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Education
B.Tech., Electrical Engineering
Indian Institute of Technology at Madras (1982)
M.E., Computer Science
Indian Institute of Science at Bangalore (1984)
Ph.D., Computer Science
State University of New York at Stony Brook (1989)
Dr. Prasad joined the Department in September 1989. His current research interests are in the areas of knowledge representation and reasoning, semantic web and information retrieval, and trust in semantic sensor web. He also teaches a number of courses on programming languages: design, specification, and implementation.
Selected Publications
K. Thirunarayan, C. A. Henson, A. P. Sheth, Situation awareness via abductive reasoning for semantic sensor data: A preliminary report, Proceedings of 2009 International Symposium on Collaborative Technologies and Systems (CTS 2009), Baltimore, MD, May 18-22, 2009.
K. Cleereman, M. Cheatham, and K. Thirunarayan, Mechanisms for improved covariant type-checking, Computer Languages, Systems and Structures, vol. 1, pp. 1-17, April 2008.
T. Immaneni and K. Thirunarayan, "A unified approach to retrieving web documents and semantic web data, Proceedings of the 4th European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2007), LNCS 4519, pp. 579-593, June 2007.
K. Thirunarayan and Michael Kifer, A theory of nonmonotonic inheritance based on annotated logic, Artificial Intelligence Journal, vol. 60, pp. 23-50, Mar 1993.
Active Research Projects
Trust in semantic sensor web (with Amit P. Sheth)(funded by AFRL)
Spatio-temporal-thematic queries of semantic web data: A study of expressivity and efficiency (with Amit P. Sheth) (funded by NSF)
Human performance and cognition ontology (with Amit P. Sheth) (funded by AFRL)
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Research Interests
Semantic web: knowledge representation and reasoning, programming languages: specification, design and implementation
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