Introduction

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 continued to pursue my research interests centered around analytical computing solutions for challenging applications in domains like health and social computing. 

I graduated with a PhD from the Computer Science and Engineering department at Arizona State University, USA in August 2009. I am currently working on my postdoctoral research at the Media Lab, Massachussetts Institute of Technology.

Contact

E-mail: s a i @ m e d i a . m i t . e d u
Phone: 9 1 9 B U Z Z S A I

Education

Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering
Arizona State University, USA (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, CIMIT and ONR

Program Committee member  for CPSCom 2010 | HealthInf 2011,2012 | SBP 2011 | ICHI 2012 conferences

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)

Awarded the Graduate & Professional Student Association Travel Grants in 2007 and 2008

Reviewer for multiple conferences/journals including: Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery (DMKD), IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE), Journal of Computational Science (JOCS), Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics--Part A: Systems and Humans (SMC), ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology (TIST), International Journal of Biomedical Engineering and Technology  (IJBET), Applied Intelligence (Journal), Vaccine (Journal), ACM SIGKDD conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD), International Conference on Social Computing, Behavioral-Cultural Modeling, & Prediction (SBP), IEEE International Conference on Social Computing (SocialCom), International Conference on Health Informatics (HealthInf), AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM), IEEE/ACM International Conference on Cyber, Physical and Social Computing (CPSCom), SIAM International Conference on Data Mining (SDM), IEEE International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence (ICTAI), International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC), Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD), ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM),  European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (ECML PKDD),  International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR), Asia-Pacific Web Conferenec (APWEB)

Selected Coursework

Data Mining, Machine Learning, Statistical Pattern Recognition, Biostatistics, Microarray Data Analysis, Design of Experiments, Functional Genomics, Computational Pharmacogenomics, Comparative Genomics