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	Giri Narasimhan Distinguished University Professor, FIU; Ryder Endowed Professor & 2023 Top Scholar Google Cloud Research Innovator, 2024; (Blog) Director, UKG Academy for CS Education Coach, FIU Programming Team Coordinator, MS in Data Science and AI	Knight Foundation School of Computing & Information Sciences Florida International University 11200 SW 8th Street, CASE 254B, Miami, FL 33199-0001. Ph: (305) 348-3748; Lab: (305) 348-6250 Fax: (305) 348-3549; Email: girics.fiu.edu ; girifiu.edu
Research All Publications; Software Research Group (BioRG); BioRG Publications Algorithms for Machine Learning and Data Analytics (AMaDAys)	Teaching CAP 5768: Intro to Data Science F18, F19, F20, F21 COP 4534: Algorithmic Techniques F21 CAP 2752: Foundations of Data Science COT 6405: Analysis of Algorithms F19 COT 5407: Intro to Algorithms S19, S17, F08 IDC 6940: Capstone in Data Science Su20, S20, F19, F18 CAP 5510/CGS 5166: Bioinformatics F18, S15, S13, S11, S08, S07, S06, S05, F03 COP 3530 Data Structures F16, S04 COT 6936: Topics in Algorithms S14, S12 BSC 4934: Q'BIC Capstone Su11, Su10 COP 4516: Competitive Programming & Problem Solving	Miscellaneous Links: E-mail (SCS); E-mail (FIU) Hurricanes (I, II, and NR); Dictionary Corona Virus Meters (I and II) Emergency 348-HELP(4357) FIU Programming Team; Join Team Discord Server: Linktree; Old Lectures Video Recordings on Problem Solving: I, II Join vJudge for online judge environment.

In Memoriam Melita Jaric, Ph.D. student, passed away on March 11, 2013. A bright, promising life was snuffed out in a careless hit-and-run accident. For more details, click here Memorial Service Video: click here Melita Jaric Memorial Travel Award: To donate click here Travel Fellowships: Our efforts

I am convinced that everything that is worth while in the world has been accomplished by the free, inquiring, critical spirit... But the men of ritual and the men of barbarism are capable of shutting up the men of science and of silencing them forever." — Sinclair Lewis, from It Can't Happen Here

A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on a cold iron... Horace Mann A teacher is a facilitator of learning, a curator of content, and most of all, a motivator of learning... D. B. Phatak

Teacher vs Guru

Edited Volume Bionformatics Research and Applications Zhipeng Cai, Ion Mandoiu, Giri Narasimhan, Pavel Skums, and Xuan Guo LNCS/LNBI Vol. 12304, Springer Verlag, 2020. [ISBN: 978-3-030-57820-6] and [ISBN: 978-3-030-57821-3](eBook) DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-57821-3

Edited Volume Computational Advances in Bio and Medical Sciences Ion Mandoiu, T. M. Murali, Giri Narasimhan, Sanguthevar Rajasekaran, Pavel Skums, and Alexander Zelikovsky LNCS/LNBI Vol. 12029, Springer Verlag, 2019. [ISBN: 978-3-030-46164-5] and [ISBN: 978-3-030-46165-2] (eBook) DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-46165-2

Edited Volume Bionformatics Research and Applications Ion Mandoiu, Giri Narasimhan and Yanqing Zhang Vol. 5542, Springer Verlag, 2009. [ISBN: 978-3-642-01550-2]

Research Monograph Geometric Spanner Networks Giri Narasimhan and Michiel Smid 560 Pages, January 2007 Cambridge University Press. [ISBN: 0521815134] Also available in eBook format. Slides by M. Farshi from course based on book: Spring 2014.

Edited volume Advances In Bioinformatics And Its Applications Eds: M. He, Giri Narasimhan, S. Petoukhov Series in Mathematical Biology and Medicine Vol. 8, 632 Pages, May 2005 World Scientific Press. [ISBN: 981-256-148-X]

• Editor: International Journal of Bioinformatics Research and Applications.
• Program Committees: BIBM 2018-21, BioKDD 2020, ISBRA 2020 (Co-Chair), ICCABS 2019 (Co-Chair), StringBio 2019 (Co-Chair), ICMLA 2019, BICoB-2011, New Orleans, LA; BIOINFORMATICS 2011, Rome, Italy; BIOT 2010, Lafayette, LA; ISBRA 2010, Storrs, CT; ISBRA 2009, Ft. Lauderdale, FL; BICoB2009, New Orleans, LA; AAIM 2008, Shanghai, China; ICMLA 2008, San Diego, CA; CBB 2008, Orlando; ISBRA 2008, Atlanta; ICMLA 2007, Cincinnati, OH; BIBM 2007, Silicon Valley, CA; ISBRA 2007, Atlanta; BLSC07, Niagara Falls, Canada; WEA 2007, Rome, Italy; ICISTM 2007, New Delhi, India; ICMLA 2006, Orlando; CASB 2006, Dallas; IWBRA 2006, Reading, U.K.; ISAAC 2006, Kolkata, India; Dagstuhl Workshop 2006, Dagstuhl, Germany; IWBRA 2005, Atlanta; HiPCoMB 2005, Fukuoka, Japan; ICBA'04, Ft. Lauderdale; WADS'03, Ottawa; ALENEX'02, San Francisco; SPIRE'00, Spain; SPIRE'99, Mexico.
• Research Groups: Bioinformatics Research Group (BioRG) and Algorithms for Machine Learning and Data Analytics, (AMaDAys)
• Curriculum Vitae [April 2022] (pdf)

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  • Yahoo Datasets for Interesting Challenges;
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  • Python Tutorials -- Real Python
  • Captum: Algorithms for Interpretability and XAI
  • Interpretable Machine Learning, by Christoph Molnar.
  • Tutorials on Transformers: Annotated Transformer (Alexander Rush, 2018); Annotated Transformer (Updated by Huang et al., 2022); Illustrated Transformer (by Jay Alammar);
  • The Data8 text book project on Data Science, by Adhikari and DeNero.
  • Computational and Inferential Thinking textbook, by Adhikari, DeNero, and Wagner
  • Text: Data Science -- A First Introduction, by Timbers, Campbell, Lee.
  • Geographical Data Science with Python, by Rey, Arribas-Bel, Wolf.
  • An Introduction to Earth and Environmental Data Science, by Ryan Abernathy et al. (Python-based)
  • Introduction to Programming in Python (4 chapters), by Sedgewick, Wayne, and Dondero.
  • Shiny with Python: create interactive visualizations and web apps in Python. Also see examples;
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  • Datasets from CalTech Vision Lab (Useful for ML/AI Projects)
  • Webseer to compare Google search results
  • AI For Science, 2019.
  • ML beyond curve fitting: An Intro to Causal Inference and do-calculus
  • One Hundred Year Study on Artificial Intelligence (AI100), Stanford University.
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  • Zenodo: data and research repository
  • Carpentries: Foundational Coding and Data Science Skills
  • Dockers: Build your docker; with instructions
  • OpenRefine: for data cleaning and transformation
  • Programmableweb: Leading source of APIs, Mashups, and web services
  • Biocatalogue: curated catalogue of Web Servicesfor the Life Sciences
• Data Science Job Preps
  • Projects & Portfolios: 9 Data Science Project Ideas to Jump-Start Your Portfolio; 3 Data Scince Projects that got me 12 interviews ...;
  • Tech Interviews: My favorite coding question ... (Confessions of an interviewer?)
• Bioinformatics and Computational Biology
  • What is Bioinformatics?
  • Microbiome Online Text: Orchestrating Microbiome Analysis by Lahti, Borman, Ernst, et al., 2023.
  • Funding Agencies: NSF: NSF FastLane; SEIII; SABI; BIO Directorate; NIH: NIH Grants (Extramural Programs); BDMA; Standard Deadlines;
  • Resources: NCBI Entrez; PDB; BLAST; TIGR's Tools; tigr fams; Software List (SDSC); PIR (iProClass);  
  • SWISS-PROT; InterPro; CLUSTALW; PROSITE; Pfam; PRINTS; ProDom; SMART;  
  • Gene Expression Databases: Array Express, Geo from NCBI (and its SQL Implementation), GeneX, GeneXML.
  • MGED: Gene Expression Data Standardization Initiative.
  • Pedro's BioMolecular Research Tools: A Collection of WWW Links to Information and Services Useful to Molecular Biologists
  • Alpha and Beta Diversity in Microbiomes: Statistical Analysis of Metagenomics Data, by Luz Calle, Genomics Inform, 2019
  • On-line Manuals: SPDBV Manual
  • International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB)
  • Mol Biol Hypertext (MIT); Mol Biol Techniques Manual (U CapeTown)
  • Online course notes (with animations) for Microbiology course from Gary Kaiser's web page, CCBC.
  • Graphics Gallery: from the National Health Museum (great short lessons in Mol. Biol).
  • Great Experiments Series: Read about some of the greatest experiments that led to great discoveries!
• Algorithms and Computational Geometry
  • CLRS Solutions
  • Use KaTeX to typeset mathematical formulae online
  • MkDocs: fast, simple static site generator for building project documentation. Also Material for MkDocs to create themes.
  • Lecture slides for "Algorithm Design" by Kleinberg and Tardos; slides created by Kevin Wayne, Princeton; Demos
  • Computer Science Review Journal
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  • Seiferas' theory/foundations bibliography
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  • Computer Science Bibliography
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  • Top Conferences in Algorthms and Theory
  • Handbook of Biological Statistics, 3rd Ed., John McDonald; An R Companion, S. Mangiafico
  • Electronic Statistics Textbook
  • Microsoft Office Online Video Tutorials
  • EIS Field Guide: Exploratory Data Analysis; Hypothesis Testing; Modeling; Terminology; On-line Tools.
  • Fractal Dimensions
  • Software associated with papers published in ACM journals
  • Guide to Available Mathematical Software, NIST.
  • Numeric, Symbolic and Geometric Computation Program, NSF; ITR;
  • Biological Sciences, NSF
  • NIH Forms
  • TeX Users Group; Arbitrary LaTeX reference; Emacs Homepage; Editing Made Beautiful with Emacs
• Competitions
  • ICPC Programming Competition
  • International Olympiad in Informatics
• Collaborators, Coauthors, & Academic Lineage
  • Academic Ancestors: : Erhard Weigel (1650), Otto Mencke (1665), Gottfried Leibniz (1666), Johann Wichmannshausen (1685), Jacob Bernoulli (?), Johann Bernoulli (1694), Christian Hausen (1713), Leonhard Euler (1726), Abraham Kaestner (1739), Karl von Langsdorf (1781), Johann Pfaff (1786), Joseph Lagrange (no degree), Carl Gauss (1799), Simeon Poisson (?), Martin Ohm (1811), Christian Gerling (1812), Jean-Baptiste Fourier (?), Julius Plucker (1823), Gustav Dirichlet (1827), Rudlof Lipschitz (1853), C. Felix Klein (1868), Oskar Bolza (1886), Gilbert Bliss (1900), Lawrence Graves (1924), Edward McShane (1930), Victor Klee (1949), Rachel Manber (1982), Giri Narasimhan (1989). [Courtesy of the Mathematical Genealogy Project]
  • Academic Progeny : Dimitri Kaznachev (1998), Yuan Gao (2001), Chengyong Yang (2006), Gaolin Zheng (2007), Patricia Buendia (2007), Erliang Zeng (2008), Nestor Andres Parra (2009), Melita Jaric (2013), Camilo Valdes (2020), Musfiqur Sazal (2020), Daniel Ruiz Perez (2020), Farzana Yusuf (2021), Vitalii Stebliankin (2023), ...
  • Computer Scientists: Estie Arkin, Binay Bhattacharya, Jit Bose, Moses Charikar, Trevor Cickovski, Gautam Das, Joachim Gudmundsson, Paul Heffernan, German Hernandez, Arun Jagota, Samir Khuller, Christos Levcopoulos, Jason Liu, Anil Maheswari, Ananda Mondal, Joe Mitchell, David Mount, Asish Mukhopdhyay, Fernando Nino, Andres Parra, Raju Rangswami, Michiel Smid, Martin Zachariasen,
  • Computational Biologists Ziv Bar-Joseph, Changsong Bu, Patricia Buendia, Peter Dimitrov, Isidore Rigoutsos, Yuan Gao, Chengyong Yang, Erliang Zeng, Gaolin Zheng
  • Life Scientists Marianna Baum, Prem Chapagain, Jose Eirin-Lopez, Aditi Gurkar, David Kuhn, Jessica Liberles, Steve Lory, Purnima Madhivanan, Sabrina Martinez, Kalai Mathee, DeEtta Mills, Soren Molin, V. Renugopalakrishnan,
  • Statisticians Kashinath Chatterjee, E. Olusegun George
  • Mathematicians Rachel Manber, Anthony Quas
  • Engineers Arturo Leon
  • Public Policy Scientists Shaoming Cheng, Sukumar Ganapati
• Amazing Lectures
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  • Richard Feynmann (1964);
  • Bertrand Russell -- Reith Lectures (1948);
  • Nobel Writers' Speeches;
• Free Courses
  • Henry Stewart Talks: The Biomedical & Life Sciences Collection
  • Monte Carlo Simulation (MIT OpenCourseWare);
  • CS50's AP Computer Science Principles;
  • Reinforcement Learning;
  • Machine Learning for Data Science and Analytics;
  • Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency Technologies;
  • High-Dimensional Data Analysis;
  • Data Science: Visualization;
  • Statistical Thinking for Data Science and Analytics;
  • Causal Diagrams: Draw Your Assumptions Before Your Conclusions;
• Investing and Startups
  • Y-Combinator's SAFE Note; SAFE stands for Simple Agreement for Future Equity, a type of investment contract used by startups.
• The Funnies
  • The Darwin Awards: These Awards salute those who protect our gene pool by accidentally removing themselves from it in a spectacular manner!
  • The Abstruse Goose
  • Bloom County, by Berkeley Breathed; and here;
  • Doonesbury
  • Calvin and Hobbes
  • Piled Higher & Deeper -- A grad student comic strip, by Jorge Cham
• Travel
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  • Aggregators: Qixo.com;
  • Last Minute Travel: Smartter Living; Travelzoo.com; 11thhourvacations.com; lastminutetravel.com;
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• Information
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  • American Heritage: Dictionary; Roget's Thesaurus; English Usage;
  • Strunk's "Elements of Style"
  • Word of the Day, Oxford English Dictionary.
  • Spanish to English Translation.
  • Public Agenda Online: nonpartisan, nonprofit public opinion research and citizen education organization
  • Foregin Policy Magazine
  • CIA World FactBook 2002: Information on Countries of the world!
  • Library of Congress
  • Explore the Internet (Library of Congress
  • Medical Terminology: Roots, Prefixes, and Suffixes.
  • Online Hindi and Urdu Dictionary (Awesome!)
  • Online Tamil Dictionary
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  • German-English dictionary, Hungarian-English dictionary.
  • Eurodicautom: Technical dictionary, Jargon File.
  • Book Search
  • On-line Books page; Master Works of Western Civilization; Project Gutenburg; MIT's Classics archive; Internet Archive; Octavo (rare books on CD-ROM).
  • Banned books on-line.
  • Gray's Anatomy
  • Weather: Memphis, Miami (25.49N, 80.16W), Birmingham
  • Hurricanes; Also this
  • India Info; here's more
  • Rare Books of India
  • List of Indian Publications; India Today Online; Times of India
  • Classical Music of India; Also Some Primers on South Indian Classical Music, and Indian Music, and Carnatic Ragas.
  • More music (Misc.).
  • List of Music Related Sites
  • Hindi Geetmala music archive
  • The ITRANS SONG BOOK: An Archive of Indian Songs
  • Archive of Hindi Songs
  • Ghazals
  • The Electronic Embassy: Foreign Embassies List
  • Visa Forms for all countries
  • Intl C Code Contest and The International Obfuscated C Code Contest
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• Activist Organizations
  • Association for Democratic Reforms (India);
  • The Pen-- A World Association of Writers, with information on "Writers in Exile", "Writers in Prison", "Women Writers", and "Writers for Peace".
  • Retraction Watch-- Tracking retractions as a window into the scientific process
  • Embargo Watch-- Keeping an eye on how scientific information embargoes affect news coverage
• Self-Improvement!
  • Improve your manuscript writing skills Kalai Mathee;
  • Making good presentation (P. Bourne); Also see Here (Georgetown CLE);
  • Writing Good Cover Letters; Resume writing, etc. :
  • Useful Things to Know About Ph. D. Thesis Research, by H. T. Kung, Harvard Univ.
  • Looking for academic jobs in CS: On the Academic Interview Circuit (Ugur Cetintemel); Interview Season in CS (from Chronicle of Higher Education).
  • Article for aspiring women in science.
  • Servas International Servas is an international network of hosts and travelers building peace and understanding by providing opportunities for personal contact between people of diverse cultures and backgrounds.
• The Prizes
  • The Nobel Prize; Wolf Prizes (Agriculture, Chemistry, Mathematics, Medicine, Physics, Arts); The International Mathematical Union (IMU) Prizes, including Fields Medal (Mathematics), Rolf Nevanlinna Prize (Informatics), and the Gauss Prize (Applied Mathematics).
• Entertainment
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  • Number puzzles and mind exercises for people of all ages: Enjoy! Try this sample.
  • Assoc. of Performing Arts of India, S. Florida
  • S. Florida Tamil Sangam
  • Kathas, Folktales, Myths, Fables, Poems, Discovery page for kids
  • Darwin Online
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  • Some Rare and Amusing Insults; Some Unusual Colors
  • Learn Some Choice French
  • The Alternative (International Slang) Dictionaries;
  • The Alternative Tamil Dictionary;
  • Tamil Movies
  • Indian Pop Music - MP3 versions
  • Mathematical Puzzles; and More
  • Science, Toys and Fun for kids
• Alma Mater
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  • IITBombay; Fundamatics -- Publication of the IIT Bombay Alumni Association; IITBombay Faculty; BBC Article on Dilbert's IIT Cartoons
  • List of Indian Colleges and Universities; List of (>3000) Universities
• Interesting Science Links
  • How Stuff works?
  • Gender Bias Calculator
  • All about Rainbows
  • Erwin Schrodinger's "What is Life?"
  • Spurious Correlations
  • DOE ASCAC Subcommittee Report on Exascale Computing, Fall 2010
  • 20 famous software disasters
  • Science Fun for kids
  • Science and Nature Poems!
  • Some Cool Microscopy Pictures And More
  • Miscellaneous Science News And More
  • How Stuff Works
  • World's Tiniest Web Server!
  • Some Cool Pictures of Viruses and Bacteriophages AND Cells
  • Tree-of-Life
  • Ancient Indian Botany & Taxonomy
  • Biofilms: Tutorial & Movies
  • The Peekster: A mind-reading website!
  • Genes, Macromolecules, -&- Computers are related by Strange Loops Rambling thoughts by Ram Samudrala.
  • School for Poetic Computation
• Health
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  • 6 Key Medicare Questions (eligibility, choices, costs, singing up, timing Understand Medicare Parts A, B, D; timing impacts costs & coverage delays; spousa coverage; separate vs bundled options;
• Photography Links
  • Behold the Image of the Earth from the International Space Station, November 2000. Well, don't forget to scroll East-West and North-South. Did you spot London, Paris, Stockholm, Copenhagen, Moscow and Madrid? Did you check out the Nile River and the rest of the "Dark Continent, Indus Valley, North and South Mediterranean Coast, Istanbul, the Trans-Siberian Rail Route, the concentration near the Arab Emirates, the North-South Highway in Malaysia & Thailand, Australian Outback, the contrast between North and South Korea.
  • Day and night from orbit . This was taken by the crew on board Columbia on its last mission. The sun is setting. The city lights are already on in Holland, Paris, and Barcelona, and it's still daylight in London, Lisbon, Madrid, and the straits of Gibraltar. But the Mediterranean Sea is already in darkness. In the middle of the Atlantic Ocean are the Azores Islands; below them to the right are the Madeira Islands; a bit below are the Canary Islands; and further south, close to the farthest western point of Africa, the Cape Verde Islands. The Sahara desert is luminiscent both during daytime and nighttime. Frozen Greenland is at the top of your screen.
  • Year's Best Photographs
  • Take Your Own Photograph Without a Camera! Your monitor can discern small heat/electrical impulses and detect bright and dark areas very close to the screen (1-2 feet). This is still a beta site, and the image is blurred, and the quality depends on the quality of your monitor.
  • Forest Fire
  • Jupiter and some of its Moons
• Publishers
  • Springer-Verlag
  • Marcel Dekker
  • Prentice Hall / Rep: Cynthia Lennon-Wicker; / Specialist: Emily Cleary
  • Morgan Kaufmann / Rep: Deborah Kramer
• Computer Equipment Purchase
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• Programming Related Stuff
  • JavaTM 2 Platform, Standard Edition, v1.2.2, API Specification ; Java Advanced Imaging API.
  • Learning Java
  • Udemy AP CS course