Artificial Intelligence
Research in artificial intelligence (AI) has a long tradition at Mississippi State University. The first PhD awarded by the department was for research in AI, as have been the majority of PhDs awarded since then, and research in AI continues to be one of the strengths of the department. Current research projects range from theoretical to applied, include several inter-disciplinary collaborations, and involve the active participation of over 20 graduate students.
Research Areas
The research interests of Dr. Gene Boggess include genetic algorithms, neural networks and related "sub-symbolic" methods for machine learning and optimization.
Dr. Susan Bridges specializes in the application of data mining and machine learning techniques in bioinformatics and computer security. Her work has been funded by NSF, ONR, the Army Research Lab, and the USDA.
Dr. Eric Hansen does research in automated planning and heuristic search, including decision-theoretic approaches to planning under uncertainty, game-theoretic approaches to multi-agent planning, and memory-efficient graph-search algorithms. His work has been funded by NSF and NASA.
Dr. Julia Hodges conducts research in the application of data mining and machine learning techniques in bioinformatics. Some of the techniques that she uses were developed for earlier work in document classification. Her work has been funded by NSF, the USDA, the Naval Oceanographic Office, ONR, and the Department of Energy.
