Dustin J. Kempton, Ph.D. (cs.gsu.edu/~dkempton1)

Office: 25 Park Place, Room 719
Email: dkempton1@cs.gsu.edu
ORCID: orcid.org/0000-0002-1837-8365

Dustin Kempton is a research assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science at Georgia State University (GSU), where he obtained his Ph.D. in 2018. As a member of the GSU Data Mining Laboratory (dmlab.cs.gsu.edu), Dr. Kempton has had his research sponsored by GSU’s Second Century Initiative through a fellowship in the Astroinformatics Research Cluster as well as by NSF and NASA grants. Dr. Kempton’s research focuses on several areas of management and analysis of a petabyte scale image dataset from NASA’s SDO solar telescope. He is currently focusing on time series prediction of infrequent but highly important events, content based image region indexing and retrieval, as well as developing distributed systems for processing and providing near real time querying of large image datasets. Previous research has also focused on tracking evolving spatiotemporal events in solar images as well as indexing said events for frequent pattern discovery.

Berkay Aydin, Ph.D. (cs.gsu.edu/~baydin/)

Office: 25 Park Place, Room 740
Email: baydin2@cs.gsu.edu
ORCID: orcid.org/0000-0002-9799-9265

Berkay Aydin is as a research assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science at Georgia State University (GSU), as part of the Next Generation – Astroinformatics Research Cluster program. He was a postdoctoral research associate at GSU prior to his current position, where his research was sponsored by NSF and NASA grants. Dr. Aydin’s research is interdisciplinary and focused on management, retrieval, and analysis of Solar Astronomy Big Data. Currently, he works on creating algorithms and data models for multivariate time series prediction and spatiotemporal frequent pattern discovery, which is helpful for understanding the implicit temporal and spatial relationships appearing among objects with spatial and temporal extents as well as forecasting extreme spaceweather events.

Azim Ahmadzadeh, Ph.D. Candidate (cs.gsu.edu/~aahmadzadeh1)

Office: 25 Park Place, Room 645
Email: aahmadzadeh1@cs.gsu.edu
ORCID: orcid.org/0000-0002-1631-5336

Azim Ahmadzadeh is currently a PhD candidate in the Department of Computer Science at Georgia State University, sponsored by GSU’s 2CI (Second Century Initiative) fellowship in the Astroinformatics Research Cluster. His main interdisciplinary research interest centers in (1) automatic detection of solar events such as Active Regions, Coronal Holes, and Filaments using Image Processing and Deep Neural Networks, (2) feature selection, classification, and prediction on multi-class, multivariate time series towards solar flares forecasting.

Next to his research, Azim taught Data Mining in Fall 2017, and instructed a variety of programming labs, namely, Java I, Java II, and Data structures, in Georgia State University.

Azim holds a BCs in Computer Science from Warsaw University of Technology and an Associate degree in Pure Mathematics from Guilan University.

Rafal A. Angryk, Ph.D. (cs.gsu.edu/~rangryk)

Office: 25 Park Place, Room 751
Email: angryk@cs.gsu.edu
ORCID: orcid.org/0000-0002-1837-8365

Rafal Angryk received his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science in 2004 from Tulane University. Dr. Angryk also holds two other master’s degrees, which he obtained from universities in Poland. In 1999, Dr. Angryk received a M.A. in Business Management from the University of Szczecin and three years later an M.Eng. degree in Computer Science from the Technical University of Szczecin.

Dr. Angryk is currently employed as a Professor in the Computer Science Department at Georgia State University (GSU) and came to GSU as part of the university’s Second Century Initiative (2CI) to build nationally recognized scholarly strength and critical mass around common research themes. Before joining GSU in August 2013, he spent almost a decade as faculty at Montana State University. Dr. Angryk is the founding director of the MSU/GSU Data Mining Laboratory (dmlab.cs.gsu.edu), and holds the title of Affiliate Professor of Physics & Astronomy at GSU due to the interdisciplinary research he is conducting on massive repositories of solar data. Prior to arriving at MSU, he was involved in the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) project on Intelligent Database Agents for Geospatial Knowledge Integration and Management, administered by the Center for Computational Sciences in the Stennis Space Center (NASA). Dr. Angryk’s research and teaching interests lie in the areas of Very Large Databases (Spatial and Spatio-temporal Databases, and kNN Indexing of High Dimensional Data), Data Mining (Frequent Patterns Discovery, Clustering and Classification of real-life large-scale data), and Information Retrieval (Text and Image data). He has published over 100 journal articles, book chapters, and peer-reviewed conference papers in these areas. His research has been sponsored by several federal agencies: NASA (major contributor), NSF, NGA, as well as industry partners: Intergraph Corporation and RightNow Technologies (now Oracle), with the successful grant history exceeding $10M.