1. 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
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Oakland University
June 22nd, 2005

2. 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
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3. 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
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4. 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
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5. 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:
support for undergraduate research
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6. 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
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7. 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)
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8. 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
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9. 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
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MedIX Participants 2005
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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
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12. 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
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13. HEART: Segmentation The application allows users to change
Snake / Active contour algorithm parameters
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14. HEART: Segmentation (cont.)
Button is clicked
User selects points
around the region of interest
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15. HEART: Segmentation Show segmented organ
If the user likes the result of the segmentation,
then the user will go to the classification step
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16. HEART: Classification Selection of texture models
Texture features corresponding to the selected texture model are calculated and shown here
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17. HEART: Classification
Results are shown as follows:
Predicted organ: Heart
Probability: 0.86
Rule used
to predict that this segmented
organ is HEART
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18. D. Raicu, Women in Science and Engineering Day
Questions?
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