L. Gwenn Volkert, Ph.D.      Associate Professor      Department of Computer Science      Kent State University      snail mail:         P.O. Box 5190         Kent, OH 44242

email: volkert@cs.kent.edu      phone: 330-672-9037      fax: 330-672-7824      office: 216 Math and CS Building      office hours: M W 12:15pm - 2:15pm

    Recent News and Activities

• Chair of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society Bioinformatics and Bioengineering Technical Committee
• Appointed an Associate Editor of BioSystems
• Web Chair, 2009 The 3rd Ohio Celebration of Women in Computing (OCWIC) conference, February 27-28th, 2009, Mohican Resort and Conference Center
• Program Chair for IEEE 2008 Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (CIBCB`08) held in Sun Valley, Idaho September 15-17, 2008.
• Program Co-Chair, 2007 Workshop on Pattern Recognition in Bioinformatics (PRIB 2007), Singapore, October 1-2, 2007
• General Co-Chair for IEEE 2007 Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (CIBCB`07) held in Honolulu, Hawaii, April 1-5, 2007.
• Appointed Associated Editor for the new IEEE Computational Intelligence Society periodical Computational Intelligence
• Member of the International Association of Pattern Recognition Technical Committee (TC-20) on Pattern Recognition for Bioinformatics
• Technical Co-Chair for IEEE 2006 Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (CIBCB`06) held in Toronto, Canada September 28-29, 2006.
• Poster Chair for IEEE 2005 Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC2005) held in Edinburgh, UK, Sept.2-5, 2005.
• Technical Co-Chair for 2005 Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (CIBCB`05) held in San Diego, California, November 14-15, 2005.
• Proceedings Chair for 2004 Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (CIBCB`04) held in La Jolla, California, October 7-8, 2004.
• Member of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society Bioinformatics and Bioengineering Technical Committee

Useful Links

• PDF of Literature Search talk presented Jan. 21, 2005
• Research Resources for Biology and Evolutionary Computation