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Muhammad Aurangzeb Ahmad
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
University of Minnesota - Twin Cities
5-206, EE/CS Building,
200 Union St SE,
Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA.

Research Assistant
Minnesota Population Center
Research Assistant

mahmad [at] cs [dot] umn [dot] edu

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Education

• University of Minnesota - Twin Cities, Minneapolis, MN. Pursuing Doctorate in Computer Science
• Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY. Bachelors of Science in Computer Science (Honors).

Honors and Awards

• Computing Research Association (CRA)'s Outstanding Undergraduate Research Award 2006: Honorable Mention
• Nominated for the Krause Award for Best Undergraduate Paper at RIT (2003)
• Jones Physics Prize 1998 (Government College Lahore)

Experience

• Minnesota Population Center, University of Minnesota.
  Research Assistant [September 2006-present]
• Consolidated Edison Company of New York.
  Software Engineer, Central Engineering [June 2006-August 2006]
• Center for Advancing the Study of Cyber Infrastructure. [CASCI]
  Data Mining Research Group. [December 2005-May 2006]
• Consolidated Edison Company of New York.
  Software Analyst, Information Resources [June 2005-November 2005]
• Center for Advancing the Study of Cyber Infrastructure. [CASCI]
  Research Assistant, [September 2004-May 2005]

Research Publications

Book Chapters

• Jim Kang, Muhammad A Ahmad, Ankur Teredesai, Roger Gaborski "Cognitively Motivated Novelty Detection in Video Data Streams" Multimedia Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, Springer Publishers. Valery A. Petrushin and Latifur Khan (Eds.)

Journal Papers

• Ankur Teredesai, Muhammad A Ahmad, Juveria Kanodia, Roger Gaborski "CoMMA: A Framework for Integrated Multimedia Mining using Multi-relational Associations" Knowledge and Information Systems: An International Journal (KAIS), Springer-Verlag Online August 2006

Conference Papers

• Muhammad A Ahmad, Ankur Teredesai "Modeling Spread of Ideas in Online Social Networks" Australasian Data Mining Conference (AusDM 2006), Sydney, December 2006.
• Nishith Pathak, Muhammad A Ahmad, Jaideep Srivastava "Automatic Extraction of Concealed Relations and Communities from email log data" Army High Performance Computing Conference, November 2006.

Tutorials

• Jaideep Srivastava, Nisthith Pathak, Sandeep Mane, Muhammad A Ahmad Data Mining and Social Network Analysis ICDM 2006

Workshops

• Muhammad A Ahmad, Ankur Teredesai "Domain Independent Integrated Multimedia Data Mining is a Frivolous Exercise: Classicism vs. Connectionism Debate Revisited" Second International Workshop on Philosophy and Informatics (WSPI 2005) Kaiserslautern, Germany. Also published in WM2005: Professional Knowledge Management Experiences and Visions, Klaus-Dieter Althoff, Andreas Dengel, Ralph Bergmann, Markus Nick, and Thomas Roth-Berghofer (Eds.), 587-594 ISBN 3-00-016020-5, DFKI GmbH, 2005.
• Muhammad A Ahmad, Ankur Teredesai, Juveria Kanodia. "Image Search And Visualization in CoMMA" Proceedings of the First GCCIS Conference on Computing and Information Sciences Cary Graphic Art Press, RIT.
• Ankur Teredesai, Muhammad Ahmad, Juveria Kanodia, Roger Gaborski "CoMMA: Combing Multimedia Multi-relational Associations" The 7th ACM SIGKDD Workshop on Multimedia DataMining, Seattle, WA, USA, August 2004.

Conference Presentations

• Muhammad Ahmad, Juveria Kanodia, Ankur Teredesai "CoMMA: Combing Multimedia Multi-relational Associations" First GCCIS conference on Computing and Information Sciences, Rochester, NY.

Research Projects

• Small World Networks: I worked with Professor Duncan Watts at Columbia University on the analysis of the "Small World" dataset. The project involved geocoding, analyzing and visualization of the "Small World" dataset. (2006)
• Dynamic Online Social Networks: The goal of this project is to algorithmically study dynamic online social networks like Instant Messaging Networks and the dissemination of information in these networks. Kleinberg's model for information cascading behavior are the basis for our experiments. (2005-6)
• DMRG Repository of Simulations: Coded and explored game theoretic simulations for studying social phenomenon. The simulations include Sugarscape, Spatialized iterated two person games, Axelrod's Cultural Dissemination Models, Zhang and Challet's Minority Game for economic modeling, Patrick Grim's model for prejudice reduction, Evolution of communication model. The repository is being used for pedagogic and learning purposes. (2005-6)
• BuddyScan: The objective of this project is to develop an efficient method for collecting, storing, and analyzing all the publicly available data generated by the various Instant Messaging services. (2005)
• VENUS: VENUS is a framework used for novelty detection in videos. In VENUS, habituation is the basis of discovering novelty in video streams. I worked on the evaluation of the performance of humans vs. a machine based novelty systems. (2005)
• CoMMA: CoMMA is a framework for using multi-relational multi-media data for automating the process of caption generation for large image datasets. An extension to the FP-Growth algorithm, the MRFP-Growth was devised for the annotation purposes. (2004-5)

Teaching Assistant

• Introduction to Data Mining (Fall 2004-2005 , Winter 2005-2006, Spring 2005-2006) Rochester Institute of Technology.

External Reviews

• Reviewer SAC (ACM Symposium on Applied Computing) 2005