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Prasanna K
Desikan
Department of Computer Science and Engineering University of Minnesota 4-192 EE/CSci Building 200 Union Street SE Minneapolis, MN 55455 |
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EDUCATION
Ph.D., Computer Science, the University of Minnesota - Twin Cities (UMN), USA.
M.S, Computer Science, the University of Minnesota - Twin Cities (UMN), USA.
SHORT BIOGRAPHY
Dr. Prasanna Desikan is currently Senior Scientific Advisor at Center for
Healthcare Innovation, Allina Hospitals and Clinics. Previously he worked
in Boston Scientific on their advanced patient monitoring system. Prior to
that, he worked as a Senior Researcher for Infobionics Inc, based in Eden
Prairie, Minn., where he was actively involved in developing a new
database management system based on novel data model called Cellular Data
Model. His current research focus is on 'Data mining for healthcare
management'. He is co-organizing a tutorial on Data Mining for Healthcare
Management at SIAM International Conference on Data Mining Conference,
2011 and PAKDD 2011. He has successfully co-organized workshop on Data
mining for healthcare management at PAKDD 2010 and is co-organizing the
same workshop at PAKDD 2011. His earlier research work primarily focused
on areas of Web mining and link analysis. Early on he has collaborated in
tutorials for Web Mining and has published book chapters providing
research overview in the area. He received his Ph.D and M.S in Computer
Science from University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, USA.
RECENT PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
Co-organizer, Workshop on Data Mining For Healthcare Management:
DMHM 2010
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DMHM 2011
Tutorial Co-Chair, Tutorial on Data Mining For Healthcare Management:
SDM 2011
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PAKDD 2011
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
P. Desikan, D. Haggerty, C.Bonta, J. Srivastava, "Infobionics Server - the
next generation database", Department of Computer Science,
University of Minnesota,Tech Report: TR 08-042, 2008.
C. DeLong, P. Desikan, J. Srivastava, "USER: User-Sensitive Expert
Recommendations for
Knowledge-Dense Environment", Advances in Web Mining and Web Usage
Analysis, Lecture Notes on Computer
Science, Vol. 4198, pp. 77-95, 2006.
P. Desikan, N. Pathak, J. Srivastava and V. Kumar, "Incremental
PageRank Computation on
Evolving Graphs", Fourteenth International World Wide Web
Conference
on May 10-14, 2005, in Chiba,
Japan.
D. Padmanabhan, P. Desikan, J. Srivastava, K. Riaz, "WICER: A
Weighted
Inter-Cluster Edge Ranking for Clustered Graphs", IEEE/ACM
Conference
on Web Intelligence, September 2005.