Alina Lazar
Office Address:
Department of Computer Science and
Information Systems
Youngstown State University
Youngstown, Oh, 44555
(330) 941-2981 alazar@cis.ysu.edu
Academic Education and Degrees:
05/2002 Ph.D. in Computer Science
Department of Computer Science, Wayne State University
Thesis Title: "Impact of Knowledge Discovery Techniques on Multi-Agent Simulation of Cultural Evolution"
Advisor: Professor R.G. Reynolds
06/1995 B. S. in Computer Science
Department of Mathematics and Computer Science
Western University of Timisoara, Romania
Employment:
09/2002 – present Assistant Professor, Youngstown State University.
05/2002 – 09/2002 Postdoctoral fellow, Wayne State University.
09/1999 – 05/2002 Graduate Research Assistant, Wayne State University.
09/1998 - 05/1999 Graduate Teaching Assistant, Wayne State University.
05/1998 - 08/1998 Research Consultant, Wunderman Cato Johnson, Detroit, MI.
09/1996 - 05/1997 Graduate Teaching Assistant, Transilvania University, Brasov, Romania.
09/1995 - 07/1997 Computer Science Instructor, Computer Science College, Brasov, Romania.
Professional Experience and Skills:
Areas of expertise: Artificial Intelligence, Knowledge Discovery, Evolutionary Computation, Machine
Learning, Rough Sets, Software Engineering, Database Management Systems.
Teaching Experience:
Youngstown State University:
CSIS 3726 Visual/Object Oriented Programming- Fall 2003.
CSIS 4819 Parallel and Distributed Computing – Fall 2003.
CSCI 6905 Information Structures – Spring 2003.
CSIS 2617 Data Structures and Object – Fall 2002, Spring 2003, Fall 2003.
CSIS 2610 Programming and Problem Solving – Fall 2002.
Wayne State University:
“Introduction to Data Structures and Abstraction” laboratory instructor, Spring/Summer 2000.
“Introduction to C and Unix” laboratory instructor, Spring/Summer 2000.
“Problem Solving and Programming (C++)” laboratory instructor, Winter 1999.
“Database Management Systems” teaching assistant, Fall 1998.
Applications for Grants:
Alina Lazar, “Career: Integrating Parallel Computing in Undergraduate Education Using Agent-Based Simulations” NSF Career, June 2003.
Fellowships and Awards:
06/03 Research Assistant Grant Award - –“Agent-Based Social Simulations on Parallel Computers”, YSU.
01/03 Research Professorship–“Agent-Based Social Simulations on Parallel Computers”2003-2004, YSU.
06/2001 Complex Systems Summer Schools, Santa Fe Institute NM.
11/1999 Best Paper Award of ANNIE'99 Theoretical Developments in Computer Intelligence.
1997-1998 Thomas Rumble Fellowship, Wayne State University.
Other
Grand Awards Judge- Intel International Science and Engineering Fair, May 11-17, Cleveland, OH.
Reviewer - SIGCSE 2004 and IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, 1999-2002.
Conferences/Workshops Attended
· Introduction to Terascale Code Development, October 13-14, Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center.
· NCSI Workshop on Parallel Computing in Undergraduate Education, June 1-7, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri.
· CRA-W Career Mentoring Workshop, Women in Computing Research, at SIGCSE 2003
· SIGCSE 2003 Technical Symposium on Computer Education, Reno, Nevada, USA, February 19-23, 2003.
· Computational Analysis of Social and Organizational Systems (CASOS 2002), Carnegie Melon University, Pittsburgh, Pa, June 21-23, 2002
· The Fourth International Workshop on Frontiers in Evolutionary Algorithms (FEA 2002), Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, USA, March 8-13, 2002
· Artificial Neural Networks in Engineering Conference (ANNIE'99) held November 7-10, 1999, in St. Louis.
Publications:
A. Lazar “An Overview of Heuristic Knowledge Discovery for Large Data Sets Using Genetic Algorithms and Rough Sets” submitted to Encyclopedia of Information Science and Information Technology, Information Science Publishing (Idea Group Inc.) 2005
A. Lazar, D. Chavalarias, T.K. Ahn, “Endogenous Network Formation and the Evolution of Preferences” Social Agents: Ecology, Exchange & Evolution (Agent 2002), Chicago, October 11-12, 2002
R.G. Reynolds, A. Lazar, “Agent-based Simulation of the Evolution of Archaic States” Agent 2002 Social Agents: Ecology, Exchange & Evolution (Agent 2002), Chicago, October 11-12, 2002
R.G. Reynolds, A. Lazar, “Computational Framework for Modeling the Dynamic Evolution of Large-Scale Multi-agent Organizations” Computational Analysis of Social and Organizational Systems (CASOS 2002), Carnegie Melon University, Pittsburgh, Pa, June 21-23, 2002
R.G. Reynolds, A. Lazar, “Simulating the Evolution of Archaic States” 2002 Congress on Evolutionary Computation (WCII 2002), Hilton Hawaiian Village, Honolulu, HI, May 12-17, 2002
R.G. Reynolds, A. Lazar, "Computational Framework for Modeling the Dynamic Evolution of Large-scale Multi-agent Organizations", at SPIE's 16th Annual International Symposium on Aerospace/Defense Sensing, Simulation, and Controls, 1-5 April 2002, Orlando, Florida, USA.
T.K. Ahn, D. Chavalaris, and A. Lazar, “Le Bon, le Juste et le Mechant”, Student Papers, Complex Systems Summer School, Santa Fe, New Mexico, June 10 – July 7, 2001.
Lazar and R.G. Reynolds, "Heuristic Knowledge Discover for Archaeological Data Using Cultural Algorithms and Rough Sets", in Vol. 2: Heuristics and Optimization for Knowledge Discovery (ed. Ruhul A. Sarker, Hussein A. Abbass, and Charles S. Newton) by Idea Group Publishing, USA, 2002.
A. Lazar and I.K. Sethi, "Decision rule extraction from trained neural networks using rough sets'', in Intelligent Engineering Systems Through Artificial Neural Networks (C.H. Dagli, A.L. Buczak, and J. Ghosh, eds.), vol. 9, (New York, NY), pp. 493-498, ASME Press, Nov. 1999.