Joseph P. Bockhorst - Assistant Professor


Contact Information

Office Address:
EMS 1155
3200 North Cramer Street
Milwaukee, WI 53211
Phone: 414-229-5810
Fax: 414-229-6958
Email: joebock@uwm.edu
WWW: http://www.cs.uwm.edu/~joebock/

Mailing Address:
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
1155 EMS 3200 N Cramer St Milwaukee, WI 53211 USA

Education

BS, University of Wisconsin – Madison December 1996
Electrical Engineering
MS, University of Wisconsin – Madison May 2000
Computer Sciences
PhD, University of Wisconsin – Madison Aug 2005
Computer Sciences
Postdoc, Microsoft Research Aug 2005 - Aug 2006
Machine Learning and Applied Statistics group

Research Interests

Artificial Intelligence, Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, Data Mining, Probabilistic Models, Machine Learning, Medical Informatics, Immunoinformatics.

Selected Publications

  • J. Bockhorst, F. Lu, J. Janes, J. Keebler, B Gamain, P. Awadalla, X. Su, R. Samudrala, N. Jojic, J. Smith (2007). Structural Polymorphism and Diversifying Selection on the Pregnancy Malaria Vaccine Candidate VAR2CSA.
    (to appear) in Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology
  • J. Bockhorst and N. Jojic (2007). Discovering Patterns in Biological Sequences by Optimal Segmentation In Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI). AUAI Press source code
  • J. Bockhorst & M. Craven (2005). Markov Networks for Detecting Overlapping Elements in Sequence Data In Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 17 (NIPS). MIT Press
  • J. Bockhorst, Y. Qiu, J. Glasner, M. Liu, F. Blattner & M. Craven (2003). Predicting Bacterial Transcription Units using Sequence and Expression Data
    Bioinformatics (special issue: Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology (ISMB) ).
  • J. Bockhorst, M. Craven, D. Page, J. Shavlik & J. Glassner (2003). A Bayesian Network Approach to Operon Prediction Bioinformatics, 19(10):1227-1235.