Sourabh Kapoor
George Chang, Ph.D.
Kean University
gchang@kean.edu
Department of Computer Science
http://www.kean.edu/~gchang/
908-737-3797
Professional Experiences:
7/08 - present
Chairperson - Kean University, Department of Computer Science, Union, N.J.
7/07 - 6/08
Coordinator - Telecomm and Information Technology Program.
9/09 - present
Professor - Kean University, Department of Computer Science, Union, N.J.
9/05 - 06/09
Associate Professor - Kean University, Department of Computer Science, Union, N.J.
9/99 - 6/05
Assistant Professor - Kean University, Department of Math. and Computer Science, Union, N.J.
• Conducting research and software development in Data Mining, Databases and Bioinformatics.
• Awarded NSF DUE: Project ASK: Applying Student Knowledge for Success in Computer Science,
with P. Morreale, Proposal No. 0804664, $584,875.00, 2008-2013.
• Awarded NSF MRI: Acquisition of Computing Equipment to Enhance Computational Science
Research at Kean University, with D. Joiner, Proposal No. 0722790, $447,332.00, 2007-2009.
• Chair of the Computational Science Group and Director of High-Performance Computational
Laboratory (http://csg.kean.edu).
• Visiting Researcher at the Center for Applied Genomics at the International Center for Public
Health (ICPH). Designed and implemented an Online Microarry Analysis System. 2002-2003.
• Inducted into The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi (www.phikappaphi.org) in January 2003.
• Coaching Kean’s programming teams for the ACM Regional Programming Contest 2000-2003.
• Teaching both graduate and undergraduate courses in Databases, Data Structures and Programming
Techniques in Java and C++, and Special Topics.
• New courses developed:
Graduate: Web Database Programming (PHP/Perl/Servlet/JSP/JDBC/MySQL)
Graduate: Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining
Graduate: Principles of Informatics: Algorithms and Tools
Graduate: Enterprise Software Development (J2EE/EJB/XML)
Graduate: Component Software Design and Design Patterns
Graduate: High-Performance Computing
Undergrad: New Media Programming I
Undergrad: New Media Programming II
Undergrad: Database System Concepts and Applications
Undergrad: Foundations of Information Technology
9/06 - 06/07
Software Engineering Consultant - MobileAware Inc. Cranbury, N.J.
• Designed, implemented and maintained Automated Build Procedure for all products..
5/00 - 10/01
Mobile/Wireless Computing Consultant - Mobilocity, Inc. New York. N.Y.
• Designed and Implemented Voice Application Framework using Java Design Patterns.
• Implemented Voice Alert System for Bookspan.
• Integrated Oracle, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Apache, Tomcat, Jboss, WebLogic, OpenSSL,
OpenLDAP, mod_ssl, mod_php, mod_perl, CVS, and Kerberos into Enterprise Mobile/Wireless
Computing Backend Infrastructure at Mobilocity.
1/95 - 8/99
Research Assistant - Knowledge and Data Engineering Lab., NJIT CIS Dept., Newark, N.J.
• Designed & implemented a Web-based Approximate Querying System using Java, C, and Perl.
• Designed Web-based Approximate Query Language.
• Ported Structural Document Comparison Tool to PREDATOR (an ORDBMS).
• Designed & implemented Structural Document Comparison Tool using Tcl/Tk and C.
• Designed & implemented Document Query Language using Lex/Yacc and C.
• Designed & implemented Pattern Matching and Discovery Visual Toolkit for genome data using
Tcl/Tk and C.
• Supervised fourteen Master’s Projects.
• Research Assistantship, from NSF grants IRI-9224602 and IRI-9531548, every summer 1995-1998.
9/95 - 8/99
Special Lecturer (1/99- 8/99) - NJIT CIS Dept., Newark, N.J.
Teaching Assistant (9/95- 12/98) - NJIT CIS Dept., Newark, N.J.
Taught graduate and undergraduate courses in:
CIS631 - Graduate Course in Database Management Systems Design (Summer 98/99).
CIS431 - Introduction to Database Systems (S97/F97).
CIS333 - UNIX Operating System Internals and Programming (F98/S99).
CIS114 Honors - Introduction to Data Structures (S98).
CIS104/106 - Introduction to Programming and Problem Solving (F95/S96).
1/94 - 5/94
Teaching Assistant - NYIT Computer Science Dept., Westbury, N.Y.
• Directed programming lab sessions for an undergraduate programming class.
• Provided consultation in C++ programming language and data structures.
6/89 - 8/89
Research Assistant - University of Georgia, Entomology Dept., Athens, G.A.
• Analyzed the surface lipids of social wasps (Polistes metricus) and their nests using HP GC/MS.
• Analyzed the relationship between wasp nestmates and their nest using SPSS.
• Performed bioassay on social wasps.
Education:
Ph.D. in Computer and Information Science
New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, N.J.
Dissertation Title: WAQS: A Web-based Approximate Querying System.
Master of Science in Computer and Information Science
New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, N.J.
Bachelor of Science in Computer Science
Bachelor of Science in Applied Mathematics and Statistics
State University of New York at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, N.Y.
Computer Skills:
Certification:
Redhat Certified Engineer. Certification No:806099024200311
Language/Tool:
C/C++, Java/JSP/EJB, Perl, PHP, Tcl/Tk, SQL, bash, Lex/Yacc, LISP, Pascal, sed/awk, BASIC,
XML/HTML/WML/VoiceXML, ASM 80x86, MC680x0, CVS/RCS.
Hardware:
PC, Mac, SUN Sparc, Fujitsu AP1000 Multiprocessor, VAX, SBC88, HP 300 PC with HP
5890A Gas Chromatography and HP 5970 Series Mass Spectrometry.
Operating System:
Linux, Solaris, MS Windows, MacOS.
Database System:
Oracle, MySQL, PostgreSQL.
Authored Book:
"Mining the World Wide Web: An Information Search Approach," G. Chang, M.J. Healey, J. McHugh and J.T.L.
Wang. Kluwer Academic Publishers, June 2001, ISBN: 0-7923-7349-9. http://www.wkap.nl/book.htm/0-7923-7349-9
Japanese Translation: Kyoritsu Publisher, January 2004, ISBN: 4-320-12087-6.
http://www.kyoritsu-pub.co.jp/shinkan/shin0401_05.html
Paper Publications:
• “A Framework of Generating Arc-annotated Sequences for Evaluating RNA Analysis Algorithms” S. Zheng and G.
Chang. World Congress on Engineering & Computer Science (WCECS 2008), San Francisco, October 22-24, 2008.
• "Encouraging Successful Transition in Computer Science from Community College to University", P. Morreale, G.
Chang & L. Wittenberg. Proceedings of the 39th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education
(SIGCSE’08), Portland, Oregon, pp. 565, poster session, , March 12-15, 2008.
• “Transitioning from a Community College to a Four-Year University,” P. Morreale, G. Chang & L. Wittenberg.,
IEEE Computer, page 90-92, March 2008.
• “Enhanced SEA Algorithm and Fingerprint Classification,” L.M. Liu, C.Y. Huang, T.S. Dai, & G. Chang.,
International Journal Computer Applications in Technology, Volume 30(4), page 295-302, 2007.
• “Effects of Time and Information on Perception of Art,” L.F.Smith, S.G. Bousquet, & G. Chang., Empirical Studies of
the Arts, Volume 24(2), page 229-242, 2006.
• "Components for Building Desktop-Application-like Interface in Web Applications," G. Chang, J-W Hsieh, and P.
Calixto. The Seventh Asia Pacific Web Conference (APWeb05), March 29-April 1, Shanghai, China, 2005.
• "Finding Approximate Patterns in Undirected Acyclic Graphs: Algorithms and Applications," J.T.L. Wang, K.
Zhang, G. Chang, and D. Shasha. Pattern Recognition, Vol. 35(2), pp 473-483, 2002.
• "Precise Environmental Searches: Integrating Hierarchical Information Search with EnviroDaemon," G. Chang, G.
Samtani, M. Healey, F. J. Kurfess and J.T.L. Wang. Journal of System Integration, Vol. 10, pp. 253-267, 2001.
• "Precise Environmental Searches: EnviroDaemon with Hierarchical Information Search," M. Healey, J. Wang, G.
Chang, A. Revankar, and G. Samtani. Environmental Quality Management Journal, Vol. 9(1), pp. 51-62, 1999.
• "Change Detection of Websites: A Case Study in the Environmental Domain," G.J.S. Chang, J.T.L. Wang and M.J.
Healey. Proceedings of the First Joint Conference on Information Science, pp. 415-418, Research Triangle Park,
North Carolina, October 23-28, 1998.
• "A Graphical Environment for Change Detection in Structured Documents," G.J.S. Chang, G. Patel, L. Relihan, and
J.T.L. Wang. Proceedings of the Twenty-First Annual International Computer Software & Applications Conference,
pp. 536-541, Washington D.C., August 11-15, 1997.
• "Structural Matching and Discovery in Document Databases," J.T.L. Wang, D. Shasha, G.J.S. Chang, L. Relihan, K.
Zhang and G. Patel, Proceedings ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data, pp 536-541,
Tucson, Arizona, May 13-15, 1997.
• "A Visualization Tool for Pattern Matching and Discovery in Scientific Databases," J.T.L. Wang, G.J.S. Chang,
G.W. Chirn, C.Y. Chang, W. Wu, and F. Aljallad. Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Software
Engineering and Knowledge Engineering, pp 563-570, Lake Tahoe, Nevada, June 10-12, 1996.
• "Surface Lipids of Social Wasp Polistes metricus Say and its Nest and Nest Pedicel and their Relation to Nestmate
Recognition," with K. Espelie and J. Wenzel. Journal of Chemical Ecology, Vol. 16, No. 7, 1990.
Research Interests:
BioInformatics Systems, Data/Web Mining, Databases, Information Retrieval and High-Performance Computing.
References:
Available upon request.
