Lofton A - Florida Atlantic University



Lofton A. Bullard, Curriculum Vita

EDUCATION

Ph.D. – Computer Science, Florida Atlantic University, May 2008

M.S. – Computer Science, Florida Atlantic University, August 1996

M.S. – Education, University of Miami, April 1991

B.S. – Computer Science, Florida International University, April 1985

HONORS AND AWARDS

McKnight Fellow – Florida Endowment Fund 2002-2003

Florida Atlantic University Employee Grant-In-Aid Award 2001-2002

IMPAC Award 1996 for Academic Excellence

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

1999 to present – Instructor/Academic Advisor, Florida Atlantic University

1988-1999 – Dade County Public Schools High School Mathematics Teacher

PUBLICATIONS

“Analyzing the Impact of Attribute Noise on Software Quality Classification.” In Proceeding of the 20th International

Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering, San Francisco Bay, CA, USA, July 2008

“Identifying Learners Robust to Low Quality Data.” The 2008 IEEE International Conference on Information Reuse and

Integration, Las Vegas, NV, USA, July 2008

“Software Quality Models: Impact of Class Noise on the Random Forest Classifier.” In the Proceedings of the IEEE World

Congress on Computational Intelligence, Hong Kong, June 2008

“An Application of a Rule-Based Model in Software Quality classification.” In Proceedings of the Sixth International

Confernce on Machine Learning and Application, Washington, DC, USA, December 2007,.

“Software quality imputation in the presence of noisy data.” In Proceeding of the 2006 IEEE International Conference on

Infromation Reuse and Integration, Waikoloa, Hawaii, USA, September 2006

“Detecting Outliers Using Rule-Based Modeling for Improving CBR-Based Software Quality Models.” In Proceedings of the

Fifth International Conference on Case-Based Reasoning (ICCBR 03), Trondheim, Normay, June 2003

“Cost-Sensitive Boosting In Software Quality Modeling.” In Proceedings of the Seventh IEEE International Symposium on

High Assurance Systems Engineering, IEEE Computer Society, Tokyo, Japan, October 2002

“A Survey of Boosting Algorithms.” Florida Atlantic University Technical Report, TR-CSE-02-09, March 2002.

"A tree-based classification model for analysis of a military software system." In Proceedings of the IEEE High-Assurance

Systems Engineering, IEEE Computer Society, Ontario, Canada, October 1996.

RELATED PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMS

National Society of Black engineers in Pittsburgh, PA, 3/06

National Society of Black engineers in Boston, MA, 3/05

The Sixteenth IEEE International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence in Boca Raton, FL, 11/04

McKnight Annual Fellows Meeting, Tampa, FL, 11/04

The Third International Conference on Rough Sets and Current Trends in Computing (RSCTC 2002), Malvern,

PA, 10/02

Florida Atlantic University Employee Grant-In-Aid Education Leave, 9/01-4/02

CRA Career Workshop, Arlington, VA, 2/02

The Sixth IEEE International Symposium on High Assurance Systems Engineering, Boca Raton, FL, 10/01

The Tenth International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering (ISSRE99), Boca Raton, FL, 11/99 Dade Academy of the Teaching Arts (DATA), 9/98-11/98

TEACHING AND ADVISEMENT

Courses Taught at Florida Atlantic University

COP2212: Introduction to Programming in C

COP3530: Data Structures

COT3002: Foundations of Computer Science

COT4400: Design and Analysis of Algorithms

COP3540: Introduction to Database Structures

CEN4010: Principle of Software Engineering

CET4930: Discrete Structures

Laboratory Supervision

Foundations lab coordinator – created labs for 250 students and supervised 4 teaching assistants per semester

Student Advisement Responsibilities

Approximately 400 students per semester

Scientific and professional societies

NSBE (National Society of Black Engineers)

ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

UPE (Computer Honor Society)

Florida Atlantic University Mentoring Program

IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers)

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