Curriculum Vitae

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Last modified: November 01, 2007

CURRENT POSITION

Postdoctoral  fellow of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Pennsylvania

EDUCATION AND TRAINING

07/2007- present	Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Pennsylvania. Advisor: Li-san Wang.
07/2003- 05/2007	Ph.D., Information Technology, University of Nebraska at Omaha. Dissertation Title: Integrative Pattern Recognition Techniques and their Applications to Microarray Gene Profiling Data Analysis. Advisor: Qiuming Zhu.
08/2001-05/2003	M.S., Computer Sciences, University of Nebraska at Omaha.
06/1995-06/1999	B.S., Computer Sciences, South East University

RESEARCH INTERESTS

• Disease-related bioinformatic research: aging, neurodegenerative diseases, and cancer
• Computational methods for microarray analysis and systems biology: semi-parametric and nonparametric analysis

PUBLICATIONS

K.Cao, Q.Zhu, "Belief Combination for Uncertainty Reduction in Microarray Gene Expression Pattern Analysis", accepted by ICCS 2007, Beijing, China, May, 2007.

K.Cao, Q.Zhu, J. Iqbal, W. C. Chan, "A Trend Pattern Assessment Approach to Microarray Gene Expression Profiling Data Analysis", in press, Pattern Recognition Letters, March, 2007.

J. Iqbal,  R. J. DeLeeuw, K. Cao, W. C. Chan et al., "High resolution genomic mapping and gene expression analyses of chromosomal aberrations in natural killer lymphoma reveal distinct genomic profile", submitted to Genes, Chromosomes and Cancer, October, 2006.

K. Cao, Q. Zhu, J. Iqbal, John W.C. Chan,  "On the alleviation of side effect of outliers to FisherĄ¯s Discriminate Criterion (FDC) in micro-array data analysis", METMBSĄ¯04, Las Vegas, Nevada, June 21-24, 2004, P263-269.

J. Iqbal, W. G. Sanger, K. Cao, Q. Zhu, et al., "BCL2 translocation defines a unique tumor subset within the germinal center B-cell-like diffuse large B-cell lymphoma",  American Journal of Pathology, 165(1), July 2004, pp. 159-166. 

Q. Zhu, H. Cui, K. Cao, J. Chan, "Algorithmic fusion of gene expression profiling for diffuse large B-cell lymphoma outcome prediction", IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in BioMedicine, June 2004, Vol.8, pp. 79-88

H. Cui, Q. Zhu, K. Cao, W. C. Chan, "Adaptive classifier integration for lymphoma gene expression pattern analysis recognition", Proceedings of the International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, IC-AI 2002, Las Vegas, June 24-27, 2002, pp. 471-477.

Q. Zhu, H. Cui, K. Cao, and W. C. Chan, "Cross-projection Pursuit for Identifying Genes predictive of Patient Survival from Gene Expression Profiling Data", NCI Director's Challenge Analytical Workshop, Albuquerque, New Mexico, May 14-17, 2002.

SKILLS

• Programming Languages: C/C++, MFC, Visual Basic, SQL, HTML, DHTML, ASP, VBScript, JavaScript, Prolog, R, Perl
• Operating Systems: Linux, MacOS X, Windows 95/98/NT/2000/XP, Unix
• Applications: Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint, Visual Studio, Matlab, MAPLE, GSEA, SAM

PROFESSIONAL SERVICES

Americas Conference on Information System (AMCIS), Omaha, NE, Aug. 2005

• Chair of mini-track "Methods, Tools and Techniques for Medical Informatics

• Reviewer

International Conference on Computational Science (ICCS), Beijing, China, May. 2007

• Reviewer and session chair of Workshop on Mining Text, Semi-structured, Web, or Multimedia Data