Naren Ramakrishnan

Thomas L. Phillips Professor of Engineering
Director, Discovery Analytics Center, Virginia Tech
Adjunct Professor, IBAB, Bangalore, India
Email: naren cs vt edu
(bio)

Mailing Address
Department of Computer Science
114 McBryde 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

    Mining scientific datasets in domains such as systems biology, neuroscience, sustainability, and intelligence analysis.

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

Recent Publications

(full list)
    Storytelling in Entity Networks to Support Intelligence Analysts, in Proceedings of the 18th ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD'12), Beijing, China, pages 1375-1383, Aug 2012 (with M.S. Hossain, P. Butler, A.P. Boedihardjo). [PDF]

    Fine-grained Photovoltaic Output Prediction using a Bayesian Ensemble, in Proceedings of the 26th Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI'12), Toronto, Canada, 7 pages, July 2012 (with P. Chakraborty, M. Marwah, and M. Arlitt). [PDF]

    Visual Exploration of Frequent Patterns in Multivariate Time Series, Information Visualization, Vol. 11, No. 1, pages 71-83, Jan 2012 (with M.C. Hao and others). [PDF]

    Discovering the Ebb and Flow of Ideas from Text Corpora, IEEE Computer, Vol. 45, No. 1, pages 73-77, Jan 2012 (with J. Jee, B. Mishra, and others). [PDF]

    Adaptive Code Collage: A Framework to transparently modify Scientific Codes, IEEE/AiP Computing in Science and Engineering, Vol. 14, No. 1, pages 52-63, Jan/Feb 2012 (with P. Kang, C.J. Ribbens, and others). [PDF]

    Connecting the Dots between PubMed abstracts, PLoS ONE, Vol. 7, No. 1, 23 pages, Jan 2012 (with M.S. Hossain, R.F. Helm, and others). [PDF]