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Iyad Batal
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5406 Sennott Square, Department of Computer Science, Email:
iyad@cs.pitt.edu
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Biography
I was born and raised in Damascus which is considered one of the oldest cities in the world. I joined the CS department @ Pitt in 2006 after receiving my degree from Damascus University as a Software Engineer. I'm now in my second year.
Research Interests
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Data
Mining and Machine Learning: Time series mining, Feature selection/extraction
for high dimensional data, classification.
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Decision
making for biomedical data.
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Information
Retrieval and text mining.
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Advanced
Database applications: Indexing and querying spatial, temporal and XML
databases.
Publications
I. Batal and M.
Hauskrecht. A Supervised Time Series Feature Extraction Technique using DCT and
DWT. International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications (ICMLA),
2009.
I. Batal, L. Sacchi, R.
Bellazzi, and M. Hauskrecht. A Temporal Abstraction Framework for Classifying
Clinical Temporal Data. American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA), 2009.
I. Batal and M.
Hauskrecht. Boosting KNN Text Classification Accuracy by using Supervised Term
Weighting Schemes. ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management
(CIKM), 2009.
I. Batal, L. Sacchi, R. Bellazzi, and M. Hauskrecht.
Multivariate Time Series Classification with Temporal Abstractions (FLAIRS),
2009.
I. Batal, and A. Labrinidis. QuickStack: A Fast
Algorithm for XML Query Matching, Technical Report TR-08-155, 2008.
Presentations
Introduction
to Principal Components Analysis (PCA)
Teaching
[CS131] SOFTWARE FOR PERSONAL COMPUTING (Fall 2008).
[CS 449] INTRODUCTION
TO SYSTEMS SOFTWARE (Spring 2007).
[CS 110] INTRODUCTION TO PERSONAL COMPUTERS AND THE INTERNET (Fall 2006).
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Quick Links: ACM SIGKDD home page (data mining
tools, datasets and other resources) ACM SIGMOD home page (DBMS resources, free
software, papers, conference info) |
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