Sanguthevar Rajasekaran
Sanguthevar Rajasekaran is an internationally well renowned scientist and inventor. His expertise spans varied areas including high performance computing, big data analytics, optimization, and algorithms. He has worked with several companies including Boehringer-Ingelheim, Comcast, Sonalysts, Northeast Utilities, and Owlstone and successfully completed projects for them. During 2000-2002 he was the Chief Scientist for Arcot Systems (which has now become a part of CA Technologies).
He has nine US patents and published more than 350 research articles in high impact journals and conferences in the general areas of algorithms, big data analytics, bio and medical informatics, and parallel computing. Many currently best-known algorithms for such fundamental problems as sorting, selection, motif search, parallel hierarchical clustering, k-mer counting, parsing, and data compression have been co-invented by him.
He has received his M.E. degree in Automation from the Indian Institute of Science (Bangalore) in 1983, and his Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from Harvard University in 1988. Currently he is the UTC Chair Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Connecticut and the Director of Booth Engineering Center for Advanced Technologies (BECAT). Before joining UConn, he has served as a faculty member in the CISE Department of the University of Florida and in the CIS Department of the University of Pennsylvania.
He has been awarded numerous research grants from such agencies as NSF, NIH, DARPA, and DHS (totaling $8M as PI and an additional $9.4M as co-PI). He is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). He is also an elected member of the Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering (CASE).
Sanguthevar Rajasekaran is an internationally well renowned scientist and inventor. His expertise spans varied areas including high performance computing, big data analytics, optimization, and algorithms. He has worked with several companies including Boehringer-Ingelheim, Comcast, Sonalysts, Northeast Utilities, and Owlstone and successfully completed projects for them. During 2000-2002 he was the Chief Scientist for Arcot Systems (which has now become a part of CA Technologies).
He has nine US patents and published more than 350 research articles in high impact journals and conferences in the general areas of algorithms, big data analytics, bio and medical informatics, and parallel computing. Many currently best-known algorithms for such fundamental problems as sorting, selection, motif search, parallel hierarchical clustering, k-mer counting, parsing, and data compression have been co-invented by him.
He has received his M.E. degree in Automation from the Indian Institute of Science (Bangalore) in 1983, and his Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from Harvard University in 1988. Currently he is the UTC Chair Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Connecticut and the Director of Booth Engineering Center for Advanced Technologies (BECAT). Before joining UConn, he has served as a faculty member in the CISE Department of the University of Florida and in the CIS Department of the University of Pennsylvania.
He has been awarded numerous research grants from such agencies as NSF, NIH, DARPA, and DHS (totaling $8M as PI and an additional $9.4M as co-PI). He is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). He is also an elected member of the Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering (CASE).