Michael W. Berry

Michael W. Berry holds the title of Full Professor and Associate Department Head in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.

Prof. Berry is the co-author of "Templates for the Solution of Linear Systems:

Building Blocks for Iterative Methods" (SIAM, 1994) and "Understanding Search Engines: Mathematical Modeling and Text Retrieval, Second Edition" (Bestseller, SIAM, 2005) and editor of "Computational Information Retrieval" (SIAM, 2001), "Survey of Text Mining: Clustering, Classification, and Retrieval" (Springer-Verlag, 2003, 2007), "Lecture Notes in Data Mining" (Bestseller, World Scientific, 2006), and "Text Mining: Applications and Theory" (Wiley, 2010). He has published well over 100 peer-refereed journal and conference publications.

He has organized numerous workshops on Text Mining and was Conference Co-Chair of the 2003 SIAM Third International Conference on Data Mining (May 1-3) in San Francisco, CA. He was also Program Co-Chair of the 2004 Co-Chair of the 2003 SIAM Fourth International Conference on Data Mining (April 22-24) in Orlando, FL. He is a member of SIAM, ACM, MAA, and the IEEE Computer Society and is on the editorial board of "Computing in Science and Engineering" and "Statistical Analysis and Data Mining".

His research interests include information retrieval, data and text mining,

computational science, bioinformatics, and parallel computing. Prof. Berry's

research has been supported by grants and contracts from organizations such

as the National Science Foundation, National Institutes of Health, and the

National Aeronautics and Space Administration.