Professor

Contact Information

• Office Address: Min H. Kao Building, Room 616
• Phone: 865-974-3838
• Fax: 865-974-5483
• E-mail: [email protected]

Biography

Professor Michael Berry is the co-author and editor of two recent books published by SIAM (Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics): “Understanding Search Engines: Mathematical Modeling and Text Retrieval, Second Edition” and “Computational Information Retrieval”. A third edited volume entitled “A Survey of Text Mining” was published by Springer-Verlag in August of 2003. He has published over 75 refereed journal and conference publications.

He has organized numerous workshops on Text Mining and was Conference Co-Chair of the 2003 SIAM Third International Conference on Data Mining (May 1-3) in San Francisco, CA. He was also Program Co-Chair of the 2004 Co-Chair of the 2003 SIAM Fourth International Conference on Data Mining (April 22-24) in Orlando, FL. He is a member of SIAM, ACM, and the IEEE Computer Society and is on the editorial board of “Computing in Science and Engineering” and the “SIAM Journal of Scientific Computing”.

Research Interests

• Scientific computing
• Parallel numerical algorithms
• Information retrieval
• Data mining
• Computational science and performance evaluation
• Visual Analytics

Education

• PhD in Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• MS in Applied Mathematics, North Carolina State University
• BS in Mathematics, University of Georgia