Jacob KoganJacob Kogan is an Associate Professor in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. Dr. Kogan received his PhD in Mathematics from Weizmann Institute of Science, has held teaching and research positins at the University of Toronto and Purdue University. His research interests include Text and Data Mining, Optimization, Calculus of Variations, Optimal Control Theory, and Robust Stability of Control Systems. Dr. Kogan is the author of Bifurcations of Extremals in Optimal Control and Robust Stability and Convexity: An Introduction. Since 2001, he has also been affiliated with the Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at UMBC. Dr. Kogan is a recipient of 2004-2005 Fulbright Fellowship to Israel. Together with Charles Nicholas of UMBC and Marc Teboulle of Tel-Aviv University he is co-editor of the volume Grouping Multidimensional Data: Recent Advances in Clustering. Read More Read Less