Dr. Ryan Benton
Ph.D. - Computer Science University of Louisiana at Lafayette, 2001
Dissertation: Weighted Feature Projection in Instance-based Classifiers
Master of Science: Computer Science, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, 1997.
Bachelor of Science: Computer Information Systems, Loyola University New Orleans, 1995.
- Big Data Predictive Maintenance using Artificial Intelligence
- Graph Mining, with an emphasis on Link Discovery
- Frequent Pattern Mining
- Selective association mining
- Action Rule Mining
- Contrast Mining
- Applied Data Mining within the Biomedical and Health domains
- Social Media Analytics
Positions Held:
Assistant Professor, School of Computing, University of South Alabama, (August 2015 – present).
Research Scientist, Informatics Research Institute, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, (July 2014 – July 2015).
Research Scientist, Center for Visual and Decision Informatics, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, (February 2012 – June 2014).
Research Scientist, Center for Advanced Computer Studies, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, (January 2002 – January 2012).
Courses Taught:
CSC 331 – Software Engineering Principles
CSC 526 – Data Mining
CIS 594 – Directed Study
CIS 595 – CIS Research Development
CIS 599 – CIS Thesis
CSC 626 – Advanced Big Data
CIS 694 – Directed Study