QualificationsPh.D., University of Missouri-Columbia, Computer Science, 2003. M.S., University of Missouri-Columbia, Electrical Engineering, 1997. M.S., University of Missouri-Columbia, Medical Physics, 1995. B.S., Polytechnic Institute of Bucharest, Electrical Engineering, 1987. Expertise and Research InterestsGoals - Investigate similarity measures for gene products - Research new clustering algorithm for gene products - Investigate the linguistic similarity between clusters of gene products - Linguistic annotation of unknown gene products Research projects - Similarity measures for gene products: ongoing, submitted article, applied for a research board grant (Co-PI). Ph.D. Thesis - New Sequence Detection Algorithms using Hidden Markov Models, 2003. Presentations - Popescu M., Keller J., 'E. Coli source tracking using Hidden Markov Models', poster, MC-Bios, Little Rock, AK, Nov 2003 - Popescu M., Keller J., Mitchell J.A., 'Set similarity measures for gene matching', poster, ISMB-Rocky 1, Aspen, CO, Dec 2003 - Keller J., Popescu M., Mitchell J.A., 'Gene Ontology-based Similarity Measures for Gene Clustering and Knowledge Discovery', presentation, 2003 International joint workshop on soft computing for internet and Bioinformatics, Berkeley, CA, Dec 2003. Other ExpertiseCourses taken during the postdoc fellowship - CS301 - Computational Biology - HMI401 - Bioinformatics - STAT410 - Statistical methods in Bioinformatics - BIOCHEM399 - Biological Sequence Analysis - BIOL7976 - Molecular Biology Research Ethics Training - HIPAA training, March 2004 - IRBtraining, March 2004 Future Research- automated annotation of gene products and genomes - inferring signaling networks from methylation microarray data Industrial Relevance- Proficient using tools such as: Javascript, Java, Oracle Pl/SQL and ProC, C++, PERL, Microsoft ASP, Visual Basic, Matlab. - Developed a content-based retrieval database for medical images implemented in Java that accesses an Oracle database. The retrieval of the images was done using a newly developed fuzzy logic method. - Developed a database for evaluating patients with cystic fibrosis implemented using a Netscape web server and an Oracle database; - Involved in the development of the second version of the Rural Telemedicine Evaluation Project (RTEP) using Active Server Pages and an Oracle database. - developed methods for automated Gene Ontology annotation of gene products. - developed methods for methylation microarray analysis KeywordsCOS Keywords:Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, Computer and Information Sciences, Computer Vision, Data Mining, Fuzzy logic.Additional Terms:Bioinformatics, Computer Science, Gene Ontology, Microarray.Languages(Reading, Writing, Speaking)English: (Fluent, Fluent, Fluent) Romanian: (Fluent, Fluent, Fluent) French: (Functional, Basic, Functional) German: (Basic, None, Basic) MembershipsInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers International Society for Computational Biology Honors and Awards1984-1987,
Romanian National Scholarship,
Romanian State
Previous Positions1997-2000, Database Programmer,
University of Missouri-Columbia,
School of Medicine,
Medical Informatics Group
1995-1997, Research Assistant,
University of Missouri-Columbia,
College of Engineering,
Electrical Engineering
1993-1995, Research Assistant,
University of Missouri-Columbia,
School of Medicine,
Radiology
1990-1993, Assistant Professor,
Bucharest Polytechnic Institute,
School of Engineering,
Electrical Engineering
Publications
Profile DetailsLast Updated: 1/24/2008 COS Expertise ID #1142754 Reference this profile directly: http://myprofile.cos.com/popescum Individual Expertise profile of Mihail Popescu, Copyright Mihail Popescu. © COS ExpertiseTM, 2008, ProQuest LLC All rights reserved. |