
Manfred Minimair , Ph.D.
Professor, M.S. in Data Science Program Director
Department of Mathematics and Computer Science
(973) 761-9466
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McQuaid Hall
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Manfred Minimair, Ph.D.
Professor, M.S. in Data Science Program Director
Department of Mathematics and Computer Science
I am a computer scientist and applied mathematician with strong interests in Data Science, Symbolic Computation, and Applied Computing. I teach data visualization, data mining, computer graphics and various topics in Applied Computing and Mathematics.
I have spearheaded the development of a pioneering certificate program in Data Visualization and Analysis at Seton Hall University and have been conducting various projects in Data Science. Supported by Independent College Fund of New Jersey, I have supervised a student research project on analyzing incident data collected by the South Orange Police Department. I have also developed a visualization of data on gang activities in New Jersey, collected by the New Jersey State Police. Another one of my papers investigates and visualizes biological data on fruit flies. To support discoveries in data science and computational mathematics, I am researching the design of software facilitating collaborative work. The software enables teams of data scientists and computational mathematicians to develop scripts in languages such as R and Python and use these scripts for gaining insights from their data.
In Symbolic Computation, am studying how to efficiently compute with large-scale systems of polynomial equations used in mathematical models of engineering and science. I am investigating how to use given structures to efficiently simplify the systems and determine whether there is a solution for the models.
Education
- Ph.D., North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, 2001
- Dipl.-Ing. (M.S. equivalent), Johannes Kepler University, Linz, Austria, 1997
Scholarship
- MathChat: Computational Mathematics via a Social Machine, Conferences on Intelligent Computer Mathematics Vol. 11006 (2018) p. 194 - 208
- Collaborative Computer Algebra (Book Chapter), in I. Kotsireas, E. Martinez-Moro (Eds.), Proceedings of Applications of Computer Algebra 2015, Springer Proceedings in Mathematics & Statistics, Vol. 198, Springer Verlag, ISBN 978-3-319-56930-7, 2017
- Computing the Dixon Resultant with the Maple Package DR (Book Chapter), in I. Kotsireas, E. Martinez-Moro (Eds.), Proceedings of Applications of Computer Algebra 2015, Springer Proceedings in Mathematics & Statistics, Vol. 198, Springer Verlag, ISBN 978-3-319-56930-7, 2017
- Randomized Detection of Extraneous Factors (Book Chapter), pp. 335-342, in K. Nabeshima (Ed.), Proceedings of the 39th International Symposium on Symbolic and Algebraic Computation, ISSAC '14, Kobe, Japan, July 23-25, 2014, ACM, New York, NY, ISBN 978-1-4503-2501-1, 2014
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"The effects of glutathione, insulin and oxidative stress on cultured spermatogenic
cysts"
Spermatogenesis, 1(2), 159- 171, September 2011 -
Multivariate Resultants in Bernstein Basis (Book Chapter)
In T. Sturm and C. Zengler (Eds.), Automated Deduction in Geometry, Springer Verlag, 60- 85, August 2011 - "Cayley-Dixon Projection Operator for Multi-Univariate Composed Polynomials"
Journal of Symbolic Computation, 44(8), 972- 999, August 2009 - "Basis-Independent Polynomial Division Algorithm Applied to Division in Lagrange and Bernstein Basis", Asian Symposium on Computer Mathematics, 72-87, April 2007
- "Resultants of Skewly Composed Polynomials", ISSAC MMVI, International Symposium on Symbolic and Algebraic Computation, Association of Computing Machinery (ACM), 228- 233, July 2006
- "Resultants of Partially Composed Polynomials"
Journal of Symbolic Computation, 41(5), 591- 602, May 2006 - "Cayley-Dixon Resultant Matrices of Multi-Univariate Composed Polynomials", CASC 2005, Computer Algebra in Scientific Computing, Springer Verlag, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 3718, 125- 137, October 2005
- "Solving Polynomial Equations for Chemical Problems Using Groebner Bases", Molecular Physics, 102(23- 24), 2521- 2535, November 2004
Accomplishments
Additional Positions:
- Director of the B.S. program in Computer Science
- Director of the certificate program in Cybersecurity
- Director of the undergraduate and graduate certificate programs in Data Visualization and Analysis
- Study Abroad and Internship Advisor for Computer Science
- Adviser of the German club
Selected Awards:
- Comcast Foundation Grant (2017-18) on developing a collaborative scripting environment for network analysis
- NSF RUI grant (2004-2007) on resultant techniques for composed polynomials
- Researcher of the Year 2004/05: Awarded by the Provost and the College of Arts and Science