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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



EDUCATION
Ph.D., Computer Science, the University of Minnesota - Twin Cities (UMN), USA, 2009.
M.S, Computer Science, the University of Minnesota - Twin Cities (UMN), USA, 2004.


SHORT BIOGRAPHY
Dr. Prasanna Desikan received his Ph.D. in Computer Science in 2009 and an M.S. in Computer Science in 2004, both from University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, USA. Since mid 2006, he has worked as a Senior Researcher for Infobionics Inc, based in Eden Prairie, Minn., where he is actively involved in developing a Cellular Database Management System ( CDBMS ) . The system is based on a new data model (i.e., not relational or object-oriented) where each basic unit of information is a "self-contained cell".His general area of research is data and knowledge engineering, and his key areas of interest are data mining and database systems. In the realm of data mining, his primary focus has been in Web mining and link analysis. Much of his research has been conducted as a member of the Data Mining Research Group in the Computer Science Department, University of Minnesota. He has published several peer-reviewed papers in leading conferences and workshops, such as IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM), ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence, International Conference on Web Engineering, and ACM SIGKDD International Workshop on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining on the Web (WebKDD). Extended versions of his conference and workshop papers have been published in Springer-Verlag's Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. He has also co-authored several book chapters that delve into the application of Web mining techniques to a variety of domains. He has also been a reviewer for the leading academic journals in his fields. He is a member of IEEE, ACM, and SIAM.


SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
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.

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.

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