Assistant Professor

Department of Computer Science, LSU Shreveport

Contact Information:
Email: ucvek@lsus.edu
Office Phone: 318-795-4266
Office Fax: 318-795-2419

Education/Training:

Sc.D., Computer Science, 2004, University of Massachusetts

MBA, Business Administration, 1997, University of Massachusetts

B.S., Economics/Marketing, 1995, University of Ljublijana

Major Research Interests:  

Biomedical informatics, visualization, data analysis and data mining, cluster and distributed computing

The biomedical field has undergone strong growth over the past decade, generating massive data sets that require new approaches. Our goal is to not only utilize current tools, but to devise tools that incorporate visual techniques with analytical and statistical approaches to harness the experimental scientist’s intuition and aid data exploration. 

Representative Publications:

Retinoids and skin: microarrays shed new light on chemopreventive action of all-trans retinoic acid. S. B. Cheepala, Z. Syed, M. Trutschl, U. Cvek, J. L. Clifford. Molecular Carcinogenesis, 2007.

2D and 3D Neural-Network Based Visualization of High-Dimensional Biomedical Data, U. Cvek, M. Trutschl, J.C. Cannon, R.S. Scott, R.E. Rhoads, Symposium on Information Visualization in Biomedical Informatics, 11th  International Conference on Information Visualization, 2007. First two authors equally contributed to this publication.