Parisa Rashidi

I am a research faculty at University of Florida. My research interests include applying data mining and machine learning techniques to various health informatics and assisted living problems.

Besides information about me, you can find some useful links such as publicly available machine learning and data mining e-books here, as well  as various data mining datasets here.

Contact me at:
prashidi (at sign) cise (dot) ufl (another dot) edu
 Parisa Rashidi
Parisa Rashidi
 

Latest News

Organzing AAAI Fall Symposium on "Gerontechnology & AI":

I am co-chairing the AAAI Fall symposium on "Gerontechnology & AI". Fall Symposium Series will be held Friday through Sunday, November 2–4 at the Westin Arlington Gateway in Arlington, Virginia adjacent to Washington, DC. The symposium will bring together researchers working on various artificial intelligence aspects of gerontechnology in order to highlight the current challenges, as well as to identify the future grand challenges.


Tutorial Speaker at IHI 2012:

I am giving a tutorial on  "Assisted Living Technologies for Older Adults" at 2012 International  Health Informatics Symposium at Miami, FL. Visit this link: Tutorials at IHI 2012.

"Assisted Living Technologies for Older Adults" Tutorial
Slides(.pdf)
Slides(.ppt)

This tutorial will explore intelligent technologies and methods that can help health care professionals to provide better quality care for the older adults, monitor their health conditions in place, as well as technologies that allow the older adults to live more independently. It will highlight current challenges and important future directions in the field. It will also cover a number of successful case studies such as smart homes and intelligent reminder systems.


Teaching COP 3502 in Spring 2012:

I will be teaching COP 3502 "Programming Fundamentals for CIS Majors" in Spring 2012. It is going to be a first course introduction to Java, based on Daniel Liang's book "Introduction to Java Programming, Eighth Edition".

The course webpage can be found here: COP 3502