Naren Ramakrishnan

Ph.D. Purdue University, Aug 1997.

Associate Professor, CS@VT
Director of Graduate Studies in Computer Science
Adjunct Professor, IBAB, Bangalore, India
Email: naren cs vt edu

Mailing Address
Department of Computer Science
2050 Torgersen Hall (0106)
Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA 24061
Office Address
2160L Torgersen Hall
Phone: 540-231-8451
Fax: 540-231-6075, or
540-231-7040

Research Interests

(My research group)
  • problem solving environments (software systems for doing computational science in a targeted domain; recent application foci come from bioinformatics and wireless communications)
  • data mining (emphasis on scientific datasets)
  • information personalization (models and software frameworks)

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)
    Memory Switches in Chemical Reaction Space, PLoS Computational Biology, 2008, to appear (with U.S. Bhalla).

    Algorithms for Storytelling, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, 2008, to appear (with D. Kumar, M. Potts, and R.F. Helm). [PDF]

    Graphical Models of Residue Coupling in Protein Families, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, Vol. 5, No. 2, pages 183-197, April-June 2008 (with J. Thomas and C. Bailey-Kellogg). [PDF]

    Compositional Mining of Multirelational Biological Datasets, ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data, 2008, Vol. 2, No. 1, Article 2, 35 pages, March 2008 (with Y. Jin and T.M. Murali). [PDF]

    CMGSDB: Integrating Heterogeneous Caenorhabditis elegans Data Sources using Compositional Data Mining, Nucleic Acids Research, Vol. 36 (Database issue), D69-D76, Jan 2008 (with A. Pati, Y. Jin, L.S. Heath, and others). [PDF]

    Scouts, Promoters, and Connectors: The Roles of Ratings in Nearest-Neighbor Collaborative Filtering, ACM Transactions on the Web, Vol. 1, No. 2, Article 8, 30 pages, August 2007. (with B.K. Mohan and B.J. Keller). [PDF]