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

•    XML & P2P networks    [TKDE '09, ICDE '09 (demo)] (Service Release)
•    Parallel XML Data Processing [XSym '09]
•    Large-scale sharing of electronic health records [IHI '2010]
•    Graph indexing
•    Index advisor for IBM Informix
•    Query processing of semistructured data in P2P/Cloud environments
•    Data parallel algorithms for semistructured data on many-core processors

•    XML Indexing and Pattern Matching    [ICDE '04, TODS '06] (Software Release)
•    XML Filtering    [VLDB '05, DKE '08, TOIT '09]
•    XML Stream Processing    [ICDE '06]

• Intel Labs (Single-chip Cloud Computer (SCC) Research program)
• University of Missouri Research Board
• IBM Informix Lab, KS
• University of Missouri-Kansas City, MO

• IBM Academic Skills Cloud
• IBM/Amazon Web Services teaching grant to use Amazon EC2

•    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]

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 (Maharashtra Institute of Technology) 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, DEXA '2010, IWSSPS '2010, , ICUIMC '2011
• 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, 2009   Advanced Operating Systems (CS 5531)   (Syllabus)(Reading List)(Project)
•    Spring 2008, 2009, 2010   Large-scale XML Data Management (CS 5590LD)   (Syllabus) (Reading List)
• Class project will use Informix tools on Amazon EC2 (Courtesy: IBM/Amazon Web Services Teaching Grant)
•    Spring 2010   Introduction to Computer Architecture (CS 281)   

•    Dipali Pal (starting PhD Fall 2010, MS expected Dec 2010 )
•    Vasil Slavov (pursuing MS)

•    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 Hip Logic, CA

•    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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