Vasant Honavar

Vasant Honavar
Nationality  USA
Fields Computer science, Artificial intelligence, Machine learning, Data mining, Bioinformatics, Big data, Data science, Computational biology, Cognitive science, Health informatics, Neuroinformatics, Network Science
Institutions Iowa State University
National Science Foundation
Pennsylvania State University
Alma mater University of Wisconsin, Madison (Ph.D., M.S.),
Drexel University (M.S.),
B.M.S. College of Engineering, Bangalore University (B.E).
Doctoral advisor Leonard Uhr
Doctoral students Chun-Hsien Chen, Computer Science, Iowa State University, 1997;
Karthik Balakrishnan, Computer Science, Iowa State University,1998;
Rajesh Parekh, Computer Science, Iowa State University, 1998;
Jihoon Yang, Computer Science, Iowa State University, 1999;
Doina Caragea, Computer Science, Iowa State University, 2004;
Changhui Yan, Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, Iowa State University, 2005;
Jun Zhang, Computer Science, Iowa State University, 2005;
Dae-Ki Kang, Computer Science, Iowa State University, 2006;
Jie Bao, Computer Science, Iowa State University, 2007;
Tyra Dunn, Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, Iowa State University, 2007;
Jyotishman Pathak, Computer Science, Iowa State University, 2007;
Yasser El-Manzalawy, Computer Science, Iowa State University, 2008;
LaRon Hughes, Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, Iowa State University, 2008;
Adrian Silvescu, Computer Science, Iowa State University, 2008;
Michael Terribilini, Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, Iowa State University, 2008;
Feihong Wu, Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, Iowa State University, 2008;
Cornelia Caragea, Iowa State University, 2009;
Kent Vander Velden, Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, Iowa State University, 2009;
Oksana Yakhnenko, Computer Science, Iowa State University,
2009; Ganesh Ram Santhanam Computer Science, Iowa State University, 2010;
George Voutsadakis, Iowa State University, 2010;
Neeraj Koul, Iowa State University, 2011;
Fadi Towfic, Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, Iowa State University, 2011;
Rafael Jordan, Computer Science, Iowa State University, 2012;
Jia Tao, Computer Science, Iowa State University, 2012;
Kewei Tu, Computer Science, Iowa State University, 2012;
Li Xue, Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, Iowa State University, 2012;
Carson Andorf, Computer Science, Iowa State University, 2013;
Harris Lin, Computer Science, Iowa State University, 2013;
Rasna Walia, Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, Iowa State University, 2014;
Ngot Bui, Information Sciences and Technology, Pennsylvania State University, 2016.
Other notable students Sushain Pandit, IBM Master Inventor, MS, Computer Science, Iowa State University, 2010.

Vasant G. Honavar is an Indian born American computer scientist, and artificial intelligence, machine learning, bioinformatics and health informatics researcher and educator.

Life

Vasant Honavar was born at Pune, India in 1960 to Bhavani G. and Gajanan N. Honavar. He received his early education at the Vidya Vardhaka Sangha High School and M.E.S. College in Bangalore, India. He received a B.E. in electronics engineering from B.M.S. College of Engineering in Bangalore, India in 1982, when it was affiliated with Bangalore University, an M.S. in electrical and computer engineering in 1984 from Drexel University, and an M.S. in computer science in 1989, and a Ph.D. in 1990, respectively, from the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where he studied Artificial Intelligence and worked with Leonard Uhr.

In 2013, Honavar joined the faculty of Penn State College of Information Sciences and Technology[1] at Pennsylvania State University where he holds the Edward Frymoyer endowed professorship and serves on the faculty of graduate programs in Computer Science, Information Sciences and Technology, Bioinformatics and Genomics, Neuroscience, and of Operations Research. Honavar also serves as the Director of the Artificial Intelligence Research Laboratory, Associate Director of the Institute for Cyberscience[2] and the Director of the Center for Big Data Analytics and Discovery Informatics[3] at Pennsylvania State University. Honavar serves on the Executive Board of the Northeast Big Data Innovation Hub.[4] Honavar served on the Computing Research Association's Computing Community Consortium Council during 2014-2017,[5][6] where he chaired the task force on Convergence of Data and Computing, and was a member of the task force on Artificial Intelligence. In 2015, Honavar was elected to the Electorate Nominating Committee of the Information, Computing, and Communication Section of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.[7] In 2016, Honavar was selected as the first Sudha Murty Distinguished Visiting Chair of Neurocomputing and Data Science by the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India.

Honavar is known for his research contributions in artificial intelligence, machine learning, data mining, knowledge representation, neural networks, semantic web, big data analytics, and bioinformatics and computational biology. He has published over 250 research articles, including many highly cited ones,[8][9] as well as several books on these topics.[10] His recent work has focused on scalable algorithms for constructing predictive models from large, semantically disparate distributed data, learning predictive models from linked open data, big data analytics, analysis and prediction of protein-protein, protein-RNA, and protein-DNA interfaces and interactions, social network analytics, health informatics, secrecy-preserving query answering, representing and reasoning about preferences, and causal inference and meta analysis.

Honavar is a highly sought after mentor of Ph.D. students. He has directly supervised the dissertation research of 32 Ph.D. students,[11] all of whom have gone onto pursue successful research careers in academia, industry, or government.

During 1990–2013, Honavar was a professor of computer science at Iowa State University where he led the Artificial Intelligence Research Laboratory which he founded in 1990. From 2006 to 2013, he served as the director of the Iowa State University Center for Computational Intelligence, Learning and Discovery which he founded in 2006. He was instrumental in establishing the Iowa State University interdepartmental graduate program in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (and served as its Chair during 2003–2005).

During 2010–2013, Honavar served as a Program Director in the Information Integration and Informatics program in the Information and Intelligent Systems Division of the Computer and Information Science and Engineering Directorate of the US National Science Foundation where he led the Big Data Program[12] and contributed to several core and cross-cutting programs.

He has held visiting professorships at Carnegie Mellon University and at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.

Selected Books and Articles

Books

Articles

Causality

Machine learning and big data analytics

Knowledge representation and semantic web

Software composition

Bioinformatics, computational biology, and health informatics

Computer and information security

Honors

References

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