Kitware Team

Jeff earned B.S. degrees in Computer Science and Mathematics from Clarkson University in 2000. Since then, he worked for two years at Eastman Kodak in Rochester, NY as a development engineer, and also participated in their Imaging Science Career Development program. At Kodak he developed computer models for photographic film scanners and digital microfilm writers. Since 2003 he has been a Ph.D. student at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. As a student of Prof. Mark Goldberg, his thesis topic is Discovering Groups in Communication Networks. The goal of his research there is to automatically discover coalitions in vast communication databases using structural information only (i.e. message content is ignored). His contributions include novel graph clustering algorithms which allow cluster overlap, and algorithms for discovering subsets of individuals persistently connected over time. He has also developed an interactive software tool for executing these algorithms and visualizing the results. Jeff joined Kitware part time in April 2006, and will complete his dissertation in August 2006.

Publications

Jeffrey Baumes, Hung-Ching Chen, Matthew Francisco, Mark Goldberg, Malik Magdon-Ismail, Al Wallace. Dynamics of Bridging and Bonding in Social Groups: A Multi-Agent Model. North American Computational Social and Organization Science (NAACSOS 2005), Notre Dame, IN, June 26-28, 2005.

Jeffrey Baumes, Mark Goldberg, Malik Magdon-Ismail. Efficient Identification of Overlapping Communities. IEEE Symposium on Intelligence and Security Informatics (ISI 2005), Atlanta, GA, May 19-20, 2005.

Jeffrey Baumes, Mark Goldberg, Mukkai Krishnamoorthy, Malik Magdon-Ismail, Nathan Preston. Finding Communities by Clustering a Graph into Overlapping Subgraphs. International Conference on Applied Computing (IADIS 2005), Algarve, Portugal, Feb 22-25, 2005.

Jeffrey Baumes, Mark Goldberg, Malik Magdon-Ismail, Al Wallace. Discovering Hidden Groups in Communication Networks. 2nd NSF/NIJ Symposium on Intelligence and Security Informatics (ISI 2004), Tucson, AZ, June 11-12, 2004.