Computer Science Assistant

KARSTEN STEINHAEU SER

CURRICULUM VITAE

Department of Computer Science and Engineering phone: 612-***-****

University of Minnesota mobile: 574-***-****

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Minneapolis, MN 55455 www.umn.edu/~ksteinha

Education

Ph.D. in Computer Science & Engineering, University of Notre Dame, 2011 (GPA: 4.0)

Dissertation: Viewing the World Through a Network Lens

Advisor: Prof. Nitesh Chawla Co-Advisor: Dr. Auroop Ganguly

M.S. in Computer Science & Engineering, University of Notre Dame, 2007 (GPA: 4.0)

Thesis: Scalable Learning with Thread-Level Parallelism

Advisor: Prof. Nitesh Chawla

B.S. in Computer Science, Summa Cum Laude, University of Notre Dame, 2005 (GPA: 3.94)

Research Interests

Data mining and machine learning, specifically the construction and analysis of networks;

community detection and prediction in networks; learning from large datasets, including

parallel

and distributed learning algorithms; applications of the above to climate science,

environmental

science and sustainability, biology, ecology, medicine, medical informatics, and social

networks.

Professional Experience

2011 - presentResearch Associate, University of MinnesotaDepartment of Computer Science and Engineering

2008 - 2011Research Associate, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

GIST Group,

Computational Sciences and Engineering Division

2005 - 2011Graduate Research Assistant, University of Notre DameDepartment of Computer Science and EngineeringInterdisciplinary Center for Network Science and Applications

2004 Summer

Intern, IBM Corp

., EDA Business Operations

2003SummerIntern, Thomson Inc

., Research & Development Tools

Awards & Recognition

2011 Article on Persisting Cold Extremes Under 21st-Century Warming Scenarios featured

as

Research Highlight in Nature and Nature Climate Change

2010 ORNL Significant Event Award for Novel Analyses of the Simulation Results from the

CCSM 3.0 Climate Model

2010 NSF Student Travel Grant for the International Conference on Computational

Sustainability

2010 CRC Award for Computational Sciences and Visualization

2010 Runner-Up Poster Award at the Notre Dame Graduate Research Symposium

2009 Best Student Paper Award at the ACM SIGKDD International Workshop on Knowledge

Discovery from Sensor Data

2009 Best Poster at the SIAM Data Mining Doctoral Student Forum

2009 NSF Student Travel Grant for the SIAM Conference on Data Mining

2009 ORNL Significant Event Award for Science Support for a Climate Change War Game and

Follow-Up Support to the U.S. Department of Defense

2009 NSF Student-Author Travel Grant for the Workshop on Social Computing, Behavioral

Modeling and Prediction

2008 USMA Student Travel Grant for the International Conference on Network Science

2007 Best Poster Award at the Second Annual CSE Student Research Symposium

2006 Kaneb Center Outstanding Graduate Teaching Assistant

2006 Best Poster Award at the First Annual CSE Student Research Symposium

2005 Rev. A. Leonard Collins, CSC Award for Leadership Excellence

2005 Dean s Honor List all eight undergraduate semesters

Publications

Refereed Conference and Workshop Publications

Ridge

National Laboratory Technical Report Manual ORNL/TM-2008/168, Oak Ridge, TN, September

2008.

Invited Presentations

Climate Knowledge Discovery Workshop: Knowledge Discovery with Networks: What Data Mining

Can Do for Climate Science. Deutsches Klimarechenzentrum, Hamburg, Germany, March 2011.

GIS Day: Complex Networks in Climate and Ecology (and More!). University of Notre Dame,

Notre Dame, IN, November 2009.

Service Activities

Organizing Committee

NASA Conference on Intelligent Data Understanding, Publicity Chair, 2011

International Workshop on Climate Informatics, Co-Organizer, 2011

ACM SIGKDD Workshop on Knowledge Discovery from Sensor Data, Co-Organizer, 2011

IEEE ICDM Workshop on Knowledge Discovery from Climate Data, Co-Organizer, 2009-2011

ACM SIGKDD Workshop on Knowledge Discovery from Sensor Data, Challenge Organizer:

Change Detection in Climate Data, 2009

Program Committee

IEEE International Conference on Granular Computing, 2011

NASA Conference on Intelligent Data Understanding, 2010-2011

ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, 2009

ACM SIGKDD International Workshop on Knowledge Discovery from Sensor Data, 2009

Midwest Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science Conference, 2009

Reviewer

Book Chapters

Advances in Machine Learning and Data Mining for Astronomy, CRC Press

Journals

ACM Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery

IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics - Part B

IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters

Statistical Analysis and Data Mining

Data & Knowledge Engineering

Journal of Computer Science and Technology

Conferences and Workshops

ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining

International Conference on Machine Learning

ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management

ACM International World Wide Web Conference

NASA Conference on Intelligent Data Understanding

International Joint Conference on Neural Networks

IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence

IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence

IEEE International Conference on Granular Computing

International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference

ACM SIGKDD Workshop on Knowledge Discovery from Sensor Data

IEEE International Workshop on Data Warehousing and KD from Sensors and Streams

International Workshop on Statistical Pattern Recognition

Community Leadership

IEEE Computational Intelligence Society, Data Mining Technical Committee, Member, 2011

Upsilon Pi Epsilon, Chapter President, 2005-2006

Upsilon Pi Epsilon, Chapter Treasurer, 2004-2005

Internal Leadership

University of Notre Dame, College of Engineering Dean Search Committee, Member, 2006-2007

University of Notre Dame, College of Engineering College Council, Member, 2005-2007

University of Notre Dame, College of Engineering Dean s Advisory Council, 2003-2005

Professional and Honor Society Membership

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

American Geophysical Union (AGU)

International Honor Society for the Computing and Information Disciplines The Engineering Honor Society Research Grants

2012 - 2017Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program, US Department

of Defense: Weather and Hydrological Extremes in a Changing Climate:

Analyzing the Data and Uncertainty for Informed Decision-Making.

Co-PI $225,000 (PI: A.R. Ganguly, ORNL $3.1M/5 years) [pending]

2011 Office of Biological and Environmental Research, US Department of Energy:

Carbon Sequestration in Terrestrial Ecosystems (CSiTE). Collaborative Effort

$10,000 (Multi-Institutional Research Center, established 1999)

2010 - 2015 Expeditions in Computing, National Science Foundation: Understanding Climate

Change: A Data Drive Approach. Synergistic Activity (PI: V. Kumar, University

of Minnesota $10M/5 years)

2009 - 2011 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: Investigation of Acute Febrile

Illness in Uganda. Synergistic Activity (PI: S. Shadomy, CDC $225K/2 years,

extension pending)

2008 - 2010Laboratory Directed Research & Development, Oak Ridge National Laboratory:

Uncertainty Assessment and Reduction for Climate Extremes and Climate

Change Impacts. Co-PI $235,000 (PI: A.R. Ganguly, ORNL $848K/

3 years)

Professional Experience Details

2011 - presentResearch Associate, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN

Department of Computer Science and Engineering

Responsibilities: Conducting research and managing large research projects,

directing graduate and undergraduate students and other research staff,

writing scholarly papers and preparing research proposals; research activities

include developing data mining techniques for global climate phenomena,

algorithms to detect changes in global land cover, and the discovery of

relationship between the oceans, atmosphere and terrestrial ecosystems.

2008 - 2011Research Associate, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN

GIST Group, Computational Sciences and Engineering Division

Responsibilities: Data mining research with applications in climate science,

focused on network-based analysis methods; involves the development and

application of data mining or statistical methods to observations, reanalysis

and/or model-generated climate datasets, high-performance computing for

analysis, and creation of high-quality visualizations.

2005 - 2011Graduate Research Assistant, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN

Department of Computer Science and Engineering

Interdisciplinary Center for Network Science and Applications

Responsibilities: Research in complex networks and high-performance data

mining; requires development (including efficient / scalable implementation)

and application of mining methods to address relevant questions in various

domains including social networks, medical informatics, and climate science.

2004SummerIntern, IBM Corp., EDA Business Operations, Hopewell Junction, NY

Responsibilities: Writing of a research grant proposal to the German Federal

Government; required familiarization with IC design and fabrication process

and direct collaboration with two other international industry leaders.

2003SummerIntern, Thomson Inc., Research & Development Tools

Responsibilities: Developed software tools for the IC Research & Innovation

Team; primary task was the re-design of an editor for VHDL parsing, syntax

checking, and formatting conforming to the latest language standard.

Teaching Experience

Summer 2007

CSE30331 Data Structures, Instructor

Level: Undergraduate

Course Description: Fundamental techniques in the design and analysis of

non-numerical algorithms and their data structures including lists, stacks,

queues, deques, priority queues, search trees, and graphs; complexity;

sorting and searching algorithms, programming and design techniques.Spring 2007 CSE 40625/60625 Machine Learning, Teaching Assistant

Level: Undergraduate and Graduate

Instructor: Prof. Nitesh Chawla

Fall 2006 CSE40647/60647 Data Mining, Teaching Assistant

Level: Undergraduate and Graduate

Instructor: Prof. Nitesh Chawla

Spring 2006 CSE 20212 Fundamentals of Computing II, Teaching Assistant

Level: Undergraduate

Instructor: Prof. Patrick Flynn

Fall 2005 CSE 20211 Fundamentals of Computing I, Teaching Assistant

Level: Undergraduate

Instructor: Prof. Aaron Striegel

2002 - 2005 EG10111/10112 Introduction to Engineering, Peer Mentor

Level: First-Year Students

Instructor: Dr. Leo McWilliams

Mentoring Experience

Alex Pelan, undergraduate research assistant, University of Notre Dame, 2010-2011

Evan Kodra, research associate, Oak Ridge National Laboratory and PhD student, University

of

Tennessee - Knoxville, 2009-2011

Robert Thompson, undergraduate research assistant, University of Notre Dame, 2010

Debasish Das, summer research associate, Oak Ridge National Laboratory and PhD student,

Temple University, 2010

Jonathan Rann, summer research associate, Research Alliance in Math and Science HBCU,

Oak Ridge National Laboratory, 2009

Ethan Lai, summer research associate, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, 2008

References

Prof. Nitesh Chawla Dr. Auroop Ganguly

Dept. of Computer Science & Engineering GIST Group, CSE Division

University of Notre Dame Oak Ridge National Laboratory

384 Fitzpatrick Hall PO Box 2008, MS-6017

Notre Dame, IN 46556 Oak Ridge, TN 37831

phone: +1-574-***-**** phone: +1-865-***-****

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Prof. Kevin Bowyer Prof. Vipin Kumar

Dept. of Computer Science & Engineering Dept. of Computer Science & Engineering

University of Notre Dame University of Minnesota

384 Fitzpatrick Hall 4-192 Keller Hall

Notre Dame, IN 46556 200 Union Street SE

phone: +1-574-***-**** Minneapolis, MN 55455

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