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Arvind K. Bansal, Ph.D. February 2017

Full Professor Department of Computer Science Kent State University, Kent, OH 44242 Departmental e-mail: [email protected] University e-mail: [email protected] Web: http://www.cs.kent.edu/~arvind Phone: (330) 672 9035

EDUCATION 1988 Ph. D., Department of Computer Science and Engineering,

Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA. (Advisor: Professor Leon Sterling, Area: Concurrent Logic Programming). 1983 M. Tech., Department of Computer Science and Engineering,

Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, UP, India. (Advisor: Professor R. M. K. Sinha, Area: Natural Language Processing) 1979 B. Tech. Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, UP, India. (Advisor: Professor R. M. K. Sinha, Area: Computer networking using microprocessors) EMPLOYMENT 2005 - Full Professor Department of Computer Science, Kent State University, Kent, Ohio 44242, USA

1993-2005 Associate Professor Department of Computer Science, Kent State University, Kent, Ohio 44242, USA

1996 CRC Research Fellow (during sabbatical from Kent State University) (five months) Department of Computer Science, University of Melbourne, Australia

Summer 1994 Summer Research Faculty (three months) Division of Mathematical Sciences, Argonne National Laboratory, Illinois, USA

1988-1993 Assistant Professor of Computer Science Dept. of Mathematics and Computer Science, Kent State University, Kent, Ohio

1987 -1988 Research Assistant - Cleveland Advanced Manufacturing Program (CAMP) Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH

1984 -1987 Graduate Assistant, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH

Summer 1986 Consultant, Texas Instruments Corporate Research Center, Dallas, USA

1983-84 System Analyst, TELCO Pune Corporate Research, Pune, Maharashtra, India

1982-83 Research Assistant, Advisor: R. M. K. Sinha Department of Computer Science, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India

1981-82 Graduate Assistant Department of Computer Science, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India

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1979-81 Assistant Executive Engineer, Computer Aided Design and Testing Group Corporate Research Center, Indian Telephone Industries, Naini, UP, India

RESEARCH AND SCHOLARLY ACTIVITIES Contribution areas

Core areas: Artificial Intelligence, Biologically inspired systems, Knowledge Bases, Logic programming, Multimedia, Programming Languages, Social Robotics Interdisciplinary: Bioinformatics: microbial genomics and proteomics, Medical Informatics Current research: Emotion Recognition, Intelligent systems, Medical informatics, Multimedia, Social Robotics, Digital Human, High Performance Programming Languages

Funded Grants /Fellowships

Summer 2012 Principal investigator, Summa Collaborative Research Award, with Jeff Nielson, US$ 10,000 Project: Medication Response Analysis System, Collaborative Research, funded on April 23, 2012

Summer 2008 Research Council Grant, Kent State University, US$ 6, 500, PI Project: Genome Comparison for Anti-infective Therapy 04/2004 – 06/2005 Wright Patterson Base-Air Force, US$69, 000 Project: Fault Tolerant Adaptive Multimedia Agent Based Systems PI: Arvind Bansal, Co-PI: Cheng Lu Summer 2004 OBR equipment grant, US $5, 000, PI Project: Demonstration of Mobile Fault Tolerant Multimedia Capture 06/2003 – 03/2004 Wright Patterson Base-Air Force, US$130,000 Project: Fault Tolerant Adaptive Multimedia Agent Based Systems PI: Arvind Bansal, Co-PI: Cheng Lu January 2003 OBR Equipment grant, US $10,000, PI Project: Distributed Multimedia Lab in Computer Science Summer 1999 Research Council Grant, Kent State University, US$ 6, 500, PI Project: Automated Correlation of Control Regions and Metabolic

Pathways

Summer 1996 Research Council Grant, Kent State University, US$ 6, 500, PI Project: Comparative Analysis Tools for Genome Comparisons

Spring 96 Australian Federal Grant, University of Melbourne, AU$21,000, Research Fellowship

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Project: Foundations for Fault Tolerant Distributed Artificial Intelligence

1996 -99 NASA Glenn Research Center, $ 66, 000, to support a Ph.D. student Project: A Visual Language for the Integration of Heterogeneous Symbolic and Numeric Computing Graduate student: Stephen Ryan

Fall 1995 German Federal Agency, DM 8, 000, fellowship Project: Models and Software for Comparison of Complete Prokaryotic Genomes

Summer 1994 Department of Energy, Argonne National University, US$ 8,200, Summer Faculty Research Fellowship Project: Computer analysis of ribosomal protein alignments

Summer 1992 Research Council Grant, Kent State University, $ 6, 500, PI Project: Efficient Execution of Scientific Expert Systems

1987 - 1988 Cleveland Advanced Manufacturing Program, Ohio, US$ 33, 400, Graduate Fellowship

Project: Parallelizing Expert Systems, PI: L. Sterling

Long Term Visits

Nov. 2004 Visiting Professor (during sabbatical from Kent State University) (two weeks) Department of Computer Engineering and Science,

Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India Projects: Dubbing Internet Movies (with Professor RMK Sinha) Bioinformatics Research Seminars (two) Distributed Multimedia Languages Research Seminars (three)

Oct. 2004 Visiting Professor (during sabbatical from Kent State University) (three weeks) Department of Computer Science, Benares Hindu University, Varanasi, India Project: A series of fifteen seminars attended by university wide research scholars and senior professors. 1996 CRC Research Fellow (Host: Dr. Rammohanarao Kotagiri)- during sabbatical (five months) Department of Computer Science

University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia

Pioneered the development of theory for fault tolerant distributed intelligent agent based computing. The results were applied successfully for communication amongst distributed agent based systems.

1995 Visiting Research Scientist: (Host: Dr. Peer Bork) (three months) European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany

Pioneered the development of algorithms and software for the automated Genome Comparisons that resulted in the identification of microbial orthologs, homologous gene-groups (putative operons), and gene-fusion.

1994 Summer Research Faculty (Host: Dr. Ross Overbeek) - during sabbatical (three months) Argonne National Laboratory, Illinois, USA

1 Software for the secondary structure prediction of ribosomal RNAs. 2 Algorithm and software to identify biochemically constrained portions of

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ribosomal proteins using multiple sequence alignment and phylogenetic tree.

Honorary Positions 1994-1998 Adjunct Associate Professor

Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio

1991-1994 Adjunct Assistant Professor

Department of Computer Science and Engineering Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio

PROFESSIONAL HONORS/SERVICE 1992-2011 Editorial Board: International Journal for Tools with Artificial Intelligence, World

Scientific publishers

2017 Program Committee, International Conference on Signal Processing and Multimedia Applications (SIGMAP 2017).

Program Committee, International Conference on Distributed Multimedia Systems (DMS 2017), Pittsburgh, USA.

Program Committee, 4th IEEE International Conference on Signal Processing and Integrated Networks, (SPIN 2017)

External expert, European Commission's Future and Emerging Technologies Program, Brussels, Belgium

2016 Program Committee, International Conference on Signal Processing and Multimedia Applications (SIGMAP 2016),

Program Committee, 3rd IEEE International Conference on Signal Processing and Integrated Networks, (SPIN 2016)

Program Committee, 3rd International Symposium on Big Data and Cloud Computing Challenges(ISBCC-2016), Chennai, India

Program Committee, International Conference on Distributed Multimedia Systems (DMS2016)

Advisory Committee, International Conference on Antimicrobial Research (ICAR), Portugal, 2016


2015 Program Committee, 2nd International Symposium on Big Data and Cloud Computing Challenges(ISBCC-2015), Chennai, India

Program Committee, 2nd IEEE International Conference on Signal Processing and Integrated Networks (SPIN 2015), Noida, India

Program Committee, International Conference on Signal Processing and Multimedia Applications (SIGMAP 2015), France

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Program Committee, International Conference on Distributed Multimedia Systems (DMS2015), Vancouver, Canada

Program Committee, IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, Shimla, India, 2015

Session Chair, Health Informatics and Management Systems, Las Vegas, July 2015


2014 Program Committee, International Conference on Signal Processing and Multimedia Applications (SIGMAP 2014), Vienna, Austria.

External Expert Evaluator, European Commission Future and Emerging Technologies

Session chair, International Conference on Signal Processing and Multimedia Applications (SIGMAP 2014), Vienna, Austria.

Program Committee, International Conference on Distributed Multimedia Systems (DMS2014), Pittsburgh, USA

Program Committee, Twelfth IASTED International conference on Parallel and Distributed Networking (PDCN 2014), Innsbruck, Austria


2013 European Commission's Future and Emerging Technologies Programme in Brussels, Belgium

Program Committee, International Conference on Signal Processing and Multimedia Applications, SIGMAP 2013

Program Committee, International Conference on Distributed Multimedia Systems (DMS2013), Brighton, UK

IASTEAD International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Networks, Austria, (PDCN 2013)

Reviewer, NASA (National Aerospace Agency), USA 2012 Advisory Committee, International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Soft

Computing (AISC-2012), Varanasi, India.


Program Committee, International Conference on Signal Processing and Multimedia Applications, Rome, Italy (SIGMAP 2012)



2011 Program Committee, International Conference on Distributed Multimedia Systems (DMS2011)

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Program Committee, International Conference on Signal Processing and Multimedia Applications, Seville, Spain (SIGMAP 2011)


2010 Advisory Board, International Conf. on Antimicrobial Research, Valladolid, Spain, (ICAR 2010)


Program Committee, International Conference on Signal Processing and Multimedia Applications, Athens, Greece (SIGMAP 2010)

2009 Program Committee, International Conference on Signal Processing and Multimedia Application, Milan, Italy (SIGMAP 2009)

International Joint Conference on E-business and Telecommunications, Milan, Italy (ICETE 2009)


Expert Consultant, European Commission Research Directorate General, Brussels, Belgium

Panelist: NIH Bioinformatics Study Group

2008 Program Committee, International Conference on Distributed Multimedia Systems (DMS2008), Area Co-chair for Software Engineering Track, Boston, MA

Program Committee, IEEE International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Security, CIS-2008, Suzhou, China

Program Committee, IASTED International Conference on Distributed and Intelligent Multimedia Systems (DIMS 2008), Orlando, Florida

Panelist: NIH Biocomputing and Health Informatics Study Group

2007 Program Committee, IADIS International Conference WWW/Internet, Lisbon, Portugal

Panelist: NIH Bioinformatics Study Group and NSF bioinformatics database

Session Chair: IADIS International Conference WWW/Internet, Murcia, Spain

2006 Program Committee, International Conference on Distributed Multimedia Systems (DMS2006), Grand Canyon, USA

Program Committee, Bioinformatics and Bioengineering 2006, Arlington, VA


2005 Program Committee, International Conference on Distributed Multimedia Systems (DMS2005), Canada

Program Committee, Second World Congress on Lateral Computing (WCLC 2005), Bangalore, India

Program Committee, IEEE Symposium on Bioinformatics and Biomedical Engineering, Washington DC, USA

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2001-04 Consultant, NSF funded Bioinformatics and Bio-engineering Undergraduate Program, Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio

2004 Program Committee, Fourth IEEE International Symposium on Bioinformatics and Bioengineering, Taichung, Taiwan

Program Committee, ACM World Wide Web Poster Presentation Committee, New York, USA

2003 Program Committee, ACM SIGMM 2003 Multimedia Biometrics Methods and Application Workshop, Berkley, CA

Program Committee, IEEE International Conference of Tools with Artificial Intelligence, Washington, USA


Session Chair, Multimedia Communications Session, IASTED International Conference on Communications, Internet, and Information Technology, Scottsdale, Arizona, 2003

2002 Program Committee, IEEE International Conference of Tools with Artificial Intelligence, Washington, USA


2001 IEEE Appreciation Award for conference organization General Chair, International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence, Dallas, Texas

Workshop Chair, Invited Session on Intelligent Agent Based System, International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence, Dallas, Texas

2000 Session Chair, Genomics sessions, IEEE Symposium on Bioinformatics and Biomedical Engineering, Arlington, Virginia, USA

Session Chair, IEEE International Conference of Tools with Artificial Intelligence, Vancouver, Canada


Program Committee Member, IEEE Workshop on Multimedia Computing, Seattle, USA

1999 Session Chair: Genome Analysis, International Conference of Information, Intelligence and Systems, Washington DC., USA

Online Proceedings Editor: Eleventh Conference on Scientific and Statistical Database Management, Cleveland, Ohio, USA

1998 Excellence in Research Acknowledgment, Kent State University, Kent, Ohio

1997 Program Committee, International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence, Newport Beach, USA

Organizing Committee, Bioengineering Models of Intelligence, International

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Conference on Intelligent Systems and Semiotics 97, Maryland, USA

1995 Program Committee, International Symposium of Intelligence in Biological Systems, Washington DC, USA

Session Chair, International Symposium of Intelligence in Biological Systems, Washington DC, USA

Program Committee, International Conference of Logic Programming, Tokyo, Japan

1994 Program committee, International Conference for Applications of Prolog, London, UK

Vice Program Chair, International Conference for Tools with Artificial Intelligence, New Orleans, USA

Panelist: AI in Multimedia, Tools with Artificial Intelligence, New Orleans, USA

1992 Workshop Chair, International Conference and Symposium of Logic Programming, Washington, USA

Panel Chair, International Workshop on Distributed and Parallel Logic Programming, Washington DC, USA

Program committee, International Conference for Artificial Intelligence, Washington DC, USA

1991 Publicity chair, International Logic Programming Symposium, San Diego, USA COLLABORATIONS Dr. Jeff Nielson, 2012 – onwards Director Informatics Summa Akron Health System, Akron, OH, USA Project: Emergency Medical Response System

Professor Javed Khan, 2012 – onwards Professor and Chairperson Department of Computer Science, Kent State University, Kent, OH 44242, USA Project: 1. AI Techniques in Medical Informatics 2. Cognition Issues for better undergraduate education 3. Smart connectedness and big data Professor R. M. K. Sinha, 2004-2008 Indian Institute of Technology at Kanpur, Kanpur, UP 208016, India Project: Automated Dubbing of Cross-cultural Movies

Professor Nikolaos Bourbakis, 2003-06 IEEE Fellow and Distinguished Professor Information Technology Research Institute, Wright State University, Dayton, OH Project: Air Force Funded Secure Knowledge Management Project

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Professor Terrence E. Meyer, 2000-2003 Department of Biochemistry, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, USA Projects: "Phylogenies of Genomes using Whole Genome Comparisons"

Professor Cheng Lu, 2003-05 Department of Computer Science, Kent State University, Kent, OH 44242 Project: “Knowledge Based Progressive Image Analysis”

Professor James B. Kaper, 2004-05 University of Maryland School of Medicine, 685 W. Baltimore St., Baltimore, MD 21201, USA Project: Bioinformatics assisted development of Vaccines against pathogens

Professor Christopher J. Woolverton, Department of Biology, 1999-2000 Kent State University, Kent, OH 44242, USA Projects: "Antibacterial Drug Discovery using Integrated Bioinformatics"

Dr. Mikhail Gelfand, Scientist, Institute of Protein Research, 1997-99 Russian Academy of Sciences, Puschino, Moscow region, Russia Project: “Regulatory Mechanisms in Microbes,’’

Mr. Greg Follen, 1996-99 NASA Glenn Research Center, Cleveland, OH Project: ‘Integrating symbolic and Numeric Computing for reconfigurable engine design”

Dr. Anand Rao, Senior Research Scientist, 1996-98 Australian Artificial Intelligence Institute, Melbourne, Australia Project: “Foundations for Distributed multi AI-agents”, 1996-98

Professor Kotagiri Rammohanarao, 1996-98 Fellow, Australian Institute of Engineers and Australian Academy of Sciences Full Professor, Computer Science and Software Engineering, University of Melbourne, Australia Project: “Foundations and Languages for Distributed AI agents”

Dr. Peer Bork, Group Leader, Bioinformatics group, 1995-97 European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany, USA Project: “Comparative Analysis of Microbial Genomes”

Professor Peter Stuckey, Professor, Department of Computer Science, 1996-97 University of Melbourne, Australia Project: “Mathematical and Scientific Models for Genome Comparison”

Professor Jerry L. Potter, 1989-95 Department of Computer Science, Kent State University, Kent, Ohio Project: Massive Parallel Associative Knowledge Bases, Long Term Visitors Dr. Ge Yan, Spring 2014, School of Information Science and Technology, Qingdao University of Science and Technology, China Project: Natural Heuristics for Intelligent Reasoning.

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REVIEWER Reviewer International Journals -15

(1) Bioinformatics; (2) Biotechnology Progress; (3) Biomed Central; (4) Computers and Electrical Engineering; (5) Computer Systems Science and Engineering; (6) Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence; (7) IEEE Multimedia (8) IEEE Software; (9) IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics; (10) IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering; (11) International Journal for Tools with Artificial Intelligence; (12) Journal of Computers and Biology in Medicine; (13) Journal of Logic Programming; (14) Journal of Supercomputing (15) Microbial Cell Factories.

Reviewer International Conferences (refereed in many conferences for multiple years)

1) ACM World Wide Web Conference, Poster Sessions 2) ACM Symposium on Applied Programming Language 3) AMIA (American Medical Informatics Association) Conference* 4) IADIS International Conference WWW/Internet 5) IASTED International Conference on Communications, Internet, & Information Technology 6) IASTED International Conference on Distributed and Intelligent Multimedia Systems 7) IASTED International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing 8) IASTED International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Networking 9) IEEE International Conference on Signal Processing and Integrated Networks 10) IEEE Symposium on Bioinformatics and Biomedical Engineering 11) International Conference for the Tools with Artificial Intelligence 12) International Conference of the Fifth Generation Computer Systems 13) International Conference of Logic Programming 14) International Conference of Programming Languages Implementation and Logic

Programming 15) International Conference on Antimicrobial Research 16) International Conference on Applications of Prolog 17) International Symposium on Big Data and Cloud Computing Challenges 18) International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Security 19) International Conference on Distributed Multimedia Systems 20) International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing 21) International Conference on Parallel Processing 22) International Conference on Signal Processing and Multimedia Applications 23) International Joint Conference on E-business and Telecommunications 24) International Symposium on Design and Implementation of Symbolic Computation Systems 25) International Symposium on Logic Programming 26) International Symposium of Visual Languages 27) International Workshop on Practical Applications of Declarative Languages 28) SIGPLAN Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation.

Reviewer/Panelist for Funding Agencies

Current Member

• European Commission's Future and Emerging Technologies Programme in Brussels, Belgium • Past Member

• Japanese Fifth Generation Project, Japan • National Science Foundation, USA

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• Panelist - National Institute of Health – Bioinformatics and Bioengineering Division, USA • European Commission Research Directorate General, Belgium • NASA – National Aeronautics and Space Administration, USA Reviewer New Journal Proposals: Kluwer Publishers, Area: Bioinformatics PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS (PAST AND PRESENT) Current membership

• Association of Computing Machinery • Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

Past membership

1) The International Society of Optical Engineering; 2) International Society of Computational Biology; 3) New York Academy of Science; 4) American Association for Advancement of Science; 5) Association of Artificial Intelligence; 6) Association of Logic Programming; 7) Association of Mathematical Sciences

INVITED TALKS

2004 “Bioinformatics and Related Research Issues,” Institute of Medical Sciences, Benares Hindu University, India

Bioinformatics Seminar series (14 lectures) attended by the scholars from multiple disciplines in the Benares Hindu University, Varanasi, India

Multimedia Seminar Series (5 lectures), Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India

2003 Automated Genome Comparison and Gene Cluster Prediction to Derive Metabolic Pathways, Computational, Center for Computational Genomics Seminar, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH

2001 Automated Genome Comparison Techniques for Genome Functionality and Automated Reconstruction of Pathways, Summer Institute on Advanced Computation, Wright State University, Ohio, USA

Probing Kingdom of Life using Automated Genome Comparisons, Department of Bio-engineering, University of California, San Diego, USA

1997 A Case for Ph. D. In Computational and Mathematical Biology, Kent State University, Kent, Ohio, with Professor Richard Varga

1996 A Scheme for Fault Tolerant Distributed Storage for Recovery of Multi-agent system, Australian AI Institute, Melbourne, Australia

1995 Decoding the Code of Life, Department of Mathematics, Youngstown, Ohio

Comparative Analysis of Genome Sequences, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany

1994 Associative Models of Large Knowledge Bases, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, USA

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Associative Logic Programming, Midwest Logic Programming Workshop, Cleveland, USA

1992 Applications of High Performance Scientific Expert Systems in Space Research,” Ohio Aerospace Institute, NASA Glenn Research Center, Cleveland, USA

1991 Data Parallelism Can Benefit Logic Programming, International Workshop on Parallel Logic Programming, Austin, USA

A Data Parallel Logic Programming Model for Efficient Execution of Large Knowledge Bases, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India

Concurrent Execution of Logic Programs, Motilal Nehru Engineering College, Allahabad, India

1990 Is Control Parallelism a Program Property? CAIP Laboratory, Rutgers - The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, USA

1989 Towards a Parallelizing Compiler in Logic Programs, International Workshop on Future Trends in Logic Programming, 1989, Cleveland, OH, USA.

Identifying Inherent Parallelism in Logic Programs, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH

1988 Compile time Parallelization of Logic Programs, Quintus Corporation, California

RESEARCH SOFTWARE (also see http://www.cs.kent.edu/~arvind/orthos.html) Self-Developed

2004 Biocomputing model of Fault Tolerant Intelligent Agents,

1998 Goldie 2.0 - Automated Detection of Conserved Genes, Specific Genes, and Operons

1996 Goldie 1.0 – Automated Detection of Orthologs, Gene-groups, and Fused Genes

1994 A Tool for Identifying Constrained Portions of Ribosomal Proteins

1991 An Emulator for Associative Prolog

1988 Program Analysis and Transformation for the Parallelization of Logic Programs

Supervised Software

2016 Automated Analysis of ECG waves for Detection of Finer Sub=classes of Arrhythmia, Student: P. Gawde

Facial Expression analysis using Deep Learning, Student: M. Ghayoumi

2008 Automated Cross Cultural Phoneme Transformation using Bioinformatics Techniques, Student: J. Burke

2005 Anatomical Muscle Based Modeling of Facial Expressions and an XML based Language for Internet Transmission, Student: Y. Hijazi

2004 Multimodal Multimedia Triggers for Automatics Content Based Channel Control over the Internet, Student: Sharif Uddin

2003 Voice Enabled 3D Interactive Extensible Multimedia Movies over the Internet, Student: Bonita Simoes

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An XML Based STMD (Single Transmission Multiple Display) 2D Scene Visualization over the Internet, Student: Rahul Pathak

2000 Extended XML for Graph Based Multimedia Visualization, Student: Tista Kapoor

1999 A Web Based Intelligent Multimedia Knowledge Retrieval System, Student: Stephen Ryan A Distributed Tool Using CORBA for Pair-wise Comparisons of Complete Genomes, Student: Valerian Anderson

1996 An Environment for Heterogeneous Associative Logic Programming in a Distributed Environment using PVM, Student: Steve Ryan

1994 A Compiler for Associative Model of Logic Programming, Students: Lokam Prasad and Madhavi Lokam

An Emulator for Associative Model of Logic Programming, Student: Chiranjeevi Kandikodam

Bioinformatics Research Web site:

Genome Comparison Research Database Website – Goldie, http://www.cs.kent.edu/ ~arvind/intellibio/orthos.html. It is one of the popular websites for bacterial genome comparison.

PUBLICATIONS (68 in print; 2 accepted; 1 under review, 6 to be submitted in 2016-17, 2

under preparation) Journal Articles

1. M. Ghayoumi, M. Thafar, A. Bansal, “A Formal Approach for Multimodal Integration to Derive Emotions,” Journal of Visual Languages and Sentient Systems, Vol. 2, 2016, pp. 48-54 (25% acceptance from the selected papers in DMS 2016)

2. M. Ghayoumi and A. Bansal, "Real Emotion Recognition by Detecting Symmetry patterns in Dihedral Group," Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics, accepted for publication.

3. A. Bansal, “Role of Bioinformatics in the Development of Anti Infective Therapy,” Expert Review of Anti-Infective Therapy, Vol. 6, Issue 1, 2008, pp. 51-63, known citations: 23

4. A. Guercio, A. K. Bansal, T. Arndt, “Language Constructs and Synchronization in Reactive Multimedia Systems,” International Transaction on Computers and Software Engineering, No. 1, Vol. 1, 2007, ISSN: 1797-1152, pp. 52-59

5. A. K. Bansal, Bioinformatics in microbial biotechnology - a mini review, Microbial cell Factories, Volume 4, issue 19, 2005, Highly accessed article, over 10,000 downloads (including Biomed Central and Pubmed Central), Known citations: 62

6. T. E. Meyer and A. K. Bansal, “Elevated CG Content in Hyperthermophilecan Resolve Evolutionary Discrepancies between Analysis using Whole Genome Comparisons and 16SrRNA,” Biochemistry, 2005; 44(34), pp 11458 – 11465, known citations: 9.

7. A. K. Bansal, and C. Woolverton, "Applying Automatically Derived Gene-groups to Automatically Predict and Refine Microbial Pathways", IEEE Transactions of Knowledge and Data Engineering, Volume 15, Number 4, July/August 2003, pp. 883-894, known citations: 8.

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8. A. K. Bansal, and T. E. Meyer, "Evolutionary Analysis by Whole Genome Comparisons," Journal of Bacteriology, Volume 184, No. 8, April 2002, pp. 2260-2272, known citations: 82.

9. S. Ryan and A. K. Bansal, A Scalable Distributed Multimedia Knowledge Retrieval System on a Cluster of Heterogeneous Architectures over the Internet, The International Journal for Tools with Artificial Intelligence, (2000), 9:3, 343-367

10. A. K. Bansal, An Automated Comparative Analysis of seventeen Complete Microbial Genomes, Bioinformatics, (1999), 15: 11, pp. 900 – 908, known citations: 66.

11. A. Vitreschak, A. K. Bansal, I. I. Titov, M. S. Gelfand, Computer Analysis of Regulatory Patterns in Completely Sequenced Bacterial Genomes. Translation Initiation of Ribosomal Protein, Biofizika (1999), 44: 4, 601 – 610, Known Citations: 13.

12. A. K. Bansal, P. Bork, and P. Stuckey, Automated Pair-wise Comparisons of Microbial Genomes, Mathematical Modeling and Scientific Computing, Principia Scientia, (1998), 9:1, 1 - 23. First paper to show automated genome comparison algorithm. This paper showed many new information (even to biologists and biochemists) such as the role of lateral gene transfer and gene fusion in genome evolution, automated derivation of gene-groups, Known citations: 27.

13. A. K. Bansal, A Framework for Heterogeneous Associative Logic Programming, International Journal of Artificial Intelligence Tools, 4: 1 & 2, (1995), 33 – 53, Known citations: 5

14. J. Potter, J. Baker, A. K. Bansal, S. Scott, C. Ashtagiri, Associative Model of Computing, IEEE Computer Journal, (1994), 19 – 25. Also appeared as an IEEE book chapter in Associative Processing and Processors, eds. Krikelei and Weems, IEEE Computer Society Press, (1997), 188-194, Known citations: 104.

15. A. K. Bansal, An Associative Model to Integrate Knowledge Retrieval and Data Parallel Computation, International Journal on Artificial Intelligence Tools, (1994), 3:1, 97 - 125. Known Citations: 8.

16. A. K. Bansal and J. Potter, An Associative Model for Minimizing Matching and Backtracking Overhead in Logic Programs with Large Knowledge Bases, The Journal for Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence, (1992), 5: 3, 247 – 262, Known Citations: 21.

17. A. K. Bansal and L. Sterling, An Abstract Interpretation Scheme for Identifying Inherent Parallelism in Logic Programs, The Journal of New Generation Computing, (1990), 7: 2 & 3, 273 – 324, Known citations: 18.

18. A. K. Bansal and L. Sterling, Transforming Generate-and-test Logic Programs to Committed-choice And-parallelism, The International Journal of Parallel Programming, (1989), 18: 5, 401 – 446, Known citations: 8.

Refereed Conference Articles 19. P. R. Gawde, A. K. Bansal, and J. Nielson, “Integrating Markov Model and Morphology

Analysis for Automated Finer Classification of Ventricular Arrhythmia in Real Time,” IEEE International Conference in Biomedical and Health Informatics, Orlando, Florida, USA, February 2017, to appear, (Acceptance rate 37%).

20. M. Ghayoumi and Arvind K. Bansal, “Multimodal System for Emotion in Robots Using Deep Learning”, Future Technologies Conference, San Francisco, CA, USA, December 2016, pp. 901-907.

21. M. Ghayoumi, M. Thafar, A. K. Bansal" Towards Formal Multimodal Analysis of Emotions for Affective Computing, " International Conference on Distributed Multimedia Systems,

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Salerno, Italy, Nov. 2016, pp. 48-54. (Acceptance rate 48%).

22. M. Ghayoumi and A. Bansal, "Emotion in Robot using Convolutional Neural Networks.", 8th Proceedings of the International Conference on Social Robotics (ICSR 2016), Kansas City, USA, Known citations: 7.LNAI9979, Springer Verlag, November 2016, pp. 285-295, (Acceptance rate 11%).

23. M. Ghayoumi and A. Bansal, "Real Emotion Recognition Algorithm by Detecting Symmetry Patterns with Dihedral Group," Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Mathematics and Computers in Science and Industry, Greece, August 2016.

24. M. Thafar and A. K. Bansal, “An Abstract Model of Multimodal Fusion Using Fuzzy Sets to Derive Interactive Emotions,” International Conference of Artificial Intelligence (ICAI'16), Las Vegas, July 2016, pp. 24-30. (Acceptance rate: 24%).

25. S. Aljehane and A. K. Bansal, “Distributed Objects Based Programming Constructs for PGAS Based High Performance C++,” Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Processing Techniques and Applications (PDPTA'16), Eds: H. R. Arabnia, Hiroshii Ishii et el., Las Vegas, July 2016, pp. 258-264 (Acceptance rate: 24%).

26. P. R. Gawde, A. K. Bansal, and J. Nielson, "Applying Markov Model for Automated Classification of Supraventricular Dysrhythmia," International Conference on Health Informatics and Medical Systems (HIMS), Eds: H. R. Arabnia and L. Deligiannidid, Las Vegas, July 2015, pp. 10-16 (Acceptance rate: 26%)

27. M. Ghayoumi and A. K. Bansal, Unifying Geometric Features and Facial Action Units for Improved Performance of Facial Expression Analysis, Proceedings of the International Conference on Circuits, Systems, Signal Processing, Communications and Computers (CSSCC 15), Recent Advances in Electrical Engineering Series, ISBN: 978-1-61804-285-9, Vienna, Austria, 2015, pp. 259-266 (Acceptance rate: 23%), Known citations: 10.

28. M. Ghayoumi and A. K. Bansal, "An Integrated Approach for Efficient Analysis of Facial Expressions," 11th International Conference of Signal Processing and Multimedia Applications, Vienna, Austria, August 2014, pp. 211-219 (double blind review, Acceptance rate: 11%). Known citations: 9.

29. A. Guercio and A. K. Bansal, “Towards a Formal Semantics for Distributed Multimedia Computing,” International Conference on Distributed Multimedia Systems, San Francisco, USA, September 2007, pp. 81-86

30. A. K. Bansal and Y. Hijazi, “Low Bandwidth Video Conversation Using Anatomical Reconstruction of Facial Expressions Over the Internet", IADIS International Conference on WWW/Internet, October 2006, Murcia, Spain, pp. 154-161

31. A. K. Bansal, “Incorporating Fault Tolerance in Distributed Agent Based Systems by Simulating Biocomputing Model of Stress Pathways,” SPIE Defense and Security Symposium, April 2006, Orlando, Florida, pp. Vol. 6201, pp. 620108-01 – 62010810

32. A. Guercio, A. K. Bansal, and T. Arndt, “Synchronization in Distributed Multimedia Systems,” Proceedings of the International Conference of Distributed Multimedia Systems, Banff, Canada, 2005, pp. 34-39

33. A. K. Bansal, “Exploiting Biological Model to Incorporate Event Based Adaptation in Networked Intelligent Multi-Agent Systems, Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence, Boca Raton, Florida, USA, November 2004, pp. 761-768

34. B. Simoes, A. Guercio, and A. K. Bansal, “Towards Large Scale Voice Activated Dynamic and Interactive Internet Based Animation and Modeling,” Proceedings of the IASTED

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International Conference on Software Engineering and Applications, Cambridge, MA, USA, November 2004, pp. 749-754

35. A. Guercio and A. K. Bansal, “TANDEM – Transmitting Asynchronous Non-deterministic and Deterministic Events in Multimedia Systems over the Internet,” Proceedings of the International Conference on Distributed Multimedia Systems, San Francisco, CA, USA, September 2004, pp. 57-62

36. A. K. Bansal and S. Uddin, “Multimodal Triggers for Automated Filtering and Reactivity based on WWW Content,” Proceedings of the IASTED International Conference of Internet and Multimedia Systems and Applications, Hawaii, 2004, pp. 311-316

37. B. Simoes and Arvind K. Bansal, "Voice Based Interactive Modification of Web Based Movies" Proceedings of the IASTED International Conference of Internet and Multimedia Systems and Applications, Hawaii, 2004, pp. 53-58.

38. B. Simoes and Arvind K. Bansal, “Interactive 3D Dynamic Object Based Movies” Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Internet Computing, Las Vegas, 2004, Vol. II, pp. 708-714

39. A. Guercio and A. K. Bansal, “A Model for Integrating Deterministic and Asynchronous Events in Reactive Multimedia Internet Based Languages, Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Internet Computing, Las Vegas, 2004, Vol I, pp. 46-52, Known Citations: 5.

40. A. K. Bansal and R. Pathak, “Transmitting High Resolution Archived Object Based Movies over the Internet with Reduced Bandwidth,” Proceedings of the 2nd IASTEAD International Conference COMMMUNICATIONS, INTERNET, & INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY, Scottsdale, Arizona, November 2003, pp. 553-560.

41. A. K. Bansal and R. Pathak, “A Server Coordinated Predictive Buffer Management Scheme to Reduce Bandwidth Requirement for Synthetic Multimedia Movies over the Internet, in Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Internet Computing, Las Vegas, 2003, Volume II, pp. 831-837

42. A. K. Bansal, T. Kapoor, and R. Pathak, "Extending XML for Graph Based Visualization of Complex Objects and Animation Over the Internet," Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Internet Computing, Las Vegas, 2001, pp. 750 – 756.

43. A. K. Bansal, Integrating Co-regulated Gene-groups and Pair-wise Genome Comparisons to Automate Reconstruction of Microbial Pathways, IEEE International Symposium on Bioinformatics and Biomedical Engineering, Washington, November 2001, pp. 209-216, Known citations: 8

44. A. K. Bansal, A Framework of Automated Reconstruction of Microbial Metabolic Pathways, IEEE International Symposium on Bioinformatics and Biomedical Engineering, Washington, November 2000, pp. 184-190, Known citations: 10.

45. S. W. Ryan, A. K. Bansal, and T. Kapoor, A Tool for the Distributed Simulation of Complex Objects Over the Internet, Proceedings of the International Conference of Tools with Artificial Intelligence, Vancouver, Canada, 2000, pp. 140-146.

46. S. Ryan and A. K. Bansal, Applying Java for the Retrieval of Multimedia Knowledge Distributed on High Performance Clusters on the Internet, Proceedings of the International Conference on Practical Applications of JAVA, London, UK, (1999), 193 – 203

47. A. K. Bansal and P. Bork Applying Logic Programming to Derive Novel Functional Information in Microbial Genomes, Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Practical

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Aspects of Declarative Languages, Lecture Notes Series of Springer Verlag, (1999), LNAI 1551, 274 – 289

48. V. Anderson and A. K. Bansal, A Distributed Architecture for Pair-wise Comparisons of Complete Genomes, Proceedings of The IEEE International Conference of Information, Intelligence and Systems, Washington D. C., (1999), 48 – 55

49. S. Ryan and A. K. Bansal, A Scalable Distributed Associative Multimedia Knowledge Base for the Internet, Proceedings of the IASTEAD 8th International Conference on Intelligent Systems, Colorado, USA, (1999), 1- 6.

50. A. K. Bansal, K. Rammohanarao, A. Rao, A Distributed Storage Scheme for Replicated Beliefs to Facilitate Recovery in Distributed System of Cooperating Agents, Fourth International AAAI Workshop on Agent Theory, Architecture, and Languages, Lecture Notes in Springer Verlag Series, (1998), LNAI 1365, 77 – 92, Known citations: 14.

51. S. Ryan and A. K. Bansal, A Scalable Heterogeneous Associative Logic Programming System, Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference for Tools with Artificial Intelligence, Newport Beach, USA, (1997), 37 - 44.

52. A. K. Bansal, “Establishing a Framework for Comparative Analysis of Genome Sequences,” Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium of Intelligence in Neural and Biological Systems, Herndon, VA, USA, (1995), 84 - 91, also available as Technical Report, ANL 95-01, Argonne National Laboratory, 1995, Known Citations: 8.

53. A. K. Bansal, Towards a Formal Computational Model for Associative Logic Programming, Proceedings of the International Workshop on Data Parallel Implementation of Declarative Languages, Genoa, Italy, (1994), 11 - 20.

54. A. K. Bansal, L. Prasad, and M. Ghandikota, A Formal Associative Model of Logic Programming and its Abstract Instruction Set, Proceedings of International Conference of Tools with Artificial Intelligence, (1994), 145 - 151.

55. A. K. Bansal, J. Potter, and L. Prasad, Data Parallel Compilation and Extending Query Power of Large Knowledge Bases, The Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference of Tools for Artificial Intelligence, (1992), 276-283. Known Citations: 8

56. A. K. Bansal and D. Poduval, Applying Abstract Interpretation to Identify Vectorizable Numerical Code in Logic Programs, Proceedings of the International Workshop on Compilation of Symbolic Languages for Parallel Computers, San Diego, USA, (1991), 108 - 110.

57. A. K. Bansal and D. Poduval, Static Analysis to Identify Vectorizable Numerical Domain in Logic Programs for Efficient Execution of Scientific Expert Systems, Proceedings of the Third Scandinavian Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Denmark, (1991), 193 – 204.

58. A. K. Bansal and L. Sterling, Compiling Enumerate-and-filter programs for Efficient Execution Under Committed-choice AND-parallelism, Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Parallel Processing, St. Charles, Illinois, USA, (1988), 22 - 25.

59. A. K. Bansal and J. Potter, Exploiting Data Parallelism for Efficient Execution of Logic Programs with Large Knowledge Bases, Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference of Tools for Artificial Intelligence, Washington DC, USA, (1990), 674 – 681, Known Citations: 11.

60. A. K. Bansal and L. Sterling, “A Scheme for Abstract Interpretation of Logic Programs Based on Type Expression,” Proceedings of the International Conference on Fifth Generation Computer Systems, Tokyo, Japan, (1988), 422 – 429, Known citations: 14

61. A. K. Bansal and L. Sterling, AND-parallelism and Stream-parallelism in Logic Programs, Proceedings of the Workshop on Future Trends in Logic Programming, Austin, Texas, USA, (1987).

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62. A. K. Bansal and L. Sterling, Source-to-source Transformation of Sequential Logic Programs to And-parallelism, Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Parallel Processing, St. Charles, Illinois, USA, (1987), 795 – 802, Known Citations: 8.

63. A. K. Bansal and R. M. K. Sinha, Some Aspects of PronounDisambiguation using Real World Knowledge, Proceedings of the Computer Society of India, Hyderabad, India, (1984), c 2.6.1 - c 2.6.4.

Book Chapters (semi refereed)

64. A. K. Bansal, "An Associative Data Parallel Compilation Model for Tight Integration of High Performance Knowledge Retrieval and Computation,", Artificial Intelligence and Automation, Advanced Series on Artificial Intelligence - Vol. 3, ed. Nikolas G. Bourbakis, publisher: World Scientific, 1998, ISBN: 981-02-2637-3.

65. A. K. Bansal and J. Potter, A Data Parallel Shell for Large Knowledge Bases, in Knowledge Engineering Shells: Systems and Techniques, ed. Nikolaos Bourbakis, World Scientific Publishers, (1993), 2, 399 – 430

66. A. K. Bansal and J. Potter, Associative Prolog, in Associative Computing, Plenum publishers, (1992), 213 - 242.

Conference Abstracts/Posters 67. A. K. Bansal, An Automated Comparative Analysis of seventeen Complete Microbial

Genomes, Proceedings of the Second International Georgia Tech Conference, Atlanta, Georgia, (1999), pp. 36-37, refereed

68. A. Vitreschak, A. K. Bansal, M. S. Gelfand, Conserved RNA structures regulation initiation of translation of Escherichia coli and Haemophilus influenzae ribosomal protein operons, First International Conference on Bioinformatics of Genome Regulation and Structure, Novosibirsk, Russia, (1998), Vol. 1, pp. 229, known citations: 6

69. A. Vitreschak, A. K. Bansal, M. S. Gelfand, Conserved RNA structures regulate initiation of translation of Escherichia coli and Haemophilus influenzae ribosomal protein operons, Abstract of International School on Theoretical Biophysics, Moscow, (1998), pp. 105

70. A. K. Bansal, P. Bork, and P. Stuckey, A Framework for Comparative Analysis of Complete Prokaryotic Genome Sequences, International Conference on Mathematical and Scientific Computing, Washington DC, USA, (1997), pp. 52.

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

2016 “An Abstract Model of Multimodal Fusion Using Fuzzy Sets to Derive Interactive Emotions,” International Conference of Artificial Intelligence (ICAI'16), Las Vegas, July 2016.

“Distributed Objects Based Programming Constructs for PGAS Based High Performance C++,” Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Processing Techniques and Applications PDPTA'16), Las Vegas, July 2016.

2015 "Applying Markov Model for Automated Classification of Supraventricular Arrhythmia," International Conference on Health Informatics and Medical Systems (HIMS), Las Vegas, July 2015.

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2014 "An Integrated Approach for Efficient Analysis of Facial Expressions," 11th International Conference of Signal Processing and Multimedia Applications, Vienna, Austria, August 2014.

2007 "Towards a Formal Semantics for Distributed Multimedia Computing,” International Conference on Distributed Multimedia Systems, September 2007, San Francisco, USA

2006 "Low Bandwidth Video Conversation Using Anatomical Reconstruction of Facial Expressions Over the Internet", IADIS International Conference on WWW/Internet, October 2006, Murcia, Spain, October 2006

"Incorporating Fault Tolerance in Distributed Agent Based Systems by Simulating Biocomputing Model of Stress Pathways," SPIE Defense and Security Symposium, Orlando, Florida, April 2006

2003 A Server Coordinated Predictive Buffer Management Scheme to Reduce Bandwidth Requirement for Synthetic Multimedia Movies over the Internet, The Fourth International Conference on Internet Based Computing, Las Vegas, USA

Transmitting High Quality Archived Object-based Movies with Reduced Bandwidth Requirement, IASTED International Conference on Communications, Internet, and Information, Scottsdale, Arizona, USA

2001 Integrating Co-regulated Gene-groups and Pairwise Genome Comparison for Reconstructing Microbial Pathways," IEEE International Symposium of Bioinformatics, Biotechnology, and Biomedical Engineering, Washington, DC

Extending XML for Graph Based Visualization of Complex Objects and Animation Over the Internet, The Second International Conference on Internet Based Computing, Las Vegas, USA

2000 A Framework of Automatic Derivation of Microbial Metabolic Pathways, IEEE International Symposium of Bioinformatics and Biomedical Engineering, Arlington, USA

A Tool for the Distributed Simulation of Complex Objects Over the Internet, IEEE International Conference of Tools with Artificial Intelligence, Vancouver, Canada,

1999 Applying Logic Programming to Derive Novel Functional Information of Genomes, First International ACM Workshop for Practical Applications of Declarative Languages, San Antonio, USA A Comparative Analysis of Seventeen Complete Microbial Genomes, poster presentation, The Second International Silico Georgia Tech Conference on Bioinformatics, (sponsored by DOE and NIH) Atlanta, USA

1997 A Framework for Comparative Analysis of Complete Prokaryotic Genomes, The Eleventh International Conference on Mathematical Modeling and Scientific Computing (sponsored by DOE and NIH), Washington DC, USA Distributed Storage of Replicated Beliefs to Facilitate Recovery of Distributed Intelligent Agents, Fourth International AAAI Workshop on Agent Theories, Architectures, and Languages, Rhode Island, USA

1995 Establishing a Framework for Comparative Analysis of Genome, IEEE International Symposium of Intelligence in Neural and Biological Systems, Herndon, USA

1994 A Formal Associative Model of Logic Programming and its Abstract Instruction Set, IEEE International Conference of Tools with Artificial Intelligence, New Orleans, USA

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Role of Artificial Intelligence in Multimedia, Panel on AI and Multimedia, IEEE International Conference of Tools with Artificial Intelligence, New Orleans, USA

Tight Integration of Intelligent Reasoning and Scientific Computing on Massive Parallel Supercomputers, IEEE International Conference on Scalable High Performance Computing and Communications, Tennessee, USA

1993 Integrating Incompleteness, Inequality, Associative Computing, and AI Reasoning, First Midwest Conference on Logic Programming, Cleveland, USA

1992 Data Parallel Compilation and Extending Query Power of Large Knowledge Bases, The IEEE International Conference of Tools for Artificial Intelligence, Herndon, Virginia, USA.

1991 Applying Abstract Interpretation to Identify Vectorizable Numerical Code in Logic Programs, International ALP Workshop on Compilation of Symbolic Languages for Parallel Computers, San Diego, USA

Static Analysis to Identify Vectorizable Numerical Domain in Logic Programs for Efficient Execution of Scientific Expert Systems, Third Scandinavian Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Copenhagen, Denmark

1990 Exploiting Data Parallelism for Efficient Execution of Logic Programs with Large Knowledge Bases, IEEE International Conference of Tools for Artificial Intelligence, Washington DC, USA

1988 Compiling Enumerate-and-filter programs for Efficient Execution Under Committed-choice AND-parallelism, IEEE International Conference on Parallel Processing, St. Charles, USA

1987 Source-to-source Transformation of Sequential Logic Programs to And-parallelism, The IEEE International Conference on Parallel Processing, St. Charles, USA

STUDENT LEVEL ACHIEVEMENTS 1984 – 88 Graduate Research Assistantship

Dept. of Computer Science, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio

1987 Second position, PhD research competition Dept. of Computer Science, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio

1981 – 83 Graduate Research Assistant, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India

1981 Selected for M. Tech (Computer Science) based on national competition at Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India

1979 Graduated with Distinction, B. Tech (Electrical Eng.), I. I. T Kanpur, India

1974 – 79 Merit cum means Scholarship, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India

1975 Merit Award (6th out of 250 students), Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India

National merit scholarship, Intermediate Board, Uttar Pradesh India

1974 Selected for B. Tech (Rank: 120 out of 2, 00, 000), on the basis of All India Joint Entrance Examination

Eighth position (out of 3, 50, 000) in the State Board Examination, Uttar Pradesh,

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1971 Fourth position (out of 5, 000), Banaras Hindu University High School Board, India

1966 - 71 Government of India Merit Scholarship (Second position in the State) for the study residential schools. 250 students are selected every year in India from all over the country.

Graduate Thesis Supervision Ph.D. Dissertation Supervised 2004 2001

A. Guercio

S. Ryan

An Internet Based Language for Integrating Deterministic and Nondeterministic Events and interaction with Multimedia Modeling over the Internet Co-authored five refereed conference publications in print(1 journal, 4 conferences) Employed at Department of Computer Science, Kent State University as an Associate Professor A Logic Based Visual Environment for Distributed Simulation and Design of Complex Objects Over the Internet. Co-authored five refereed publications in print (1 journal, 4 conferences). Employed at NASA Glenn Research Center

Current PhD Students Curr Mehdi Ghayoumi Thesis Area: Emotion Analysis and Generation in Humanoids,

PhD candidate, University fellow, Fall 2015

Curr Purva Gawde Thesis Area: application of AI Techniques in Medical Informatics, PhD Candidate, Teaching Assistant, Spring 2016

Curr S. Aljehane Thesis Area: Design of multimodal event based languages for PGAS, cleared qualifiers

Curr H. Muhajab Thesis Area: Human Activity Recognition for Man-machine interaction

MS Thesis Supervised Cur

2016 2015

A. Singh

H. Muhajab S. Aljehane M. Thafar

“Non-emotional Gesture Generation in Humanoids,”

Elderly Person’s Motion Analysis for Elderly Care using Probabilistic Finite State Automata, November 2016. DOPC++: Extending C++ with Distributed Objects and Object Migration for PGAS Model, November 2015

Abstract Modeling of Gestures and Interactive Emotions Using Fuzzy Sets for Social Robotics, to be defended, November 2015

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2006

2004

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1999 1996

1993

1991

J. Burke

Y. Hijazi

S. Uddin

B. Simoes

R. Pathak T. Kapoor

V. Anderson S. Ryan

M. Ghandikota

C. Kondikonda L. Prasad

D. Poduval

“Towards Cross-cultural Voice Transformation Using Bioinformatics Techniques” “Integrating Text Based Voice Transmission with Client End Realistic Face Modeling to Reduce Bandwidth Requirement”, ‘Multimodal Event based Triggering for Multimedia Visualization over the Internet, ‘Voice Enabled 3D Interactive Movies’, joined Ph. D. at Kent State University, currently a faculty at Youngstown State University. “A Single Transmission Multiple Display Language for Internet Movies”, A Language for Graph Based Multimedia Visualizations over the Internet, Employed at Research Center at Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA “Distributed Computational Tools for Comparing Large Complete Genomes”, currently system administrator at Hiram College, Hiram, Ohio. A Data Parallel Model of Logic Program for Heterogeneous Computing, joined PhD with me in 1997. An Emulator for Abstract Instruction Set for Logic Programs on Associative Supercomputers, Joined Corporate Research Center at Ford Motor Company, Detroit, MI. Later started own software development company. Implementing Interpretive Data Parallel Shell for Logic Programs. Joined Corporate Research Center at Ford Motor Company, Detroit, MI. Currently running a successful software development company. An Abstract Interpreter based Compiler for Logic Programs to Incorporate Data-parallelism on Associative Supercomputers, Joined Corporate Research Center at Ford Motor Company, Detroit, MI. Currently running a successful software development company. Program Analysis for Identifying Vectorizable Number Domain in Logic Programs, After MS Joined a local software consultancy company

Other Funded MS Research 2011 -12 Purva Gawde “Emergency Medical Response System,” collaborative funded project

between Kent State University and Summa Health Systems, Akron, OH, joined PhD with me.

Undergraduate Honors Students

2012 Camden Fulmer "A Comparative Analysis of High Performance Languages for Supercomputers,"

Other Ph. D. Committees

Cur Fatema Nafa, Department of Computer Science, Kent State University Rania Aboalela, Department of Computer Science, Kent State University Amal Babour, Department of Computer Science, Kent State University

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2016 Tunan Tang, Department of Mathematics, Kent State University, Spring 2016 2012 Manas Hardas, Department of Computer Science, Kent State University Jason Ellis, Department of English, Kent State University 2010 Xun Lai, Department of Computer Science, Kent State University 2008 Saleh Al Shomrani, Department of Computer Science, Kent State University

2007 Obyebisi Jegede, Department of Biological Sciences, Kent State University 2004 Alex Cohen, Department of Psychology, Kent State University 2003 Andrian Marcus, Department of Computer Science, Kent State University 2002 Aidong, Department of Physics, Kent State University

1993 Pu-Chen, Department of Computer Engineering and Science, advisory committee, Case Western Reserve University

1991 Fellah Abdel-Aziz, Department of Computer Science, Kent State University

Other Master’s Committees (Computer Science)

C. L. Suk Sun and C. Williams (1989), Chao-Jen Hsu (1990), M. Kotran (1994), T. Lyden (1996), D. McCune (1997), V. Martin and B. Chen (1998), R. Pasari and A. Lal (1999), A. Kotrampas (2000), D. Patel (2002), H. Kagadi (2003), David Chiu and Ming Ming Lu (2004), S. Katargada and Qiyu Zhang (2005), Jeffrey Frey (2008), Tristan Cuevas (2015), Preoyati Khan (2016).

External Thesis Examiner

1998 MS student, University of Melbourne, Australia

2001 Ph. D. Student, University of Melbourne, Australia

2005 D. Phil Student, University of Allahabad, India

2010 Ph. D. Student, Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology, Allahabad, India

2015 Ph. D. Student, Birsa Institute of Technology, Ranchi, Bihar, India

Bioinformatics Thesis Committee

1999 S. Kumar, Honors Undergraduate, Department of Biology, Kent State University

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Teaching

New Programs Introduced (at Kent State University) • Bioinformatics curriculum (with James Blank and Austin Melton) in 1998

• Member, New media task force for certificate in media technologies, 1999

• Robotics Track within Computer Science Program, Department of Computer Science, Kent State University, 2012.

• Health Informatics Track with Computer Science Program, Department of Computer Science, Kent State University, 2013.

• Computer Engineering Concentration with Javed Khan and Cheng Chang Lu, Department of Computer Science, Kent State University, 2016.

New Courses Introduced (at Kent State University) 1988 Logic Programming (undergraduate)

1989 Advanced data structures (graduate)

1990 Advanced Logic Programming (graduate)

1997 Distributed AI Systems and Languages (graduate)

Computational Biology (graduate) (summer 1997)

2001 Distributed Multimedia Languages (graduate)

2003 Multimedia Systems and Languages (undergraduate)

2010 C# and .NET programming (undergraduate)

C# programming (undergraduate)

Text Books • Introduction to Programming Languages, by Arvind K. Bansal

Text Book for undergraduate core course in Computer Science and reference book for graduate courses, Chapman Hall/ CRC Press, December 2013, 624 pages.

ISBN-13: 978-146-6565142 E-book ISBN: 978-146-656-5159 web-site: http://www.crcpress.com/product/isbn/9781466565142 Known citations: 4. Copies sold/rented: 500+ • Computational Health Informatics,

by Arvind K. Bansal, Javed Khan and S. Kaisar Alam Text book for the first graduate level course for computer science and students in interdisciplinary program in medical informatics, a reference book for other researchers getting involved in health informatics, Publisher: Chapman Hall / CRC Press, October 2017 expected, 550 pages, Under preparation, manuscript to be submitted in April 2017

http://www.crcpress.com/product/isbn/9781466565142

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2013 Introduction to Robotics (senior/graduate)

2014 Health informatics (graduate)

2015 Multimedia Systems and Biometrics (graduate) (Spring 2015)

Embedded Computing (graduate) (Fall 2015)

Courses Significantly Improved (at Kent State University)

1) Artificial Intelligence; 2) Advanced Artificial Intelligence; 3) Advanced Programming Languages; 4) Computer Literacy (with Aditi Singh and Javed Khan); 5) Symbolic computing; 6) Structure of Programming Languages

Professional Tutorial 1991 2001

Rule Based Programming and Expert System Design using Prolog, ACM tutorial to local industries, Cleveland, Ohio, attended by researchers from local industry in Cleveland and Akron area Automated Genome Comparison Techniques for Genome Functionality and Automated Reconstruction of Pathways, Summer Institute on Advanced Computation, Wright State University, Ohio, USA, attended by NIH directors, bioinformatics companies and international research organizations.

Book Reviewer Publishers: 1. John Wiley and Sons, Subject area: Programming Languages

2. Prentice Hall, Subject area: Operating System, Programming Languages 3. CRC Press: Subject area: Computer programming

Courses Taught Graduate Courses (MS/PhD level)

1) Advanced Artificial Intelligence; 2) Advanced data structures; 3) Advanced Logic Programming; 4) Advanced Programming Languages; 5) Computational Biology; 6) Distributed AI Systems and Languages; 7) Distributed Multimedia Systems and Languages; 8) Embedded Computing; 9) Expert systems; 10) Health Informatics; 11) Multimedia Systems and Biometrics

Undergraduate Courses

1) Artificial Intelligence; 2) C# Programming; 3) C# and .NET Programming; 4) Computer Graphics; 5) Computer Literacy; 6) Computer Organization and Assembly Programming; 7) Data Structures; 8) Introduction to Robotics 9) Logic Programming; 10) Multimedia Systems and Languages; 11) Operating Systems; 12) Structure of Programming Languages; 13) Symbolic Programming Seminar Courses (1988 - 1994)

1) Heterogeneous Associative Computing; 2) Data Parallel Prolog Machine; 3) Parallel Prolog

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Graduate Instructors Mentoring 1. Mehdi Ghayoumi, Robotics Concepts, Fall 2015, Fall 2016; Machine Learning, Spring 2016; Operating Systems, Summer 2015

2. Purva Gawde, Structure of Programming Languages, Spring 2016; 3. Aditi Singh Computer Literacy, Spring 2016, Fall 2016 SERVICES Departmental Service 1989 Alumni contact and liaison, Undergraduate Studies Committee

1989 -2001 Computer Science Advisory Committee

1989-90 Faculty Search Committee

1988-90 Colloquia chairman

1992 Chairman, Computer Science Brochure Committee

1992 Faculty Advisory Committee: This committee is an elected body in the Department to advise the chair on policy matters.

1996-97 Graduate Studies Committee

1996-97 Colloquia chairman

1997 -2003 Institute of Computational Mathematics Advisory Committee

1997-98 Bioinformatics Curriculum Committee: this subcommittee formulated a graduate and undergraduate curriculum for incorporating Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, and Mathematical biology in individual department curriculum.

2002-04 OBR Ph. D. Enhancement Funds Committee: this committee evaluated proposals to allocate seed money to attract external funding to Computer Science Faculty; allocation of OBR scholarships to eligible graduate students, and to formulate policy issues to allocate the OBR budget for various research activities.

2003-5 Systems Committee: this committee evaluated the system requirement of the networked department with around 400 computers, made hiring decisions, and formulates policy for smooth daily functioning of the system.

2000 onwards Member, Faculty Advisory Committee (Computer Science)

2004-06 Member, Graduate Studies Committee (Computer Science)

2006-08 Chairman, Ohio Board of Regents Ph. D. Enhancement Committee

2008-09 Member, Ohio Board of Regents Ph.D. Enhancement Committee

2008-10 Curriculum Coordinator: responsible for the undergraduate and graduate curriculum within the department.

Salient Activities as Curriculum Coordinator

i. Streamlined dependencies in lower level computer science courses to improve undergraduate graduation rate in four years

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ii. Introduced concentration based curriculum with course sequences in game design and information security. (with Ruttan and Rothstein)

iii. Introduced MS (non-thesis option) in computer science to enhance enrollment of industry based graduate students (with Peyravi).

iv. Reactivated and modified lab fee to cover the lab expenses under RCM model

v. Incorporated Graduation Planning System (GPS) for Computer Science to streamline BS student graduation in four years resulting into enhanced retention and subsidy to the department.

vi. Streamlined degree planner and course rotation schedule for effective management of courses and enhanced graduation and retention (with Rothstein).

vii. Developed a roadmap for one year certificate program for domestic and international students (with Wang and Zhao).

viii. Initiated the development of 2+2 program format with Community Colleges (with Austin Melton)

2012-13 Member and Coordinator, Robotics track subcommittee to introduce Robotics in Computer Science curriculum 2013 onwards International Computer Science Program Coordinator

(i) Developed Articulation Agreement for accelerated multi-institutional BS/MS program with Indian universities

(ii) Developing joint Programs with IIT Kanpur, India (iii) MOU signed with IIT Kanpur, India (iv) Development of articulation for 3+2 program for foreign universities

2014 -15 Graduate Students Preliminary Examination Committee 2015-17 Graduate Studies Committee Academic advisor for graduate students Major activities:

• contributed to computer engineering concentration with Javed Khan and Cheng Lu

2017 Member – core group, of Department participation in IIT Kanpur Techkriti fair. Other members: Jane Kotilana, Marcy Curtiss, Javed Khan.

Mentor for online course development of Programming Language and Computer Literacy University Service 1994-95 University Research Council

University Research Council evaluates the university wide research proposals for internal funding.

1994--95 Chair, Summer Research Award Subcommittee, science section

1996 Member, Summer Research Award Subcommittee

1996 Member, New Media Technology Study Task Force

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This multidisciplinary task force was formed to advise the university about the feasibility and mechanics of training BS students to learn the fast growing field of ‘New Media Technology’ within the University.

1997 - 99 Computational and Biomedical Sciences Interdisciplinary Program Task Force: This multidisciplinary task force involving Computer Science, Mathematics, Physics, Biology, and Chemistry developed joint graduate and undergraduate programs and cross disciplinary research proposals.

1998 Committee on interdepartmental course, Kent State University

2000 - 02 Member, Citation and Recognition Committee: the committee recognizes and confers honorary degree to the external scholars

2000 - 02 University Research Council

2000, 2001 Chair, Summer Research Award Committee, Science section

2001 Member, Distinguished Research and Scholarly Awards Committee and Distinguished Research and Scholarly Awards Science Subcommittee

2002 Co-chair, Distinguished Research and Scholarly Award Committee

2002 - 03 Chair, Summer Research Award Committee, Science section

2002-03 Member, University Research Council

2002 – 05 Alternate member, Joint Appeals Board: This committee recommends to the President with regard to appeals by full-time faculty regarding grievance affecting tenure and promotion.

2004-05 Alternate member, All Hearing Board: this committee recommends the course of action for the cases involving student misconduct.

2005-09 Member, All Hearing Board

2007-09 Alternate member, Faculty Senate

2008-09 Member, University Requirements Curriculum Committee (URCC). This committee is responsible for core courses taught in various disciplines at Kent State University.

2008-10 Member, College level Curriculum Coordination Committee (CCC Arts and Science). This college wide committee is responsible for the development and coordination of curriculum within various disciplines in the College of Arts and Science.

2010-2012 Member, Core group, Center of Excellence for Aviation Safety Education

Cross-disciplinary Research Initiative 1992 Principal author and coordinator of CISE infrastructure grant (1.8 million dollars,

selected for site-visit), Co-PI (PI: Jerry Potter)

1994-97 Initiated cross-disciplinary research forum between Computer Science, Mathematics, and Biology that involved cross fertilization of ideas between the three departments.

1996-99 Contributed to multiple infrastructural grants in the cross-disciplinary collaboration involving Computer Science and Biology

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1997-99 Initiated Joint Research and Graduate Program in Computational Biology with School of Biomedical Science, Kent State University, with James Blank and Austin Melton

2003 Co-PI, BRTTC Grant to the State of Ohio to enhance bioinformatics activity in Kent State, Other Institutions: Cleveland Clinic and Case Western Reserve University (PI: Rathindra Bose, Chemistry)

2010 Co-PI, collaborative multiple institution multiple discipline grant submitted to FAA (Federal Aviation Agency), $3.5 million

2012-present Summa Health Systems, Akron, OH, Health informatics

2013-14 PI, collaborative multiple agency multiple discipline grant submitted to NIH (National Institute of Health), $2 million

Initiated "Computational Health/Medical Informatics" at Kent State University

2015 Robotics group collaboration with College of Technology

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