2003-2004 Department of Computer Science and Engineering

Faculty ListingsHasan DavulcuAssistant ProfessorE-mail: hasan.davulcu@asu.eduPhone: 480-965-6385Office: BY 564Ph.D. State University of New York at StonyBrook, 2002Hasan Davulcu joined ASU in August 2002.Prior to joining ASU, Davulcu performedresearch and development in intelligent Webagent technologies at a technology start-up.Principal Areas of Teaching and Research:Davulcu's main research interest is usingontology-directed data mining techniques forstructuring and organizing unstructured data,such as Web, text documents and genesequences. Semantic Web enablesinformation to be machine processable so thatmachines can distinguish between words andmeanings and "do the right thing" with thedata on the Web. Davulcu's research focuseson (i) mining ontologies from Web documents(ii) ontology-directed annotation of websources (iii) enriching and maintainingontologies and (iv) techniques for mergingontologies to achieve information integration.This ontology-directed Web mining approachenables rapid creation of domain-specificsearch engines and extraction of structuredand organized knowledge bases fromheterogeneous documents and data sources.One current project aims to establish a ToxinKnowledge Base, a resource for the fightagainst bioterrorism.Honors and Distinctions:■ U.S. Army Medical Research Institute ofInfectious Disease and Department ofDefense grant, “A System for DiscoveringBioengineered Threats by Knowledge BaseDriven Mining of Toxin Data” (subcontractfrom BNL), 2003-2005Selected Publications:H. Davulcu, S. Vadrevu, S. Nagarajan, and I.V.Ramakrishnan, “OntoMiner: Bootstrapping andPopulating Ontologies From Domain SpecificWeb Sites,” IEEE Intelligent Systems, vol. 18,no. 5, Sept./Oct. 2003, pp. 24-33.H. Davulcu, S. Mukherjee, and I.V.Ramakrishnan, “Extraction Techniques forMining Services from Web Sources,” IEEEInternational Conference on Data Mining(2002), IEEE Computer Society, pp. 601-604.H. Davulcu, G. Yang, M. Kifer, and I.V.Ramakrishnan, “Computational Aspects ofResilient Data Extraction from SemistructuredSources,” ACM Symp. on Principles ofDatabase Systems (PODS 2000), ACM Press,pp. 136-144.Joseph DeLiberoLecturerE-mail: joseph.delibero@asu.eduPhone: 480-965-1493Office: BY 516M.S. Purdue University, 1972Joseph DeLibero joined ASU in 1991 andteaches lower division and service courses.Before coming to ASU he had extensiveteaching experience and leadership positionsin education and corporate training. He is amember of IEEE, ACM and ASEE.Principal Areas of Teaching and Research:DeLibero’s interests are in lower divisioneducation and how to make technology and itsimplications more relevant to students. Asadvisor to the Windows Interest Group (WIG),Joe supports several hundred students eachyear. WIG provides regular presentations andopportunity for hands-on activities for topics inthe current curriculum. Microsoft has funneledmore than $200,000 in kind to these students.Honors and Distinctions:■ Department of Computer Science andEngineering Outstanding Teaching Award,2000■ Associated Students of ASU CentennialProfessorship Award Finalist, 2001;Nominee, 2002■ ASU Student Affairs Honors, 1998, 2000,2001, 2002■ ASU Upward Bound Program Honors, 2000■ Scottsdale Community College AdjunctFaculty of the Year, 1999-2000■ Fellowship in Biochemistry, MassachusettsInstitute of Technology, 1972Selected Publications:J. DeLibero, Introduction to the Macintosh,Freedom TLC, 2001.J. DeLibero, Introduction to Windows 2000,Freedom TLC, 2001.J. DeLibero, Introduction to FileMaker Pro, v.5, Freedom TLC, 2001.J. DeLibero, Introduction to Word 2000,Freedom TLC, 2001.J. DeLibero, Introduction to Excel 2000,Freedom TLC, 2001.DeLibero has also created PowerPointpresentations for:G. Bronson, A First Book of C++, Brooks/Cole,2000.Suzanne W. DietrichAssociate ProfessorE-mail: dietrich@asu.eduPhone: 480-965-2786Office: BY 482Ph.D. State University of New York atStony Brook, 1987Suzanne W. Dietrich joined ASU in 1987. Hereducational and research efforts have beensupported by grants from the National ScienceFoundation. She is a member of ACM,SIGMOD, and SIGCSE.Principal Areas of Teaching and Research:Dietrich's areas of teaching and researchinclude the educational, theoretical andpractical aspects of databases. Currently, herresearch is investigating the design andevaluation of an active integration rulelanguage and the development of a middletier,rule-processing framework that usesevents and active rules for the integration ofenterprise applications. Her educational effortsare focused on the ongoing development ofthe WinRDBI educational tool forunderstanding relational database querylanguages and the development of a nationalmodel for an advanced database course forundergraduates, including object-orientedconceptual data models (EER and UML),object-oriented databases, object-relationaldatabases and databases and the web (JDBCand XML).Honors and Distinctions:■ Department of Computer Science andEngineering Outstanding Teaching Award,2001■ Office of Naval Research GraduateFellowship, 1983-1987■ Valedictorian, State University of New Yorkat Stony Brook, 1983Selected Publications:S.W. Dietrich, Understanding RelationalDatabase Query Languages, Prentice Hall,2001.S.W. Dietrich and S.D. Urban, An AdvancedCourse in Database Systems: BeyondRelational Databases, Prentice Hall, 2005, toappear.S.W. Dietrich, S.D. Urban, A. Sundermier, Y.Na, Y. Jin, and S. Kambhampati, “A Languageand Framework for Supporting an ActiveApproach to Component-Based SoftwareIntegration,” Informatica, vol. 25, no. 4, Nov.2001, pp. 443-454.ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY 33