Opus College of Business

Chih Lai

Associate Professor
 

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Academic Background

B.A., Fu-Jen Catholic University (Taiwan
M.S., computer science, Oregon State University
Ph.D., computer science, Oregon State University

Research Specialties
  • Data mining
  • Mining multimedia databases
  • Real-time systems
Current Research
  • "Neuroinformatics Research: Mining Complex Patterns of Mouse Behavior from Infrared Videos"
  • "Collaborative Research in Computational Neuroscience"
  • "Efficiently Maintaining Moving Micro Clusters for Clustering Moving Objects"
Major Works
  • "Mining Periodic Patterns from Floating and Ambiguous Time Segments," with N. Nyugen, D. Nelson, IEEE International Conference on Systems and Cybernetics, 2005.
  • “Predicting Density-Based Spatial Clusters Over Time," with N. Nguyen, 4th IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (IEEE ICDM '04), November 2004.
  • "Detection and Removal of Self-Alerts in an Airborne Tracking System," U.S. Patent 6-594-578, European Patent EP 1299747, 2003.
  • "Method for Determining Conflicting Paths Between Mobile Airborne Vehicles and Associated System and Computer Software Program Product," U.S. Patent 6-564-149, European Patent EP1299742, 2003.
  • “Multisource Target Correlation," U.S. Patent 6-542-810, European Patent EP1374205, 2003.
Significant Scholarly Honors
  • University MAXI Grant recipient, 2004
  • International Aerospace Industry Pioneer Award (Team Award), 1999
  • Elected member of Upsilon Pi Epsilon Honor Society of Computing, 1998