Computer Science

Vlado Keselj Associate Professor Director of Electronic Commerce Faculty of Computer Science Dalhousie University E-mail: vlado @ cs. dal. ca WWW: http://www.cs.dal.ca/~vlado/ Other contact information Maps: Campus (link), CS Bldg, on Google

Fall 2009 (Sep-Dec):	CSCI 6509: Advanced Topics in Natural Language Processing CSCI 4152 - Natural Language Processing
Fall 2009 (Sep-Dec):	HINF 6210: Data Mining for Health Informatics and ECMM 6014 - Databases, Data Warehouses and Data mining for Electronic Commerce
... Previous Teaching

Research

Research interests: Text Processing, Natural Language Processing, Data Mining, Information Retrieval, Algorithmics, Multi-Agent Systems, Computational Number Theory, Programming Languages Student Supervision Publications Software Research Groups and some Projects: DNLP - Dalhousie Natural Language Processing Group (DalTREC Project) MALNIS - Machine Learning and Networked Information Spaces LITHEL Project OMIX Lab - Computational Biology Group Health Informatics Lab PIG - Programming Interest Group ECC - East Coast Combinatorics WIC - Web Intelligence Consortium Sponsors

Research Links and Resources Graduate Programs at CS.Dal (Graduate Forms) PhD Timeline dalcsthesis - LaTeX template for CS theses at Dalhousie CS Seminar Series Dalhousie Mirror Site Resources for graduate students: Graduate student resources at CS.Dal CS Style Guide Suggestions Writing Centre at Dalhousie Dalhousie Research Services web site Office of Research Ethics, Dalhousie Selected Conferences NLP Research Links Data Mining Research Links Programming Languages TeX (LaTeX)

Programming Competitions

(2003-) Dalhousie Programming Contests

Coach of the Dalhousie ACM programming team

(2004-) Canadian Computing Competitions (for highschools), Junior Committee

(2006-8) Co-Organizer of the Dalhousie Software Competition for High-schools in 2006/7 and 2007/8.

Administration, Service, and Other

(2006-) Faculty sponsor of the Dalhousie ACM Student Chapter

Research-related Organizational Activities

(2005-2009) Treasurer of CAIAC - Canadian Artificial Intelligence Association
     (was CSCSI - Canadian Society for the Computational Studies of Intelligence)
(2008) Program Co-Chair for IEEE ICAL 2008,
(2006) Organizing Committee Co-Chair for iSHIMR 2006
(2005) Publicity chair for IEEE ICMA 2005
(2003) Program coordinator for PACLING'03 conference

Committees (at Dalhousie)

(2008-) Outreach Committee (CS.Dal)
(2005-) Health Informatics Committee (CS.Dal)
(2005-) Senate Committee on Learning & Teaching (SCOLT), SCITPC representative
(2002-) SCITPC Senate Computing & Information Technology Planning Committee
(2008) Strategic Ad-hoc Education Committee (CS.Dal)
(2008) Search Committee for Associate Dean Research (CS.Dal)
(2007-2008) Tenure and Promotion Committee (CS.Dal)
(2004-2007) Resource Coordination Committee (CS.Dal)
(2004-2005) Dalhousie NSERC PGS Competition Selection Committee
(2004-2005) Graduate Committee (CS.Dal)
(2002-2004) Search Committee (CS.Dal)