Naren Ramakrishnan Professor and Associate Head for Graduate Studies Office: 2050B Torg Email: naren@vt.edu Phone: (540) 231-8451 Website: http://people.cs.vt.edu/~ramakris/ Office Hours: TR: 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.

Naren Ramakrishnan is a professor and associate head for graduate studies in the department of computer science at Virginia Tech. He also serves as  an adjunct professor at the Institute of Bioinformatics and Applied  Biotechnology (IBAB), Bangalore, India. His research interests include computational science (esp. computational biology), mining scientific data, problem solving environments, and information personalization.

Ramakrishnan is an area editor for IEEE Computer, an editorial board member of Knowledge and Information Systems and the Journal of Intelligent Information Systems. He was a general chair for the Eighth IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM'08) held in Pisa, Italy, Dec 2008 and program chair of the Seventh IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM'07).

Honors include an NSF CAREER grant (1999), the New Century Technology Council Innovation award (2000), a Certificate of Teaching Excellence at Virginia Tech (2005), being named to Computerworld's list of "40 under 40" innovative IT people to watch (2007), and a HP Labs innovation grant (2009). He was an invited co-organizer of the recently concluded National Academy of Engineering Frontiers of Engineering Symposium, held in Irvine, CA, Sep 2009. He has received funding from NSF, ONR, NIH, General Motors Research, and HP Labs. Ramakrishnan is an ACM Distinguished Scientist (2009).