Research Interests: Data Science,
Machine Learning, Computational Neuroscience, High Performance Computing, Visualization.
Teaching:
- Fall
2019: ENEE759G: Unsupervised
Learning
- Fall
2018, Spring 2019: ENEE101: Introduction to Electrical and Computer
Engineering
- Fall
2017, Spring 2018, and Fall 2018: ENEE244: Digital Logic Design
Biographical Sketch:
- Interim Chair, Department of Electrical and Computer
Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park.
- Professor: Electrical and Computer Engineering, and
Institute for Advanced Computer Studies, University of Maryland.
- 2010-2011: Interim VP and CIO, University of Maryland,
College Park.
- 1994-2004: Director of the University of Maryland
Institute for Advanced Computer Studies (UMIACS)
- 2002-2004: Interim Director of the Center for
Bioinformatics and Computational Biology
- Ph.D. 1977, M.S. 1976, Applied Mathematics, Division of
Engineering and Applied Physics, Harvard University.
- Over 180 refereed publications in parallel and
distributed computing, data intensive computing, combinatorial algorithms,
algebraic complexity, and VLSI architectures.
- IEEE and ACM Fellow
- more
Current Projects:
- Machine Learning Algorithms for the Brain. This project addresses the structural and functional organization of
the brain and the characteristics of the corresponding brain networks using
DTI and fMRI data. The project involves collaborations with a number of
faculty at UMD and UMB, and is partially funded under the Center for
Health-Related Informatics and Bioimaging (CHIB) and the Brain and
Behavior Initiative (BBI).
- Parallel Computing. Development of parallel
algorithms and their implementations on current and emerging heterogeneous
multicore/GPU platforms. Applications of interest range from scientific
computing to large scale graph –theoretic problems to machine
learning algorithms for big data. A current effort involves fast
simulation and real-time simulation of Agent Based Models for vocal cord
inflammation and healing process.
- Partnership with the Laboratory for Telecommunication
Sciences.
This partnership involves collaborative efforts involving a broad set of
research areas and outreach activities. Current research projects cover
topics in high performance computing, networking, wireless, network
security, and geolocation.
- ADAPT: An Approach to Digital Archiving and Preservation
Technology. The
ADAPT project is developing technologies for building a scalable and
reliable infrastructure for the long-term access and preservation of
digital contents. This project involves collaborative efforts under the Chronopolis Consortium and the Digital Preservation
Network Consortium.
Selected Recent Publications:
- Analysis and Forecasting for Traffic Flow
Data, Y. Wang and J. JaJa, Sensors
and Materials, 31(6),
2143-2154, 2019.
- Feature Prioritization and
Regularization Improve Standard Accuracy and Adversarial Robustness, C. Liu and J. JaJa, to appear in Proceedings for the
International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI),
August 2019.
- Brain
Dynamics and Temporal Trajectories during Task and Naturalistic Processing, M. Venkatesh, J. JaJa,
and L. Pessoa, Neuroimage, 2019.
- High-Performance Agent-based Modeling
Applied to Vocal Fold Inflammation and Repair, N. Seekhao, C. Shung,
J. JaJa, L. Mongeau, and N. Li-Jessen, Frontiers in Physiology, April
2018, Vol. 9.
- LEICA: Laplacian Eigenmaps for Group ICA Decomposition, C. Liu, J. JaJa, and L.
Pessoa, Neuroimage,
2017.
- In Situ Visualization for 3D
Agent-Based Vocal Fold Inflammation and Repair Simulation, N. Skeekhao,
J. JaJa, L. Mongeau, and N. Li-Jessen, accepted to Supercomputing Frontiers and Innovations, 2017.
- Real-time Agent-Based Modeling and Simualtion with in-situ Visualization of Complex
Biological Systems: A Case Study on Vocal Fold Inflammation and Healing, N. Seekhao, C. Shung,
J. JaJa, L. Mongeau, and N. Li, Proceedings
of the HiCOMB 2016 Workshop, May 2016,
Chicago.
- A High Performance Implementation of Spectral
Clustering on CPU-GPU Platforms, Y. Jin and J. JaJa, Proceedings of the Parallel Computing and Optimization (PCO 2016)
Workshop, May 2016, Chicago.
- Linking “Toxic Outliers” to Environmental
Justice Communities, M. Collins, I. Munoz, and J. JaJa, Environmental Research Letters, December 2016. Won the ERL Best Article for 2016.
- Connectivity-Based Brain
Parecellations: A Connectivity-Based Atlas for Schizophrenia Research, Q. Wang, R. Chen, J.
JaJa, Y. Jin, E. Hong, and E. Herskovits, Neuroinformatics, October 2015.
- A Data-Driven Approach to Extract
Connectivity Structures from Diffusion Tensor Imaging Data, Y. Jin, J. JaJa, R.
Chen, and E. Herskovits, Proceedings
of the 2015 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (IEEE BigData
2015), Oct 29 – Nov 1, 2015, Santa Clara, CA.
- Achieving Native GPU Performance for
Out-of-Card Large Matrix Multiplication, J. Wu and J. JaJa, Parallel Processing Letters, 2016.
- Resting State Dynamic Functional Network Analysis in
Mild Traumatic Brain Injury, W. Hou, C. Chandler, J. JaJa, and R.
Gullapalli, International
Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine ISMRN 2015, Toronto, Ontario, May 30—31, 2015.
- Optimized FFT Computations on Heterogeneous
Platforms with Application to the Poisson Equation. J. Wu and J. JaJa, Journal of Parallel and Distributed
Computing, 2014.
- From Maxout to
Channel-Out: Encoding Information on Sparse Pathways, Q. Wang and J. JaJa, Proceedings of the International
Conference on Artificial Neural Networks, 15-19 September, 2014,
Hamburg, Germany.
- High Performance FFT Based Poisson Solver on a
CPU-GPU Heterogeneous Platform, J. Wu and J. JaJa, International
Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS), May 2013,
Boston, Massachusetts.
- Hierarchical Exploration of Volumes Using
Multilevel Segmentation of the Intensity-Gradient Histograms, C. Yiu Ip, A.
Varshney, and J. JaJa, VIS 2012, October 2012 (won Best Paper Award for SciVis 2012)
- An Effective Approach to Temporally
Anchored Information Retrieval, Z. Wei and J. JaJa, UMIACS-TR-2012-10, University of
Maryland, College Park, August, 2012.
- Optimized Strategies for Mapping Three-dimensional
FFTs onto CUDA GPUs, J. Wu and J. JaJa, Proceedings of Innovative
Parallel Computing (INPAR) Workshop, San Jose, CA, May
13-14, 2012.
- Constructing Inverted Files: To MapReduce or Not Revisited, Z. Wei and J. JaJa,
Technical Report, University of Maryland, College Park, 2011. Also, to
appear in IEEE Transactions on
Parallel and Distributed Computing.
- A Fast Algorithm for
Constructing Inverted Files on Heterogeneous Platforms, Z. Wei and J. JaJa, International
Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS), May 2011,
Anchorage, Alaska.
- Optimization of
Linked List Prefix Computations on Multithreaded GPUs Using CUDA, Z Wei and J. JaJa, International
Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS), April 2010,
Atlanta, GA.
- Streaming Based
Volume Ray Casting on the Cell Broadband Engine, J. Kim and
J. JaJa, Scientific Programming, Special Issue on High-Performance
Computing on the Cell BE, 17(number 1-2), 173-184, 2009.
- Techniques to Audit and
Certify the Long Term Integrity of Digital Archives, S. Song and J. JaJa, International
Journal of Digital Libraries, 2010.
- Quantifying the astrocytoma
cell response to candidate pharmaceutical from F-ACTIN image analysis, Chi Cui, Joseph JaJa, Thomas Turbyville, John Beutler,
Prabhakar Gudla, Kaustav Nandy and Stephen Lockett, EMBC2009, Minneapolis,
Minnesota
- Interactive Direct
Volume Rendering on Desktop Multicore Processors, Q. Wang and J. JaJa, Concurrency
and Computation: Practice and Experience, 21, 2199-2212, September
2009.
- Robust Tools and Services
for Long-Term Preservation of Digital Information, J. JaJa and S. Song, Library
Trends Special Issue: Library of Congress National Digital Information and
Preservation Parntership, 57:3, 580-594,
2009.
- Search and Access Strategies
for Web Archives, S Song and J. JaJa, Proceedings of Archiving 2009,
May 4-7, 2009.
- Streaming
Model Based Volume Ray Casting Implementation for Cell Broadband Engine,
Jusub
Kim and Joseph JaJa, Proceedings of Eurographics
Symposium on Parallel Graphics and Visualization, 2008.
- Fast
Browsing of Archived Web Contents, Sangchul Song and Joseph JaJa, Proceedings of the
International Web Archiving Workshop, September 18-19, 2008, Aarhus,
Denmark.
- Parallel Algorithms
for Volumetric Surface Construction, J. JaJa, Q. Shi, and A. Varshney, a chapter in Parallel
Computing: Models, Algorithms, and Applications, S. Rajasekaran and J.
Reif, eds., Chapman & Hall/CRC, 2008.
- Interactive
High-Resolution Isosurface Ray Casting on
Multi-core Processors, Q. Wang and J. JaJa, IEEE Transactions on
Visualization and Computer Graphics, 2008.
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Last Updated: December, 2017.