Bosnian-Herzegovinian American Academy of Arts and Sciences (BHAAAS)

EDUCATION

•v Ph.D. (Computer Science), Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas, 1987

•v MS (Computer Science), University of Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina, 1981

•v BS (Computer Science), University of Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina, 1977

WORK EXPERIENCE

University of North Carolina at Charlotte (1987 - Present)

•v Founding Dean, College of Information Technology (2000 - Present)

•? Defined the scope, organizational structure, staffing, intellectual domain, and the budget of the new College of Information Technology

•? Helped manage the change introduced by the establishment of the new college (the Department of Computer Science came out of the College of Engineering)

•? Defined the scope, organizational structure, staffing, and intellectual domain of the new Software and Information Systems Department

•? Helped/lead the faculty to define the research focus of the College

•? Initiated or helped the establishment of the eBusiness Technology Institute (a collaboration with Bank of America and Wachovia), Diversity in Information Technology Institute, Institute for Quality and Technology in Education (a partnership with the College of Education), Computer Security and Privacy Institute, Center for Advanced Electronics Security and Assurance Research, Center of Academic Excellence in Information Assurance Education, Bioinformatics Division within the department of Computer Science, Cognitive Science Academy, (a collaboration of faculty from disciplines as diverse as Computer Science, Psychology, Philosophy, and English), Software Solutions Laboratory (a unique unit staffed with professional programmers to help attract external funding)

•? Recruited nationally and internationally-known faculty, including (a) the new Chair of Computer Science, (b) a world-class expert in computer security, (c) the Bank of America Distinguished Chair specializing in computer visualization, and (d) leader of the new initiative in Bioinformatics

•? Managed the operating, capital, and one-time budgets

•? Participated on search committees for high level positions within the university, including the new Chancellor (new search committee) and the Dean of the Health and Human Services College (chaired the committee)

•? Chaired the University-wide Interdisciplinary Task Force

•? Member of various University-wide committees, including (a) the committee that recommended the formation of the School of Information Technology and (b) the task force charged with developing the information technology strategy for the University

•? Participated in planning for the new Science and Technology building, a $34M facility to house the College of Information Technology, the Department of Computer and Electrical Engineering, and the Department of Biology

•? Worked with the Chancellor to provide the rationale and the justification for the new program in Bioinformatics, which resulted in the proposal to the State legislature for the funding of a new, $35M Bioinformatics-focused building

•? Promoted entrepreneurial climate in the College

•? Initiated the Five Venture program, a competition for the best business plan, at the University

•? Worked closely with the Advisory Board, comprised of 30+ representatives of state and local industry, government, and professional organizations

•? Established and maintained close relationship with state and local businesses, economic development organizations, entrepreneurial organizations, and trade institutions

•? Participated in economic development activities of the North Carolina Department of Commerce and the Charlotte Chamber of Commerce

•? Member of the University-wide Future of the Faculty Committee

•v Acting Director, School of Information Technology (2000)

•? Managed all aspects of operation of a "virtual school," a collaboration between the Department of Computer Science in the College of Engineering and the Information and Operations Management Department in the College of Business Administration

•v Associate Director, School of Information Technology (1999)

•? Managed the School during a prolonged illness of the Director of the School

•v Chairman, Computer Science Department (1999-2000)

•? Re-defined the mission of the department and put it on the path of growth

•v Associate Professor (1993 - Present)

•v Assistant Professor (1987 - 1993)

Deloitte & Touche Consulting Group (1998)

•v Managed strategic information systems planning engagements for healthcare institutions

•v Initiated/supported development of data mining initiatives

Carolinas HealthCare System (1992-1998)

•v Lead the Carolinas HealthCare System (CHS) Technology Team responsible for the technology component of the Enterprise-wide Core Systems Replacement Project, including hardware and system software selection and overall system architecture

•v Established Orthopaedic Informatics Research and Medical Informatics groups at the Carolinas healthcare System

•v Introduced, developed, and/or directed the implementation of initiatives in the areas of data mining, relational databases, human-computer interface, World Wide Web, multimedia, intranet, and computer-based patient-record system

•v Member of the CHS Database and Networking Task Force, as well as the North Carolina Healthcare Information and Communication Alliance (Specification Committee and Privacy, Confidentiality, and Security Committee)

Medical Electronics, Inc. (1989 - 1990)

•v Vice President in charge of the Advanced Technology Division

Rudi Cajavec, Inc. (1977 - 1984)

•v Project Leader

•v Researcher (software development)

•v Programmer (process-control devices)

PAPERS

•v Khouja, M, PhD; Hadzikadic, M; Zaffar, M. "An Agent Based Modeling Approach for Determining Optimal Price-Rebate Schemes," Simulation Modeling Practice and Theory Journal, 2007.

•v Khouja, M., Hadzikadic, M., Rajagopalan, H., and Tsay, L." Applications of complex adaptive systems to pricing of reproducible information goods," accepted for publishing in Decision Support Systems Journal, 2007.

•v Khouja, M. Hadzikadic, M., Zaffar, M. A., and Otto, G. "An Agent Based Modeling Approach For Determining Optimal Price-Rebate Schemes," Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Business: Marketing," Athens, Greece, July 2-3, 2007.

•v Eichelberger, C. and Hadzikadic, M. "Complex Adaptive Systems: Using a Free-Market Simulation to Estimate Attribute Relevance". In Foundations of Intelligent Systems, Esposito, F., Ras, Z., Malerba, D., and Semeraro, G., eds. Proceedings of the 16th International Symposium, ISMIS 2006, Bari, Italy, September 2006.

•v Eichelberger, C. and Hadzikadic, M. "Investigating Agent Strategies within a Complex Adaptive System of Purchasing Agents for Estimating Attribute Relevance," 2006 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology (WI-IAT 2006 Workshops Proceedings), Hong Kong, China  18-22 December 2006. Butz., C., Nguyen, N., Takama, Y., Cheung, W., Cheung, Y.-M., eds.

•v Hadzikadic, M., Qin, Z., and Sun, M. "Network Classification," Journal of Experimental & Theoretical Artificial Intelligence 17, Special Issue on Knowledge Discovery, 35-44 (2005).

•v Hadzikadic, M. and Bohren, B. "Determining Attribute Relevance in Decision Trees," ISMIS '97, Charlotte, NC, October 1997.

•v Hanley, E.N., Kane, S.M., Bohren, B.F., Dorbandt, A., and Hadzikadic, M. "Healthy Life-styles and Low Back Pain," Journal of Neuro-Orthopaedics 20, 81-87 (1997).

•v Hadzikadic, M., Bohren, B., Hakenewerth, A., Norton, J., Mehta, B., Andrews, C. "Concept Formation vs. Logistic Regression: Predicting Death in Trauma Patients." Artificial Intelligence in Medicine Journal 8 (1996) 493-504.

•v Hadzikadic, M., Bohren, B.F., "Learning to Predict: INC2.5," IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering. Vol. 9, No. 1, 1997, 168-173.

•v Hadzikadic, M., Bohren, B. "Concept Formation vs. Logistic Regression: Predicting Death in Trauma Patients, Conference Presentation." SCAMC ‘95, New Orleans, October ‘95.

•v Hadzikadic, M.; Bohren, B.; Craft, L.L.; Callaghan, C.E., Pierson, L.; Ocel, J.V.; Davis, S.E., Herbert, W.G. "Outcomes in Cardiopulmonary Rehabilitation: A New Approach to Assessment," Poster Presentation.

•v Bohren, B., Hadzikadic, M., Hanley, E. "Extracting Knowledge from Large Medical Databases: An Automated Approach, "Journal on Computers and Biomedical Research, vol. 28, 191-210, 1995.

•v Hanley, E.N., Kane, S.M., Bohren, B.F., Dorbandt, A., and Hadzikadic, M. "Healthy Life-styles and Low Back Pain," Proceedings of the 62nd American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons, Pp. 207, Orlando, Florida, February 1995.

•v Bohren, B.F. and Hadzikadic, M. "Turning Medical Data into Decision-Support Knowledge," Proceedings of the Symposium on Computer Applications in Medical Care, pp. 735-39, SCAMC '94.

•v Hadzikadic, Mirsad and Bohren, Benjamin. "INC2.5: A concept Formation System," Technical Report 008-1994, UNCC, 1994.

•v Hadzikadic, Mirsad and Bohren, Benjamin. "Learning to Predict: INC2.5," Technical Report,1993, UNCC.

•v Hadzikadic, Mirsad and Bohren, Benjamin. "Unsupervised Learning via Concept Formation: INC2.5," Technical Report 002-1993, UNCC, 1993.

•v Hadzikadic, Mirsad. "Automated Design of Diagnostic Systems," Artificial Intelligence in Medicine Journal, vol. 4. no. 5, October 1992, pp. 329342.

•v Hadzikadic, Mirsad. "Prediction Performance as a Function of the Representation Language in Concept Formation Systems," Proceedings of the Fourteenth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Bloomington, Indiana, July 29  August1, 1992, pp. 850854.

•v Hadzikadic, Mirsad. "Medical Diagnostic Expert Systems: Performance vs. Representation," Proceedings of the Fifth IEEE Symposium on ComputerBased Medical System, Duke University, Durham, NC, June 1417, 1992.

•v Bohren, Benjamin and Hadzikadic, Mirsad. "Automated Design of Diagnostic KnowledgeBased Systems," Proceedings of the Thirteenth Annual International Conference on the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, Orlando, Florida, October 31  November 3, 1991, pp. 12941295.

•v Hadzikadic, Mirsad "Designing a Diagnostic KnowledgeBased System by a Novice," Proceedings of the World Congress on Expert Systems, Orlando, Florida, December 1619, 1991, pp. 14501457.

•v Hadzikadic, Mirsad "ContextSensitive, Distributed, VariableRepresentation Category Formation, "Proceedings of the Thirteenth Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Chicago, Illinois, August 710, 1991, pp. 269274.

•v Hadzikadic, Mirsad "ContextSensitive, VariableRepresentation Incremental Concept Formation, "Poster Session of the Eight International Workshop on Machine Learning, Evanston, Illinois, June 2729, 1991.

•v Hadzikadic, Mirsad "Prototypes and Similarity in Incremental Conceptual Clustering Systems, "Proceedings of the Fourth International Symposium on Methodologies for Intelligent Systems, Charlotte, North Carolina, October 12, 1989, pp. 289296.

•v Hadzikadic, Mirsad and Yun, David Y.Y. "Concept Formation by Incremental Conceptual Clustering, "Proceedings of the Eleventh International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Detroit, Michigan, August 2025, 1989, pp. 831836.

•v Hadzikadic, Mirsad "Prototypes and Similarity: Concept Formation," invited paper, Proceedings of the IEEE Southeastern 89, Columbia, South Carolina, April 912, 1989, pp. 1923.

•v Hadzikadic, Mirsad and Chen, Su-shing "Spatial Reasoning: Learning from Observations," Proceedings of the SPIE Symposium on Advances in Intelligent Robotics Systems. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, November 1989, pp. 247255.

•v Hadzikadic, Mirsad "Learning a Hierarchy of Concepts: An Incremental Approach," Proceedings of the Third IASTED International Conference on Expert Systems: Theory & Applications, Los Angeles, December 1214, 1988, pp. 7780.

•v Hadzikadic, Mirsad "Concept Formation by GoalDriven, ContextDependent Classification," Proceedings of the Third International Symposium on Methodologies for Intelligent Systems, Turin, Italy, October 1215, 1988, pp. 322332.

•v Hadzikadic, Mirsad "INC2: A PrototypeBased Incremental Conceptual Clustering System," Proceedings of the 2nd European Knowledge Acquisition for KnowledgeBased Systems Workshop, Bonn, Germany, June 1923, 1988, pp. 20.120.13.

•v Hadzikadic, Mirsad "Concept Formation by Psychologically Plausible Classification," Colloquium of the Second International Symposium on Methodologies for Intelligent Systems, Charlotte, North Carolina, October 17, 1987, pp. 133144.

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

•v Made numerous presentations at national and international conferences, leading information technology firms, and universities

•v Member of Program and Organizing Committees for International Symposia and Conferences

•v Session Chair at international congresses, conferences, and symposia

•v A reviewer for numerous journals, federal grants agencies, and national and international conferences

•v Fulbright Scholar, 1984-85

•v Dr. Richard Neel (Blue Diamond) Award for Lifetime Achievement in Information Technology, 2005

Grants

•v "ACSES: Actionable Capability for Social and Economic Systems," $695,000, DARPA (with several collaborators from ORNL, ORAU, and Georgia Tech; pass-through via ORNL - Steve Fernandez)

•v "Datacenter Visualization," $280,064, Wachovia Corporation, 2007

•v "Critical Infrastructure Modeling and Simulation," Department of Defense, $746,683, 2003-2004 (together with 6 other researchers, William J. Tolone PI)

•v eBusiness Technology Institute, $2,000,000, Contribution from Bank of America and Wachovia, 2002-2006, Provided the Idea for the Institute

•v Subcontract (from Microelectronics Center of North Carolina) to research and prototype an advanced infrastructure modeling system to support the simulation of effect-based operations, Defense Intelligence Agency, $750,000, 2003, Co-PI

•v "Community-oriented Problem Oriented Policing System," Subcontract for a NIJ/DOJ award, 1999-2000, ($1,250,000), Technical Lead

•v "Web-based Materials for an Interdisciplinary Course in Cognitive science," NSF, $200,000, 1999-2001, (together with other members of the Cognitive Science Academy, Paula Goolkasian PI)

•v "Smart Cards," ($250,000), 1996, Planning Grant Awarded by Duke Foundation

•v "Educational/Research Computer Programs in Health Informatics," a series of projects ($260,000 combined award) Awarded by CharlotteMecklenburg Health Services Foundation, 1992-1996

•v Program Director for the Charlotte Mecklenburg Hospital Authority's (CMHA) portion of the NISTfunded grant "Virtual Computerbased Patient Record," total value $9,600,000. The grant was obtained by the joint effort of CMHA, First Data Corp, and Hughes Aircraft. First Data Corp. provided the overall leadership on the project, 1995-1996

•v "Cognitive Science Research Laboratory for Undergraduates," ($36,000) Awarded by the National Science Foundation, ILI program, (together with five other members of the Cognitive Science Academy), 199395

•v "Allograft Outcome Study," ($52,350) Awarded by LifeNet, 199395

PATENTS

•v U.S. Patent 7,213,023 B2: Incremental Clustering Classifier and Predictor (with Chris Eichelberger)

COMMUNITY ACTIVITIES

•v State

•? Participated in the Vision 2030 initiative; an effort to outline the future strategic investments for the State of North Carolina

•? Member of the North Carolina Department of Commerce delegation to Europe in 2002 and 2003 to promote the biotechnology and information technology resources in the state

•? Member of the North Carolina Electronics and Information Technology Association's Steering Committee for conferences organized in Charlotte

•? Participant in the state's efforts in collaborative technologies (Collaboratories), biotechnologies (NC Genomics and Bioinformatics Consortium's Task Force on High Performance Computing), and work-force improvement

•? Member of the North Carolina Healthcare Information and Communication Alliance

•v City

•? Member of the Steering Committee of the Information Technologies Charlotte, a committee of the Charlotte Chamber of Commerce

•? Member of the Technology Executives of Charlotte organization

•? Participant in the effort to bring Charlotte to the level of a world-class city

•? Member of the Board of Directors of the Children's Law Center, 2003

•? Member of the Blue Ribbon Committee (set up by the Arts and Sciences Council, Foundation for the Carolinas, and Center City Partners) charged with planning the Greater Charlotte's cultural environment for the next 25 years, 2004

•? Member of the United Way's Health Council

•? Member of the Executive, Steering, and Program Content Committees for the United Agenda Initiative, an initiative to promote education, health, and safety of our children and youth

•? Grants Panelist of the Arts and Sciences Council

•? Board member for the Levine Museum of the New South

•? Member of the External Advisory Board for the Johnson C. Smith University's Community of Research & Experiential Education program

ENTREPRENEURIAL ACTIVITIES

•v Co-founder of MindValve, a predictive analytics company

•v Member of the Steering Committee of high-technology-focused conferences, organized by the Metrolina Entrepreneurial Council and the North Carolina Electronics and Information Technology Association

Personal Development

• Leadership Development Program @ The Center for Creative Leadership
• Staub Leadership Strategic Learning Balance Program
• MLE program @ Harvard's Graduate School of Education
• Negotiation program @ Harvard's School of Business
• American Leadership Forum, Charlotte Chapter, Class IV