Woman's Chances of Endometrial
Cancer?
Seminar series of the Mathematical
Sciences Department, CCSU, November, 1999.
Bayesian Duration-Response
Meta-Analysis of Estrogen and Endometrial Cancer
Joint Statistical Meetings,
Dallas, Texas, August, 1998.
Grouped Random Effects Models
Joint Statistical Meetings,
Anaheim, California, August, 1997.
Is Estrogen Linked to Cancers of the Breast and
Endometrium?
New England Statistics Symposium,
Storrs, Connecticut, April, 1997.
How Sure Are You About That?
An Introduction to Confidence Intervals
St. Louis College of Pharmacy,
April, 1996.
Modeling Publication Bias in a Bayesian Framework
New England Statistics Symposium,
Storrs, Connecticut, April, 1995.
Weighted Distributions in Model Selection
Joint Statistical Meetings,
Toronto, Ontario, Canada, August, 1994.
Recognition
2006.
Promoted to Full Professor.
2002. Certificate of
Appreciation, Pioneer in Online Education, CSU.
2002.
Awarded Tenure.
2002.
Awarded Sabbatical for Spring 2003 for textbook: Discovering Statistics.
2001.
Project Kaleidoscope Faculty for the 21st Century.
2000. Teaching Excellence Award
Honor Roll.
1998. Teaching Excellence Award
Honor Roll.
1998. Founding
Faculty Member, OnlineCSU.
1996. Doctoral Fellowship, University of
Connecticut.
1995. Pre-Doctoral
Fellowship, University of Connecticut.
1992. H. Fairfield Smith Award for Excellence in
Applied Statistics.
1980. Phi Beta Kappa.
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