Lutz Hamel

(c) Ian Falconer

Assistant Professor Department of Computer Science and Statistics  University of Rhode Island  Kingston, RI 02881 email: hamel@cs.uri.edu phone: 401-480-9499 fax: 401-874-4617

Education: Doctorate from Oxford University 1997.

Research Interests: computational logic, logic programming, machine learning, evolutionary computation, data mining, bioinformatics, programming language semantics and implementation, and recombinant poetics (brief bio sketch).

Publications: here

Teaching (Fall 2008):
Fundamentals of Programming Languages, CSC301
Programming Language Semantics, CSC501

Previously Taught Courses:
An Introduction to Artificial Intelligence with AI Game Development, CSC481
Topics in AI: Introduction to Machine Learning with Support Vector Machines, CSC581
Theory of Computation, CSC544
Cognitive Modeling, CSC592
Advanced Logic Programming, CSC491 Sec 9
Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, CSC492/CSC592
Software Engineering, CSC305

Other Academic Activities:
I lead the machine learning and data mining group.
I am a member of the bioinformatics group and BRIN.
I am a member of the Bioinformatics and Bioengineering Technical Committee (BBTC) of the Computational Intelligence Society (CIS) of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE).
I am the publicity chair for CIBCB 2008.
Program Committees:

• CIBCB 2006
• CIBCB 2007
• GECCO 2007/Biological Applications
• Frontiers in the Convergence of Bioscience and Information Technologies (FBIT 2007)
• CEC 2007
• BIONETICS 2007 (Bioinformatics)

Software Systems I am involved with:
GPX - Gene Phylogeny eXplorer for spectral genome analysis.
PentaPlot - a visualization system for phylogenetic content.
ErrorEngine - a system for automatic narrative evolution.
UCG-E - an equational logic programming system.
OBJ3 - an equational specification system.
TRIM - an abstract machine for order-sorted rewriting.