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L. Gwenn Volkert
Associate Professor
Education
Degree: Institution: Date of Graduation:
Ph.D. (Computer Science) Wayne State University May 2001
Defended 01/22/01 Computer Science Department
Detroit, Michigan
M.S. (Computer Science) Wayne State University
Computer Science Department May 1995
Detroit, Michigan
B.S. (Computer Science) Central Michigan University May 1983
Department of Computer Science
Mt. Pleasant, Michigan
Academic Appointments
Associate Professor, Kent State University, Ohio 2007 - present
Department of Computer Science
Assistant Professor, Kent State University, Ohio 2001 - 2007
Department of Computer Science
Visiting Faculty, The University of Memphis, Tennessee 1999 - 2000
Department of Mathematical Sciences, Division of Computer Science
Publications and Scholarly Work
Refereed Publications
1. Amin Assareh and L. Gwenn Volkert (2009) "Fusing Fuzzy Rule Base Classifiers for Improving
Protein Mass Spectra Based Ovarian Cancer Diagnosis ", Proceedings of the IEEE 2009 Symposium
on Computational Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, CIBCB'09 Nashville, TN, USA, March
30 - April 2, 2009, IEEE Press, Piscataway, NJ
2. Deborah A. Stoffer and L. Gwenn Volkert, “Evolving Chaos Automata for Fractal Based Visualizations
of Protein Sequence Data”, in proceedings of IEEE 2008 Symposium on Computational
Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, Sept. 15-17, 2008 Sun Valley, Idaho, IEEE Press,
Piscataway, NJ.
3. Amin Assareh, Mohammad Hassan Moradi, L. Gwenn Volkert (2008) “A Hybrid Random Subspace
Classifier Fusioin Approach for Protein Mass Spectra Classification”, 6th European Conference on
Evolutionary Computation, Machine Learning and Data Mining in Bioinformatics, Springer Lecture
Notes in Computer Science Vol 4973.
4. L. Gwenn Volkert (2006) “Investigating EA Based Training of HMM using a Sequential Parameter
Optimization Approach”, Proceedings of the IEEE 2006 Congress on Evolutionary Computation,
Vancouver, BC, Canada, IEEE Press, Piscataway, NJ.
5. Derek G. Dimcheff, L. Gwenn Volkert, Ying Li, Angelo L. Delucia and William P. Lynch (2006) “Gene
Expression Profiling of Microglia Infected by a Highly Neurovirulent Murine Leukemia Virus:
Implications for Neuropathogenesis” Retrovirology, 3:26 pp. 1—19.
6. L. Gwenn Volkert (2006) “Abstract: Evolving HMMs for Disordered Protein Analysis”, Ohio
Collaborative Conference Bioinformatics (OCCBIO-2006), June 28-30, 206, Athens, OH.
7. Deborah A. Stoffer and L. Gwenn Volkert (2005) "A Neural Network for Predicting Protein Disorder
using Amino Acid Hydropathy Values”, Proceedings of the IEEE 2005 Symposium on Computational
Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, Nov. 12 and 13, 2005, La Jolla, California, IEEE Press,
Piscataway, NJ. pp. 482—489.
8. Andrew Sutton, Huzefa Kagdi, Jonathan I. Maletic, L. Gwenn Volkert (2005) "Hybridizing Evolutionary
Algorithms and Clustering Algorithms to Find Source-Code Clones”, In proceedings of the Genetic
and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2004), June 21-24, 2004, Washington D.C., pp.
1079—1080
Teaching and Student Advising/Mentoring
Doctoral Students Currently Directing
 Amin Assereh, Project: “Mining Machine Learning Implementations for Successful Generalization to
New Problems” (recruited from top Iranian University)
 Deborah Stoffer, Project: “Investigation of the Range of Behaviors of Chaos Automata”. Matriculated
from M.S. program (M.S. Thesis Defended Sept. 2005)
Master’s Students Currently Directing
 Craig Stewert, Project area - Data Discovery with a focus on SNP data
 Kaveh Noorbakhsh, Project area - Medical Informatics (for improving emergency room outcomes)
Dissertation Committee Member (current and completed)
 Andrew Sutton – Computer Science, Reverse Engineering To Support Generic Programming, PhD
Prospectus Spring 2008, Advisor: J Maletic
 Eric Chapman – Biological Sciences, Dissertation Title “Investigation of the evolution of feeding
strategies in the family Sciomyzidae”, PhD Advisor: Randy Hough, Defense April 2, 2008
 Bonita Sharif, “Empirical Assessment of UML Class Diagram Layouts based on Architectural
Importance”, PhD Prospectus Fall 2007, Advisor: J Maletic
 Julie A. Morris – Biological Sciences, Dissertation Title “A Systematic Study of the Genus Lythrum
and the Evolution of Heterostyly” PhD Advisor: Andrea Schwarzbach, Defense May 17, 2007
 Jennifer Watson, Biological Sciences, “Evolution of mtDNA in a freshwater bivalve lineage with
doubly uniparental inheritance of mtDNA”, PhD Advisor: Randy Hough, in progress
 Elena Khrosinkova – Physics, Dissertation Title “Elastic Electron Scattering from the Helium Isotopes
at Large Momentum Transfers” [In Progress]
 Julie A. Morris – Biological Sciences, Dissertation Title “A Systematic Study of the Genus Lythrum
and the Evolution of Heterostyly” [passed prospectus June 05, Defended Dissertation Summer 07]
 Ting Wu – Biological Sciences, Dissertation Title “Phylogenetic Systematics of Wolf Spider Genus
Geolycosa (Araneae, Lycosidae) Based on Multiple Mitochondrial and Nuclear Gene Sequences”
[passed prospectus Spring 05]
 John Gale – BMS/Cleveland Clinic Joint Ph.D. progam – (Ph.D. granted Spring 2004- currently a
post-doctoral research fellow in the Eskandar lab at Harvard University Medical School)
 Eric Chapman – Biological Sciences, Dissertation Title “Investigation of the evolution of feeding
strategies in the family Sciomyzidae” [passed prospectus Fall 03, Dissertation Defense Spring 08]
Theses Directed
 Deborah Stoffer “Alignment of Protein Secondary Structure Sequences“ M.S. Thesis, Kent State
University, Kent, Ohio, (Degree granted Fall 2005 - currently working towards Ph.D. at Kent State
University)
 Mahesh Tamboli, “Computer Aided Image Analysis of Mobile Microscopic Objects”, M.S. Thesis, Kent
State University, Kent, Ohio, (Degree granted Fall 2004 – currently employed at Private
Bioinformatics Research Institute in Wisconsin)