Vasundhara Puttagunta
Contact Information
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Dept. of Computer
Science & Electrical Engg., |
Email: vputta1@csee.umbc.edu |
Work
phone :
(410) 455 8945 |
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University of Maryland
Baltimore County, |
Home
phone:
(410) 242 4132 |
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1000 Hilltop Circle,
Baltimore, MD 21250. |
Google
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http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=vasundhara+puttagunta |
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Data Mining, Information Retrieval,
Databases, Scientific Computing, Bio-informatics, Streaming and Distributed
Algorithms. |
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University of Maryland Baltimore County |
Baltimore, MD |
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Ph. D.
Candidate
in Computer Science Topic: Query Processing and Data
Mining over Streaming Data Thesis Advisor: Prof. Konstantinos
Kalpakis |
May 2002 – Present Expected: August 2005 |
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University of Maryland Baltimore County |
Baltimore, MD |
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M.S. in Computer Science |
January 2002 |
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Sri Venkateswara University |
Tirupathi, INDIA |
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B. Tech in Computer Science
& Engineering Graduated with Highest Honors |
August 1995 – June 1999 |
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Related Course Work
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Principles
of Databases, Object-Relational Database Systems, Advanced Operating Systems,
Design and Analysis of Algorithms, Automata Theory, Combinatorics and Graph
Theory, Introduction to Data Mining, Neural Network Computing, Applied
Bio-informatics, Introduction to Computational Information Retrieval,
Advanced Computer Architecture, undergraduate Operations Research. |
Computer Related Skills
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Programming & Scripting Languages |
Proficient in C, C++, Java, MATLAB Good Command of Perl, PL/SQL, Splus |
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Operating Systems |
Linux (Kernel Programming), Microsoft
Windows, Solaris |
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Application Software |
Oracle, Informix, JADE agents |
Selected Projects
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[1] |
A Spatio-temporal Extension to ORACLE. |
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[2] |
Interfacing Informix and IDL. (See
publication [7]) |
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[3] |
Disease Outbreak Detection through
Pattern Association. (Implementation and experimentation
using Oracle, C++ and Matlab) |
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[4] |
Distributed File System implementation
in Java |
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[5] |
Semi-automated setting of multi-lingual
question papers. |
Honors
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Recipient
of the 2002 Goddard Earth Sciences & Technology (GEST) Graduate
Fellowship. |
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Member
of Upsilon Pi Epsilon Honor Society in the Computing Society. |
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Was
awarded First class with Distinction in Undergraduate. |
Work Experience
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Agnik, LLC. |
Baltimore, MD |
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Software
Intern Work:
Research and Programming for Distributed Data Mining applications. |
December
2003 – January 2004 |
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University of Maryland Baltimore County |
Baltimore, MD |
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Graduate
Teaching Assistant Graduate
and Undergraduate courses: Algorithms, Operating Systems, Automata Theory,
Neural Networks, Discrete Structures and C++ programming. |
January 2003 – May 2005 August 1999 – December 1999 |
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Graduate
Research Assistant Advisor: Prof. K. Kalpakis Subject Areas: Data Mining over
Streaming Data, Time Series Databases, Science Applications using
Object-Relational Database Systems |
January 2000 – December 2002 |
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Haritha Ecological Institute |
Khammam, INDIA |
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Software
Intern Work: Programming for scientific
applications |
June 1999 – August 1999 |
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Instructor: High School Physics
(12th grade) Topic: Semi-conductors |
July 1999 – August 1999 |
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Publications
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[1] |
Konstantinos Kalpakis, Vasundhara
Puttagunta and Parag Namjoshi, "Accuracy Vs. Lifetime:
Linear Sketches for Approximate Aggregate Range Queries in Sensor Networks." In the Proceedings of the DIALM-POMC
Joint Workshop on Foundations of Mobile Computing, Philadelphia, PA, USA,
October 1, 2004. Extended version invited for review for the Special Issue of
Algorithmica. |
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[2] |
Hillol Kargupta and Vasundhara
Puttagunta "An
Efficient Randomized Algorithm for Distributed Principal Component Analysis
from Heterogeneous Data." In the Proceedings of the Workshop
on Data Mining in High Performance Data Mining at SIAM Intl. Conference
on Data Mining, April 22 – 24, 2004. |
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[3] |
Hillol Kargupta and Vasundhara
Puttagunta "Onboard
Vehicle Data Stream Monitoring and Fast Computation of Sparse Correlation
Matrices." In the Proceedings of the Workshop
on Data Mining in Resource Constrained Environments at SIAM Intl. Conference
on Data Mining, April 22 – 24, 2004. Extended journal version in preparation. |
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[3] |
Vasundhara Puttagunta and Konstantinos
Kalpakis, "Linear Sketches for
Approximate Aggregate Range Queries." Technical Report, Univ. of Maryland
Baltimore County. TR CS-03-29, Dec
2003. Submitted for review to the Information Systems Journal. |
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[4] |
Vasundhara Puttagunta and Konstantinos
Kalpakis, "Adaptive
Multi-dimensional Histogram Computation over Streams." Technical Report, Univ. of Maryland Baltimore County. TR
CS-02-17, Nov 2002. |
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[5] |
Vasundhara Puttagunta and Konstantinos
Kalpakis, "Adaptive Methods for
Activity Monitoring of Streaming Data." In the Proceedings of the 2002
International Conferences on Machine Learning and Applications
(ICMLA'02), Las Vegas, Nevada, June 24 - 27, 2002. pp. 197-203. |
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[6] |
Konstantinos
Kalpakis, Dhiral Gada, and Vasundhara Puttagunta, "Distance Measures for
Effective Clustering of ARIMA Time-Series." In the Proceedings of the 2001 IEEE
International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM'01), San Jose, CA, November
29-December 2, 2001, pp. 273-280. |
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[7] |
K. Kalpakis, M. Riggs, M. Pasad, V.
Puttagunta, and J. Behnke, "A System for Fast Low-Cost Access
to Very Large Catalogs." In the Proceedings of the 10th Astronomical Data Analysis Software and
Systems Conference (ADASS'00), November 12--15, 2000. September 2000. |
Talks, Lectures & Other Publications
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Graduate
Seminar in the Dept. of CSEE, UMBC. "Accuracy Vs. Lifetime: Linear
Sketches for Query Processing in Sensor Networks". October 2004. |
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Gave
lectures in undergraduate courses such as Databases, Operating Systems,
Automata Theory, and Discrete Structures at UMBC (Dept. of CSEE). |
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Tutorial
on "Time-Series Data mining" given at the 3rd
Semi-Annual UMBC CSEE Student Research Conference, Baltimore, December 11,
2002. |
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"Eminent
Persons and Experiments in Education". Translation from Telugu.
Published by Harithapuri prachuranalu, Andhra Pradesh, India. |
Activities
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Graduate
student Program Committee Member of the 2005 International Conference on Data
Mining (DMIN'05: June 20-23, 2005, Las Vegas, USA). |
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Co-Founder
of SCALE for Alternate Learning Experience at UMBC. Focus topic for Summer
and Fall 2003: Randomized Algorithms. |
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External
Reviewer for 11th International Conference on Information &
Knowledge Management (CIKM) 2002. |
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Program
Committee Member, the 3rd Semi-Annual UMBC CSEE Student Research
Conference, Baltimore, December 11, 2002. |
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Student
Volunteer at 2nd SIAM Intl. Conf. on Data Mining, Arlington, VA.
April 2002. |
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Member
of IEEE Computer Society, and ACM. |
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Member
of IEEE Women in Engineering. |
Current Visa Status
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F-1 (Student) |
References
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Dr. Konstantinos Kalpakis Associate Professor, Dept. of Computer Science and
Electrical Engg., University of Maryland Baltimore
County, 1000 Hilltop Circle, Baltimore, MD
21250. Email: kalpakis@csee.umbc.edu Phone: (410) 455-3143 Fax
: (410) 455-3969 |
Dr. Hillol Kargupta Associate Professor, Dept. of Computer Science and
Electrical Engg., University of Maryland Baltimore
County, 1000 Hilltop Circle, Baltimore, MD
21250. Email: hillol@csee.umbc.edu Phone: (410) 455-3972 Fax
: (410) 455-3969 |