Richard Burns

Richard Burns
  • Chairperson
  • Professor
  • Department: Computer Science
  • Institution: West Chester University of Pennsylvania
  • Email: RBurns@wcupa.edu

Education

  • Ph.D. Computer Science, University of Delaware, 2012
  • M.S. Computer Science, University of Delaware, 2008
  • B.S. Computer Science, Saint Joseph's University, 2006

Research Interests

Artificial IntelligenceNatural Language ProcessingMachine LearningData ScienceData Mining

Opportunities

Work Study Positions Available: No

Grant Funded Positions Available: No

Course-Credit Research Opportunities Available: Yes

CSC490; CSC499; CSC610

Volunteer Research Positions Available: No

Biography

I'm a Professor within the Department of Computer Science at West Chester University, and also am serving as Chairperson of the Department.

Contact Information

Phone: 610-436-2690

List of Publications

  • -Statewise Twitter Sentiment Analysis of 2020 US Presidential Election using Apache Spark Prathyusha Dongari, Richard Burns Proceedings of the 35th Annual Conference of The Pennsylvania Association of Computer and Information Science Educators (PACISE '21), pp. 44-51, 2021. Best Graduate Student Paper Award - Towards Understanding the Role of Information Graphics in Multimodal Documents Stephanie Elzer Schwartz, Richard Burns. Presented at International Association of Applied Linguistics (AILA), S202 - Multimodality: Evaluation and Application, 2021. - Containerizing CS Learning Environments Linh Ngo, Richard Burns, Si Chen The Journal of Computing Sciences in Colleges, Volume 36, Number 3, pp. 169, October 2020. - An Automated Approach for the Recognition of Intended Messages in Grouped Bar Charts Richard Burns, Sandra Carberry, Stephanie Elzer Schwartz Computational Intelligence (COIN), 35:955-1002, 2019. - Physical Exercise Instructions: Unlocking the Key to Injury-Free Workouts using Natural Language Processing Matthew Leinhauser, Richard Burns Proceedings of the 34th Annual Conference of The Pennsylvania Association of Computer and Information Science Educators (PACISE '19), pp. 91-97, 2019. - Sentiment Analysis of Emoji on Twitter Matthew Bonham, Richard Burns Proceedings of the 33rd Annual Conference of The Pennsylvania Association of Computer and Information Science Educators (PACISE '18), pp. 96-100, 2018. Best Undergraduate Student Paper Award - Exploring the Types of Messages that Pie Charts Convey in Popular Media Richard Burns, Eric Balawejder, Wiktoria Domanowska, Stephanie Elzer Schwartz, Sandra Carberry Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on the Theory and Application of Diagrams (Diagrams '16), pp. 265-271, 2016.

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