William H. Turkett, Jr.
I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Wake Forest University. I received my Ph.D. (August 2004) from the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of South Carolina, where my research was in the area of probabilistic reasoning.
Teaching
I am on research leave for the 2008-2009 academic year and will not be teaching courses in the CS department until the Fall of 2009.I am finding blogs to be great content aggregators for my course websites. Check an example out here: CSC 231 Spring 2008
Research
My thesis advisor was Dr. John Rose, who directed my dissertation work on Robust Multiagent Plan Generation and Execution with Decision-Theoretic Planners [PDF, ~1.0MB].At Wake Forest, I am actively involved in teaching and research in the broad field of Computational Biosciences, including active collaboration with computational biophysicist Jacque Fetrow. My interests are in applications of machine learning, with current foci on reverse-engineering of cellular signaling networks and predicting properties of proteins from amino acid sequence analysis. I have also recently begun exploring collaborations with the Network Security Group, led by Errin Fulp.
I currently am working with three graduate students on Masters level research. These students and their areas of interest are:
Jason Fye - Probabilistic approaches to clustering and motif analysis 
Andrew Karode - Applications of support vector machine learning to computer security, particularly traffic classification
Santiago Saldana - The effectiveness of social plan sharing in online planning in POMDP-type domains