Naren Ramakrishnan

Research Interests

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

CS 4804: Introduction to AI (available on scholar.vt.edu)
CS 6604: Data Mining (available on scholar.vt.edu)

Recent Publications

Discovering Excitatory Networks from Discrete Event Streams with Applications to Neuronal Spike Train Analysis, in Proceedings of the Ninth IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM'09), to be held in Miami, FL, Dec 2009 (withS. Laxman and D. Patnaik). [PDF]

Graphical Models of Protein-Protein Interaction Specificity from Correlated Mutations and Interaction Data, Proteins: Structure, Function, and Bioinformatics, Vol. 76, No. 4, pages 911–929, Sep 2009 (with J. Thomas and C. Bailey-Kellogg). [PDF]

Temporal Process Discovery in many Guises, IEEE Computer, Vol. 42, No. 8, pages 97-101, Aug 2009 (with D. Patnaik and V. Sreedharan). [PDF]

Protein Design by Sampling an Undirected Graphical Model of Residue Constraints, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, Vol. 6, No. 3, pages 506-516, July 2009 (with J. Thomas and C. Bailey-Kellogg). [PDF]

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), pages 1305-1314, Paris, France, June-July 2009 (with D. Patnaik, M. Marwah, and R. Sharma; Best Application Paper Runner-up Award at KDD'09). [PDF]

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