Michael W. Berry
Michael W. Berry is Professor and Associate Head in the newly formed Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. He previously served as Head of the UT Computer Science Department. He received his BS degree in Mathematics from the University of Georgia in 1981, his MS degree in Applied Mathematics from North Carolina State University in 1983, and his doctoral degree from the University of Illinois in 1990. He has been at UT Knoxville since 1991.
Dr. Berry is an expert on text mining, parallel computing, and application of high performance computing in genomics and environmental biology. He has been a long-term collaborator on three NSF-funded projects involving application of parallel and grid-computing methods to address natural resource problems.
In the area of computational science, Dr. Berry and his students have focused on the development of algorithms and software in the domains of text mining, bioinformatics, landscape ecology, and medical imaging. Specific areas of research related to NIMBioS include: (1) the development of the Land-Use Change Analysis System (LUCAS) which uses a spatially-explicit landscape-change model, a Geographic Information System (GIS), and nonlinear regression analysis to produce pixel-based transition probabilities of land cover change for spatial environmental impact assessment; (2) teaming with biologists (Gary Stuart) at Indiana State University to develop computational approaches to whole genome phylogeny using high-performance linear algebra methods and software, and with Ramin Homayouni at the University of Memphis to apply vector space information retrieval models from text mining to problems in gene classification and microarray design; (3) teaming with mathematical ecologists (Louis Gross and Tom Hallam of the UT Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology) to build scalable algorithms and software for development of multimodeling approaches to individual-based ecological models of endangered species and predator-prey relationships in areas of national importance (e.g. The Florida Everglades); and (4) teaming with Louis Gross and Shih-Lung Shaw (UT Geography Department) to exploit high-performance computing in GIS for spatial optimization and control in landscape ecology.
email: berry@eecs.utk.edu
phone: 865-974-3838
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