L. Gwenn Volkert

L. Gwenn Volkert Associate Professor Education Degree: Institution: Date of Graduation: Ph.D. (Computer Science) Wayne State University May 2001 Defended 01/22/01 Computer Science Department Detroit, Michigan M.S. (Computer Science) Wayne State University Computer Science Department May 1995 Detroit, Michigan B.S. (Computer Science) Central Michigan University May 1983 Department of Computer Science Mt. Pleasant, Michigan

Academic Appointments Associate Professor, Kent State University, Ohio 2007 - present Department of Computer Science Assistant Professor, Kent State University, Ohio 2001 - 2007 Department of Computer Science Visiting Faculty, The University of Memphis, Tennessee 1999 - 2000 Department of Mathematical Sciences, Division of Computer Science

Publications and Scholarly Work Refereed Publications 1. Amin Assareh and L. Gwenn Volkert (2009) "Fusing Fuzzy Rule Base Classifiers for Improving Protein Mass Spectra Based Ovarian Cancer Diagnosis ", Proceedings of the IEEE 2009 Symposium on Computational Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, CIBCB'09 Nashville, TN, USA, March 30 - April 2, 2009, IEEE Press, Piscataway, NJ 2. Deborah A. Stoffer and L. Gwenn Volkert, “Evolving Chaos Automata for Fractal Based Visualizations of Protein Sequence Data”, in proceedings of IEEE 2008 Symposium on Computational Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, Sept. 15-17, 2008 Sun Valley, Idaho, IEEE Press, Piscataway, NJ. 3. Amin Assareh, Mohammad Hassan Moradi, L. Gwenn Volkert (2008) “A Hybrid Random Subspace Classifier Fusioin Approach for Protein Mass Spectra Classification”, 6th European Conference on Evolutionary Computation, Machine Learning and Data Mining in Bioinformatics, Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science Vol 4973. 4. L. Gwenn Volkert (2006) “Investigating EA Based Training of HMM using a Sequential Parameter Optimization Approach”, Proceedings of the IEEE 2006 Congress on Evolutionary Computation, Vancouver, BC, Canada, IEEE Press, Piscataway, NJ. 5. Derek G. Dimcheff, L. Gwenn Volkert, Ying Li, Angelo L. Delucia and William P. Lynch (2006) “Gene Expression Profiling of Microglia Infected by a Highly Neurovirulent Murine Leukemia Virus: Implications for Neuropathogenesis” Retrovirology, 3:26 pp. 1—19. 6. L. Gwenn Volkert (2006) “Abstract: Evolving HMMs for Disordered Protein Analysis”, Ohio Collaborative Conference Bioinformatics (OCCBIO-2006), June 28-30, 206, Athens, OH. 7. Deborah A. Stoffer and L. Gwenn Volkert (2005) "A Neural Network for Predicting Protein Disorder using Amino Acid Hydropathy Values”, Proceedings of the IEEE 2005 Symposium on Computational Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, Nov. 12 and 13, 2005, La Jolla, California, IEEE Press, Piscataway, NJ. pp. 482— 489. 8. Andrew Sutton, Huzefa Kagdi, Jonathan I. Maletic, L. Gwenn Volkert (2005) "Hybridizing Evolutionary Algorithms and Clustering Algorithms to Find Source-Code Clones”, In proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2004), June 21-24, 2004, Washington D.C., pp. 1079—1080 Teaching and Student Advising/Mentoring Doctoral Students Currently Directing  Amin Assereh, Project: “Mining Machine Learning Implementations for Successful Generalization to New Problems” (recruited from top Iranian University)  Deborah Stoffer, Project: “Investigation of the Range of Behaviors of Chaos Automata”. Matriculated from M.S. program (M.S. Thesis Defended Sept. 2005) Master’s Students Currently Directing  Craig Stewert, Project area - Data Discovery with a focus on SNP data  Kaveh Noorbakhsh, Project area - Medical Informatics (for improving emergency room outcomes) Dissertation Committee Member (current and completed)  Andrew Sutton – Computer Science, Reverse Engineering To Support Generic Programming, PhD Prospectus Spring 2008, Advisor: J Maletic  Eric Chapman – Biological Sciences, Dissertation Title “Investigation of the evolution of feeding strategies in the family Sciomyzidae”, PhD Advisor: Randy Hough, Defense April 2, 2008  Bonita Sharif, “Empirical Assessment of UML Class Diagram Layouts based on Architectural Importance”, PhD Prospectus Fall 2007, Advisor: J Maletic  Julie A. Morris – Biological Sciences, Dissertation Title “A Systematic Study of the Genus Lythrum and the Evolution of Heterostyly” PhD Advisor: Andrea Schwarzbach, Defense May 17, 2007  Jennifer Watson, Biological Sciences, “Evolution of mtDNA in a freshwater bivalve lineage with doubly uniparental inheritance of mtDNA”, PhD Advisor: Randy Hough, in progress  Elena Khrosinkova – Physics, Dissertation Title “Elastic Electron Scattering from the Helium Isotopes at Large Momentum Transfers” [In Progress]  Julie A. Morris – Biological Sciences, Dissertation Title “A Systematic Study of the Genus Lythrum and the Evolution of Heterostyly” [passed prospectus June 05, Defended Dissertation Summer 07]  Ting Wu – Biological Sciences, Dissertation Title “Phylogenetic Systematics of Wolf Spider Genus Geolycosa (Araneae, Lycosidae) Based on Multiple Mitochondrial and Nuclear Gene Sequences” [passed prospectus Spring 05]  John Gale – BMS/Cleveland Clinic Joint Ph.D. progam – (Ph.D. granted Spring 2004- currently a post-doctoral research fellow in the Eskandar lab at Harvard University Medical School)  Eric Chapman – Biological Sciences, Dissertation Title “Investigation of the evolution of feeding strategies in the family Sciomyzidae” [passed prospectus Fall 03, Dissertation Defense Spring 08] Theses Directed  Deborah Stoffer “Alignment of Protein Secondary Structure Sequences“ M.S. Thesis, Kent State University, Kent, Ohio, (Degree granted Fall 2005 - currently working towards Ph.D. at Kent State University)  Mahesh Tamboli, “Computer Aided Image Analysis of Mobile Microscopic Objects”, M.S. Thesis, Kent State University, Kent, Ohio, (Degree granted Fall 2004 – currently employed at Private Bioinformatics Research Institute in Wisconsin)