Students

Prospective Students

I have been recruiting undergraduate and graduate students to work under my supervision, and most of the positions have been filled. I still have some research projects at all levels in DNA microarray data analysis, proteomics, interactomics and genomics. Some of the projects are listed below, but the list is not exclusive. If you have your own ideas, I will be happy to discuss them with you. Research scholarships are available for qualified students, at the PhD level only, from NSERC grants and other funds. For more information on my research, see my research page, or contact me at lrueda@uwindsor.ca.

Note: Most of the positions have been filled – they fill rather quickly! While I am receiving an excessive number of applications, I may not contact all prospective students (only the most suitable candidates will be contacted). I apologize for any inconvenience.

PhD Students

At the PhD level, I am looking for students who have strong knowledge on algorithm design and analysis, lineal algebra and probabilities, and willingness to learn on quickly changing fields like DNA microarray data analysis, protein-protein interaction, miRNA and genomics analysis. Prospective students must show independence and creativity on conducting research. The main topics for PhD thesis are in the field of pattern recognition and applications, including classification, analysis, feature extraction and selection, network analysis, and visualization.

 

Master’s Students

 At
the Master’s level, I am looking for enthusiastic, self-motivated students to work within the areas of microarray time series analysis, DNA methylation, miRNA analysis, protein interaction, among others. The use of different supervised and unsupervised pattern recognition, and/or visualization approaches is important in these applications. Protein-protein interaction analysis involves devising approaches for feature extraction and data processing from different databases, selection of the most relevant features, and designing prediction schemes for different problems in interactomics.


Undergraduate Research Projects

1.
Protein-protein Interaction: The aim is to devise an application in state-of the art languages (Perl, Java, Python, etc.) that process protein complexes from different protein databases, such as the protein data bank (PDB), and compute energetic and geometric features for the individual protein chains, aminoacids and at the atom level.

2. Design a protein interaction server that provides information on classification, energetic features, and selection of important features for the protein complexes. The system should interact with protein databases, feature extraction mechanisms, and feature selection algorithms implemented in Matlab, Python, Perl, R, and other languages.


 

 

Current Students

PhD

      Mina Maleki (2010 - )

      Iman Rezaeian (2010 - )

Master’s

       Manoj Gajjarapu (2011 - )

       Ahmad Tavakoli (2011 - )

       Manish Pandit (2011 - )

       Gokul Vasudev (2010 - )

       Navid Shakibapour (2010 - )

Past Master’s Students

Muhammad Aziz (2010 - 2011)

Sridip Banerjee (2009 - 2011)

Priyanka Trivedi* (2009 - 2010)

Numanul Subhani (2008 – 2009)

Dario Rojas (2007 - 2008)

Juan Carlos Rojas (2006 - 2008)

Tatiana Gutiérrez Bunster (2006 - 2008)

Semsettin Ilyas* (2004 - 2007 )

Wei Yang (2003 – 2005)

Archana Balagondar* (2003 – 2005)

Yuanquan Zhang (2003 - 2005)

Leon French* (2003 - 2005)

Li Qin (2002 - 2004)

Vidya Vidyadharan (2003 - 2004)

* co-supervision