Daniela Raicu, Assistant Professor DePaul University, Chicago Journey to Academia   Daniela Raicu, Assistant Professor School of Computer Science, Tellecomunnications, and Information Systems (CTI) DePaul University, Chicago Women in Computer Science and Engineering Day Oakland University June 22nd, 2005

Educational Background Bachelor of Science in Mathematics University of Bucharest, Romania Master of Arts in Computer Science Wayne State University, Detroit, MI Doctor of Philosophy in Systems Engineering Oakland University, Rochester, MI 5/7/2019 D. Raicu, Women in Science and Engineering Day

D. Raicu, Women in Science and Engineering Day Work Experience Teaching Experience: Teaching Assistant, Computer Science The Academy of Economics Studies Wayne State University Oakland University Industrial Experience Summer Intern Young & Rubicam Accenture Technology Labs Ford Motor Company 5/7/2019 D. Raicu, Women in Science and Engineering Day

Motivation for an Academic Career Sense of autonomy, academic freedom Opportunity for continued learning, discovery Wise use of skills, abilities Sense of accomplishment Opportunity to impact others 5/7/2019 D. Raicu, Women in Science and Engineering Day

Academic Career at DePaul University Reduced course load for teaching during the first year Choose the courses to teach (over 200 courses offered in over 19 programs) data mining, data analysis and image processing Distance Learning Facilities Support for research two research labs: Intelligent Information Processing lab & Medical Informatics lab: http://facweb.cs.depaul.edu/research/vc/ support for undergraduate research 5/7/2019 D. Raicu, Women in Science and Engineering Day

Academic Career at DePaul University (cont.) Annually feedback on tenure-track process progress Mentoring by senior faculty Sabbatical after the first three years of tenure track Geographical location 5/7/2019 D. Raicu, Women in Science and Engineering Day

D. Raicu, Women in Science and Engineering Day Challenges Balancing Professional Roles - How to develop, prioritize and juggle teaching and research (even less prepared for advising, grant writing, institutional service) Balancing Professional and Personal Life - How to carve out personal, family and leisure time (spouse/partner’s career, young children, commuting relationships) 5/7/2019 D. Raicu, Women in Science and Engineering Day

D. Raicu, Women in Science and Engineering Day Daily Activities Faculty advisor of the Delta Chapter of the UPE Society Teach two courses per quarter (8 new courses) Academic advisor Member of different school and external committees Research advisor for 8 undergraduate & graduate students Research 5/7/2019 D. Raicu, Women in Science and Engineering Day

D. Raicu, Women in Science and Engineering Day Research Medical Imaging Automatic Human Body Tissue Classification and Segmentation in Computed Tomography Images - Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Chicago NSF Program: MedIX: Medical Informatics eXperiences for undergraduate students 5/7/2019 D. Raicu, Women in Science and Engineering Day

D. Raicu, Women in Science and Engineering Day MedIX Participants 2005 5/7/2019 D. Raicu, Women in Science and Engineering Day

D. Raicu, Women in Science and Engineering Day Research Microarray Data Analysis Development of quantitative statistics for identifying, extracting and comparing signatures that can be used for bacteria source tracking purposes - Argonne National Laboratories, Chicago Data Mining for Intellectual Property Discovery of relationships between different patent technology using data mining techniques - DePaul College of Law 5/7/2019 D. Raicu, Women in Science and Engineering Day

D. Raicu, Women in Science and Engineering Day Demo: HEART OPEN: To open a new Image. SEGMENT: Automatic segmentation of the regions of interest TEXTURE: Automatic calculation of the texture descriptors CLASSIFICATION: Automatic classification of the segmented regions 5/7/2019 D. Raicu, Women in Science and Engineering Day

HEART: Segmentation The application allows users to change Snake / Active contour algorithm parameters 5/7/2019 D. Raicu, Women in Science and Engineering Day

HEART: Segmentation (cont.) Button is clicked User selects points around the region of interest 5/7/2019 D. Raicu, Women in Science and Engineering Day

HEART: Segmentation Show segmented organ If the user likes the result of the segmentation, then the user will go to the classification step 5/7/2019 D. Raicu, Women in Science and Engineering Day

HEART: Classification Selection of texture models Texture features corresponding to the selected texture model are calculated and shown here 5/7/2019 D. Raicu, Women in Science and Engineering Day

HEART: Classification Results are shown as follows: Predicted organ: Heart Probability: 0.86 Rule used to predict that this segmented organ is HEART 5/7/2019 D. Raicu, Women in Science and Engineering Day

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