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Office Hours: Tuesday & Thursday from 1 to 4 pm Wednesday from 1 to 5 pm
Dr. Djamel Bouchaffra is an Associate Professor of
Computer Science at Grambling State University. He is currently teaching
discrete mathematics, data structures and Java programming. He previously held a position as
assistant professor at Oakland University, Michigan where he was teaching
machine learning and pattern recognition as well as artificial intelligence
and soft computing. Dr. Bouchaffra has
been selected as the recipient of the Oakland University
Teaching Excellence Award for 2004 as well as the recipient of the School
of Engineering Teaching Excellence Award. This recognition acknowledges the
genuine admiration of his students and his colleagues for his superior level
of professionalism in teaching. His personal views on the art of teaching are
published in this Oakland
University Newsletter link. In February 2005, he was invited by OU-TV
"Focus on Faculty Program" broadcasted on Comcast cable channel 74 His
field of research is in Pattern Recognition and
Machine Learning,
Computer
Vision and Robust Artificial
Intelligence. He is currently working on the
development of mathematical formalisms that are capable to: (i) embed Dynamic
Bayesian Network nodes into a Euclidean space, and (ii) merge Statistics
and Topology
together to perform classification and clustering of highly complex patterns.
Professor Bouchaffra introduced both the structural and the topological
hidden Markov models as two paradigms that implement this fusion. His areas
of application include (but are not limited to) Biometrics,
Handwriting
Recognition, Language
Modeling, Speech
Recognition, and Bioinformatics. He is
the director of the "Pattern Recognition and Machine Intelligence Laboratory". He has written several papers in peer-reviewed
conferences and premier journals. He chaired several sessions in conferences,
he was one of the general chairs of the IEEE conference ICSIT'05.
He is among the reviewer panel of some governmental funding agencies such as
NASA (http://www.nasa.gov/)
(ADP Program: Data Analysis and Astrophysics) and (EPSRC): (http://www.epsrc.ac.uk/default.htm).
He is also a regular reviewer for several journals such
as IEEE TPAMI, TNN, TKDE, and Image Processing. He was a guest Editor for
several special issues (e.g., Journal of Pattern Recognition titled: "Feature
Generation and Machine Learning for Robust Multimodal Biometrics",
volume 41, number 3 that has been published in March 2008 and Advances in
Artificial Intelligence Journal titled: "Machine Learning Paradigms
for Modeling Spatial and Temporal Information in Multimedia Data Mining").
He is currently the "invited Professor" by University Paris 13 (Laboratoire
d'Informatique de Paris-Nord UMR CNRS 7030) for the summer 2010. Professor Bouchaffra is an editorial board member of the Journal
of "Pattern Recognition" (published by Elsevier), "The Open
Information Systems Journal", Bentham Science Publisher, an associate editor
for the Journal titled "Advances in
Artificial Intelligence" (published by Hindawi Corporation),
"the Journal
of Engineering Letters" (published by the International Association
of Engineers) and the "Scientific
Journals International" (SJI). Dr. Bouchaffra is a senior member of the IEEE, a member of the IEEE Computer Society and the vice chair of the IEEE/SEM chapter V. |
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