About Us

The Laboratory for Internet Computing (LINC) is a CACS research group led by Dr. Vijay Raghavan and Dr. Henry Chu. The research areas explored within LINC encompass information retrieval, image processing, data mining, pattern recognition, visualization and machine vision. Research projects, such as those in geo-spatial data analysis, often draw from a number of LINC’s research areas. LINC has ongoing funding from a variety of government and commercial sources and maintains collaborations with other disciplines, such as chemistry and civil engineering. Two research scientists staff LINC and, on average, fifteen graduate students pursue their research work at LINC every semester.

Contents

1. Core Team
2. Facilities
3. Graduates
4. 1. Doctoral
   2. Master Thesis

LINC Core Team

Dr. Vijay Raghavan is a Distinguished Professor of Computer Science and co-director of LINC. His research interests are in data mining, information retrieval, machine learning, and Internet computing. Vijay Raghavan brings substantial technical expertise, interdisciplinary collaboration experience, and management skills to his projects.  He has collaboration experience with colleagues in the business school, in renewable resources, and in the English department. His service work at the university includes coordinating the Louis Stokes-Alliance for Minority Participation (LS-AMP) program. From 1997 to 2003, he worked closely with the USGS National Wetlands Research Center and with the Department of Energy's Office of Science and Technical Information on a digital library with data mining capabilities incorporated. He chaired the IEEE International Conference on Data Mining in 2005.  He is a member of the Advisory Committee of the NSF Computer and Information Science and Engineering directorate.

Dr. Henry Chu is a professor of Computer Engineering and co-director of LINC. His research interests are in pattern recognition, image processing, and machine vision.   His current project is on the development of intelligent tools for texture mapping in computer graphics based on machine vision and content-aware image sampling principles.

Dr. Kemar Efe is a associate professor at CACS.  His research interests include parallel algorithms and architectures, computational aspects of VLSI, task scheduling, and high performance computation on workstation clusters. Dr. Efe's ongoing research investigates operating systems and programming environments for workstation clusters. Automatic task partitioning, scheduling, and load balancing are among the research problems investigated.

Dr. Ryan Benton is a Research Scientist within the Center for Advanced Computer Studies.  His primary research interest is applied machine learning, with secondary interests in image processing and information retrieval.  His current projects are on: (i) prediction of the onset of Alzheimer's disease; (ii) creating 3D models of the physical world, such as highway corridors, from image data; and (iii) parallelizing third party software.

Dr. Michael A. Pratt is an Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering. His research interests are in communications and information security, image processing, and pattern recognition.  He has an ongoing project in content-based image steganalysis.

Mr. Jayashimha R. Katukuri is a Research Scientist at Araicom Life Sciences (www.araicom.com). Araicom  is collaborating with LINC group on a biomedical text mining project, "Conceptual Biology".  Jayasimha's  research interests are  in  information extraction from text,  machine learning,  and text mining.

Dr. Zonghuan Wu is a Senior Research Scientist in the Ray P. Authement College of Sciences. His primary technical interest is in Internet computing and he has developed Large-scale and customizable metasearch engines. He has taken a lead role in exploring business opportunities for information technology and translating research prototypes into commercial products.

LINC Facility and Equipment

The LINC group currently maintains six servers and 22 workstations. The servers include a dedicated web server, a database server, and a file server. LINC maintains a variety of software systems, including a content-management system, which permits both dissemination of information to the public as well as enabling private managing and internal sharing of design documents and concerns within a project group. In addition, we maintain an open-source software based infrastructure for software development, including  version control repository, build and deployment tools, and an issue-tracking system. Other tools are also present, such as image manipulation tools, Microsoft Visual Studio, and JDeveloper. Hence, LINC members can design and test software for a variety of platforms.