FACULTY
SONGQING CHEN Professor PhD Computer Science, College of William and Mary, 2004
Songqing Chen has taught at George Mason University since 2004. His areas of interest and expertise are Internet content delivery systems, Internet measurements and modeling, system security, distributed systems, and high-performance computing. In addition to the NSF CAREER and AFOSR Young Investigator Awards, he has also received the George Mason University Emerging Researcher, Scholar, and Creator Award; the Volgenau Rising Star Faculty Award; and the Department of Computer Science Outstanding Research Award.
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Yao Liu, Mengbai Xiao, Ming Zhang, Xin Li, Mian Dong, Zhan Ma, Zhenhua Li and Songqing Chen. "GoCAD: GPU-assisted Online Content Adaptive Display Power Saving for Mobile Devices in Internet Streaming." In proceedings of the 25th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW 2016), Montreal, Canada, April 1115, 2016. An Wang, Wentao Chang, Aziz Mohaisen, and Songqing Chen. "Delving into Internet DDoS Attacks by Botnets: Characterization and Analysis." In proceedings of the 45th IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, June 22-25, 2015. An Wang, Yang Guo, Fang Hao, T.V. Lakshman, and Songqing Chen. "Scotch: Scaling up SDN ControlPlane using vSwitch Based Overlay." In proceedings of the ACM CoNEXT 2014, Sydney, Australia, December. 2-5, 2014. Enhua Tan, Lei Guo, Songqing Chen, Xiaodong Zhang, Yihong Eric Zhao. "UNIK: unsupervised social network spam detection." In proceedings of the ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2013), San Francisco, California, October 27 - November 1, 2013.
KENNETH DE JONG University Professor PhD Computer Science, University of Michigan, 1975
Kenneth De Jong is the associate director of the Krasnow Institute at George Mason University. He has taught at Mason since 1984. His research interests include evolutionary computation, complex adaptive systems, and machine learning. He is the founding editor-in-chief of the MIT Press journal Evolutionary Computation, a board member of the Association for Computing Machinery Special Interest Group on Genetic and Evolutionary Computation, and the recipient of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Pioneer award in evolutionary computation.
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Kamath, U., De Jong, K. and A. Shehu. “Effective Automated Feature Constructions and Selection for Classification of Biological Sequences.” PLOS One, July 2014.
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Cioffi, C., K. De Jong, and J. Bassett. “Evolutionary Computation and Agent-Based Modeling: BiologicallyInspired Approaches for Understanding Complex Social Systems.” Computational & Mathematical Organization Theory. 18, no. 3 (2012): 356–373.
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De Jong, K. and E. Scott. “Understanding Simple Asynchronous EAs.”85-98. In proceedings of the Foundations of Genetic Algorithms, ACM Press, Aberystwith, Wales, UK, January 2015.
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De Jong, K. A. Evolutionary Computation: A Unified Approach. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press, 2006.