THOMAS R. IOERGER

Associate Professor

Email: ioerger@cse.tamu.edu
Phone: 979-845-0161
Office: HRBB 322C
http://faculty.cse.tamu.edu/ioerger/

Ph.D., Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1996
M.S., Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 1992
B.S., Molecular and Cell Biology, Pennsylvania State University, 1989

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Artificial intelligence, machine learning, intelligent agents, bioinformatics

SELECTED RESEARCH SUPPORT

"Automated X-ray Crystallography for Structural Genomics," NIH, 4/1/01 - 3/31/05.

"MURI: Automated Intelligent Group and Team Training Systems," DoD/AFOSR, 4/1/00 - 3/31/05.

AWARDS

TEES Faculty Fellow, 2004-2005

Graduate Teaching Excellence Award, Dept. of Computer Science, Texas A&M University, 2001

NSF Graduate Fellowship, 1990 - 1993

EXPERIENCE

Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Texas A&M University, September 2002 - present

Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, Texas A&M University, September 1996 - 2002

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES AND SERVICE

Finance Chair for Fuzz-IEEE 2000, San Antonio

Reviewer for: Machine Learning, IEEE Trans. on Knowledge and Data Engineering, IEEE Trans. on Multimedia, Acta Crystallographica

NIH Study Section (proposal reviewer)

Member of American Association for Artificial Intelligence, International Society for Computational Biology, and American Association for the Advancement of Science

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Gopal, K., Romo, T.D., Sacchettini, J.C., and Ioerger, T.R. "Weighting Features to Recognize 3D Patterns of Electron Density in X-ray Protein Crystallography," Computational Systems Bioinformatics Conference (CSB 2004), 255-265. Stanford, CA, Aug 16-19, 2004.

Ioerger, T.R., Sims, J., Volz, R.A, Workman, J., and Shebilske, W.L. "On the Use of Intelligent Agents as Partners in Training Systems for Complex Tasks," Proceedings of the 25th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci'03). ,2003

Ioerger, T.R. and Sacchettini, J.C. (2003). "The TEXTAL System: Artificial Intelligence Techniques for Automated Protein Model Building," in Methods in Enzymology. C. Carter and R. Sweet (eds.). vol. 374, pp. 244-270, 2003.

Yen, J., Yin, J., Ioerger, T.R., Miller, M., Xu, D., and Volz, R.A. "CAST: Collaborative Agents for Simulating Teamwork," Proceedings of the Seventeenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-01), 1135-1142, 2001.

Holton, T.R., Christopher, J.A., Ioerger, T.R., and Sacchettini, J.C. "Determining protein structure from electron density maps using pattern matching," Acta Crystallographica, D56:722-734, 2000.