Associate Professor
Ph.D., University of Kansas , 1999
M.S., University of Kansas , 1986
B.S., University of Kansas , 1981
Personal Web-Site: http://web.mst.edu/~leopoldj

 

Areas of Interest 

Database Accessibility and Analysis, Scientific Visualization, Bioinformatics.

My research interests range broadly in end-user programming environments, with particular focus on database accessibility and analysis, and scientific visualization. I have pursued those interests through research projects in the field of bioinformatics, wherein the end-users are scientists (untrained as programmers or IT professionals) who need to analyze large quantities of complex data. In particular, I have been interested in developing and studying the use of software tools that will allow such end-users to use powerful information technology to enhance their research, without the need for traditional programming training.

Selected Publications

L. Lee, C. Kandoth, J. Leopold, and R. Frank, “Protein Secondary Structure Prediction Using Parallelized Rule Induction from Coverings”, Proceedings of the International Conference on Bioinformatics and Bioscience Engineering (ICBBE 2009), Bangkok, Thailand, December 25-27, 2009.

J. Leopold, A. Coalter, and L. Lee, “A Generic, Functionally Comprehensive Approach to Maintaining an Ontology as a Relational Database”, Proceedings of the 2009 International Conference on Ontological and Semantic Engineering (ICOSE 2009), Rome, Italy, April 28 - April 30, 2009.

L. Lee, J. Leopold, J. Albath, and A. Coalter, “An Ontology Abstract Machine”, Proceedings of the 2009 International Conference on Ontological and Semantic Engineering (ICOSE 2009), Rome, Italy, April 28 - April 30, 2009.

L. Lee, J. Leopold, R. Frank, and A. Maglia, “A Computational Method for Identifying Non-Independent Patterns in Protein Motif Sequence Data for Secondary Structure Prediction”, Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, Nashville, TN, March 30 - April 2, 2009.

J. Leopold and D. Tauritz, “An Interactive, Student-Driven Program to Facilitate Scholastic Achievement in Computer Science, Engineering, and Mathematics”, Proceedings of the 2009 American Society of Engineering Education (ASEE) Conference, Austin, TX, June 14-17, 2009.

T. Kazic, J. Leopold, and A. Maglia, “Reasoning Over Anatomical Ontologies”, Data Mining Applications Using Ontologies in Biomedicine, Mihail Popescu and Dong Xu (eds.), Artech House Publishing, 2009.

J. Leopold, A. Maglia, M. Thakur, B. Patel, and F. Ercal, “Identifying Character Non-Independence in Phylogenetic Data Using Parallelized Rule Induction From Coverings”, Data Mining VIII: Data, Text, and Web Mining and Their Business Applications, WIT Transactions on Information and Communication Technologies, Vol. 38, 2007, pp. 45-54.

A. Roy, J. Leopold, and A. Maglia, “Alternative Splicing: Associating Frequency with Isoforms”, Proceedings of the IEEE 7th International Symposium on Bioinformatics and Bioengineering (BIBE 2007), Cambridge-Boston, MA, October 14-17, 2007.

L. Guntly, J. Leopold, and A. Maglia, “Determining Domain Similarity and Domain-Protein Similarity Using Functional Similarity Measurements of Gene Ontology Terms”, Proceedings of the IEEE 7th International Symposium on Bioinformatics and Bioengineering (BIBE 2007), Cambridge-Boston, MA, October 14-17, 2007.

A. Maglia, J. Leopold, A. Pugener, and S. Gauch, “An Anatomical Ontology for Amphibians”, Proceedings of the Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing (PSB 2007), Wailea, Maui, January 3-7, 2007, pp. 367-378.

Recent Grants:

Semi-Automated Construction of an Ontology for Amphibian Morphology, NSF, $1,116K, 2007-2010, PI.