Praveen R. Rao Assistant Professor Computer Science and Electrical Engineering University of Missouri-Kansas City, Kansas City MO 64110 Email: raopr AT umkc DOT edu

•    XML Indexing and Pattern Matching    [ICDE '04, TODS '06] (Software Release)
•    XML Filtering    [VLDB '05, DKE '08]
•    XML Stream Processing    [ICDE '06]
•    XML & P2P networks    [TKDE (in press), ICDE '09 (demo)] (Service Release)
•    Parallel XML Data Processing [XSym '09]
•    Graph indexing

•    psiX: An Internet-Scale Service for Publishing and Locating XML Documents [Project website]
•    PRIX: XML Indexing and Twig Query Processing using Prüfer Sequences [Project website]

Praveen Rao joined the CSEE department at UMKC in Fall 2007. He completed his PhD in Computer Science from University of Arizona under the supervision of Prof. Bongki Moon. He received the Graduate Student Research Award for his work at UA in 2007.

Praveen Rao received his MS degree in Computer Science from University of Arizona in Dec 2001. He received his BE degree in Computer Engineering from University of Pune in 1999. He worked as a software engineer for Amazon.com from Aug 2001 - Aug 2002.

• Program committee member: DEXA '2009, ICDE '2010 (Demonstration Track), CISIS '2010
• Organizing committee: MDM '2010
• Book manuscript reviewer: IGI Global
• Journal reviewer: IEEE TKDE, Information Systems Journal (Elseviar), Knowledge and Information Systems, Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, Information Processing Letters

•    Fall 2007, 2008   Advanced Operating Systems (CS 5531)   (Syllabus)(Reading List)(Project)
•    Spring 2008, 2009   Large-scale XML Data Management (CS 5590LD)   (Syllabus) (Reading List)
• Spring 2009 - The focus of the research projects in this class is to improve psiX.

•    Bhavik Shah (pursuing MS) (Thesis Topic: Parallel XML parsing, XSym '09)
•    Dipali Pal (pursuing MS) (Thesis Topic: Graph indexing)
•    Vasil Slavov (pursuing MS) (Thesis Topic: XML/P2P)

•    Shambavi Varagurmuralidharan (MS thesis, August 2008) (Topic: Dynamic graph mining)
•    Ayush Chaturvedi (MS thesis, April 2009 ) (Topic: Automatic Paper-to-Reviewer Assignment) (co-advised with Prof. E.K. Park)

•    I am looking for motivated PhD students with strong Computer Science background and solid programming skills. Email me your resume if you are interested.
•    I supervise MS thesis students. If you are interested, talk to me in person.

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