Department of Computer Science & Applied Statistics

Topics Degree & Certificate information Masters and PhD programs State-of-the-art computing equipment Innovative Research Award winning Faculty Career opportunities

Programs

BScCS Bachelor of Science in Computer Science

High Performance Scientific Computing Software Engineering Networking

BISc Bachelor in Information Sciences

Decision and Systems Science Specialization Decision and Business Management

Specialization Software Development

BScCSBachelor of Science in Computer Science

4 year degree program

5 courses per term (40 courses in 4 years)Programming languagesMathematics Scientific computingStatisticsComputer hardware Electronic commerce

BISc

Bachelor in Information Sciences Decision and Systems Science Specialization Decision and Business Management Specialization

4 year degree program

An interdisciplinary program involving core courses taken primarily from Business Administration, Computer Science, Economics, Mathematics and Statistics.

This four-year degree program is offered in cooperation and in conjunction with departments in the Faculty of Science, Applied Science and Engineering, the Faculty of Business and the Faculty of Arts.

Certificate in Data Analysis

10 courses over 2 years 1-2 courses in each of Mathematics,

Statistics, and Computer Science 4-6 courses in elective subject

Certificate in Computing

10 courses over 2 years 1-2 courses in each of Mathematics,

Statistics, and Computer Science 4-6 courses in elective subject all courses can be used in BSc CS

Minor programs

CS Minor

IT Minor

Research in CSAS MCS and PhD program with UNB CS GAU

CSAS faculty contribute more than $326,000 in the past 2 years in NSERC and other grant funding

Graduate/undergraduate student support currently 5 PhD students & 6 masters students undergraduate students awarded USRA

Visiting PhD students from abroad

Excellent Faculty

Owen Kaser

PhD in CS, SUNY Stony Brook (New York), 1993.

Joined in 1993. Currently Dept. Chair. Past grad students' areas:

parallel functional programming parallel OLAP compiler optimization (inlining) multidim database physical design

Teaching emphasis: functional programming (formerly) computer hardware systems software data structures CS theory

Dr. Kaser’s recent research

Data warehousing and OLAP technologies compressed bitmap indexes cube storage methods emphasize algorithmics and experiments applications to literary informatics

cubes to study writing styles, analogy use “text mining for English professors” UIs for nontechnical users: tag clouds

Ruth Shaw

Professor Dr. Shaw has worked at UNB Saint John since 1980. She joined the faculty full-time in 1994; her recent research is in developing efficient algorithms for parallel processing.

•Credentials- BScDA (1980)- MScCS (1986)- PhD-CS (1994)

•Awards- Allan P. Stewart Memorial Award for - Excellence in Teaching, 1998- Merit Award for 1998-99- Merit Award for 2000-01

Dr. Shaw’s Teaching & research

Taught over 90 undergraduate & graduate courses at UNBSJ

Supervisor James Stewart (MCS 1999) Supervisor Jeff Phillips (MCS 1999) Co-supervisor w. Dr. Garey Jeffrey McNally (PhD

2000) Supervisor Hazel Webb (MCS 2005) Co-supervisor w. Dr. Aubanel Tanvire Elhai (MCS

2005) Supervisor Jake van der Laan (MCS 2005-) Co-supervisor w. Dr. Garey Maryam Majedi (MCS

2006-) Co-supervisor w. Dr. Aubanel Kambiz Ghazinour

Naini (MCS 2006-)

Adjunct Professors

Dr. Belacel Nabil, NRC-IIT, Moncton.

Dr. Daniel Lemire, University of Quebec.

Prabhat Mahanti

Professor

Dr. Prabhat. K. Mahanti joined the University of New Brunswick, Saint John faculty in December, 2001.

Research Interests:

• Software Engineering• Soft Computing Numerical

Algorithms• Modeling & Simulation

Josée Tassé

Associate Professor

Ph.D. from McGill in 1999 At UNB Saint John since 1997 Expertise: software engineering 15 different courses taught over the years Developed a software engineering

specialization within BScCS program 12 students supervised: 1 Ph.D., 3 MCS,

2 undergrad. research assistants, and 6 undergrad. projects

11 international publications 3 demos at national conferences Received 2 NSERC grants Served in NSERC University Faculty

Award (UFA) selection committee

Research - Josée Tassé

Title of main papers driving our current research: “Project Management through Policy

Monitoring” “Evaluating Policies and their Effects

on Software Process Performance” (co-authored with James Stewart)

Research done in collaboration with industry

Current areas of interest: Development of a lightweight

approach for the management and governance of software development processes

Identification of metrics that can predict the outcome of a project (product quality, budget and schedule issues, etc.)

Janet Light

Associate Professor

PhD in Computer Science, Avinashilingam University, 2002

Joined UNB Saint John in 2002 Almost 25 years of teaching in Electronics and

Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. Expertise: Networking more into wireless and

mobile computing I am happy to say that my research team was able

to successfully execute a number of projects in our province with government agencies (hospital, Service New Brunswick..)

Currently I am engaged in a multi-disciplinary national/ internationl collaborative applied research (healthcare and emergency management studies)

Dr. Light’s research interests

In Basic Domain: Computer Networks - Inter-operability &

Traffic Engineering Wireless & Mobile Computing Voice/data Convergence in Networks Voice over IP Network security Smart ICT

In Applied Domain: Electronic Health Record Pervasive healthcare Emergency management infrastructure 911- First Call Responders inter-

operability problems

Chris BakerInnovatia Research ChairAssociate Professor

Dr. Baker joined the UNB Saint John faculty in 2008. His areas of expertise include semantic web technologies, ontology, text mining and bioinformatics.

Previous Appointments:

• Head of Semantic Technology Group, Data Mining Dep., Institute for Infocomm Research (I2R) Singapore.

• Bioinformatics Manager, Concordia University, Montreal.

• Group Leader of In Silico Discovery at Ecopia Bio Sciences (now Thallion Pharmaceuticals Inc.), Montreal.

• Post Doctoral Fellow Iogen Corporation, Ottawa.

• Post Doctoral Fellow, University of Toronto.

Credentials

• BSc. Hons. Agricultural & Environmental Science (1991)

(Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK)• Ph.D. Microbiology (1996)

(University of Wales, Cardiff, UK)

Recent Publications

My Studentsmust align competing visions and technologies to design workable knowledge management solutions. Interdisciplinary co-dependence is a core feature of their training. In this environment students learn to take ownership of key challenges (technical and system level) and manage their co-workers in an interactive dialogue. Students learn technical skills in Semantic Technologies; knowledge representation and formal modeling with W3C standard technologies, logic based reasoning, natural language processing, web science, service oriented architecture, workflow composition, rule engines, metadata management and novel domain specific search paradigms. Students work on knowledge-intensive application domains such as life science, healthcare and telecom and must be keen to work in cross disciplinary projects. Typically they are looking to understand and address new challenges in information systems for the enhancement of knowledge discovery, and provision of services. The focus is on the interface between dogma embedded in legacy metadata and dynamic content gathered from patients. Understanding and innovating at this interface (old meets new) is a contemporary research horizon and attracts many students and health industry partners.

Baker CJO, Lambrix P, Bergman JL, Kanagasabai R and Ang WT (2009), Slicing through the scientific literature, DILS 2009, Manchester 20th-22nd July

Low HS, Baker CJO, Garcia A and Wenk M (2009), OWL-DL Ontology for Classification of Lipids, International Conference on Biomedical Ontology, Buffalo, New York, July 24-26,

Rajapakse M., Kanagasabai R., Ang W.T., Veeramani A., Schreiber, M.J., Baker C. J. O. (2008), Ontology-centric knowledge integration and navigation of the Dengue literature, J. Biomedical. Informatics. Vol. 41, pp 806-815

Baker C. J. O., Kanagasabai R., Ang W. T., Veeramani A., Low H-S, Wenk M. R. (2008), Towards ontology-driven navigation of the lipid bibliosphere, BMC Bioinf. 2008, 9 (Suppl 1):S5

Kanagasabai R., Choo K. H. Ranganathan S. and Baker C. J. O. (2007), A workflow for mutation extraction and structure annotation, Journal of Bioinformatics &Computational Biology Vol 5 No 6:

Witte R. Baker C. J. O. (2007), Towards a systematic evaluation of mutation extraction systems, Journal of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology. Vol 5 No 6.

Hazel Webb

Lecturer currently teaching: programming in

Java, Matlab and data structures in C previously: database management

systems, discrete math, programming languages

2001 BSc in Data Analysis UNBSJ

Lieutenant-Governor’s Silver Medal 2003 Diploma in University Teaching 2005 Master of Computer Science UNB 2005 – present PhD candidate in

Computer Science 2007-2008 Faculty Teaching Award

Hazel Webb’s research

interests

Publications: An Efficient Data Structure for Searching

Large Almost Static Data Sets. MCS Thesis Properties and Application of Diamond Cubes

. ICSoft 2007, Doctoral Consortium. Pruning Attribute Values from Data Cubes with Diamond Dicing

. IDEAS08.

Data warehousing OLAP operations

Data structures

Information retrieval

Parallel processing

Lawrence E. Garey

Professor Emeritus

PhD, 1971 Dalhousie University Born in Saint John NB Joined the faculty at UNBSJ ,1971 Promoted to Full Professor, 1982 Received 3 merit awards

1981,1991,2002 Member of SJ Senate for two terms Member of Board of Governors 1980-83 Retired in 2006

Professor Emeritus, since 2007

Research Interests

Associate member of both Math and Computer Science, UNBF since, 1973

Director of GAU (Math) for both campus,1994-97

Managed SJ Computing Centre,1971-81 and Director 82-86

Chaired SJ Math dept 76-79 and Chaired SJ CS dept 2000

Held an NSERC grant 1972-2009 Published over 130 paper in journals and

conference proceedings 1971-2008

Rameshwar D. Gupta

Professor Emeritus

PhD 1973 Dalhousie UniversityTaught at the University of the West Indies 1973-79Joined the faculty at UNBSJ in July 1980 as Associate ProfessorPromoted to full Professor in 1986Assistant Dean of Graduate Studies 1988-90Acting Dean of Graduate Studies 2004-05Received four Merit Awards 1986-87 1994-95, 2000-01, 2005-06Member of the Saint John Senate 1997-2000,2001-2004Early retirement on August 31, 2009Professor Emeritus since 2009

Research

Students supervised: 2 PhD, 7 Masters and 7 USRA

Published 95 papers in referred international statistical journals

Held NSERC grant since 1979 Served on NSERC GSC 14 for the period 1994-

97 and chair for 1996-97 Associate Editor for three international statistical

journals Research interests: distribution theory,

statistical reliability, inference procedures and multivariate statistical analysis

Connie Stewart

PhD in Statistics, Dalhousie University (2005) Assistant Professor in the Department of CSAS since 2004. Have taught a wide variety of statistics courses including Statistics for Engineering and Health Science/Nursing students, as well as for students majoring in Mathematics or Statistics. Examples of upper level Statistics courses offered:

Regression Analysis Experimental Design Multivariate Statistical Data Analysis Sample Survey Theory

Research

Areas of Research:

Estimation of the diet of predators. Geriatric Medicine

Funding NSERC Atlantic Health Sciences Health Promotion and Research Fund

Recent Publications Stewart, C. and Field, C. Managing the Essential Zeros in Quantitative Fatty Acid

Signature Analysis. To appear in the Journal of Agriculture, Biological, and Environmental Statistics.

McCloskey, R., Jarrett, P., Knudson, C., Quinn, S., and Stewart, C. Nurse Practitioner Bridging the Gap between Hospital and Long-term Care. To appear in the Canadian Journal of Geriatrics.

Tasneem Zaihra

Completed PhD (Statistics) from University of Windsor, 2009

Joined Dept of CSAS in Fall, 2009. List of Courses that I am teaching

STAT-1793 : Introduction to Probability and Statistics

STAT-2263 : Statistics for Health Sciences STAT-3703 : Experimental Design

Scholarships/Awards: IBM Student Award, New England Symposium, 2009 Ontario Government’s Scholarship (OGSST), Summer

2008- Fall-2009 University of Windsor’s Doctoral Scholarship, Summer-

2005-Fall-2009 Delta Kappa Gamma World Fellowship University Gold Medal.

Research Interests

PUBLICATIONS & PRESENTATIONS Paul, S. R. and Zaihra, T. (2008) - Interval

estimation of risk difference for data sampled from cluster, Statistics in Medicine, 27, 4207-4220

Presented paper entitled “Variance Function in Semi-Parametric Analysis of Count data” at University of Maine, Orono, 2009

Presented paper entitled “Interval estimation of risk difference for data sampled from clusters” at New England Statistics Symposium, Univ of Connecticut.

Presented paper entitled “A statistical method for estimating risk of disease” - Dept of BMI, Faculty of Medicine, University of Ottawa

Presented paper entitled ““Interval estimation of risk difference for clustered data” on Aug 20th, 2009 at Department of CSAS, UNB-SJ

Presented paper entitled “Interval estimation of risk difference for clustered data” - JSM 2009.

JSM- Conference Proceedings 2009: Variance function in semi-parametric analysis of count data

Interval Estimation of Epidemiological Indices for Clustered and Correlated Data

Variance Function Estimation in Semi-Parametric Analysis of Over Dispersed Counts.

Analysis of Over Dispersed Counts and Correlated Proportions

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS

Statistical Society of Canada. American Mathematical Society. American Statistical Association.

Dr. Jeffrey McNally

BSc ‘95, MSc ‘98,

MCS ‘ 99, PhD ‘ 03

Dr. McNally is a 4 time UNBSJ alumni with degrees in both Mathematics and Computer Science.

Research interests:

Parallel Numerical Linear Algebra

Fast Algorithms

Toeplitz Matrices

Computational Computing

Statistics Education

Mathematics Education

Dr. McNally’s research interests

Recent publications: A fast algorithm for solving diagonally dominant symmetric pentadiagonal Toeplitz

systems: submitted . Comput. Appl. Math (2008) A communication-less parallel algorithm for tridiagonal Toeplitz systems: J. Comput.

Appl. Math. v212.2 pp. 260-271, (2008). Eigenvalues of Banded Symmetric Near-Toeplitz Matrices: Cong. Num. Vol 142

(2000) p195-205 A linear time algorithm for the bottleneck traveling salesman problem on a Halin

graph: I.P.L. 67 no.3 (1997) p105-110

His primary area of research is the derivation of parallel solutions for inherently sequential problems

Recently, Dr. McNally has been researching parallel solutions for matrix problems involving Banded Toeplitz matrices: a problem that arises in many areas of mathematics, statistics, engineering and computer science.

Career Opportunities

The computer industry is a growth industry that shows no signs of slowing down in the next decade

Consulting Data processing & information systems Programming System analyst Academics

Graduates After two years, Computer Science graduates earn on

average 21% more than all university graduates at the bachelor's level

CS grads are the highest paid of all graduates at this level in physical sciences and earned 16% more than community college graduates

For more information, visit our

website at:

www.unbsj.ca/sase/csas

Students have a variety of programs to choose from: Bachelor of Science in Computer

Science, Bachelor in Information Sciences, and Certificates in Computer Science

or Data Analysis.

We also provide graduate student supervision in Computer Science and Statistics, and teach

graduate courses as requested.