Glenn M. Fung Moo
Venezuelan citizen
Home AddressOffice Address
1038 Spaight St.Computer Sciences Department
Madison, WI 53703University of Wisconsin-Madison
(608) 255-35911210 West Dayton Street
Madison, WI 53706 (608) 262-6619
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Support Vector Machines (SVM), Supervised and Unsupervised Learning, Classification, Math Programming, Artificial Intelligence, Data Mining, Machine Learning, Ray Tracing.
DEGREES
Ph.D. in Computer Sciences
UW Madison, Madison, USA. Expected Graduation May 2003.
M.S. in Computer Sciences
UW Madison, Madison, USA, Dec 2001.
M.S. in Applied Mathematics
Universidad Simon Bolivar, Caracas - Venezuela, Dec 1996.
B.S. in Mathematics
Universidad Lisandro Alvarado, Barquisimeto - Venezuela, July 1994-
RELEVANT EXPERIENCE
Research CollaboratorJune - October 2002
ExonHit Therapeutics, Paris, France.
worked with members of the ExonHit Therapeutics staff to apply Support Vector Machine techniques to analysis of genetic expression data that had been obtained from breast cancer patients who had undergone chemotherapy.
Research AssistantSummer 1999-present
Computer Science Department, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Prof. Olvi Mangasarian. Applied Mathematical Programming techniques to obtain new, efficient Support Vector Machine (SVM) algorithms for classification. Including: Knowledge-Based SVM, Semi-supervised SVM, SVM Data Reduction and Minimal Kernel Classifiers.
Researcher and Computer AdministratorSummer 1999-present
Data Mining Institute, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Administrator of windows 2000/NT servers, Researched issues related to classification and clustering on very large datasets.
Teaching AssistantFall 1998-present
Computer Sciences Department, University of Wisconsin-Madison. Tutored students and graded homeworks and projects for the following courses: Network Flows, Nonlinear Programming Theory, Nonlinear Programming Algorithms and Linear Programming.
Assistant Professor1996-1998
Universidad Simon Bolivar, Caracas, Venezuela.
Taught the following courses: Introduction to Numerical Analysis Lab. Calculus I, Calculus III (Linear Algebra), Introduction to Scientific Computing.
Teaching Assistant1994-1996
Universidad Simon Bolivar, Caracas, Venezuela.
Tutored students and graded homeworks and projects for the following courses: Linear Algebra, Calculus I, Numerical Analysis Lab.
Internship1995-1996
INTEVEP, Research and Technological Support Center of Petroleos de Venezuela. Developed a 2D and 3D Ray Tracer that is currently being used by the Geophysics Dept.
HONORS AND AWARDS
Excellent Academic Performance ScholarshipOct. 1991
Universidad Lisandro Alvarado, Barquisimeto, Venezuela.
Excellent Academic Performance ScholarshipMay 1994
Universidad Lisandro Alvarado, Barquisimeto, Venezuela.
Ph.D. ScholarshipJun. 1998
Granted by Universidad Simon Bolivar and CONICIT (National Institute for Technology and Research), Venezuela.
First-year Student Summer Research AwardMay 1999
Computer Sciences Department, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
KDD 2000 (2001) Conference Student Travel Awards Jul 2000 (Jul 2001) Boston, MA, (San Francisco, CA )USA.
Vilas Travel Fellowship for Conference TravelNov 2002
Madison, WI, USA.
NIPS 2002 Conference Student Travel AwardNov 2002
NIPS 2002 Ben Wegbreit Award Finalist, Honorable Mention
Vancouver, Canada.
PAPERS
1)Glenn Fung, O. L. Mangasarian and Jude Shavlik. Knowledge-based Nonlinear Kernel
Classifiers
Conference On Learning Theory (COLT) 2003, submitted.
2)Glenn Fung, O. L. Mangasarian. A Feature Selection Newton Method
for Support Vector Machine Classification. Computational Optimization
and Aplications Journal, submitted.
3)Glenn Fung, O. L. Mangasarian. Finite Newton Method for Lagrangian SVM
Classification. Special Issue on Support Vector Machines. Neurocomputing, submitted.
4)Glenn Fung, O. L. Mangasarian and Jude Shavlik. Knowledge-Based SVM Classifiers.
Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems 2002. Vancouver, Canada.
Accepted for both oral and poster presentation.
5)Glenn Fung and O. L. Mangasarian. Incremental Support Vector Machine
Classification.Proceedings of the Second SIAM International Conference on Data Mining.
April 11-13, 2002, Arlington, VA.
R. Grossman, H. Mannila and R. Motwani, editors, SIAM, Philadelphia 2002, 247-260.
6)Glenn Fung, O. L. Mangasarian. Multicategory Proximal Support Vector Classifiers.
Machine Learning Journal. Submitted.
7)Glenn Fung and O. L. Mangasarian. Proximal Support Vector Classifiers.
Proceedings of the Seventh ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining. August 26-29, 2001, San Francisco, CA. F. Provost and R. Srikant, editors, ACM, NY 2001, 77-86
8)Glenn Fung, O. L. Mangasarian and Alexander Smola. Minimal Kernel Classifiers.
Journal of Machine Learning research. Vol 3(Nov): 303-321, 2002.
9)Glenn Fung and O. L. Mangasarian. Data Selection for SVM Classifiers.
Proceedings of the Sixth ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining. August 20-23, 2000, Boston, MA. R. Ramakrishnan and S. Stolfo, editors, ACM, NY 2000, 64-70
10)Glenn Fung and O. L. Mangasarian. Semi-Supervised Support Vector Machines
for Unlabeled Data Classification. Optimization Methods and Software 15, 2001, 29-44.
11) D. Cores and Glenn Fung. A fast 3D Ray Tracer using Nonlinear Optimization techniques. Journal of Applied Geophysics, Volume 45, Issue 4, 2000, 273-284.
PATENTS FILED
Glenn Fung, Olvi Magasarian, "LINEAR PROGRAMMING SUPPORT VECTOR
MACHINE CLASSIFIER", Patent approval pending. Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation.
PRESENTATIONS & OTHER ACTIVITIES
Collaborator in the organizer committee of IV International Conference on Approximation, and Optimization in the Caribbean. (AppOpt4),Venezuela, March 1997.
Speaker at AppOpt4. A fast 3D ray tracer using non-linear Optimization techniques, Venezuela, March 1997.
Speaker at PLAPIQUI (I congreso de ingenieria de Procesos de paises del MERCOSUR).
A fast 3D ray tracer using non-linear Optimization techniques. Argentina, Sept. 1997.
Speaker at First UW-Madison Data Mining Institute Annual Review.
Concave Minimization for Support Vector Machines Classifiers: Unlabeled
Data Classification and Data Selection. June 2000.
Presentation co-author at the Sixth ACM SIGKDD International Conference
on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining.
Data Selection for SVM Classification. Boston, MA, August 20-23, 2000.
Presentation co-author at the INFORMS Annual Meeting. Unlabeled Data Classification.
San Antonio, Texas, November 5-8,2000.
Speaker at The Second UW-Madison Data Mining Institute Annual Review. Proximal Plane Classification. June 2001.
Presentation co-author at the Seventh ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge. Discovery and Data Mining. Proximal Support Vector Machines.
San Francisco, CA, Aug 26-29, 2001.
Speaker at The Second SIAM International Conference on Data Mining.
Incremental Support Vector Machines Classification. Arlington, VA, April 11-13, 2002 .
Speaker at The Annual Meeting of The Classification Society of North America.
The Disputed Federalist Papers: SVM Feature Selection Via Concave Minimization.
Madison, Wisconsin, June 13-16, 2002.
Speaker at The Annual INFORMS Meeting 2002. Minimal Kernel Classifiers.
San Jose, California, November 17-20, 2002.
Speaker and poster presentation at the Neural Information Processing Systems NIPS 2002 conference. Knowledge Based Support Vector Machines.
Vancouver, Canada, December 9-12, 2002.
TECHNICAL AND OTHER SKILLS
Experience and knowledge in JAVA, C, C++, MATLAB, GAMS, CPLEX, MINITAB FORTRAN, PASCAL, Windows 95/NT/2000/ME/XP,
UNIX (Solaris), Microsoft Office Applications (Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint.) Fluent in English and Spanish, reading proficient in Portuguese.
REFERENCES
Professor O. L. Mangasarian, Computer Sciences Department,
University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1210 West Dayton Street, Madison, WI 53706
Telephone: (608) 262-6593. Email: .
Professor Robert. R. Meyer, Computer Sciences Department,
University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1210 West Dayton Street, Madison, WI 53706
Telephone: (608) 262-1204. Email: .
Professor Jude W. Shavlik, Computer Sciences Department,
University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1210 West Dayton Street, Madison, WI 53706
Telephone: (608) 262-7784. Email: .
Professor Michel C. Ferris, Computer Sciences Department,
University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1210 West Dayton Street, Madison, WI 53706
Telephone: (608) 262-4281. Email: .