BISC Seminar
Masoud Nikravesh
BISC, UC Berkeley and NERSC, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Tuesday, December 3, 2002
405 Soda
4 pm - 5:30 pm
In this presentation, we will present an intelligent model that can mine the Internet to conceptually match and rank homepages based on predefined linguistic formulations and rules defined by experts or based on a set of known homepages. The model will be used for intelligent information and knowledge retrieval through conceptual matching of both text and images (here defined as "Concept"). The model can also be used for constructing fuzzy ontology or terms related to the context of the query and search to resolve the ambiguity. This model can be used to calculate conceptually the degree of match to the object or query. We will also present the integration of our technology into commercial search engines such as Google ™ and Yahoo! as a framework that can be used to integrate our model into any other commercial search engines, or development of the next generation of search engines.
(This work is in collaboration with Prof Tomohiro Takagi from Department of Computer Science, Meiji University; Japan).
Short Bio:
Dr. Masoud Nikravesh received his BS from Abadan Institute of Technology, MS and PhD in Chemical Engineering from the University of South Carolina (August 1993 and Dec.1994) and received full scholarship from University of California, Berkeley for his second Ph.D. in Material Sciences and Mineral Engineering Department for Fall 1994, when he decided to start his scientific carrier as Postdoc researcher in Spring 1995 at University of California-Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Lab as joint appointment. Dr. Nikravesh is the BISC Associate Director, BTExact technology Senior Fellow and BISC Program Manager in the Computer Science Division, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at the University of California, Berkeley and Research Scientist in the Imaging and Informatics Group at NERSC (National Energy Research Scientific Computing Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. In addition, he is serving as the Associate Director (Co-founder) of Zadeh Institute for Information Technology (Information Technology) and Chairs of BISC-Earth Sciences, BISC-Fuzzy Logic and Internet, and BISC-Recognition Technology Groups. His credentials have led to front-page news at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory News and headline news at the Electronics Engineering Times. Dr. Nikravesh is the LBNL-NERSC (National Energy Research Scientific Computing Division) representative to the University of California Discovery Grant Executive Committee.
Dr. Nikravesh has over 20 years research and industrial experience and worked as consultant to over 15 major companies and funded several key projects in the area of soft computing, data mining and fusion, control, and earth sciences through US government and major oil companies. He published and presented over 100 articles and published several books on diverse topics and served as technical editor and several national and international technical committees and technical chairs including advisory board or technical review committee members for both government agencies and non-government agencies throughout the USA and abroad. He served as member of IEEE, SPE, AICHE, SEG, AGU, and ACS.