My Advisor - The Professional Side

My advisor has had an interesting path up till this point in his career. He received his undergraduate degree (Bachelor's in Technology) in Computer Science from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India. He then received his Master's in Sciences in Computer Science from the University of Texas, Austin. From 1995 he worked at the Oracle Corporation in California. He worked primarily in databases which possibly explains his interest in database theory and software. He then decided that the industry position doesn't really suit his goals and decided to pursue a PhD in Electrical Engineering at Stanford. His advisor was Prof. Gio Wiederhold and he received his PhD in 2004. Interestingly Dr. James Z. Wang at IST is also from the same research group.

Prasenjit's research interests include database systems, digital libraries, data mining, semantic web, information retreival and artificifial intelligence. His current active research projects are chemxseer (chemistry digital library), NEVAC and GeoCAM. He has recently gravitated towards data mining problems in the Geographic Information Systems domain on which I collaborate with him. I have also worked with him on the ChemXSeer project. His current research collaborators include Dr. Giles, Dr. Wang, Dr. Lee (all Penn State IST), Dr. MacEachren and Dr. Klippel (Penn State Geography) and Dr. Mueller and Dr. Garrison (Penn State Chemistry). Most of his recent publications involve digital libraries (EDBT, AAAI, CIKM) and image search (WWW).

He has taught the following courses over the past few years:

1. IST 220: Networking and Telecommunication
2. IST 461: Database Management and Administration
   
3. IST 512: Information Processing Architecture and Technology