Timur Chabuk PhD Candidate Department of Computer Science University of Maryland, College Park [last name]@cs.umd.edu About Me I'm a graduate student at the University of Maryland, College Park, currently pursuing a PhD in Computer Science. I am interested in biologially-inspired computing, with a focus on evolutionary computation and neural computation. My current research involves using causal knowledge to guide evolutionary computation for design problems. Courses Problem Solving Methods in Artificial Intelligence (CMSC 620) Complexity Theory (CMSC 652) Evolutionary Computation and Artificial Life (CMSC 828R) How to do Research (CMSC 838K) Advanced Computer Graphics (CMSC 740) Information Visualization (CMSC 838S) High Performance Computing (CMSC 714) Neural Computation (CMSC 727) P2P and Grid Computing (CMSC 818S) Computational Gene Finding and Genome Assembly (CMSC 828N) Publications [pdf] T. Chabuk and J. Reggia, Causally-guided evolutionary computation for adapting weights, in: Proc. 4th Intl. Conf. on Neural, Parallel & Scientific Computations, Atlanta GA, Dynamic Publishers, 2010, pp. 77-82. [pdf] A, Phillippy, M. Schatz, T. Chabuk, B. Liu and S. Salzberg, Improving the genome sequence of D. simulans via co-assembly of multiple strains, Biology of Genomes 09, Cold Spring Harbor, NY, 2009. [pdf] J.A. Reggia, M. Tagamets, J. Contreras-Vidal, S. Weems, D. Jacobs, R. Winder, and T. Chabuk, Development of a large-scale integrated neurocognitive architecture part 1: conceptual framework, CS-TR-4814/UMIACS-TR-2006-33, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Maryland College Park, 2006. [pdf] T. Chabuk, M. Seifter, J. Salasin, and J.A. Reggia, Integrating knowledge-based and case-based reasoning, CS-TR-4821/UMIACS-TR-2006-38, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Maryland College Park, 2006.