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Background
in artificial intelligence, pattern recognition, expert systems,
neural networks, optimization, computer application in medicine.
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Teaching
computer science courses on graduate and undergraduate
levels and supervising students' research.
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Results-oriented
research professional with management experience.
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Supervising
and development of new research projects, writing grant
proposals.
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Excellent
interpersonal skills, team player and ability to work well with
all levels of an organization. Effective presentation, verbal and written
communication
skills. Well-developed organizational, project management, trouble-shooting and
problem-solving abilities.
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Proficient
in MatLab and its toolboxes, Visual Basic, C, C++,
Java, XHTML,
JavaScripts, VB Sripts,
PERL, Adobe PhotoShop, UNIX, Web programming
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
1998 – Present Goldey-Beacom College Wilmington, DE
Professor
– since 2006
Associate Professor
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Cluster
Coordinator for the Computer Information Systems and Mathematics
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Responsible
for teaching the following courses:
- Programming Logic and Design
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Object-Oriented Programming
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Data Structures
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Network and Information Security
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Web Programming and Design
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Database Management
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Statistics
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Technology of E-Commerce
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Course
Leader for courses listed above
1995 -
1998 Delaware
State University
Visiting Associate Professor
1993 - 1998 University
of Delaware, duPont Hospital for
Children,
Center for Applied Science &
Engineering
in Rehabilitation Wilmington, DE.
Post-Doctoral Fellow
Visiting Engineer
Research Fellow
1977 - 1992 Latvian Institute for Cardiology Riga,
Latvia
Main Research Associate
Senior Research Associate
Director of Computer Systems Department
1973 – 1977 Latvian
Medical Academy Riga,
Latvia
Senior Research Associate
1971 - 1973
Software Engineer
Director of Software Department
1993 - Course
"Neural Networks", University of Delaware
1989 - Degree: Ph.D., D.Sc., Control of Medical and Biological Systems
(equivalent to Computer Science),
Thesis: "Interactive Systems for Information Analysis and Data
Processing in
Cardiology", All-Union Scientific Cardiological
Center, Moscow, USSR
1975 - Degree: Ph.D., Technical Cybernetics and Information Theory
(equivalent to Computer Science),
Thesis: "The Methods of Collective Decision Making for Pattern
Recognition",
Technical University, Riga, Latvia
1969 - Degree: M.S., Electrical Engineering, Technical University, Riga,
Latvia.
RESNA
– North America Rehabilitation Engineering Society (1993 – 1998)
IEEE
- Institute for Electronic and Electrical Engineering (since 1995)
IEEE Computer Society, Senior Member (since 2001)
ACM - Association for Computer Machinery (since 1998)
CONSULTING
1992 - 1997 The High New Company,
Riverhead, NY
1998 - 1999 FastTrac,
Wilmington, DE
1999 - 2002 Delaware Today, MainLine Today, Visions Today, Wilmington, DE
2004 City of Wilmington,
Law Department - Delaware State Bar Association
2004 - 2005 WishTree.com, Wilmington, DE – Princeton, NJ
2004 WishTree,
LLC – Founder Wilmington, DE
RECOGNITION AND HONORS
1982 - Latvian State Award for Science (Latvian Academy for Science).
1992 - Doctor Habilitatus in Biology (Dr.Habil.Biol),
1997 - Nominee for the Excellence Award (
1998 - Nominee for the Excellence Award (
2001 - Strathmore’s Who Is Who
2002 - Innovative Teaching Award (Goldey-Beacom College)
PROFESSIONAL PRESENTATIONS
R.Erenshteyn, D.Saxe, P.Laskov, R.Foulds,
Distributed Output Encoding for Multi-Class Pattern
Recognition, Proceedings of ICIAP’99, IEEE, Venice,
R.Erenshteyn, J.Hannaford,
J.Toothman “Neural Network Simulations for Pattern
Recognition
Applications”, Goldey-Beacom College Annual Research Symposium, November 17,
2000
R.Erenshteyn “Pattern Recognition – 30 Years
Adventure”, IEEE Delaware Bay Chapter Meeting,
March, 2001
R.Erenshteyn, L.Ahumada
“Virtual Office: Design and Implementation” , Goldey-Beacom College
Annual Research Symposium, November 16, 2001
R.Erenshteyn, M.Grusell, L.Eby “Knowledge Engineering and Management – How Can
teaching
and learning Be Improved”, Goldey-Beacom College Annual Research Symposium,
November 16, 2002
PUBLICATIONS
Over 150 papers (34 in English).
Book: "Collective Pattern Recognition" (in Russian).
1. L.Rastrigin, R.Erenshteyn,
Collective of Solving Rules as a Method for Classification, Proceedings
of the International Simposia "Theoretical
Problems of Pattern Recognition", Sofija,
Bulgaria, 1972.
2. L.Rastrigin,
R.Erenshteyn, The Group of
Algorithms. Proceedings of IV International Joint
Conference of Artificial Intelligence, Tbilisi, USSR, 1975, vol.3, pp.138-144.
3. R.Erenshteyn, A.Ab, J.Pervushin, The Forecast of the Static Aperiodic
Stability in the Joint Energetic
Systems Using Pattern Recognition Methods. USSR Academy of
Science "Energetics and Transporation",
Moscow, 1975, vol.4, pp.39-50.
4. L.Rastrigin, R.Erenshteyn, Decision Making by the Collective of Solving
Rules for Pattern Recognition
Problems. USSR Academy of Science "Automatics and Telemechanics", Moscow, 1975, vol.9, pp.133-144.
5. L.Rastrigin, R.Erenshteyn, The Collective of Algorithms as the
Generalization of Problem Solving
Methods, USSR Academy of Science "Technical Cybernetics", Moscow,
1978, Vol.2, pp. 126-136.
6. R.Erenshteyn, A.Kalvelis, Logical and Combinatorial Methods of Pattern
Recognition for Automatic
Analysis of ECG. Proceedings of XX International Simposia of Electrocardiology, Jalta, USSR, 1979.
7. N.Andrejev, J.Lacis, R.Erenshteyn, Database
for Secondary Prophilaxis of Cardiological
Patients.
Proceedings of International Conference of Preventive
Cardiology, Moscow, USSR, 1985.
8. R.Erenshteyn, A.Kalvelis, Automatized Dialog
System for Syndromal Analysis of ECG. Proceedings
of International Congress of Electrocardiology,
Minsk, USSR, 1985.
9. G.Orlikov, R.Erenshteyn, Insulin in Gastric Juice in Healthy Subjects
and Duodenal Ulcer Patients,
Current Trends in Gastroenterology, Praha, 1987,
vol.2, pp.362-376.
10. R.Erenshteyn, An Experience of Interactive Systems Design for Preventive
Cardiology. Reprint.
Seminar of United Nation ECE, Pieshtjani,
1987, p.10.
11. R.Erenshteyn, Pattern
Recognition in the Multiphase and Cardiological
Screening. The VI World
Congress of Medical Informatics, Beijing, China, 1989.
12. R.Erenshteyn, I.Duman, G.Igonov, I.Zakke, Computerized Monitoring of Heart Rhythm for
Rehabilitation
of Patients with Myocardial Infarction. Reprint. I Workshop on Rehabilitation Engineering - REHAB-1,
United Nation ECE, Washington, 1990, p.6.
13. R.Erenshteyn, Decision
Making Systems in Cardiology. Proceedings of III
International Conference
of Medical Informatics, Havana, 1990, p.141.
14. R.Erenshteyn, Cardiological Decision Making and Expert Systems. European
Heart Journal,
Proceedings of the XIIIth Congress of the European
Society of Cardiology, Amsterdam, 1991, p.37.
15. R.Erenshteyn,
Collective Pattern Recognition and Expert Systems in Cardiological
Decision Making.
Proceedings of the World Congress on Medical Physics and
Biomedical Engineering, Kyoto, 1991.
16. R.Erenshteyn, V.Ivbule, Problems of Social and Intellectual
Rehabilitation of Disabled Children in
Latvia. Reprint. II Workshop on
Rehabilitation Engineering - REHAB-2, United Nation ECE, Fagernes,
1991, p.4.
17. R.Erenshteyn, R.Foulds, S.Galuska, Is Designing
a Neural Network Application an Art or a Science?
ASM SIGCHI Bulletin, 1994, vol.26, 3, pp.23-29.
18. R.Erenshteyn, L.Messing, R.Foulds, G.Stern, S.Galuska, Back
Propagation Neural Network for
American Sign Language Recognition. Proceedings of World
Congress on Neural Networks, San Diego,
1994, vol.1, pp.405-409.
19. D.Roy, R.Erenshteyn, M.Panayi, W.Harwin, R.Foulds, R.Fawcus, Computer Recognition of
Impressive Dynamic Arm Gestures of People with Severe Motor Impairment. Proceedings of World
Congress on Neural Networks, San Diego, 1994, vol.2, pp.191-196.
20. R.Erenshteyn, L.Messing, R.Foulds, S.Galuska, G.Stern, Pattern
Recognition Methods for
Translating American Sign Language into English. Proceedings
of World Congress on Medical Physics
and Biomedical Engineering, Rio de Janeiro, 1994.
21. L.Messing, R.Erenshteyn, R.Foulds, S.Galuska, G.Stern, American Sign
Language Computer
Recognition: its Present and its Promise. Proceedings of Sixth Biennial Conference of the International
Society for Augumentative and Alternative
Communication - ISAAC'94, Maastricht, 1994.
22. D.Roy, M.Panayi, R.Foulds, R.Fawcus, R.Erenshteyn, W.Harwin, Computer Recognition of Gestures
for Augumentative and Alternative Communication. Proceedings of Sixth Biennial Conference of the
International Society for Augumentative and
Alternative Communication - ISAAC'94, Maastricht, 1994.
23. D.Roy, M.Panayi, R.Erenshteyn, R.Foulds, R.Fawcus, Gestural
Human-Machine Interaction for
People with Severe Speech and Motor Impairment due to Cerebral Pulsy. Proceedings of the
Conference ACM CHI'94, Boston, 1994, pp.313-314.
24. D.Roy, M.Panayi, R.Foulds, R.Erenshteyn, W.Harwin, R.Fawcus, The Enhancement of
Interaction
for People with Severe Speech and Physical Impairment through the Computer
Recognition of Gesture
and Manipulation. PRESENCE - Teleoperators
and Virtual Enviroments. MIT
Press, 1994, vol.3, No.3,
pp.227-235.
25. R.Erenshteyn, R.Foulds, L.Messing, G.Stern, S.Galuska, Handshape Recognition - a Step Toward
Computer Translation of American Sign Language. Proceedings
of World Congress on Neural Networks,
Washington, 1995, vol.1, pp.216-219.
26. R.Erenshteyn, P. Laskov, R.Foulds, L.Messing, G.Stern, S.Galuska, Static and Dynamic Recognition
of Fingerspelled Sentences. Proceedings
of World Congress on Neural Networks, San Diego, 1996.
27. R.Erenshteyn, P.Laskov, R.Foulds, L.Messing, G.Stern, Recognition
Approach to Gesture Language
Understanding, Proceedings of 13th International Conference on Pattern
Recognition, Vienna, 1996,
vol.III, pp.431-435.
28. R.Erenshteyn, P.Laskov, A Multi-Stage Approach to Fingerspelling
and Gesture Recognition,
Proceedings of WIGLS (Workshop on the Integration of Gesture in Language and
Speech), Newark,
1996, pp.185-194.
29. C.Alexander, R.Erenshteyn, Implementing a Generic Gestures Recognition
System, Proceedings
of RESNA'97, Pittsburgh, 1997, pp.336-338.
30. R.Erenshteyn, P.Laskov, R.Foulds, Human Gesture
Recognition Using Neural Networks and
Multi-Class Encoding, Smart Engineering Systems: Neural Networks, Fuzzy Logic,
Data Mining and
Evolutionary Programming. Vol.7. Proceedings of ANNIE'97 (Artificial Neural
Networks in Engineering),
St.Louis, 1997, pp. 549-554.
31. R.Erenshteyn, D.Saxe, P.Laskov, R.Foulds,
Distributed Output Encoding for Multi-Class Pattern
Recognition, Proceedings of ICIAP’99, IEEE,
1999, pp. 229-234.
32. R.Erenshteyn, Active
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