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Praveen R. Rao

Assistant Professor

Department of Computer Science & Electrical Engg

550H Robert H. Flarsheim Hall,
University of Missouri-Kansas City,

Kansas City, Missouri.


E-mail: raopr AT umkc DOT edu

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


Research Interests

*      XML Indexing and Query Processing -   "PRIX" (ICDE '04, TODS '06) [Software Release]

*      XML Filtering & Dissemination -   "FiST" (VLDB '05, DKE ‘08)

*      Approximation Techniques for Streaming Tree Structured Data -   "SketchTree" (ICDE '06)

*      XML & P2P Networks - "Net-X" NetDB'07, "psiX" UMKC TR

*      Data intensive computing on Multicore processors

 


*      Publications

*      DBLP


Biography

 

Praveen joined the CSEE department at UMKC in Fall 2007. Broadly, his research interests are in Database and Information Systems. He completed his PhD in Computer Science (Aug 2007) from the University of Arizona under the direction of Prof. Bongki Moon. The title of his dissertation is "Indexing XML Data for Efficient Twig Pattern Matching".  Praveen received his Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering in 1999 from the University of Pune, India. He received his Master's degree in Computer Science from the University of Arizona in 2001. From August 2001 - August 2002, he worked as a software engineer for the Search Infrastructure group at Amazon.com in Seattle.

 


Teaching

*      Fall 2007 – Advanced Operating Systems (CS 5531) (Sample syllabus) (Reading list)

*      Spring 2008 – Large Scale XML Data Management (CS 5590LD) (Sample syllabus) (Reading list)

*      Fall 2008 – Advanced Operating Systems (CS 5531)

 

UMKC students, please check Blackboard for course details. If you need more information, email me.

 


Past Students

*      Shambavi Varagurmuralidharan (MS thesis, Aug 2008)


Prospective Students

 

*      I am looking for motivated PhD students with strong computer science background and programming skills. If you are interested, send me your resume.

*      I also supervise MS thesis students. If you are interested, stop by my office.

 


Useful Links

*      ACM Digital Library

*      IEEE Xplore

*      Google Scholar

 


Last updated: June 15, 2008