I am curretly a Doctoral Candidate in Electrical Engineering (current GPA: 4.0, expected graduation date: December 2008) at the University of Louisville, Louisville, KY, USA. I am working under the supervision of Dr. Jacek Zurada (University of Louisville) and Dr. Georgia Tourassi (Duke University).

My main reserch focus is applications of computational intelligence (CI) and artificial intelligence (AI) techniques in medical decision support systems. Our recent research projects aim at improving case-based classifiers for false positive reduction in mammography. In order to do so, we apply modern CI techniques such as genetic algorithms or particle swarm optimization as well as more classical ones such as k-means clustering or linear discriminant analysis to improve decision algorithms and optimize the case bases of the available medical decision support systems. My other research interest is impact of training and testing conditions (such as number of examples, prevalence of positive cases and training method) on the performance evaluation of classifiers (specifically neural networks).

Although recently medical applications have been my main focus, I have also worked on the theory of the underlying algorithms (sensitivity analysis method for neural network pruning) and applications in other fields (eg. control in multi-agent systems).