Naren Ramakrishnan

Ph.D. Purdue University, Aug 1997.

Professor and Associate Head for Graduate Studies
Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech
Adjunct Professor, IBAB, Bangalore, India
Email: naren cs vt edu

Mailing Address
Department of Computer Science
114 McBryde Hall Hall (0106)
Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA 24061
Office Address
2050B Torgersen Hall
Phone: 540-231-8451
Fax: 540-231-6075, or
540-231-7040

Research Interests

(My research group)
    computational science (esp. computational biology), mining scientific data,
    problem solving environments, recommender systems, information personalization.

Quote

    "In science, self-satisfaction is death. Personal self-satisfaction is the death of the scientist. Collective self-satisfaction is the death of the research. It is restlessness, anxiety, dissatisfaction, agony of mind that nourish science."
    -Jacques-Lucien Monod

Teaching

(past courses)
    No teaching this semester.

Recent Publications

(full list)
    Sustainable Operation and Management of Data Center Chillers using Temporal Data Mining, in Proceedings of the 15th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD'09), Paris, France, June 2009, to appear (with D. Patnaik, M. Marwah, and R. Sharma; Best Application Paper Runner-up Award at KDD'09). [PDF]

    Protein Design by Sampling an Undirected Graphical Model of Residue Constraints, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, 2009, to appear (with J. Thomas and C. Bailey-Kellogg). [PDF]

    Computing with Proteins, IEEE Computer, Vol. 42, No. 1, pages 47-56, Jan 2009 (with U.S. Bhalla and J.J. Tyson). [PDF]

    Reconstructing Chemical Reaction Networks: Data Mining meets System Identification, in Proceedings of the 14th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD'08), Las Vegas, NV, pages 142-150, Aug 2008 (with Y.J. Cho and Y. Cao). [PDF]

    Memory Switches in Chemical Reaction Space, PLoS Computational Biology, Vol. 4, No. 7, e1000122, 9 pages, July 2008 (with U.S. Bhalla). [PDF]

    Algorithms for Storytelling, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, Vol. 20, No. 6, pages 736-751, June 2008 (with D. Kumar, M. Potts, and R.F. Helm). [PDF] Featured article in the June 2008 issue.