Changwon Yoo Home Address: 6818 Linda Vista Blvd Missoula, MT 59803 Phone: 406-251-5806 Web Homepage: http://www.cbmi.upmc.edu/~cwyoo/ Office Address: 420 Social Sciences, University of Montana Missoula, MT 59812 Phone: 406-243-5605 Fax: 406-243-5139 cwyoo@cs.umt.edu Professional Interest Biomedical Informatics, especially in Bioinformatics. Probabilistic (Bayesian) causal modeling. Machine Learning along with Artificial Intelligence. Education Center for Biomedical Informatics (CBMI) Pittsburgh, PA Ph.D. in Intelligent Systems Program (Advisor: Professor Gregory F. Cooper). April 2003 Projects and Courses * Projects in CBMI (Director: Professor Charles Friedman) * Causal modeling in gene microarray * Causal discovery using Bayesian approach * Modeling interventions in Bayesian network * Courses in CBMI * Probabilistic methods in decision support * Bioinformatics * Projects and Course in Carnegie Mellon University * Gene microarray data analysis * Magee Women’s Hospital C-Section data analysis * Machine learning Honors Andrew Mellon Fellow for 2001— 2002 Graduate Student Researcher for 1998 — 2001 Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, MA Visiting Scholar in EECS. June, 1997—Aug. 1998. Projects and Courses * Projects in Clinical Decision Support Group, Laboratory of Computer Science (Director: Professor Peter Szolovits) — Chest Pain Diagnosis Model and Analysis * Knowledge Discovery from Medical Data : Probabilistic Classification Methods Honors Scholarship from SICC (Ssangyong Information and Communication Corp.) for the year ‘97—‘98 Education (Continued) Harvard University Cambridge, MA Master of Science in Computer Science (Advisor: Professor Stuart M. Shieber) June 1997. Projects and Courses * Knowledge Base System Implementation * Computer Systems and (Randomized) Algorithms * Scientific Computing and Graphics * Database —Enhanced WWW Search Engine Honors SICC (Ssangyong Information and Communication Corp.) Scholarship for the year ‘96—‘97 Professional Associations & Review Boards * American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) * American Association for Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) * International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB) * Reviewer, Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI) 2001 Experience University of Montana Missoula, MT Sept. 2003 to Current : Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science and Center for Environmental Health Sciences Virginia Polytechnic and State University Blacksburg, VA Oct. 2002 to Sept. 2003 : Senior Research Associate, Virginia Bioinformatics Institute Center for Biomedical Informatics Pittsburgh, PA July 1998 to Sept. 2002 : Research Fellow Sept. 2000 to Dec. 2000 : Teaching Fellow in Probabilistic Methods in Decision Support (Instructor Dr. Gregory Cooper) Experience (Continued) Ssangyong Information and Communications Corp. Seoul, Korea July 1992 to Aug. 1996 : Researcher/Software Engineer in GIS(Geographic Information Systems) Department. Implemented systems * WIMS(Water Information Management System), July 1992 to Oct. 1994 - H/W : HP Workstation 715/75 - OS : HP-UX 9.01 - Program Language : C - Window system : X11R5/Motif 1.2 - RDBMS : Ingres - Description : Manages digital topological map and facilities such as pipes, valves, etc. Client-Server applications between the city hall and district offices. - Joint Company : Universal System Ltd., Canada * CAD(Computer Aided Dispatcher) System, Oct. 1994 to Sept. 1995 - H/W : HP Workstation 9000 Series and IBM PC Compatible - OS : HP-UX 9.01 and DOS - Program Language : C - Window system : X11R6/Motif 2 and MS-Windows 3.1 - RDBMS : Ingres - Description : Tracks coordinate of vehicles in real time through TRS by GPS. Automated scheduling (dispatching) module is implemented. - Joint Company : Data General (U.S.A.), Trimble Navigation Ltd. (U.S.A.) * GIS Engine Development using Object Oriented Analysis and Design, Oct. 1995 to Aug. 1996 - H/W : Pentium PC 100 - OS and Windows System : Windows 95/Windows NT - Program Language : C++ (Visual C++/MFC) - RDBMS : Object Store - Description : Implemented basic GIS (Geographic Information System) editing and query functions — such as adding a symbol, drawing a line , finding a polygon with certain features and so forth — using object oriented analysis and design method. - Joint Company : Rational Rose (U.S.A.), Geo. Soft Ltd. (U.K.) Ssangyong Information and Communications Corp. Education Center Seoul, Korea Jan. 1993 to Aug. 1996 : Lecturer in C, C++, X/Motif, UNIX, Object-Oriented Analysis and Design and Software Engineering. Army Admission School Seoul, Korea Feb. 1991 to June 1992 : Programmer and lecturer in computer systems. Publications (Peer Reviewed) Changwon Yoo and G. Cooper. Causal Discovery of Latent Variable Models from a Mixture of Experimental and Observational Data, CBMI Research Report CBMI-173, Journal paper to submit in Dec. 2003 Changwon Yoo and G. Cooper. A Control StudyEvaluation of a System that Recommends Microarray Experiments to Perform to Discover Gene-Regulation Pathways, Journal paper to submit in Nov. 2003 Changwon Yoo and G. Cooper. An Evaluation of a System that Recommends Microarray Experiments to Perform to Discover Gene-Regulation Pathways, Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, In press 2004 Changwon Yoo and G. Cooper. A Computer-Based Experiment Design Recommendation System for Gene-Regulation Pathways Discovery, American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) Symposium 2003, In press 2003 Changwon Yoo. Expected Value of Experimentation in Causal Discovery from Gene Expression Studies, Ph.D. dissertation, 2002 Changwon Yoo and G. Cooper. Discovery of Yeast Gene-Regulation Pathways using Local Causal Search, Proceedings of AMIA Symposium 2002, p914-918 Changwon Yoo, V. Thorsson, and G. Cooper. Discovery of Causal Relationships in a Gene-regulation Pathway from a Mixture of Experimental and Observational DNA Microarray Data, Proceedings of Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing, World Scientific, New Jersey, p498-509, 2002 Scheines, R., G. Cooper, C. Yoo, and T. Chu. Piecewise Linear Instrumental Variable Estimation of Causal Influence, Proceedings of Artificial Intelligence and Statistics, Morgan Kaufmann, CA, p286-291, 2001 Gregory F. Cooper and Changwon Yoo. Causal Discovery from a Mixture of Experimental and Observational Data, Proceedings of Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence, Morgan Kaufmann, CA, p116-125, 1999 Other Publications & Presentations Changwon Yoo. Discovery of Gene-Regulation Pathways in Mesotheliomas Using Microarray Data, External Advisory Committee, Center for Environmental Health Sciences, Univ. of Montana Oct. 2003 Changwon Yoo. Closing the loop in Systems Biology Studies, Virginia Bioinformatics Institute, February 2003 Changwon Yoo. Discovery of Yeast Gene-Regulation Pathways using Local Causal Search, Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech, Nov. 2002 Changwon Yoo. Expected Value of Experimentation in Causal Discovery from Gene Expression Studies, Ph.D. dissertation defense, Oct. 2002 Changwon Yoo. Discovery of Causal Relationships in a Gene-regulation Pathway from a Mixture of Experimental and Observational DNA Microarray Data, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, June 2002 Other Publications & Presentations (Continued) Changwon Yoo. Discovery of Causal Relationships in a Gene-regulation Pathway from a Mixture of Experimental and Observational DNA Microarray Data, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, May 2002 Changwon Yoo. Learning Causal Relationships from Gene Datasets, In Bioinformatics Journal Club, Carnegie Mellon University, Dec. 2, 1999 Changwon Yoo. Learning Bayesian Network Structure from Massive Datasets, In CBMI Journal Club, Oct. 14, 1999 Changwon Yoo. Using the Extensible Markup Language (XML) in Automated Clinical Practice Guidelines, Presentation in CBMI Journal Club, Feb. 1999 Changwon Yoo. A Bayesian Approach to Learning Bayesian Network with Local Structure, Center for Biomedical Informatics (CBMI), Dec. 1998 Changwon Yoo. Probabilistic Methods of Classification Methods, Ssangyong Publishing, Seoul, Korea. Aug. 1998 Changwon Yoo. Knowledge Discovery from Medical Data, MIT, May. 1997 Changwon Yoo and J. Kwon. Object Oriented Design for GIS Engines, Ssangyong Publishing, Seoul, Korea , July 1996 Changwon Yoo and S. Whang. Internet, SICC seminar, Seoul, Korea, Oct. 1995 Changwon Yoo. Fractal Geometry and Image Processing, Ssangyong Publishing, Seoul, Korea, Nov. 1994 Changwon Yoo, U. Shim and K. Kim. All about Personal Computer, SsangYong Publishing, Seoul, Korea, June 1994 Changwon Yoo, S. Whang, Y. Yoon and H. Kim. Development of Water Information Management System, SungNam City Press, SungNam City, Korea, April, 1993 Changwon Yoo. The structure of DOS, Seawoon Publishing Co., Seoul , Korea, Dec. 1990 4 of 5