Dawn Wilkins

I am an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer and Information Science at the University of Mississippi in Oxford, Mississippi. In Spring of 1995, I completed my Ph.D. in the Department of Computer Science (now Electrical Engineering and Computer Science) at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee. My dissertation, Learning Restricted-Read Branching Programs with Queries, was concerned with the computational aspects of learning branching programs (decision dags). My dissertation advisor was Dr. Vijay Raghavan, who is currently on leave to serve as a program manager at DARPA.

My current research is in the area of Bioinformatics. Specifically, our group is collaborating with researchers at the University of Mississippi Medical Center in Pharmacy Practice and the National Center for Natural Products Research. The goal of the project is to use gene expression data obtained from microarrays to study the effects of drugs developed from natural products as antifungal agents. The project is funded by the NIH. Additional information about the project is available here.

Previously, our group collaborated with researchers at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital to apply machine learning and data mining techniques to DNA microarray data, mostly Affymetrix. The work was in association with the Hartwell Center for Bioinformatics and Biotechnology at St. Jude's, and was supported by the National Science Foundation.

In Spring 2010, I am teaching Computer Science II and ENGR 654 Information Systems Principles

Undergraduate Courses:
CSCI 112 Computer Science II	(Spring 2010)
CSCI 300 Social Responsibility in Computer Science	(last taught Fall 2001)
CSCI 311 Models of Computation	(last taught Fall 2007)
CSCI 423 Introduction to Operating Systems	(last taught Fall 1999)
CSCI 433 Algorithm and Data Structure Analysis	(last taught Spring 2008)
CSCI 487 Senior Project	(last taught Spring 2005)
CSCI 490 Special Topics: Scripting Languages	(last taught Spring 2006)
CSCI 490 Special Topics: Bioinformatics	(last taught Fall 2008)
Graduate Courses:
CSCI 500 Concepts in Computing	(last taught Fall 2007)
CSCI 501 Fundamental Concepts in Systems	(last taught Fall 1999)
CSCI 502 Fundamental Concepts in Algorithms	(last taught Spring 2008)
CSCI 531 Artificial Intelligence	(Fall 2009)
CSCI 533 Analysis of Algorithms	(last taught Fall 2006)
CSCI 575 Database Systems II	(last taught Fall 2007)
CSCI 581 Special Topics: Internet Programming	(last taught Summer 2008)
CSCI 581 Special Topics: Scripting Languages	(last taught Spring 2006)
CSCI 582 Special Topics: Bioinformatics	(last taught Fall 2008)
CSCI 582 Data Mining	(last taught Summer 2006)
ENGR 654 Information Systems Principles	(Spring 2010)
ENGR 662 Advanced Artificial Intelligence	(last taught Fall 1996)
ENGR 692 Computational Biology	(last taught Spring 2009)
ENGR 692 Parallel Programming	(last taught Spring 2007)
ENGR 692 Machine Learning	(last taught Fall 2004)
ENGR 695 Seminar

Where to Find Me

Office Address:

Computer and Information Science Department

215 Weir Hall

University of Mississippi

University, MS 38677

(662) 915-7309

Department Address:

Computer and Information Science Department

201 Weir Hall

University of Mississippi

University, MS 38677

(662) 915-7396

(662) 915-5623 (Fax)

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