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CONTACT INFORMATION 2911 Centenary Blvd
Mathematics and Computer Sciences
Shreveport, LA 71104
(318) 869-5194

EDUCATION
Aug '98 - Aug '07		 University of Wisconsin - Madison, Madison, Wisconsin
Computer Science - Ph.D. Aug '07, M.S. May '00

Coursework Includes:
  • Machine Learning
  • Bioinformatics
  • Computational Complexity
  • Database Management Systems
  • Research in Computational Politics

Honors and Organizations:
  • '06 International Conference on Machine Learning Student Volunteer Scholarship
  • '04 International Conference on Inductive Logic Programming Best Student Paper Award
  • '02-'04,'06 Computation and Informatics in Biology and Medicine Trainee
  • '02-'03 UW ACM Chapter President
  • '01-'02 UW ACM Chapter Social Chair
  • '00 Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor in UW CS Department
  • ACM SIG on K-12 CS Education '04 - '06
  • IEEE '98 - '03
  • SACM '98 - '03
  • Sigma Xi '98 - '03

Aug '94 - May '98
 Kenyon College, Gambier, Ohio
Mathematics and Philosophy - B.A. May '98

Coursework Includes:
  • Discrete Mathematics
  • Linear Algebra
  • Symbolic Logic
  • Automated Theorem Proving
  • Formal Models of Cognition
  • Early Analytic Philosophy

Honors and Organizations:
  • Member - Curriculum Review Committee '97 - '98
  • Solomon R. S. Kasper Prize for creativity in computer science '98
  • Kenyon Summer Science Scholar - Summer '97
  • Editor - The Kenyon Observer '95 - '98
  • Member - Kenyon College Chamber Singers '95 - '98

EMPLOYMENT
Aug '07 - Present		 Centenary College of Louisiana, Shreveport, LA
Broyles Eminent Scholars Chair in Computational Mathematics
Assistant Professor

Sep '01 - Aug '07 University of Wisconsin - Madison, Madison, Wisconsin
Research Assistant for Professor Jude Shavlik

Publications:
  • Gleaner: Creating Ensembles of First-Order Clauses to Improve Recall-Precision Curves
    Mark Goadrich, Louis Oliphant and Jude Shavlik
    Machine Learning, 64, pp. 231-262, 2006
  • The Relationship Between Precision-Recall and ROC Curves
    Jesse Davis and Mark Goadrich
    23rd International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), Pittsburgh, PA, USA, 26th - 28th June, 2006
  • Learning to Extract Genic Interactions using Gleaner
    Mark Goadrich, Louis Oliphant and Jude Shavlik
    Learning Language in Logic 2005 Workshop at the International Conference on Machine Learning, Bonn, Germany, 7 August 2005
  • Learning Ensembles of First-Order Clauses for Recall-Precision Curves: A Case Study in Biomedical Information Extraction
    Mark Goadrich, Louis Oliphant and Jude Shavlik
    14th International Conference on Inductive Logic Programming, Porto, Portugal, 6th - 8th September, 2004

Jun '01 - Aug '01 University of Wisconsin - Madison, Madison, Wisconsin
Instructor

Introduction to Artificial Intelligence (CS540)
  • Instructor of 30 students upper-class CS majors.
  • Managed teaching assistant and prepared extensive course webpage.
  • Lecture topics included Search Spaces, Genetic Algorithms, Knowledge Representation, Machine Learning and Probability.

Jan '07 - May '07
Jan '01 - May '01
Aug '98 - May '00		 University of Wisconsin - Madison, Madison, Wisconsin
Teaching Assistant

Introduction to Programming in Java (CS302)
  • Stand-alone instructor of 5 sections, 20 students each.
  • Prepared extensive course webpage with demonstration programs.
  • Delivered lectures and assisted students in office hours.

Introduction to Artificial Intelligence (CS540)
  • Organized and led weekly discussion section.
  • Created and graded homework in Java.
  • Lectured on "Formalizing a Search Space" and "Propositional Logic".
  • Course included decision trees, neural networks, uncertainty, and predicate calculus.

Using Computers (CS132)
  • Instructor of fifty students in basics of Microsoft Office, Internet, and Windows NT.
  • Developed extensive handouts covering Office tutorials.
  • Redesigned course webpage.

June '00 - Nov '00
 Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, Texas
Research Analyst

  • Initiated redesign of military ground game software.
  • Researched, developed, and implemented quadtree spatial data structure.
  • Supported client software use at Joint Military Exercise JEFX'00.

May '99 - Dec '99
 Computation, Vision and Geometry Research Group, Madison, Wisconsin
Webmaster

  • Organized content for presentation to sponsors.
  • Designed user-friendly template for all group web-pages.
  • Maintained current events and additional research project pages.

Aug '95 - May '98
 Information and Computing Systems, Gambier, Ohio
Helpline Operator / Computer Consultant

  • Answered computer-related questions by telephone.
  • Routed service requests via database.
  • Performed on-site assistance for faculty and students.

COMPUTER SKILLS Systems: Microsoft Windows 3.11, 95, 2000, NT and XP, MacOS, Unix, Linux
Languages: Java, Prolog, HTML, XML, XSLT, Scheme, C++, Perl
Knowledge: Microsoft Office, Aleph & YAP, Adobe Illustrator 8.0, Matlab v5, Frontier v5

REFERENCES Available upon request