Education

• Ph.D. 2004, Computer Science Department, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa. Advisor Dr. Vasant Honavar
• M.S. 1997, Computer Science Department, Faculty of  Mathematics, University of Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania. Advisor Dr. Luminita State
• B.S. 1996, Computer Science Department, Faculty of  Mathematics, University of Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania

Research Interests

• Artificial Intelligence
• Machine Learning
• Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery
• Statistical Query Answering
• Distributed Information Systems
• Computational Biology, Bioinformatics
• Ontologies, Information Integration
• Semantic Web
• Visual Data Mining

Dissertation

• Learning classifiers from distributed, autonomous, semantically heterogeneous data sources

Group

• Machine Learning and Bioinformatics @ K-State

Representative Publications (Complete List)

• Caragea, D., Zhang, J., Bao, J., Pathak, J., and Honavar, V. (2005). Algorithms and Software for Collaborative Discovery from Autonomous, Semantically Heterogeneous, Distributed Information Sources. In: Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Algorithmic Learning Theory (ALT-2005), Springer-Verlag, Singapore. Invited Paper.
• Caragea, D., Pathak, J., Bao, J., Silvescu, A., Andorf., C., Dobbs, D. and Honavar, V. (2005). Information Integration and Knowledge Acquisition from Semantically Heterogeneous Biological Data Sources. In: Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Data Integration in Life Sciences (DILS'05), San Diego, CA.
• Caragea, D., Silvescu, A., and Honavar, V. (2004). A Framework for Learning from Distributed Data Using Sufficient Statistics and its Application to Learning Decision Trees. International Journal of Hybrid Intelligent Systems. Vol. 1, No. 2. Invited Paper.
• Caragea, D., Cook, D., and Honavar, V. (2007). Visual Methods for Examining Support Vector Machines Results, with Applications to Gene Expression Data Analysis. Technical Report, Iowa State University, Ames, IA.

Upcoming Professional Activities (Complete List)

• Organizing Committee Member, IJCAI 2007 Workshop on Semantic Web for Collaborative Knowledge Acquisition (SWeCKa 2007). In conjunction with the Twentieth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Hyderabad, India, January 2007.
• Program Committee Member, International Workshop on Healthcare Information and Knowledge Management (HIKM 2006). In conjunction with the ACM Fifteen Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2006), November 6-11, 2007, Arlington, VA.
• Organizing Committee Member, AAAI 2006 Fall Symposium on Semantic Web for Collaborative Knowledge Acquisition (SWeCKa 2006), Arlington, VA, October 12-15, 2006.