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T.K.Prasad, Director

Dr. T. K. Prasad is currently a Professor at Wright State University. Dr. Prasad received his Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from the State University of New York at Stony Brook in December 1989, his M.E. in Computer Science from the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore, India in 1984, and his B.Tech. in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India in 1982. His doctoral dissertation was entitled "The Semantics of Inheritance Networks." Dr. Prasad's research interests are in  knowledge-representation and reasoning, semantic web, and programming languages.

 

Current Thesis Students

Pramod Anantharam :  Area: "Trust in Social Media and Sensor Web"  (Co-Advisor: Dr. Amit Sheth)

Chad Arnold :  Area: "Cyber Security"  (Co-Advisor: Dr. Amit Sheth)

Joshua Pschorr (CACI): Masters Thesis Area: "Semantic Sensor Web" (Winner of 2010 Graduate Student Excellence Award for M.S. in C.S.)

Dharan K. Althuru (Quest Comm.): Masters Thesis Area: "Trust in Social Networks"

Kevin Cleereman : Tentative Doctoral Dissertation Title: "Programming Language Support for Safe Memory Management".

Current Student Collaborators

Cory Henson :  Dissertation Area: "Evidence-based Trust in Semantic Sensor Web"  (Advisor: Dr. Amit Sheth)

Satya Sahoo : Dissertation Area: "Provenance Management on the Semantic Web"  (Advisor: Dr. Amit Sheth)


Selected Recent Alumni
 

Trivikram Immaneni: Doctoral Dissertation Title: "A Hybrid Approach to Retrieving Web Documents and Semantic Web Data" (Now with: Disney (Tapulous), Earlier with: Technorati) (Winner of Graduate Student Excellence Award for Ph.D. in CSE.)

Stephen P. Carl, Doctoral Dissertation Title: "A Framework for Experimentation in Memory Management Systems". (Now tenured Associate Professor at: University of South)

Mastan Vali Shaik: Masters Thesis Title: "Design and Implementation of Timeline Application for News Documents". Consulting at: LexisNexis)

Venkatkalyan Potturi, Masters Thesis Title: "Implementation for a Coherent Keyword-Based XML Query Language".

Sylvia George, Masters Thesis Title: "Word Correlation Assistant for Query Refinement".

Dhanya Ravishankar, Masters Thesis Title : "Document Indexing and Semantic Search". (Winner of 2004 Graduate Student Excellence Award for M.S. in C.S.)

Prasanna Soundarapandian, Masters Thesis Title: "Information Extraction for Reorganizing Specifications".

Recent Awards

Dr. T. K. Prasad won 2007-2008 College of Engineering and Computer Science Outstanding Faculty Award, 2009 Indian International Conference on AI Achievement Award, and 2011 Fritz J. Russ Award from Dayton Section of the IEEE. Dr. Trivikram Immaneni won 2008 Graduate Student Excellence Award for Ph.D. degree in Computer Science and Engineering, and Joshua Pschorr won 2010 Graduate Student Excellence Award for M.S. in C.S.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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