Clare Bates Congdon

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Clare Bates Congdon: Abbreviated CV

Education

B.A., Mathematics, 1987, Wesleyan University
M.S., Computer Science and Engineering, 1988, The University of Michigan
Ph.D., Computer Science and Engineering, 1995, The University of Michigan

Thesis Title: “A Comparison of Genetic Algorithms and Other Machine Learning Systems on a Complex Classification Task from Common Disease Research”
Thesis Advisors: Dr. John E. Laird, Dr. John H. Holland

Employment

Teaching Positions

Bowdoin College (2015-2018; 1996-1997)
University of Southern Maine (2007-2014)
Colby College (1998-2007)
Bryn Mawr College (1997-1998)

Courses developed/taught

Machine Learning
Data Mining
Data Visualization
Bioinformatics
Artificial Intelligence and Games
User-Centered Design

Small Robotics
Interactive Art
Complex Systems
Data Structures
Intro to Programming (Python, Java, C++, Pascal)
Programming for nonmajors (JavaScript)

Research Positions

Maine Medical Center Research Institute, Faculty Scientist II (2015)
University of Michigan, Research Fellow (1995-1996)

Awards and leadership roles

Recent external funding

NIH Centers of Biomedical Research Excellence (COBRE; award NCRR 5 P20 RR024475-02 and NIGMS 8 P20 GM103534-02, Dr. Jason Moore, Dartmouth Medical School, PI), “Quantitative Biology Research Institute”. Congdon project: “Machine Learning for the Inference of Cis-Regulatory Modules”, $1,244,806 in direct and indirect costs for the Congdon project, September 2011 – July 2016.
NSF CAREER (#953495), “Evolutionary Computation and Bioinformatics”, PI Congdon. $496,000 in direct and indirect costs, June 2010 – May 2016.
NSF TUES (#1245635), “Infusing Creative Thinking Into STEM Education”, PI DiLuzio. $192,226 in direct and indirect costs, September 2013 - present.

Other awards

USM team (Bojarski & Congdon) won the 2010 Mario Learning Track and the 2010 Mario Gameplay Track at the Computational Intelligence and Games Conference, Copenhagen Denmark, August 2010
USM team (Small & Congdon) won the 2009 Unreal competition at the Congress on Evolutionary Computation, Trondheim Norway, May 2009
USM team (Fitzgerald, Kemeraitis, & Congdon) won the 2008 Ms. PacMan competition at the World Congress on Computational Intelligence, Hong Kong, May 2008

Significant leadership roles

PI, Bioinformatics and Intelligent Systems Lab, University of Southern Maine, 2008-2014; supervised approximately 20 students/year
IEEE Computational Intelligence Society Bioinformatics and Bioengineering Technical Committee, Chair 2011 and 2012
IEEE Computational Intelligence Society Games Technical Committee, Vice-Chair 2013 and 2014
Journal Associate Editor (IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation; IEEE Transactions on Computational Intelligence and AI in Games)
Organizing team for many IEEE and ACM conferences
Co-Chair, Department of Computer Science, Colby College, 2002-03