| Dr Daniel C. Neagu |
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BIOGRAPHY
Daniel Neagu is Senior Lecturer in Computing at the University of Bradford, UK, where he was appointed in 2002. He has previously served as Associate Professor at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Galati, Romania (1993-2001).
Daniel received his PhD "Cum Laude" in Computer Science (2000) at the University of Galati after he obtained a BSc degree and MSc degree (1990) in Automation and Computer Engineering from Technical University of Iasi and a BSc degree (1995) in Information Technology from University of Galati. He spent a research period at the University of Patras, Greece, with Human Computer Interaction Group (1999) led by Professor Nikolaos Avouris. After successfully defending his Ph.D. thesis entitled "Using Artificial Neural Networks in Fuzzy Reasoning", Daniel was appointed Research Fellow at Dipartimento di Elettronica e Informazione, Politecnico di Milano, Italy (2001-2002), where he joined the FP5 European Research Network IMAGETOX Intelligent Modelling Algorithms for General Evaluation of TOXicities working with Prof-ssa Giuseppina Gini.
His research focuses on Artificial Intelligence techniques and applications in Visual Arts, Toxicology, Environment, Software Engineering, Web Semantics and Data Quality. Daniel's research has been motivated by his desire to advance the AI field by developing systems founded on an algorithmic and mathematical basis. The main theme throughout his academic life is to develop models of multidisciplinary computational systems by the fusion of human experts knowledge and digital information. He strongly believes Computer Science is now a media for knowledge representation, exchange and retrieval to serve multidisciplinary objectives and purposes. Mining information to identify key attributes and making unknown, hidden or distributed information accessible to people plays a vital role in the progress of science and technology, thus Daniel's work addresses applications as diverse as health, engineering, art and entertainment.
Daniel Neagu is member of IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, ACM - Association for Computing Machinery, BCS - British Computer Society, Young Researchers Committee of the World Federation on Soft Computing.
Daniel has been accepted onto the register of practitioners of the Higher Education Academy (March 2006) and has achieved the status of Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (March 2007).
Daniel received his PhD "Cum Laude" in Computer Science (2000) at the University of Galati after he obtained a BSc degree and MSc degree (1990) in Automation and Computer Engineering from Technical University of Iasi and a BSc degree (1995) in Information Technology from University of Galati. He spent a research period at the University of Patras, Greece, with Human Computer Interaction Group (1999) led by Professor Nikolaos Avouris. After successfully defending his Ph.D. thesis entitled "Using Artificial Neural Networks in Fuzzy Reasoning", Daniel was appointed Research Fellow at Dipartimento di Elettronica e Informazione, Politecnico di Milano, Italy (2001-2002), where he joined the FP5 European Research Network IMAGETOX Intelligent Modelling Algorithms for General Evaluation of TOXicities working with Prof-ssa Giuseppina Gini.
His research focuses on Artificial Intelligence techniques and applications in Visual Arts, Toxicology, Environment, Software Engineering, Web Semantics and Data Quality. Daniel's research has been motivated by his desire to advance the AI field by developing systems founded on an algorithmic and mathematical basis. The main theme throughout his academic life is to develop models of multidisciplinary computational systems by the fusion of human experts knowledge and digital information. He strongly believes Computer Science is now a media for knowledge representation, exchange and retrieval to serve multidisciplinary objectives and purposes. Mining information to identify key attributes and making unknown, hidden or distributed information accessible to people plays a vital role in the progress of science and technology, thus Daniel's work addresses applications as diverse as health, engineering, art and entertainment.
Daniel Neagu is member of IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, ACM - Association for Computing Machinery, BCS - British Computer Society, Young Researchers Committee of the World Federation on Soft Computing.
Daniel has been accepted onto the register of practitioners of the Higher Education Academy (March 2006) and has achieved the status of Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (March 2007).
GRANTS:
Future plans
EU FP7 ICT Calls 5 and 6Current, and significant recent, funded projects
EPSRC GR/T02508/01 (2004-2006): Predictive Toxicology Knowledge Representation and Processing Tool based on a Hybrid Intelligent Systems Approach (Principal Investigator, 100,072) http://pythia.inf.brad.ac.uk/
EPSRC+CSL CNA (2004-2007): Hybrid Intelligent Systems Applied to Predict Pesticides Toxicity (63,190)
CSL Seedcorn (2004-2007): Development of artificial intelligence-based in-silico toxicity models for use in pesticide risk assessment (47,500)
EC FP5 Quality of Life DEMETRA QLRT-2001-00691 (2003-2006): Development of Environmental Modules for Evaluation of Toxicity of pesticide Residues in Agriculture (WP Coordinator, 60,420; University of Bradford subcontract 2,000) http://www.demetra-tox.net
EC FP5 KDNet workshop case: Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining applications for Human Health and Environmental Sciences (Workshop Coordinator, 995) http://www.kdnet.org
University Research Investment Fund (2003): Knowledge Discovery and Data mining in BioChemistry (Principal Investigator, 1,900)
University Research Travel Grant (2003): Intelligent Techniques for Biology and Chemistry (Principal Investigator, 650)
He has also contributed as Principal Investigator/ Co-Investigator for a number of research projects funded by the Romanian Research Council CNCSIS:
CNCSIS AT 23/68 (2001): Neuro-fuzzy knowledge-based system for short time prediction of air quality in urban and industrial environment (Principal Investigator)
CNCSIS 403/1999 (1999): A study on the development of Hybrid Neuro-Fuzzy Agents in Multi-Agent Systems (Co-Investigator)
INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC ACTIVITIES:
Selected Invited Talks/ Seminars:
- Invited talk: Neural Networks and Fuzzy Logic Models for Predictive Toxicology, ECB Meeting on the Validation of neural network models according to the OECD principles, European Chemicals Bureau, Commission Joint Research Centre, Ispra, Italy, 7-8 July 2005
- Invited talk: Data Mining for Toxicity, BioActive Sciences Group of The Society of Chemical Industry (UK) meeting on In Silico Design of Bioactive Compounds, Belgrave Square, London, 8-9 June 2005: http://www.soci.org/SCI/groups/bac/2005/reports/html/gs3337.jsp
- Invited Departmental Seminar: Knowledge Representation in Hybrid Intelligent Systems, Oxford University Computing Laboratory, 9 March 2004.
- NATO Lecturer: An Artificial Intelligence-based approach to predict hazardous waste toxicity, Advanced Study Institute on "Improving the Quality of Site Characterisation-Field Analytics/Dynamic Workplans: The Key to Rapid&Cost Effective Hazardous Waste Site Investigation", NATO Scientific and Environmental Affairs Division (Code SA EST.ASI.979474), Galati, Romania, 10 19 July 2003.
- Invited lecturer: Intelligent modelling algorithms for general evaluation of toxicities, International Workshop on the Use of Computer Models as Alternatives to Animal Experiments in Chemical Risk Assessment ECVAM, Prague, Czech Republic, 3-5 October 2002.
- Invited talk: A hybrid intelligent system applied in toxicity data mining, Stockholm Bioinformatics Center, Stockholm University, 17 May 2002.
International Journals Peer Review:
- Member of the Review Board for the International Journal of Applied Intelligence, Springer US, ISSN: 0924-669X
- Member of the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Hybrid Intelligent Systems, IOS Press, ISSN 1448-5869
- Member of the Review Board of the International Journal on Knowledge-Based & Intelligent Engineering Systems KES, IOS Press, ISSN 1327-2314
- Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, Springer Netherlands, ISSN 0167-6369
- Neural Computing & Applications, Springer London, ISSN 0941-0643
- Expert Systems, the Journal of Knowledge Engineering, Blackwell Publishing, ISSN 0266-4720
- International Journal on Artificial Intelligence Tools - IJAIT (special Issue on Recent Advances in Techniques for Intelligent Systems), World Scientific Publishing, ISSN 0218-2130.
- Fuzzy Sets and Systems (special issue on Bioinformatics), Elsevier, ISSN 0165-0114
- International Journal of Fuzzy and Intelligent Systems, IOS Press, ISSN 1064-1246
- International Journal of Computational Intelligence and Applications (Special issue on Computational Intelligence for Signal and Image Processing), World Scientific Publishing, ISSN 1469-0268
- Process Safety and Environmental Protection - the Official Journal of the European Federation of Chemical Engineering: Part B (special issue on selected papers from the 7th World Congress of Chemical Engineering), IChemE, ISSN 0957-5820
Member of the Programme/Refereeing Committees for:
- IEEE International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence ICTAI 2007 (Patras, Greece)
- International Conference on Knowledge-Based Intelligent Information & Engineering Systems: 2006 (Bournemouth, UK), 2005 (Melbourne, Australia), 2004 (Wellington, New Zealand), 2003 (St Annes College, Oxford University, UK), 2002 (Podere d'Ombriano, Crema, Italy)
- International Conference of Advanced Data Mining and Applications ADMA 2007 (Harbin, China), 2006 (Xi'an, China), 2005 (Wuhan, China)
- UK Workshop on Computational Intelligence UKCI 2007 (Abeerdeen), 2006 (Leeds)
- 22nd British National Conference on Databases, Workshop on Data Mining, - BNCOD 2005, 8 July 2005, University of Sunderland, UK
- Special Track on Integrated Intelligent Systems with the International FLAIRS Conference, 16-18 May 2005, Florida, USA
- International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications ICMLA 2005, 2003
- Invited talk: Neural Networks and Fuzzy Logic Models for Predictive Toxicology, ECB Meeting on the Validation of neural network models according to the OECD principles, European Chemicals Bureau, Commission Joint Research Centre, Ispra, Italy, 7-8 July 2005
- Invited talk: Data Mining for Toxicity, BioActive Sciences Group of The Society of Chemical Industry (UK) meeting on In Silico Design of Bioactive Compounds, Belgrave Square, London, 8-9 June 2005: http://www.soci.org/SCI/groups/bac/2005/reports/html/gs3337.jsp
- Invited Departmental Seminar: Knowledge Representation in Hybrid Intelligent Systems, Oxford University Computing Laboratory, 9 March 2004.
- NATO Lecturer: An Artificial Intelligence-based approach to predict hazardous waste toxicity, Advanced Study Institute on "Improving the Quality of Site Characterisation-Field Analytics/Dynamic Workplans: The Key to Rapid&Cost Effective Hazardous Waste Site Investigation", NATO Scientific and Environmental Affairs Division (Code SA EST.ASI.979474), Galati, Romania, 10 19 July 2003.
- Invited lecturer: Intelligent modelling algorithms for general evaluation of toxicities, International Workshop on the Use of Computer Models as Alternatives to Animal Experiments in Chemical Risk Assessment ECVAM, Prague, Czech Republic, 3-5 October 2002.
- Invited talk: A hybrid intelligent system applied in toxicity data mining, Stockholm Bioinformatics Center, Stockholm University, 17 May 2002.
International Journals Peer Review:
- Member of the Review Board for the International Journal of Applied Intelligence, Springer US, ISSN: 0924-669X
- Member of the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Hybrid Intelligent Systems, IOS Press, ISSN 1448-5869
- Member of the Review Board of the International Journal on Knowledge-Based & Intelligent Engineering Systems KES, IOS Press, ISSN 1327-2314
- Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, Springer Netherlands, ISSN 0167-6369
- Neural Computing & Applications, Springer London, ISSN 0941-0643
- Expert Systems, the Journal of Knowledge Engineering, Blackwell Publishing, ISSN 0266-4720
- International Journal on Artificial Intelligence Tools - IJAIT (special Issue on Recent Advances in Techniques for Intelligent Systems), World Scientific Publishing, ISSN 0218-2130.
- Fuzzy Sets and Systems (special issue on Bioinformatics), Elsevier, ISSN 0165-0114
- International Journal of Fuzzy and Intelligent Systems, IOS Press, ISSN 1064-1246
- International Journal of Computational Intelligence and Applications (Special issue on Computational Intelligence for Signal and Image Processing), World Scientific Publishing, ISSN 1469-0268
- Process Safety and Environmental Protection - the Official Journal of the European Federation of Chemical Engineering: Part B (special issue on selected papers from the 7th World Congress of Chemical Engineering), IChemE, ISSN 0957-5820
Member of the Programme/Refereeing Committees for:
- IEEE International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence ICTAI 2007 (Patras, Greece)
- International Conference on Knowledge-Based Intelligent Information & Engineering Systems: 2006 (Bournemouth, UK), 2005 (Melbourne, Australia), 2004 (Wellington, New Zealand), 2003 (St Annes College, Oxford University, UK), 2002 (Podere d'Ombriano, Crema, Italy)
- International Conference of Advanced Data Mining and Applications ADMA 2007 (Harbin, China), 2006 (Xi'an, China), 2005 (Wuhan, China)
- UK Workshop on Computational Intelligence UKCI 2007 (Abeerdeen), 2006 (Leeds)
- 22nd British National Conference on Databases, Workshop on Data Mining, - BNCOD 2005, 8 July 2005, University of Sunderland, UK
- Special Track on Integrated Intelligent Systems with the International FLAIRS Conference, 16-18 May 2005, Florida, USA
- International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications ICMLA 2005, 2003
RESEARCH STAFF:
Dr. Gongde Guo (Research Assistant), now Full Professor, Department of Computer Science, Normal Fujian University, China
Ms. Shanshan Wang (Visiting Research Fellow, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics): 2005
Mr. Xuming Huang (Visiting Research Fellow, Normal Fujian University): 2006
Ms. Shanshan Wang (Visiting Research Fellow, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics): 2005
Mr. Xuming Huang (Visiting Research Fellow, Normal Fujian University): 2006
RESEARCH STUDENTS:
Yang Lan: Computational approaches for Time Series Analysis and Prediction
May Al-Nashashibi: Arabic Language Text Mining
Rita Ochuko: Risk Assessment in Internet Banking (with Dr Andrea Cullen)
Mona Alkhattabi: Semantic Web Mining for Quality Information used in E-Learning (with Dr Andrea Cullen)
Mohammad Azzeh: AI for Web Applications Cost Estimation (with Prof Peter Cowling)
Yousef AlQasrawi: Data Representation and Algorithms for Content-Based Image Retrieval (with Prof Peter Cowling)
Ruqayya AbdulRahman: Software Agents for Web Database Processing (with Dr Irfan Awan)
Sophia Alim: Web accessibility in social and business computing tools (with Mr Mick Ridley)
Yasmina Bashon: Data Mining in OODBs (with Mr Mick Ridley)
Neil Jukes: Information Retrieval within Library Repositories (with Mr Mick Ridley)
Mokhairi Makhtar: Predictive Toxicology Data & Model Management (with Mr Mick Ridley)
Manal Aldhayan: Business Intelligence (with Dr Rana Tassabehji)
Noor Yati Talib: Web Usage Mining - Contributions towards Pre-Processing Approaches for Quantity and Quality Data Interpretation (with Dr Rob Holton)
Graduated
Areej Shhab (MPhil): Applications of ML techniques for Data Mining (Dec 2005)
Shuai Zhang (MPhil): Visual Arts Data Mining (Dec 2005)
Dr Paul Trundle (PhD): Hybrid Intelligent Systems Applied to Predict Pesticides Toxicity - a Data Integration Approach (Oct 2008)
Dr Muna Hatem Aljepoori (PhD): A Framework for Semantic Web Implementation based on Context-Oriented Controlled Automatic Annotation (Feb 2009)
Dr Ladan Malazizi (PhD): Development of Artificial Intelligence-based In-Silico Toxicity Models for Use in Pesticide Risk Assessment - Data Quality Analysis and Model Performance Enhancement through Data Generation (Feb 2009)
May Al-Nashashibi: Arabic Language Text Mining
Rita Ochuko: Risk Assessment in Internet Banking (with Dr Andrea Cullen)
Mona Alkhattabi: Semantic Web Mining for Quality Information used in E-Learning (with Dr Andrea Cullen)
Mohammad Azzeh: AI for Web Applications Cost Estimation (with Prof Peter Cowling)
Yousef AlQasrawi: Data Representation and Algorithms for Content-Based Image Retrieval (with Prof Peter Cowling)
Ruqayya AbdulRahman: Software Agents for Web Database Processing (with Dr Irfan Awan)
Sophia Alim: Web accessibility in social and business computing tools (with Mr Mick Ridley)
Yasmina Bashon: Data Mining in OODBs (with Mr Mick Ridley)
Neil Jukes: Information Retrieval within Library Repositories (with Mr Mick Ridley)
Mokhairi Makhtar: Predictive Toxicology Data & Model Management (with Mr Mick Ridley)
Manal Aldhayan: Business Intelligence (with Dr Rana Tassabehji)
Noor Yati Talib: Web Usage Mining - Contributions towards Pre-Processing Approaches for Quantity and Quality Data Interpretation (with Dr Rob Holton)
Graduated
Areej Shhab (MPhil): Applications of ML techniques for Data Mining (Dec 2005)
Shuai Zhang (MPhil): Visual Arts Data Mining (Dec 2005)
Dr Paul Trundle (PhD): Hybrid Intelligent Systems Applied to Predict Pesticides Toxicity - a Data Integration Approach (Oct 2008)
Dr Muna Hatem Aljepoori (PhD): A Framework for Semantic Web Implementation based on Context-Oriented Controlled Automatic Annotation (Feb 2009)
Dr Ladan Malazizi (PhD): Development of Artificial Intelligence-based In-Silico Toxicity Models for Use in Pesticide Risk Assessment - Data Quality Analysis and Model Performance Enhancement through Data Generation (Feb 2009)
