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GABRIELA MOISE
Address: 10150-83 Ave, apt. 202, Edmonton, AB, Canada, T6E 2C4
Phone: (780) 432-3707
E-mail: gabi@cs.ualberta.ca
EDUCATION:
Ph.D. in Computing Science, University of Alberta, Canada
• GPA: 3.9 out of 4
M.Sc. in Computing Science, University of Alberta, Canada
• GPA: 9 out of 9
B.Sc. in Computing Science, Mathematics, University of Bucharest, Romania
• GPA: 9.59 out of 10
2003 – 11/2008
2001 - 2003
1996 - 2000
WORK EXPERIENCE
Researcher, Department of Computing Science, University of Alberta, Canada
• Implemented and tested subspace clustering techniques
Teaching Assistant, Department of Computing Science, University of Alberta, Canada
• Coordinated labs, marked assignments, mentored students
Software Engineer, Black Box Software, Romania
• Implemented and tested a client-server database application system for managing
theatre plays
• Worked in a team of 5 people
• Used MS SQL Server, Java, AWT, JDBC, Windows 2K
02/2009 -
2001 - 2006
2000 - 2001
ACADEMIC PROJECTS
Ph.D. Thesis: Subspace Clustering Methods for High Dimensional Data
• Designed, implemented, tested and documented 3 subspace clustering techniques
• Published 3 articles, delivered 2 presentations
• Worked in a team with researchers from other universities
• Used C/C++, Java, Eclipse, R, Linux scripting, Subversion
M.Sc. Thesis: Focused Co-citation: Improving the Retrieval of Related Pages on the Web
• Designed, implemented, tested and documented 3 techniques for finding Web
pages related to a query Web page
• Presented 2 posters, delivered 2 presentations
• Used C/C++, Java, IBM DB2, Linux scripting
Research project: Cluster ensembles
• Developed a technique for integrating the results of multiple clustering algorithms
• Published 2 articles, delivered 1 presentation
• Used C/C++, R, Linux scripting
Research project: Brain Tumor Growth Prediction
• Completed the requirements analysis of a relational database schema for the
patient and image data in the Brain Tumor Growth Prediction project
• Worked in a team of 7 people
2004 – 2008
2001 - 2003
2004
2004

AWARDS
• Alberta Ingenuity Ph.D. Studentship, Alberta Ingenuity Fund, Canada 2003 – 2008
• iCORE Graduate Student Award, iCORE Circle of Research Excellence, Canada 2003 – 2008
• ACM SIGKDD 2008 Student Travel Award 2008
• GSA Professional Development Grant, University of Alberta, Canada 2006
• IEEE ICDM 2006 Travel Award 2006
• Mary Louise Imrie Graduate Student Award, University of Alberta, Canada 2003
• M.Sc. Research Award, Department of Computing Science, University of Alberta, 2002 – 2003
Canada. Awarded to the best master student
• J Gordin Kaplan Graduate Student Award, University of Alberta, Canada 2002
• University of Alberta Master’s Scholarship, Department of Computing Science, 2001 – 2003
University of Alberta, Canada
• International Tuition Fee Award, Department of Computing Science, University of 2001 - 2003
Alberta
• Teaching Assistant Award, Department of Computing Science, University of Alberta 2001 - 2003
• University of Bucharest Excellence Scholarship, Romania 1996 - 2000
• Chief of promotion, High School “Andrei Saguna”, Brasov, Romania 1996
• Excellence Award, Dutch Foundation AOF, Romania 1995
• First Prize, Mathematics Contest “Mihai Viteazul”, Romania 1995
• Mention of Honor, Mathematics Contest “Gh.Lazar – D.V. Ionescu”, Romania 1995
• Mention of Honor, Mathematics Olympics, National Phase, Romania 1994
• First Prize, Mathematics Contest “Mihai Viteazul”, Romania 1994
PUBLICATIONS:
Book Chapters:
Gabriela Moise, Jörg Sander. Integrated Clustering for Microarray Data. Chapter in Life Science Data
Mining, Engineering and Biology Informatics, vol. 2, 2007
Journal Publications:
Gabriela Moise, Jörg Sander, Martin Ester. Robust Projected Clustering. In Knowledge and Information
Systems, vol. 14, issue 3, pp. 273-298, 2008
Conference Publications:
Gabriela Moise, Jörg Sander. Finding Non-Redundant, Statistically Significant Regions in High
Dimensional Data: a Novel Approach to Projected and Subspace Clustering. In Proceedings of the 14 th
ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD 2008), Las
Vegas, USA, 2008 (acceptance rate: 10% for regular papers)
Gabriela Moise, Jörg Sander, Martin Ester. P3C: A Robust Projected Clustering Algorithm. In
Proceedings of the 6 th IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM 2006), Hong Kong, China,
2006 (acceptance rate: 10% for regular papers)

Workshop Publications:
Gabriela Moise, Jörg Sander. Integrated Clustering for Microarray Data. In Proceedings of the IEEE
Workshop on Life Science Data Mining (LSDM 2004) in conjunction with the 4 th IEEE International
Conference on Data Mining (ICDM 2004), Brighton, UK, 2004
Daniel L. Moise, Ken Wong, Gabriela Moise. Challenges Posed by Adoption Issues from a
Bioinformatics Point of View. In Proceedings of the 4 th International Workshop on Adoption-Centric
Software Engineering (ACSE 2004) in conjunction with the 26 th International Conference on Software
Engineering (ICSE 2004), Edinburgh, Scotland, UK, 2004
Posters:
Gabriela Moise, Jörg Sander. Finding Non-Redundant, Statistically Significant Regions in High
Dimensional Data: a Novel Approach to Projected and Subspace Clustering. Workshop for Women in
Machine Learning, Vancouver, Canada, 2008
Gabriela Moise, Jörg Sander, Davood Rafiei. Focused Co-citation: Improving the Retrieval of Related
Pages on the Web. In Proceedings of the 12 th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW 2003),
Budapest, Hungary, 2003
Gabriela Moise, Jörg Sander, Davood Rafiei. Enhanced Algorithms for Identifying Related Pages in the
World Wide Web. CASCON, Toronto, Canada, 2003
PRESENTATIONS and INVITED TALKS:
Finding Non-Redundant, Statistically Significant Regions in High Dimensional Data: a Novel Approach
to Projected and Subspace Clustering. ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge
Discovery and Data Mining (KDD 2008), Las Vegas, USA, 2008.
P3C: A Robust Projected Clustering Algorithm. IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM
2006), Hong Kong, China, 2006
Integrated Clustering for Microarray Data. IEEE Workshop on Life Science Data Mining (LSDM 2004)
in conjunction with the 4 th IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM 2004), Brighton, UK,
2004
Focused Co-citation: Improving the Retrieval of Related Pages on the Web. Joint Database Research
Meeting of the Departments of Computing Science of University of Alberta and University of Calgary,
2002
Focused Co-citation: Improving the Retrieval of Related Pages on the Web. Database Research Meeting,
Department of Computing Science, University of Alberta, 2002
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES:
• External reviewer for: International Database Engineering and Application Symposium (IDEAS
2003), Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2003), SIAM International
Conference on Data Mining (SDM 2003), ACM International Conference on Knowledge Discovery
and Data Mining (KDD 2004, KDD 2007, KDD 2008), IEEE International Conference on Data

Mining (ICDM 2004, ICDM 2005, ICDM 2006, ICDM 2007), International Conference on Very
Large Data Bases (VLDB 2005), International Conference on Management of Data (COMAD 2006),
Knowledge and Information Systems: An International Journal, International Conference on Data
Engineering (ICDE 2008), Data & Knowledge Engineering (DKE) journal, Artificial Intelligence
Journal
• Volunteer for ACM SIGKDD 2002, ACM SIGKDD 2008
• Volunteer for various events in the Computing Science Department at University of Alberta
LANGUAGES:
Romanian (native), English (fluent), French (beginner)
PERSONAL INTERESTS:
Sports, Traveling, Reading
REFERENCES:
Prof. Jörg Sander (Ph.D. and M.Sc. supervisor)
University of Alberta
Email: joerg@cs.ualberta.ca
Phone: (780) 492-5084
Prof. Osmar Zaiane (PhD supervisory committee member)
University of Alberta
Email: zaiane@cs.ualberta.ca
Phone: (780) 492-2860
Prof. Martin Ester (Co-author)
Simon Fraser University
Email: ester@cs.sfu.ca
Phone: (778) 782-4411