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

