Halima Bensmail

Associate Professor of Statistics

Department of Statistics, Operation and Management Sciences

334 Stokely Management Center
University of Tennessee
Knoxville, TN 37996-0532

Faculty member at the Graduate school of Genome Sciences Technology http://gst.ornl.gov/

 

 

Teaching:

 

Teaching (Spring 2006)

Stat 664 Stat 664
Stat 320 Stat 320 

 

Teaching (Spring 2005)

Stat 320 Stat 320 
Stat 474/574 Stat 574

Teaching (Fall 2004):                                       

Stat 201 Stat 201
Stat 320 Stat 320

 Teaching (Spring 2004)

Stat 664 Stat 664 
Stat 578 Stat 578

Research interest:

Some selected publications:

  1. Bensmail, H., Buddana A., Semmes O. J. and Haoudi (2005) "A Functional Clustering Algorithm for High Dimensional Proteomics Data". Journal of Biomedicine and Biotechnology. In Press

  2. Wang, C. H., Kuo, W, and Bensmail, H. (2005). "Application of Image Processing Techniques and EM Algorithm to Detect Defect Patterns in Wafer Maps". IEEE transactions. Submitted

  3. Buddana, A, Bensmail, H and Ostrouchov, G (2005). Steering of Iterative Bayesian Clustering to Uncover Multiscale Structure in Massive Data Sets. Submitted to the Journal of Pattern recognition.

  4. Bensmail, H and Bozdogan, H (2004). Bayesian Clustering of Imputed and Mixed Data. Submitted to the Journal of Royal Statistical Society (JRSS).

  5. Liu Z., Dechang Chen, Bensmail, H and Ying Xu (2005). Gene Expression Data Clustering with Kernel Principal Component Analysis. Published in Journal of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (JBCB).

  6. Liu Z., Chen D., Bensmail, H., Reifman, J. and Xu, Y (2005) "Gene Expression Data Classification with Kernel Principal Component Analysis." Journal of Biomedicine and Biotechnology (JBB). In press.

  7. Bensmail, H A, Semmens, J. and Haoudi, A. (2005). Bayesian Fast-Fourier Transform Based Clustering Method for Proteomics Data. Journal of Bioinformatics. In Press.

  8. Kwon, Y. and Bensmail, H. (2004). Bayesian autoregressive-threshold model for forecasting. Statistics department Technical report. Download

  9. Bensmail, H. Golek, H. M, Semmes, J. and Haoudi, A. (2004). Fourier-based bayesian clustering for proteomics data. Statistics department technical report, 2004. Download

  10. Bensmail, H. and J. Meulman, J.J (2003). Inferences for model-based cluster analysis with noise. Journal of Classification (20), page 49-76. Download

  11. Bensmail, H. and Haoudi, A. (2003). Post-Genomics and Proteomics Data analysis: J. Biomed. Biot., 4, 217-230. Download see://jbb.hindawi.com

  12. Bensmail, H., and Bozdogan, H. (2004). Adaptive Model-based Kernel Cluster analysis with optimal scaling. Submitted to JASA. Statistics department technical report Download

  13. Bensmail, H. Meulman, J.J (2000). Discriminant analysis with optimal scaling. Studies in Classification, Data Analysis, and Knowledge Organization. Springer-Verlag, page 60-67. Download

  14. Bensmail, H. Celeux, G. Raftery, A. &  Robert, C (1997). Inference in model-based cluster analysis, Computing and Statistics, 1, N10, pp.1-10. Download

  15. Bensmail, H. & Celeux, G. (1996). Regularized discriminant analysis, Journal of the American Statistical Association (JASA), Vol. 91, No 436, pp. 1743-1748. Download

Statistical software produced

  1. KernDisc: Multivariate Kernel-Discriminant Analysis, University of Tennessee, SPLUS, 2001.

  2. KernMix: Multivariate Kernel mixture-model cluster analysis, University of Tennessee,  SPLUS, 2002.

  3. Metrounfold: Bayesian Unfolding model via metropolis and Gibbs sampler in Data Theory group, 1999.

  4. EDDA: Eigenvalue Decomposition Discriminant Analysis (programmer) in R and S-Plus  (INRIA) 1995.

  5. IMBCA1: Inference in Model-Based Cluster Analysis for linear, spherical and proportional covariance matrices in clustering, (Department of Statistics, University of Washington), 1996.

  6. PPCD:  Prediction of Prostate Cancer Data (longitudinal data) using Gibbs Sampler, Fred  Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, 1996.     

To read some articles on Clustering, visit this homepage

 www.ece.northwestern.edu/~harsha/Clustering/clus.html 

To view papers on Bayesian analysis, visit this homepage

http://www.stat.rutgers.edu/~madigan/bayes_people.html