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Praveen R. Rao
Assistant Professor
Computer Science and Electrical Engineering
University of Missouri-Kansas City
Email: raopr AT umkc DOT edu
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Current Research Projects
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My research interests are in the areas of data management and health informatics. Below is a list of projects that I am actively working on.
- Scalable RDF query processing using a cloud infrastructure
- Graph indexing [WWW '11]
- XML & P2P networks [TKDE '09, ICDE '09, NetDB '11] (Service Release)
- Parallel Semistructured Data Processing [XSym '09]
- Large scale sharing and querying of clinical documents [IHI '10, IHI '12]
- Smart Energy Monitoring
If you are a student who is interested in working with me, then please drop me an email with your resume.
Consulting Projects
- A system for encouraging adoption of new methods for activity monitoring (with EveryFit under SBIR contract # HHSN26120110056C funded by NCI)
- XML Indexing and Pattern Matching [ICDE '04, TODS '06] (Software Release)
- XML Filtering [VLDB '05, DKE '08, TOIT '09]
- XML Stream Processing [ICDE '06]
Funding
Sincere thanks to the following organizations for their funding and/or infrastructure support.
- National Science Foundation (NSF) [ Award # IIS-1115871, 2011-2014]
- Intel Labs (Single-chip Cloud Computer (SCC) Research program)
- University of Missouri Research Board
- IBM Lab, Lenexa, KS
Sincere thanks to the following organizations for providing cloud resources for teaching activities at UMKC.
- IBM Academic Skills Cloud
- IBM/Amazon Web Services teaching grant to use Amazon EC2
Software
- A Tool for Fast Indexing and Querying of Graphs [Coming soon!]
- 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][Award]
Biography
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. He received the IBM Faculty Innovation Award in 2010.
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 (Maharashtra Institute of Technology) in 1999. He worked as a software engineer for Amazon.com from Aug 2001 - Aug 2002.
Services
- Program committee member: DEXA '2009, ICDE '2010 , CISIS '2010, DEXA '2010, IWSSPS '2010, DEXA '2011, ICUIMC '2011, EuroPar '2011
- Organizing committee: MDM '2010
- Book manuscript reviewer: IGI Global
- Journal reviewer: IEEE TKDE, VLDB Journal , Information Systems Journal (Elseviar), Knowledge and Information Systems, Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, Information Processing Letters , IJNGC
- Guest editor: IJNGC Special Issue on Cloud Computing, 2011
Teaching
- Spring 2011 Large-scale Semistructured Data Management (CS 5590LD) (Syllabus) (Reading List)
- Fall 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011 Advanced Operating Systems (CS 5531) (Syllabus) (Reading List) (Project)
- Spring 2008, 2009, 2010 Large-scale XML Data Management (CS 5590LD)
- Spring 2010, Fall 2011 Introduction to Computer Architecture (CS 281)
Students enrolled in the above classes should refer to Blackboard for complete details.
Students
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Current MS Thesis Students
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- Dinesh Barenkala
- Srivenu Paturi
- Wang Li
- 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)
- Bhavik Shah (MS thesis, December 2009) (Thesis Topic: Parallel XML parsing, XSym '09), currently employed with AdKnowledge
- Tivakar Komara Swami (MS thesis, December 2011) (Thesis Topic: Distributed Querying of Clinical Documents Modeled Using HL7 v3 Standard, IHI '12), currently employed with Amdocs
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Directed Readings for MS Students
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- Esha Kanekar (2008), Khaja Chinnakondepalli (2008)
- Joel Lopez (2009), Bhavik Shah (2009), Dipali Pal (2009)
- Vasil Slavov (2010), Swati Thorve (2010), Tivakar Komara Swami (2010)
- Michael Barnes (2011), Srivenu Paturi (2011), Dinesh Barenkala (2011), Raghuvarun Palvai (2011), Prasad Natoo (2011)
- Anas Katib (2012)
- I am always looking for talented graduate students with strong Computer Science background and solid programming
skills. Email me your resume if you are interested in working with me.
- If you are an undergraduate student and would like to do research, I would be happy to talk with you.
Last updated: 01/10/2012