Jeff Solka Ph.D.

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540-653-1982 (D)
540-371-3961 (N)
540-809-9799 (Cell)
540-993-4357 (PW)
540-993-1991 (Fairfax)
jlsolka@gmail.com


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Recent Publications
Edward J. Wegman and J. L. Solka, "Statistical Software for Today and Tomorrow," in Encyclopedia of Statistics, John Wiley, 2005.

J. L. Solka, A. C. Bryant, and Edward J. Wegman, "Text Data Mining With Minimal Spanning Trees," in Handbook of Statistics 24 on Data Mining and Visualization, C. R. Rao, Edward J. Wegman, and J. L. Solka, Eds, Elsevier North Holland, 2005.

C. R. Rao, Edward J. Wegman, and J. L. Solka,Handbook of Statistics 24 on Data Mining and Visualization, Elsevier North Holland, 2005



James Diggans and J. L. Solka, "Cluster Subspace Identification Via Conditional Entrophy Calculation," Proceedings Interface 2004: Computational Biology and Bioinformatics 36th Symposium on the Interface, May 26-29, 2004.


J. L. Solka, A. C. Bryant, and E. J. Wegman, "Identifying Cross Corpora Document Associations Via Minimal Spanning Trees," Proceedings Interface 2004: Computational Biology and Bioinformatics 36th Symposium on the Interface, May 26-29, 2004.

D. J. Johannsen, E. J. Wegman, J. L. Solka, and Carey E. Priebe, "Simultaneous Selection of Features and Metric for Optimal Nearest Neighbor Classification," Communications in Statistics Theory and Methods , Vol. 33, No. 9, 2004, pp. 1 - 21. 57-92.

J. L. Solka, E. J. Wegman, and D. J. Marchette, "Data Mining Strategies for the Detection of Chemical Warfare Agents," Statistical Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, Hamparsum Bozdogan, Editor, 2003, pp. 57-92.

C. E. Priebe,J. L. Solka, D. J. Marchette and B. T. Clark, "Class Cover Catch Digraphs for Latent Class Discovery in Gene Expression Monitoring by DNA Microarrays ," Computational Statistics and Data Analysis, Vol. 43, Number 4, 2003, pp. 621-631.

D. J. Marchette and J. L. Solka,"Using Data Images for Outlier Detection ," Computational Statistics and Data Analysis , Vol. 43, Number 4, 2003,pp. 541-552.

J. L. Solka, C. E. Priebe, and B. T. Clark, "A Visualization Framework for the Analysis of Hyperdimensional Data," Internation Journal of Image and Graphics, Vol. 2, No. 1, 2002, pp. 145-161.

E. J. Wegman and J. L. Solka, "On Some Mathematics for Visualizing High Dimensional Data," Sankhya (A), ,Vol. 64, Part2, 2002, pp. 429-452.

J. L. Solka, and D. J. Marchette, "Functional Analysis of Computer Network Data," to appear Proceedings of Interface 2001, 2002.

J. L. Solka, "Teaching Statistical Visualization," to appear Proceedings of the Joint Statistical Meeting 2001, 2002.

J. L. Solka, D. J. Marchette,and M. L. Adams "Applications of Statistical Visualization to Computer Security," to appear NSWCDD Technical Digest 2002, 2002.

Courses Fall 2003
CSI605-Software Construction Tools for Scientists

CSI606- Scientific Graph. and Visualization Tools

BINF 702 Research Methods

Office Hours Fall 2003

10:00 am - 12:00 pm Thursday PW I Rm. 445

Courses Spring 2004
CSI605-Software Construction Tools for Scientists

CSI606- Scientific Graph. and Visualization Tools

BINF Gene Expression Analysis

Office Hours Spring 2004

3:30 pm - 5:30 pm Thursday PW I Rm. 445

Courses Fall 2004
CSI605-Software Construction Tools for Scientists

CSI606- Scientific Graph. and Visualization Tools

BINF 702 Research Methods

Office Hours Fall 2004

3:30 pm - 5:30 pm Thursday Ocaquan Building Rm. 445

Talks in 2004
"Visualization Frameworks to Detect the Presence of Unusal Structures in High-Dimensional Data" DIMACS Working Group on Adverse Event/Disease Reporting, Surveillance and Analysis II, February 19-20, 2004.

"Graph Theoretic Latent Class Discovery" George Mason University Bioinformatics Colloquium, February 24, 2004.

Identifying Cross Copora Document Associations Via Minimal Spanning Trees, Interface 2004: Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, May 26-29, 2004.

Model-based Clustering With an Adaptive Mixtures Smart Start, Joint Statistical Meeting 2004: Statistics as a Unified Discipline, August 8-12, 2004.

Conferences in 2004

Interface 2004: Computational Biology and Bioinformatics (I was the Conference Co-Chair)

Joint Statistical Meeting 2004 : Statistics as a Unified Ddiscipline (I was the Program Chair in the Statistical Graphics Section)

Courses Spring 2005

BINF Gene Expression Analysis

Office Hours Spring 2005
1:00 pm - 3:00 pm Tuesdays and by Appointment

Courses Fall 2005
CSI605-Software Construction Tools for Scientists

CSI606- Scientific Graph. and Visualization Tools

BINF 702 Research Methods

Courses Spring 2006
BINF733 Gene Expression Analysis

Courses Fall 2006
CSI605-Software Construction Tools for Scientists

CSI606- Scientific Graph. and Visualization Tools

BINF 702 Research Methods

Courses Spring 2007
BINF 739-002 Network Based Models in Bioinformatics and Biocomputing

BINF705-001 Research Ethics

Courses Fall 2007
CSI605-Software Construction Tools for Scientists

CSI606- Scientific Graph. and Visualization Tools

BINF 702 Research Methods

Courses Spring 2008

BINF733-Gene Expression Analysis

BINF704 - Colloquium

BINF703 - Directed Reading in Nonlinear Dimensionality Reduction

Courses Fall 2008

BINF704 - Colloquium

BINF702 - Research Methods

CSI606 - Scientific and Statistical Visualization

CSI605 - Software Construction Tools

Courses Spring 2009

BINF739 - Text Data Mining in Bioinformatics

Courses Fall 2009

BINF704 - Colloquia

BINF634 - Bioinformatics Programming

Courses Spring 2010

BINF702 - Research Methods

Office Hours Spring 2010

By Appointment