Aaron A. Urbas

Address: 385 Redding Rd #5, Lexington KY 40517

Phone: (859) 351-9579

Email: aaurba2@uky.edu

Education

PURSUING PH.D., ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY 2001 - present
University of Kentucky Lexington, KY

CHEMOMETRICS (BACHELOR OF SPECIALIZED STUDIES) 1995 TO 2001
Ohio University Athens, OH

Experience

TEACHING ASSISTANT 2001
University of Kentucky (Chemistry Department) Lexington, KY

Laboratory instructor for instrumental analysis. Taught the following analytical
techniques: HPLC, GC-MS, FTIR, Fluorescence, NMR.

Honors & Activities

Kentucky Opportunity Fellow (2003 - present)

IGERT-NSF Fellow (2002 - present)

Franklin E. Tuttle Fellow (2001 - 2002)

Sigma Chi Research Society (2001-present)

American Chemical Society (2002-present)

Publications

Urbas, A.A.; Lodder, R.A. Quantification of Albumin (BSA) on Glass by Laser Scatter for Cleaning Validation. Submitted.

Cassis, L.A.; Urbas, A.A.; Lodder, R.A. Hyperspectral Integrated Computational Imaging, Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry, in press for the June 2004 issue.

Cassis, L.A.; Dai, B.; Urbas, A.A.; Lodder, R.A. In vivo spectrometric sensor using molecular computing. Progress in Biomedical Optics, in press.

Urbas, A. A.; Manning, M.W.; Daugherty, A.; Cassis, L.A.; Lodder, R.A. Near-Infrared Spectrometry of Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm in the Apo E-/- Mouse. Analytical Chemistry, 2003, 75, pp 3318-3323.

Urbas, A.A.; Lodder, R.A. In situ spectroscopic cleaning validation. NIR News, 2003, 14(2), pp 22-24.

Urbas, A.A.; Harrington, P.B. Two-Dimensional Wavelet Compression of Ion Mobility Spectra. Analytica Chimica Acta, 2001, 446, pp 393-412.

Harrington, P.B., Urbas, Aaron, Wan, Chuanhao. Evaluation of Neural Network Models with Generalized Sensitivity Analysis. Analytical Chemistry, 2000, 72.

Harrington, P.B., Urbas, Aaron, Tandler, Peter J. Two-dimensional Correlation Analysis. Chemometrics and Intelligent Laboratory Systems, 2000, 50.

Z. Zhang, A. Urbas, P.B. Harrington, K.J. Voorhees, and J. Rees. Temperature-Constrained Cascade Correlation Network and Its Application to Bacteria Identification, Chemical Journal of Chinese Universities, 23:4 (2002) 570-572.

Oral Presentations

Aaron A. Urbas, Robert A. Lodder, Quantification of BSA on Glass by Laser Scatter for Cleaning Validation. PITTCON 2004, Chicago, IL, March 10, 2004.

Aaron A. Urbas, Robert A. Lodder, Gerald Thompson, Karthik Venkatachalam, Erika Wanner, Magnetohydrodynamic Currents in Blood Coagulation. PITTCON 2004, Chicago, IL, March 11, 2004.

Aaron A. Urbas, Robert A. Lodder, Michael Manning, Alan Daugherty, Lisa A. Cassis, Near-Infrared Spectrometry of Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm in the ApoE-/- Mouse. PITTCON 2004, Chicago, IL, March 12, 2004.

Aaron A. Urbas, Robert A. Lodder, Reduction of Manufacturing Problems Using Near-Infrared Spectrometry (NIRS) as a Process Analytical Technology. Institute of Validation Technology - Process Analytical Technology (PAT) Conference, October 23, 2002, Gaithersburg, MD.

Poster Presentations

Aaron Urbas, Tracy Henriques, Debra Rateri, Alan Daugherty, Lisa Cassis, Robert Lodder. Near-Infrared Spectrometry of Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm in the Apo E-/- Mouse. Gill Heart Institute Cardiovascular Research Day, October 24, 2003, Lexington, KY.

Skills and Research Interests

Chemometrics: Basic Uni/Multi-Variate Statistics, Factor Analysis, PCA, PCR, PLS, Neural Networks, SIMPLISMA, Discriminant Analysis, FFT, Wavelets, BEST

Computer Programming: C/C++, MS Visual C++, Borland C++ Builder

Software: Matlab, Mathematica, Speakeasy, SigmaPlot, Axum, MS Office (Word, Excel, Powerpoint)

Instrumental Techniques: Near-IR Spectroscopy & Imaging, Acoustic Resonance Spectrometry, Light Scatter & Polarization, GC-MS, HPLC, Confocal Microscopy, UV-Vis Spectroscopy, Ion Mobility Spectrometry (IMS), Fluorescence Spectroscopy

Other Skills: Basic electronics

Research Interests: All things analytical, developing new instrumentation or hyphenated techniques, analyzing data of almost any kind, GUI development for data analysis and data collection(novel instruments), miniaturized sensor development, process analytical technologies, remote sensing, analytical spectroscopy