Faculty Position Available

The UAB CIS department is now seeking candidates for a new faculty position beginning August 15, 2008.

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Alan Sprague

Associate Professor

Homepage: http://www.cis.uab.edu/sprague/spragu...

Education

Ph.D. Computer Science, Ohio State University, 1988
Ph.D. Mathematics, Ohio State University, 1973

Research Interests

Data Mining

  • Application to hospital infection control surveillance. A powerful motivator here is the increasing resistance by bacteria to antibiotics.
Theory which is inspired by applications
  • The work here so far has centered on algorithms for finding frequent sets.
Graph Algorithms (plus also other discrete algorithms)
  • Algorithms for special classes of graphs. The emphasis here is on efficiency. Often, this involves exploring the "border" between polynomial time problems and NP-complete problems.
  • Disjoint paths in graphs.

Contact Information

E-Mail: sprague (at) cis.uab.edu
Mailing and Other:
    See personal homepage.