Anita Wasilewska

Rank/Position Title:

Associate Professor

Home Page:

http://www.cs.sunysb.edu/~anita

Date of original appointment to this faculty, followed by dates and ranks of advancement:

Degrees:

Conferences, workshops, and professional development:

• Co-CHAIR of Program Committee for a workshop Towards the Foundations of Data Mining at The Sixth Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD-02), May 6-8 2002 Taipei, Taiwan.
• CHAIR of Program Committee for a Rough Set section of 2002 World Congress on Computational Intelligence, May 12-17 Honolulu, Hawaii. PROGRAM COMMITTEE MEMBER for First Atlantic Conference on Web Mining Conference (AWIC'03), Madrid, Spain, May, 2003. The 9th International Workshop on Rough Sets, Fuzzy Sets, Data Mining and Granular Computing (RSFDGrC'2003), May 26 - 29, Chongqing, China, WCCI2002. Honolulu 2002 World Congress on Computational Intelligence, May 12-17 Honolulu, Hawaii, The 2002 IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (Foundation of Data Mining Section) Maebashi TERRSA, Maebashi City, Japan Dec 9-12, 2002, SCTC'2002, The 4th International Conference on Rough Sets and Current Trends in Computing (RSCTC'2002) Penn State Great Valley School of Graduate Professional Studies, October 14 -16, 2002

Other related computing experience:

• Luneus Center for BIOINFORMATICS, Uppsala, Sweden, May 7-9, 2003 "Protein Secondary Structure Predictions" work with Madrid Polytechnic, Spain).
• Linkoping University, Center for Bioinfirmatics Graduate Study, April 2, 2003 "Multiclassifiers in Proteins Structure Predictions" (work with Madrid Polytechnic, Spain).
• Polish Academy of Sciences, April 13- 15, 2003 "Building Foundations of Data Mining" (work with Madrid Polytechnic, Spain).
• National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, January 15, 2003 "Data Mining Models".
• University Paris VII, February 2-5, 2003 "Web Mining".

Department, college, and/or university committee membership:

• General Chair for Qualifying Examination Committee
• Member of Graduate Study Committee
• Member of University Senate
• Member of Senate CAPRA Committee.

Principal publications of the last five years.

• A Hierarchical Model for Information Generalization.(with M. Hadjimichael) Proceedings of the Fourth Joint
• Conference on Information Sciences, Rough Sets, Data Mining and Granular Computing (RSDMGrC'98), Research Triangle Park (North Carolina), October 1998, pp.306-309.
• Rough Diagrams. (with Laurent Vigneron) Proceedings of the Fourth Joint Conference on Information Sciences, Rough Sets, Data Mining and Granular Computing (RSDMGrC'98), Research Triangle Park (North Carolina), October 1998, 343-346.
• Modelization of rough set functions in the KDD frame (with Ernestina Menasalvas Ruiz, Mar a C. Fern ndez-Baiz. 1st International Conference on Rough Sets and Current Trends in Computing RSCTC'98) June 22 - 26 1998, Warsaw, Poland.
• Transformation and Generalization operators in Data Mining (with Ernestina Menasalvas, Madrid, Spain), IPMU-98: Information Processing and Management of Uncertainty in Knowledge Based Systems (Paris July 1-6, 1998), p. 135-141.
• Rough Sets Congruence’s and Diagrams (with L. Vigneron, INRIA, France) - for "EURO XVI", Brussels, July 12-15, 1998, pp. 455 -57.
• A Generalization Model for Implementing a Data Mining System (with Ernestina Menasalvas & Mike Hadjimichael), Proceedings of 1999 IFSA, August 21-23, 1999, Taipei, Taiwan, pp. 245 -251.
• A Decision Procedure for Rough Sets Equalities (with Maxim Lifantsev), NAFIPS'99: 18th International Conference of the North American Fuzzy Information Processing Society (NAFIPS), June 10-12, 1999 New York, New York, USA, pp.786-791.
• Rough Sets Based Proofs Visualization (with L. Vigneron), NAFIPS'99: 18th International Conference of the North American Fuzzy Information Processing Society (NAFIPS), June 10-12, 1999 New York, NY, USA, pp.805 -809.
• Data mining system- Model for an implementation (with E. Menasalvas, M. Hadjimichael IPMU2000, July, 2000. Madrid Spain, pp. 226 -229.

Other scholarly activity: grants, sabbaticals, software development, etc.:

• Sabbatical leave 2002-2003: France, Spain, Sweden, Poland, Fulbright Scholar to Poland for the academic sabbatical year 1993/1994, grant No. 93 – 68818, Franco-American Commission for Educational Exchange Grant, March- April, 1994.
• Modern Foundation of Computer Science, Undergraduate Faculty Enhancement, NSF 88-33, Co-PI with Dr. P. Henderson, Computer Science Department, SUNY at Stony Brook and Dr. D., L. Fergusson, Technology and Society Department, SUNY at Stony Brook.

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Courses taught this and last academic year term-by-term

Academic advising: 20

Assigned advisor for 18 undergraduate students during 2004/2005 academic year.

Brief description of major research and scholarly activities:

My current research covers 3 domains:

• BIOINFORMATICS - Proteins Secondary Structure Predictions (collaboration with Professor Victor Robles, Madrid, Spain)
• DATABASE MINING (1) - Applications and Models (collaboration with Professor Ernestina Menasalvas Ruiz Madrid, Spain)
• DATABASE MINING (2) - Models For Information Generalization (collaboration with M. Hadjimichael, Naval Research Laboratory, Monterey, CA)