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

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Biography

Praveen joined the CSEE department at UMKC in Fall 2007. He completed his PhD in Computer Science (Aug 2007) from the University of Arizona under the supervision of Prof. Bongki Moon. The title of his dissertation is "Indexing XML Data for Efficient Twig Pattern Matching". Broadly, his research interests are in Database and Information Systems.

Publications

CV

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.

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Research Interests

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

XML Filtering & Dissemination -   "FiST" (VLDB '05)

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

Data processing techniques for science applications - LSST

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

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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.

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Current Students

Murad Awad (MS)

Ayush Chaturvedi (MS) (Co-advised with Dr. E.K. Park)

Khaja Chinnakondepalli (MS)

Esha Kanekar (MS)

Shambhavi Varagurmuralidharan (MS) (Co-advised with Dr. Kumar)

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Useful Links

ACM Digital Library

IEEE Xplore

Google Scholar

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Last updated: March 26, 2008