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Publications

E. Zheleva, L. Getoor. To Join or not to Join: The Illusion of Privacy in Social Networks with
         Mixed Public and Private User Profiles. CS-TR-4926, 2008. PDF.

E. Zheleva, A. Kolcz, L. Getoor. Trusting Spam Reporters: A Reporter-based Reputation
          System for Email Filtering. To be published in ACM Transactions on Information
          Systems (TOIS), vol. 27, no. 1, January 2009. Submitted in March 2007, accepted in
          March 2008. Pre-print version.

E. Zheleva, L. Getoor, J. Golbeck, U. Kuter. Using Friendship Ties and Family Circles for
         Link Prediction. Second ACM SIGKDD Workshop on Social Network Mining and
         Analysis (SNA-KDD 2008), Las Vegas, August 2008. Workshop version.

E. Zheleva, L. Getoor. Preserving the Privacy of Sensitive Relationships in Graph Data.
          First ACM SIGKDD Workshop on Privacy, Security, and Trust in KDD (PinKDD 2007),
          San Jose, August 2007. Workshop version and extended, proceedings version.

A. Don, E. Zheleva, M. Gregory, S. Tarkan, L. Auvil, T. Clement, B. Shneiderman, C. Plaisant.
          Discovering Interesting Usage Patterns in Text Collections: Integrating Text Mining With
          Visualization. ACM 16th Conference on Information and Knowledge Management
          (CIKM 2007), Lisboa, Portugal, November 2007. PDF. Application.

E. Zheleva, A. Arslan. Fast Motif Search in Protein Sequence Databases. CSR 2006,
          St. Petersburg, Russia, June 2006.

V. Kantabutra, B. Tsendjav, E. Zheleva. Glide Algorithm with Tunneling: A Fast, Reliably
          Convergent Algorithm for Neural Network Training. ANNIE, St. Louis, MO, Nov. 2003.

V. Kantabutra, E. Zheleva. Gradient Descent with Fast Gliding over Flat Regions: A First
          Report. IEEE Industrial Electronics Conference (IECON '02), Sevilla, Spain, Nov. 2002.

Coursework and Projects

Link Mining (CMSC 828g and wiki), Spring 2008

Information Visualization (CMSC 734), Spring 2007

• Small Project: Netflix: Visual Analysis for User Movie Preferences


• Final Project: Discovering interesting usage patterns in text collections: integrating text mining with visualization
  Check out the application: FeatureLens and the prototype

Research in Software Engineering (CMSC 838P), Fall 2006

• Final Project: Component-based Software Testing Framework Using Bayesian Networks

Exploiting Biological Resources (CMSC 828U), Fall 2006

• Final Project: Using Structure in Biomedical Ontology Mapping

Machine Learning (CMSC 726), Spring 2006

• Final Project: Semi-supervised Classifiers for Personalized Spam Filtering

Computational Gene Finding and Genome Assembly (CMSC 828N), Spring 2006

• Final Project: Gene Prediction Using Protein Domains

Natural Language Processing (CMSC 645), Fall 2005

Computational Geometry (CMSC 754), Fall 2005

Teaching Assistant (Lead Discussion Sections)

Object-Oriented Programming II (CMSC 132), Fall 2006

Introduction to Low-Level Programming (CMSC 212), Spring 2006, Fall 2005

Education

Ph.D. Student, Computer Science
University of Maryland, College Park

May 2005, Master's Degree in Computer Science
University of Vermont, Burlington
Thesis Title: Restricted Regular Expression Pattern Matching Using Suffix Trees

August 2003, High Honors Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Minor: German
Idaho State University, Pocatello

September 1997-December 1999, Business Administration major
Sofia University, Bulgaria
Coursework equivalent to a minor in Business