Lyle Ungar

Lyle H. Ungar
ungar@cis.upenn.edu
Tel: 215-898-7449, Fax: 215-898-0587
504 Levine, 200 S. 33rd St, Philadelphia, PA 19104-6309

Associate Professor of

• Computer and Information Science
  
• Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
  
• Electrical and Systems Engineering
  in the School of Engineering and Applied Science,
  
• Operations and Information Management in the Wharton School and
  
• Genomics and Computational Biology in the School of Medicine,
  all at the University of Pennsylvania.

Research Interests

• machine learning and data mining, on data such as scientific papers, consumer purchases, and gene and protein expression.
  • Clustering and Collaborative Filtering
  • Feature Selection
  • Genomics, Proteomics, and regulatory network modeling
  • information extraction in biological texts,
  • Statistical Relational Learning
  • Text Mining
  • Active Learning
• market-based methods for distributed scheduling and optimization of systems including human and computer agents,
  • Information Economics, Shopbots and Pricebots
  • Auctions and Mechanism Designs
• computational biolology
• and (someday) computer go.

Teaching

• Cognitive Science (CIS 140, a.k.a Cognitive Science 001, Linguistics 105, Philosophy 044, Psychology 107),
• Machine Learning for Bioinformatics (CIS 700),
• Programming Languages and Techniques (CIS 120),
• Artificial Intelligence (CIS 391 and CIS 520)
• Introduction to Bioinformatics (GCB535/CIS535).

I was director of the Executive Masters in Technology Management (EMTM), where I still teach

• Data Mining (EMTM 554) and
• Management of Technology (MGMT 560).

Administration

• Co-director of the Greater Philadelphia Bioinformatics Alliance GPBA
• Associate director of the Penn Center for BioInformatics (PCBI)
• Track leader, Computational Biology/Bioinformatics in the Masters in biotechnology
• General Chair for KDD-2006

Further information

• Short biography
• Select Recent Publications
• Publications (slighlty out of date)
• Patents
• Collaborators
• Hobbies
• Family
• Data Mining reading group
• Directions to my home and office

I am a member of

• Penn Center for BioInformatics (PCBI)
• Institute for Research in Cognitive Science (IRCS)
• Center for Cognitive Neuroscience (CCN)

Useful UPENN Links

• Penn directory
• main Penn library, Engineering library and Lippincott
• CETS Answers (FAQ)
• Course schedules
• Machine learning and statistics courses
• computational biology courses
• IRQDB, Courses in touch, and Advisor in touch
• Spike
• The Daily Pennsylvanian

Elsewhere on the web

• C++, Java, CVS, subversion and R pointers
• Bioinformatics,
• Philadelphia restaurants
• CiteSeer