Richard Anthony Alo

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CIS 4932 Section 301. Introduction to Gen AI for Developing ML/DL Models for Applications • F 9:10am to 11:30 am

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Richard A. Aló is FAMU Esteemed Scholar, Data Science, AI/ML, Dean of Science &Technology [2018-2024], Professor, Mathematics, Computer and Information Sciences. Jackson State: Dean, Science, Engineering, Technology, Professor, Computer Sciences, US/DOE/NNSA Samuel Massie Chair of Excellence in Cybersecurity. NSF: Lead PAESMEM; Noyce Teacher Training. Computational/Data-enabled S&E. UHD: created NASAHouston AI Program, students built CAVE2-teaching astronauts space flight; US ARO $10M funded him and colleagues from FAMU, Grambling State, University of Central Florida to create Advanced Distributed Simulation Research Consortium to assist automating Army’s semi-automatic ground environment. Carnegie-Mellon: team member developing: DA MathSci, BS Computer Science, parallel processing for photo recognition; graduated four DA, four PhD students. Research: CDS&E, AI’s Impact on Humanity, big data applications: cancer, public health, cybersecurity; provided $5M Hewlett grant for Cyber Policy Institute. Partners: UC Berkeley/San Diego’s CalIT2’s NSF grants building the National Research Platform enhanced FAMU’s Cyberinfrastructure with 32 GPUs [8 in place], DMZ, direct connectivity to the NRP [free access to shared resources [1300+ GPUs, 100+ AI modules, 5000+ data sets, cloud/exascale computing]; resources building Cybersecurity/ Visualizations Research/ Learning Lab; Raised $15+M in grants. Outreach: NSF S&T Center in Parallel Computation at Rice; Purdue’s Center for Visual Analytics for Command, Control, and Interoperability. Chaired: Art Acquisition Committee, commissioning over $15M. Mentoring: 25 doctorates [first nine PhDs in [Big] Data]. Grants: $150+M by KBR, Lockheed Martin, NSF, US ARO, US DOE, USN, USAID, USCG, NASEM, NASA, Cullen Foundations, NEA, City of Houston Arts Council. HAdvisory Boards: ten, President: Houston International Dance Coalition; Sandra Organ Dance Company.

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• Professor • 2018 – Present
• FAMU Esteemed Scholar Data Science/AI/ML 2024
• Dean, Science & Technology- 2018-20
  Florida A&M University (FAMU), Tallahassee, FL
• Professor, Computer Science • 2012-2018
• Dean, Science, Engineering &Technology
• US DOE NNSA Samuel P. Massie Chair of Excellence in Cybersecurity 2013-2018
  Jackson State University (JSU), Jackson, MS
• Program Officer • 2010 – 2012
• Offices of CyberInfrastructure and International Science and Engineering; Directorates of Mathematical and Physical Sciences, Computer and Information Sciences and Engineering, and Education and Human Resources. The National Science Foundation[NSF], Arlington, VA
• Professor, Mathematics 1982-2010
• Department Head, Department of Mathematical and Computer Sciences 1982-1995
• Executive Director, Grants and Contracts 1995-2010
• Executive Director, Center for Computational Science and Advanced Distributed Simulation 1995-2010
  University of Houston Downtown[UHD], Houston, Texas
• Professor, Mathematics 1976-1982
• Department Head, Department of Mathematical and Computer Sciences, 1982-1995
  Lamar University[LU], Beaumont, Texas
• Associate Professor, Mathematics 1969-1976
• Assistant Professor, Mathematics 1966-1969
• Carnegie-Mellon University[C-MU], Pittsburgh, PA

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Building a Data Science/Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning Research and Learning Cluster. Florida A&M University 2019-Present
Cluster Members: Richard Aló Lead, Hongmei Chi, Jinwei Liu, Ed Jones, Erdell Maurice, Nelly Meteeva, Samia Meseeha, Bereket Mochona, Yohn Parra-Bautista, Carlos Theran-Suarez, Clement Yedjou

• Y. J. Parra Bautista, C. Theran, and R. Aló. "Ethical Considerations of Generative AI: A Survey Exploring the Role of Decision Makers in the Loop." In Proceedings of the AAAI Symposium Series, vol. 3, no. 1, pp. 391-398. 2024.
• Yedjou CG*, Tchakoua CT, Latinwo L, Tchounwou M, Eidahl K, Alo RA, Liu H. Recent advances in artificial intelligence (AI) in education, ethical concerns and implications. International Journal of Science Academic Research. 2024. 05(2); 7027-7030.
• Yedjou CG*, Shayla Webster S, Osborne D, Liu J, Balagurunathan Y, Odewuni C, Latinwo L, Pierre Ngnepiepa P, Alo RA, Tchounwou PB. Health Promotion and Racial Disparity in COVID-19 Mortality Among African American Populations. Reports on Global Health Research. 2023; 6(3): ISSN: 2690-9480.
• Liu, R. Gong, L. Cheng, and R. Aló. DeepHealth: Geospatial and ML-based Approach to Identify Health Disparities and Determinants for Improving Pandemic Health Care. In Proc. of IEEE ICCCN, 2023.
• Parra-Bautista YJ, Messeha SS, Theran C, Aló RA, Yedjou C, Adankai V, Babatunde S. Marital Status of Never Married with Rey Auditory Verbal Learning Test Cognition Performance Is Associated with Mild Cognitive Impairment. Appl. Sci. 2023, 13(3), 1656.
• Y. J. Parra Bautista, S. S. Messeha, C. Theran, R. Aló, C. Yedjou, V. Adankai, S. Babatunde, and Alzheimer’s Disease Prediction of Longitudinal Evolution (TADPOLE). "Marital status of Never Married with Rey Auditory verbal Learning test cognition performance is associated with mild cognitive impairment." Applied Sciences 13, no. 3 (2023): 1656.
• Y. J. Parra Bautista, C. Theran, R. Aló, and V. Lima. "Heath Disparités Through Generative AI Models: A Comparison Study Using a Domain Specific Large Language Model." In Proceedings of the Future Technologies Conference, pp. 220-232. Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland, 2023.
• Y. J. Parra Bautista, C. Theran, and R. Aló. "Data science and Deep Learning across the alliance: A personalized project-activated modality REU." In 2022 7th International STEM Education Conference (iSTEM-Ed), pp. 1-4. IEEE, 2022
• Y. J. Parra Bautista, S. Messeha, C. Theran, R. A. Alo, C. Yedjou, V. Adankai, and S. Babatunde. "Marital Status with Rey Auditory Verbal Learning Test Cognition Performance Is Associated with Mild Cognitive Impairment." (2022).
• J. Liu, X. Zhang, R. Aló, X. Huang, L. Cheng, and F. Deng. CrossCas : A Novel Cross-Platform Approach for Predicting Cascades in Online Social Networks with Hidden Markov Model, In Proc. of IEEE GLOBECOM, 2022.
• Y. J. Parra Bautista, R. Aló, and N. Wang. "Deep Learning, cloud computing for crédit/débit industry analysis of consumer behavior." In 2020 7th IEEE International Conférence on Cyber Security and Cloud Computing (CSCloud)/2020 6th IEEE International Conference on Edge Computing and Scalable Cloud (EdgeCom), pp. 1-7. IEEE, 2020.
• C. Theran-Suarez, Y. J. Parra Bautista, V. Adankai, and R. Aló. "Machine Learning Computational Framework for Alzheimer’s Disease Stages Classification." In Proceedings of the Future Technologies Conférence, pp. 381-397. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2022.
• J. P. Fleischer, G. von Laszewski, C. Theran, and Y. J. Parra Bautista. "Time series analysis of cryptocurrency prices using long short-term memory." Algorithms 15, no. 7 (2022): 230.
• J. Liu, R. Aló, Y. J. Parra Bautista. DeepTrace: Improving US Pandemic Health Care through Health Disparity Identification and Determinant Tracing, In IDSTA, 2020. DOI :10.1109/IDSTA50958.2020.9264064.
• J. Liu, L. Cheng, A. Sarker, L. Yan, and R. Aló. DeepTrack: An ML-based Approach to Health Disparity Identification and Determinan

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BOOK CHAPTERS

• Yedjou CG*, Latinwo L, Alo RA, Odewomi C, Reaves P. Technology Enhanced Student Learning, Improved Engagement, and Performance in Anatomy & Physiology Course: Engagement Student Learning Using Innovative Technologies. IGI Global, 2022. ISBN: 9781668453360.
• Health and Racial Disparity in Breast Cancer, C.G. Yedjou, D. Gomez-Fonseca, R. Aló, et al., Chapter in Book: Breast Cancer Metastasis and Drug Resistance, 2nd Edition, Springer Verlag [2019]
• Yedjou CG*, Sims SN, Miele L, Noubissi N, Lowe L, Fonseca-Gomez D, Alo RA, Payton M, Tchounwou PB. Health/ Racial Disparity in Breast Cancer. Adv Exp Med Biol. 2019:1152:31-49. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-20301-6_3.
• Houston PREP. https://www.uhd.edu/academics/sciences/houston-prep/index.aspx
• Destinatario: Premio Ulises Ruiz Ortiz, Gobernador de Oaxaca, México, por 2005 Consultoría Destacada en Desastres Ambientales y Naturales

Recipient

• NSF Director’s Award for Collaborative Integration with Offices [Cyberinfrastructure, International Science & Engineering], and Directorates [CISE, EHR, Math/Phys. Sciences] 2012
• US DoE NNSA Samuel P. Massie Chair of Excellence in Cyber Security, 2012-18 Jackson State University
• Hispanic Engineers National Awards and Achievement Conference 2002 Outstanding Educator Award
• State of Texas Legislature’s 2005 STAR Award for Creation of U Houston Scholars Academy
• Math Assoc. of America Outstanding Mathematics Teacher Award, 1995

Winner:

• Italian Government Competition for a ‘Catedra in Analysis’, Universitá degli Studi di Parma, 1975-76
• Scaife Foundation Summer Fellowships: 1967. 1968, 1969,
• Gordon Institute of Engineering Fellowship Magdalena College, Oxford University, 2017

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