Goutam Paul

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Department of Computer Science
University at Albany,
State University of New York (SUNY)

1400 Washington Avenue, LI 67A
Albany, New York 12222-0100
Phone : (001)-(518)-442-4270, Fax : (001)-(518)-442-5638

Research Lab : LI 95F, Phone : (001)-(518)-442-4422

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Research Interests

Publications

Teaching

RA Information

TA Information

Courses Taken

Curriculum Vitae

Professional Activities

Other Activities

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Research Interests

Information Hiding and Security

• Cryptography and Cryptanalysis

• Steganography and Steganalysis

Machine Learning (a sub-field of Artificial Intelligence)

• Complexity in Learning

• Pattern Recognition

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Publications

Multi-method Decision Tree Learning for Data Mining,
Somnath Pal, Tridib Kumar Saha, Goutam K. Paul, Chinmay Maiti and Ananda Mohan Ghosh,
Proceedings of the 28th Annual Convention and Exhibition of IEEE India Council, December 20-21, 2002, Science City, Kolkata, India, pp 238-242

Searching for Hidden Messages: Automatic Detection of Steganography,
George Berg, Ian Davidson, Ming-Yuan Duan and Goutam Paul,
Proceedings of the 15th Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence (IAAI) Conference, August 12-14, 2003, Acapulco, Mexico, pp 51-56

Occam's Razor and a Non-syntactic Measure of Decision Tree Complexity,
Goutam Paul,
Proceedings of the 19th National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), July 25-29, 2004, San Jose, California, pp 962-963 (Student Abstract)
(The poster for the conference presentation is available here)

Locating Secret Messages in Images,
Ian Davidson and Goutam Paul,
Proceedings of the 10th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, Aug 22-25, 2004, Seattle, Washington, pp 545-550

Artificial Intelligence and Consciousness,
Goutam Paul,
2nd Human-E-Tech Conference, April 23-25, 2004, SUNY Albany
(The slides for the conference presentation are available here)

For recent publications, see the detailed list here

For a list of additional (non-technical) publications, click here

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Instructor

for

Summer 2003 :

• CSI 210 : Discrete Structures

Summer 2004 :

• CSI 210 : Discrete Structures

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Research Assistant (RA)

for

Summer 2003 :

• Prof. Ian Davidson

Spring 2004 :

• Prof. Ian Davidson

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Teaching Assistant (TA)

for

Fall 2001 :

• CSI 333 : Programming at the Hardware Software Interface

Spring 2002 :

• CSI 310 : Data Structures

Summer 2002 :

• CSI 210 : Discrete Structures
• CSI 101 : Elements of Computing (Visual Basic 6.0)

Fall 2002 :

• CSI 333 : Programming at the Hardware Software Interface
• CSI 500 : Operating Systems (Graduate course)

Spring 2003 :

• CSI 310 : Data Structures

Fall 2003 :

• CSI 409 : Automata and Formal Languages

Fall 2004 :

• CSI 210 : Discrete Structures

Spring 2005 :

• CSI 310 : Data Structures

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Graduate Courses Taken

From the Department of Computer Science
Theory Courses:

• Algorithms and Data Structures

• Advanced Data Strcutures

• Theory of Computation (audited)

• Computers and Computational Intractability

• Introduction to Mathematical Logic

• Mathematical Logic II

System Courses:

• Operating Systems

• Topics in Database Systems

• Computer Communications Networks

Application Courses:

• Software Engineering

• Information Retrieval

• Data Mining (audited)

• Cryptographic Protocols

A.I. Courses:

• Artificial Intelligence I

• Artificial Intelligence II

• Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence

From the Department of Mathematics and Statistics

• Introduction to Theory of Statistics I

• Introduction to Theory of Statistics II

• Number Theory

• The Mathematics of Machine Learning

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Curriculum Vitae

• pdf file

(Last updated: 2005)

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Professional Activities

Student Member (2003 - Present) -- Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Also, member of ACM Special Interest Groups on

• Artificial Intelligence (SIGART)

• Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (SIGKDD)

• Algorithms and Computation Theory (SIGACT)

Student Member (2003 - Present) -- American Association for Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)

Student Member (2003 - Present) -- Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM)
Also, member of SIAM Activity Group (SIAG) on

• Financial Mathematics and Engineering

Member (2002 - Present) -- The National Scholars Honor Society, USA

Participant -- 1st Lightweight Languages (LL1) Workshop, November 17, 2001, MIT -- organized by the MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab Dynamic Languages Group

Presenter -- Beyond Data and Digits : My Teaching Experiences in the CSI Department, 1st Sharing Knowledge, Insights, and Lessons Learned (SKILL) Conference, November 1, 2003, SUNY Albany -- organized by Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning (CETL), SUNY Albany

Presenter -- Teaching as a Way of Learning, 2nd Sharing Knowledge, Insights, and Lessons Learned (SKILL) Conference, October 16, 2004, SUNY Albany -- organized by Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning (CETL), SUNY Albany

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Other Activities

Senator (2004 - 2005) -- University Senate , SUNY Albany

Member (2004 - 2005) -- Resource Analysis and Planning Committee, University Planning and Policy Council , SUNY Albany

Department Representative / Mobilizer (2004 - Present) -- Graduate Student Employees Union , SUNY Albany

Member (2004 - Present) -- Students for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (SETA), SUNY Albany

Member (2003 - Present) -- Indian Student Organization (ISO), SUNY Albany

Facilitator (2003 - Present) -- Club for Applied Spiritual Technology, Albany Medical College

Program Director (2003 - 2004) -- Hindu Student Organization (HSO), SUNY Albany

Cultural Secretary (2002 - 2003) -- Hindu Student Organization, SUNY Albany

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Additional Publications

The Ultimate Science of Yoga,
Goutam Paul,
OM Magazine, Issue 6, Spring 2004, pp 12-17

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