Naren RamakrishnanThomas L. Phillips Professor of Engineering
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Research Interests
Naren Ramakrishnan is the Thomas L. Phillips Professor of Engineering 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.
At Virginia Tech, Ramakrishnan directs the Discovery Analytics Center, a university-wide effort that brings together researchers from computer science, statistics, mathematics, and electrical and computer engineering to tackle knowledge discovery problems in important areas of national interest, including intelligence analysis, sustainability, and electronic medical records. His research has been supported by NSF, DHS, NIH, NEH, DARPA, ONR, General Motors, HP Labs, NEC Labs, and Advance Auto Parts. His work has been featured in the NIH outreach publication Biomedical Computation Review (twice), the National Science Foundation's Discoveries series (and home page), and ACM Technews (eight times). He serves on the editorial boards of IEEE Computer, Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, and many other journals.
Ramakrishnan has received an NSF CAREER grant (2000), the New Century Technology Council Innovation Award (2001), DARPA BioSPICE Early Contributor Appreciation Award (2002), Dean's awards for both teaching excellence (2005) and research excellence (2010) at Virginia Tech, and a HP Labs innovation award (2009). He was included in two "40 under 40" lists: Computerworld's innovative IT people to watch (2007) and Purdue University's list of distinguished alumni (2010). Naren is an ACM Distinguished Scientist (2009). He is a recipient of Virginia Tech's Alumni award for research excellence (2011) - the highest research award given at the univerity.
SoftlabURL: http://people.cs.vt.edu/~naren/group.html Softlab's emphasis is on the design of software systems that provide high-level abstractions to their users, in support of problem solving, knowledge discovery, or, information finding. Our work is highly interdisciplinary, both in the domains outside computer science that we support and in the areas within computer science that we integrate. |
Please see projects at: http://people.cs.vt.edu/~ramakris/
A Digital Library Testbed for Research Related to 4/16/2007 at Virginia Tech
Granting Institution: NSF IIS Special Projects Program
Amount: $199,993
Collaborative Research: Deep Insights Anytime, Anywhere (DIA2) - Central Resource for Characterizing the TUES Portfolio through Interactive Knowledge Mining and Visualizations
Granting Institution: National Science Foundation
Amount: $710,036
Computational Models for Gene Silencing: Elucidating A Pervasive Biological Defense
Granting Institution: National Science Foundation
Amount: $1,267,410
Critical Thinking with Data Visualization
Granting Institution: National Science Foundation
Amount: $52,000 out of total university award of $200,000
Discovering the Neural Code: Data Mining Algorithms For Network Reconstruction
Granting Institution: General Motors Corporation
Amount: $220,262
Dryophile Genes To Engineer Stasis-Recovery Of Human Cells
Granting Institution: Office of Naval Research
Amount: $78,358
EMBERS: Early Model Based Event Detection using Surrogates
Granting Institution: Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA)
Amount: $13,361,062
Formal Models, Algorithms, and Visualizations for Storytelling Analytics
Granting Institution: National Science Foundation
Amount: $710,100
III: Medium: Collaborative Research: Integration, Prediction, and Generation of Mixed Mode Information using Graphical Models, with Applications to Protein-Protein Interactions
Granting Institution: National Science Foundation
Amount: $353,671
Integrated Digital Library Support for Crisis, Tragedy, and Recovery, Co-Principal Investigator
Granting Institution: National Science Foundation: Information Integration and Informatics
Amount: $500,000
Novel Knowledge Discovery Techniques for Sustianable Energy System Modeling
Granting Institution: NEC Laboratores
Amount: $132,000
Participation on the Town Square in the Era of Web 2.0, Principal Investigator
Granting Institution: National Science Foundation, Social-Computational Systems Program
Amount: $749,999
Storytelling in the National Nuclear Archive
Granting Institution: Idaho National Labs
Amount: $10,866
Temporal Data Mining Solutions for Sustainable Data Centers
Granting Institution: Hewlett-Packard Labs Innovation Research
Amount: $321,000
The Adaptive Code Kitchen & Flexible Tools for Dynamic Application Composition
Granting Institution: National Science Foundation
Amount: $470,047
The Eukaryotic Cell Cycle as a Test Case for Modeling Cellular Regulation in a Collaborative PSE
Granting Institution: DARPA
Amount: $2,442,399

