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Brief Biography Alioune Ngom has a B.Sc. in Computer Science from the University du Quebec a Trois-Rivieres (Trois-Rivieres, Quebec, Canada, in 1992) under the supervision of Dr. Corina Reischer, and a M.Sc. and Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Ottawa (Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, in 1995 and 1998), under the supervision of Dr. Ivan Stojmenovic. He joined the School of Computer Science at the University of Windsor in 2000 as an Assistant Professor, and have been appointed since 2004 as an Associate Professor. He was appointed as an Assistant Professor at the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science at Lakehead University (Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada), 1998-2000, prior to joining the University of Windsor. During his short stay at Lakehead University, he co-founded Genesis Genomics Inc. in 1999; a biotechnology company specialized in the analysis of mitochondrial genome and the design of biomarkers for the early detection of cancer. His main research interests include but not limited to Computational Intelligence (CI) and Machine Learning (ML) methods. He has a special interest in the applications of CI/ML methods to Computational Biology and Bioinformatics problems, such as: microarray analysis, protein analysis, oligonucleotide selection, bio-image analysis, and gene regulatory network analysis. He also has interests in applying CI/ML to such areas as: multiple-valued logic algebras and circuits, wireless mobile networks, scheduling, grid-computing, and uncertainty modeling.

Research and Publications

1. Clustering and Classification of DNA Microarray Time-Series Data

2. Oligonucleotide Probe Selection and Design

3. Qualitative Probabilistic Networks

4. Bio-Image Processing

5. Mitochondrial Genome Analysis

6. Protein Sequence and Structure Prediction

7. Resource Optimization in Wireless Mobile Networks

8. Schedule Optimization

9. Learning and Computing with Multiple-Valued Multiple-Threshold Neurons

10. Multiple-Valued Logic Algebras and Carrier Computing

Teaching

1. Winter 2008: 03-60-558 – Computational Molecular Biology

2. Fall 2009: 03-60-265 - Computer Architecture I: Digital Design

3. Winter 2010: 03-60-574 - Machine Learning

4. Intersession 2010: 03-60-266 - Computer Architecture II: Assembler Programming

Resources for Graduate Students

1. The Best Method for Presentation of Research Results in Theses and Papers, by I. Stojmenovic

2. How to Write Research Articles in Computer Science, by I. Stojmenovic

3. A Good Method to Prepare and Use Transparencies for Research Presentations, by V. Milutinovic

4. The Best Method for Presentation of Research Results, by V. Milutinovic

Supervised Students

Prospective Students

I have opening positions for undergraduate research projects, and for master’s and doctoral students. Interested students may contact me about potential research projects or theses.

Recent Awards

Best Overall Paper Award: L. Wang, A. Ngom, R. Gras and L. Rueda, “Evolution Strategy with Greedy Probe Selection Heuristics for the Non-Unique Oligonucleotide Probe Selection Problem”, The 2008 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, CIBCB 2008, September 15-17, Sun Valley, Idaho, USA, ISBN 978-1-4244-1779-7.

Editorial Activities

1. Managing Guest Editor (with Madhu Chetty and Elena Marchiori) of Special Issue on Nature and Biology Inspired Methods in Bioinformatics, to appear in the Neurocomputing Journal, Elsevier, in 2010.

2. Corrado Priami, Falko Dressler, Ozgur B. Akan, and Alioune Ngom (Guest Editors), Transactions on Computational Systems Biology X, Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics 5410, VII, 197 p., Springer, Softcover, ISBN: 978-3-540-92272-8, December 2008.

3. Madhu Chetty, Alioune Ngom, and Shandar Ahmad (Editors), Pattern Recognition in Bioinformatics: Third IAPR International Conference, PRIB 2008, Melbourne, Australia; October 15-17, Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics 5265, XVI, 472 p., Softcover, ISBN: 978-3-540-88434-7, 2008.

4. Madhu Chetty, Alioune Ngom, Shandar Ahmad, and Shyh W. Teng (Editors), Proceedings of the Third IAPR International Conference on Pattern Recognition in Bioinformatics, PRIB 2008, Melbourne, Australia; October 15-17, ISBN 878-0-7326-2226-8, 2008.

Conference Activities

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Professional Affiliation

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Organizations where Positions Held

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Research Grants and Sponsored Projects

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Personal

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Last edited on June 21, 2009