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Research Interest Areas

Statistical Modeling

Probabilistic Mapping

Pattern Recognition

Machine Learning

Data Science/Analysis 

Optimization

Signal/Image/Video Processing

 

Research Interest Fields

Anomaly Detection

Trend Analysis

Denoising

Classification

Clustering

Detection, Segmentation, and Tracking

 

Research Interest Methods 

Regression Analysis

Multivariate Models

Filter Banks

Wavelet Analysis

Linear/Nonlinear Association Factors 

Neural Networks

Deep Learning

Bayesian Estimation

Hierarchical Models

Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC)

 

Research Application Areas

Cancer Research

Public Health

Remote Sensing

Climate Change 

Ecology 

 

Recent Publications

Monte Carlo ensemble correlation coefficient for association detection

W Deebani, NN Kachouie

Communications in Statistics-Simulation and Computation 2020 

https://doi.org/10.1080/03610918.2020.1823413

 

Climate Change Study via the Centennial Trend of Climate Factors

NN Kachouie, OE Onyejekwe

Hydrology 7 (2), 1-12, 2020

 

Association Factor for Identifying Linear and Nonlinear Correlations in Noisy Conditions

N N. Kachouie, W Deebani

Entropy 22 (4), 440, 2020

 

Weighted Mutual Information for Aggregated Kernel Clustering

N N. Kachouie, M Shutaywi

Entropy 22 (3), 351, 2020

 

Discriminant Analysis of Lung Cancer Using Nonlinear Clustering of Copy Numbers

NN Kachouie, M Shutaywi, DC Christiani

Cancer Investigation 38 (2), 102-112, 2020

 

Geometrical optimisation of a personalised microneedle eye patch for transdermal delivery of anti-wrinkle small peptide

SH Lim, WJ Tiew, J Zhang, PC Ho, NN Kachouie, L Kang

Biofabrication, 2020

 

Potential impact of OPTN plan in association with donors’ factors on survival times of transplanted kidneys

NN Kachouie, F Hamad

Transplantation Reports 5 (2), 100042, 2020

 

Potential Impact of Donors’ Factors on Survival Times of Transplanted Hearts and Lungs

F Hamad, NN Kachouie

Transplantation Reports 4 (4), 100035, 2019

 

Identifying Similarities and Disparities Between DNA Copy Number Changes in Cancer and Matched Blood Samples

NN Kachouie, W Deebani, DC Christiani

Cancer investigation 37 (10), 535-545, 2019

 

A hybrid method to estimate the full parametric hazard model

F Hamad, NN Kachouie

Communications in Statistics-Theory and Methods 48 (22), 5477-5491, 2019

 

Computer assisted tracking of Chlamydomonas species

Alexandra M Folcik, Timothy C Haire, Kirstin Cutshaw, Melissa Riddle, Catherine Shola, Sararose Nassani, Paul Rice, Brianna Richardson, Nezamoddin Nazamoddini-Kachouie, Andrew George Palmer

Frontiers in Plant Science 10, 1616, 2019

 

A Weighted Majority Voting based on NMI for Cluster Analysis.

M Shutaywi, NN Kachouie

International Symposium on Artificial Intelligence and Mathematics, 2018

 

Ensemble Correlation Coefficient.

W Deebani, NN Kachouie

International Symposium on Artificial Intelligence and Mathematics, 2018

 

Multivariate models for predicting glacier termini

O Onyejekwe, B Holman, NN Kachouie

Environmental Earth Sciences 76 (23), 807, 2017

 

Method for detecting voxelwise changes in fluorodeoxyglucose-positron emission tomography brain images via background adjustment in cancer clinical trials

L Qin, A Schwartzman, K McCall, NN Kachouie, JT Yap

Journal of Medical Imaging 4 (2), 024006     1, 2017

 

FDR control of detected regions by multiscale matched filtering

NN Kachouie, X Lin, A Schwartzman

Communications in Statistics-Simulation and Computation 46 (1), 127-144, 2017

 

Current Graduate Students - PhD

Mohamed Jaber

Robbie Breininger 

Daniel Breininger

Alain Despeignes 

 

Research Alumni (Graduated PhD, MS, and Undergrad Students)

PhD 

Wejdan Deebani, 2019

Current Position: Assistant Professor, Mathematics Department, College of Science & Arts, King Abdulaziz University

 

Meshal Shutaywi, 2019

Current Position: Department Head, Mathematics Department, College of Science & Arts, King Abdulaziz University

 

Farag Hamad, 2019

Current Position: Assistant Professor

 

Osita Onyejekwe, 2017

Current Position: Lecturer, University of Colorado Boulder 

 

MS

Jason Woulasl, MS, 2012

Current Position: Eastern Florida State College, Melbourne, FL

 

Nicholas Bruce, MS, 2013

Current Position: Epic, A Software Developer Company, Verona, Wisconsin

 

Elvira Erhardt, MS, Operations Research, 2014

Current Position: Biostatistician, Mainanalytics, GMBH

 

Hala Ayta, MS, Operations Research, 2015 

Current Position: Statistical Analyst, GASTAT

 

Nessrin Bukhshim, MS, Operations Research, 2017

Current Position: PhD Student 

 

Faruk Kilinc, MS, Operations Research, 2018

 

Joshua Sulfridge, MS, Operations Research, 2018

 

Michelle Novaes-Card, MS, Operations Research

Current Position: Harris Corporation  

 

Jeremy Moore, MS, Operations Research, 2020

Current Position: Harris Corporation 

 

Undergraduate

Juan Eman Johnson, 2012-2013

Current Position: PhD Candidate, Dept. of Electrical Engineering, Universitat de València, Valencia, Spain

 

Remy Schott, 2014

Current Position: Senior Cyber Engineer, Raytheon

 

Megan Moreno, 2014

Current Position: Graduate student, Dept. of Mathematical Sciences, Florida Institute of Technology

 

Roger Ballard, 2014-2016

Current Position: Software Engineer, YouTube

 

Marcus Melo, 2015

Current Position: Graduate student, Brazil

 

Joshua Lear, 2015

Current Position: Software Engineer, Facebook

 

Jonathan Wamsley, 2015 (Biomath REU)

 

Katelyn Flaherty, 2015 (Biomath REU)

 

Brent Allard, 2016

Current Position: Software Engineer, Google

 

Sally Tan, 2016

Current Position: Data Application Developer, Thales

 

Nick Namba, 2016

Current Position: Software Engineer, Variphy

 

Jake Bowers, 2016

Current Position: Data Engineer, BlackRock

 

Ilya Antonyuk, 2016

Current Position: Graduate student, Boston University

 

Sararose Nassani, 2016 (Biomath REU)

Current Position: Graduate student, Case Western Reserve University

 

Miriam Sernik, 2016 (Biomath REU)

Current Position: Northeast Regional Advisor at Hasbara Fellowships

 

Luke Wiskowski, 2017

Current Position: Software Engineer at Oracle Cloud Infrastructure

 

Stefano Verratti, 2017

 

Jiri Kapralek, 2017

Current Position: Graduate student, Dept. Math Sciences, Florida Institute of Technology

 

Dylan Keuthan, 2018

 

Robbie Breininger, 2018-2019

Current Position: PhD studen, Dept. Math Sciences, Florida Institute of Technology

 

Elizabeth Kurkowski, 2018-2019

Current Position: Graduate student, University of Colorado Boulder

 

Mahmoud Abouamer, 2018

 

Daniel Breininger, 2019-2020

Current Position: PhD studen, Dept. Math Sciences, Florida Institute of Technology

 

Kyle Findley, 2019-2020

Current Position: Data Analyst, Harris Corporation

 

Mrudul Madaan, 2020

 

Nichole Choplin, 2020

 

Jasrayman Thind, 2020