Naren Ramakrishnan
Naren Ramakrishnan is a professor and the associate head for
graduate studies in the Department of Computer Science at
Virginia Tech. He is also an adjunct professor at the Institute
for Bioinformatics and Applied Biotechnology, Bangalore, India.
Naren's research interests include computational science (esp.
computational biology), mining scientific data, problem solving environments,
recommender systems, and information personalization.
His specialty is working with domain scientists and engineers
to develop software systems for scientific knowledge discovery.
Application domains have spanned protein design, biochemical networks,
neuro-informatics, plant physiology, wireless communications,
wood-based composites design, sustainable design of data centers,
and more. His work has been covered in many scientific outlets
including Biomedical Computation Review, HPCWire,
ACM Technews, and the National Science Foundation's
Discoveries series.
Naren serves on the editorial boards of IEEE Computer,
Journal of Intelligent Information Systems, and
Knowledge and Information Systems. He was a program chair
for the Seventh IEEE International Conference on Data Mining
(ICDM'07) held in Omaha, NE, a general chair for the
Eighth IEEE International Conference on Data Mining
(ICDM'08) held in Pisa, Italy, and co-organizer for
the National Academy of Engineering's Frontiers of Engineering Symposium
in Irvine, CA, Sep 2009.
Naren has received an
NSF
Faculty Early CAREER Development grant (2000), the New Century
Technology Council Innovation Award (2001), a
Certificate of Teaching Excellence from Virginia Tech (2005),
and a HP Labs innovation award (2009).
He was included
in Computerworld's "40 under 40" list of innovative IT
people to watch (2007) and is an ACM Distinguished Scientist (2009).
Naren received his Ph.D. in computer sciences from
Purdue University. He is
a member of the ACM, IEEE Computer Society,
and the AAAI.
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