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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, 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.