Introduction
I am a doctoral candidate in the Computer Science and Engineering department at Arizona State University, USA. I was born and raised in Hyderabad, the capital of the southern state of Andhra Pradesh in India. I completed my undergraduate education in Computer Science and Engineering in India before moving to Arizona State University for my Masters in Computational Biosciences. After completing my masters, I enrolled in the doctoral program in the CSE department at ASU where I could continue to pursue my research centered around analytical computing solutions for challenging applications in domains like biology and healthcare.
Education
Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering, Arizona State University, USA (expected graduation: Summer 2009)
M.S. in Computational Biosciences, Arizona State University, USA (2005)
B.E. in Computer Science and Engineering, Osmania University, India (2003)
Honors and Activities
Won the Best Student Paper award at HEALTHINF 2008
Co-wrote funded grant proposals to agencies such as NIH, NSF, AFOSR and ONR
Awarded the Graduate & Professional Student Association Research Grant for 2008-2009
Local Chair, Second International Workshop on Social Computing, Behavioral Modeling and Prediction, 2009
Scored at the 97th percentile in the GRE (2300/2400 Verbal:710, Analytical:790, Quant:800)
Vice-Chair, IEEE Computer Science Student Branch at ASU (2005-2006)
Certificate of Appreciation for Outstanding Achievement as Teaching Associate (2005-2006)
SUN Award for research support at the College of Nursing and Healthcare Innovation at ASU (2008)
Reviewer for multiple conferences/journals including TKDE, KDD, AAAI, ICDM, SDM, ICTAI, PAKDD, CIKM and APWEB
Awarded the Graduate & Professional Student Association Travel Grants in 2007 and 2008
Selected Coursework
Data Mining, Machine Learning, Statistical Pattern Recognition, Biostatistics, Microarray Data Analysis, Design of Experiments, Functional Genomics, Computational Pharmacogenomics, Comparative Genomics
