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Vasudeva Varma

                        Associate Professor

             Head, Search and Information Extraction Lab (SIEL)

             Head, Software Engineering Research Lab (SERL)

 

Areas of Research Interest: Information Retrieval, Extraction and Access, Software Engineering Education and Reuse in Software Architecture

What’s New?

CSEET-2009 will be held in Hyderabad during February 17-19, 2009. The venue is Satyam School of Leadership.

HYSEA’s Cloud Computing Workshop in Google Campus, Hyderabad on 23rd August 2008

I am offering two courses in the Monsoon 2008 semester: Principles of Programming Languages (CS3150) and Topics in Software Architecture (CS6600). This year the focus of CS6600 will be on Cloud Computing.

Research

 

Current Grants:  Ministry of Information Technology and Communication, Government of India (2007-2009), Nokia (2007-2008), AOL (2007-2008), TCS (2008-2011) in Information Retrieval, Extraction and Access (IR, E & A) areas and Satyam (2005-2008, 2008-2009) in Software Engineering area

 

Past Grants: Department of Science & Technology, ADRIN - Department of Space, Department of Social Justice (Government of India Funding agencies) , Nokia Research Center, Intel Higher Education

 

Current major Projects:

· Cross Language Information Access

· Web Search in Indian Languages

· Summarization - Ask Buddha, Wiki Summary

· Personalized Summary Generation on Mobile Phones

· Personalized Search Engine for Mobile Phones

· Named Entity Recognition

· Information Extraction from Financial Domains

· Role Based Enterprise Search

 

For Publications  Click Here and For Presentations Here

Conference Organization

 

Organizing Chair, The First Indian Conference on Software Engineering (ISEC-2008)

Conference Chair, CSEE&T 2009 (Conference on Software Engineering Education and Training.),

Steering Committee Coordinator of Local Organizing Committees of IJCNLP-2008, IJCAI-2007

Organizer, International Workshop Series on Cross Language Information Access CLIA-07 (An IJCAI-07 workshop) and CLIA-08 (An IJCNLP-08 workshop)

Served in the Program Committees of IJCNLP-2008, IIIA-2006, CSEET 2006, CSEET 2007, CSEET 2008 (also Panels Chair,  APSEC06, IICAI-05, IICAI-2007 (Program Co-Chair for Special Session on Natural Language Independent Processing), ArchConf-2005 and 2006 (Satyam Conferences on Software Architecture), SIMPLE-05

Chair, NLP tools contest, ICON-2004

 

Other Service

Member, Working Group on Metadata and Data Standards for e-Governance Applications, Government of India

Steering Committee member of CSEE&T and SIGSE

Member of Selection Committee of HYSEA Annual Awards (Best Innovation and Best Software Product) - 2006 and 2007

Governing Council Member of two Engineering Colleges in AP.

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Teaching

 

Current Semester:

· CS6600 Topics in Software Architecture

· CS3150 Principles of Programming Languages (this link works only within IIIT intranet)

 

Previous Semesters:

· CS3600 Software Engineering (Spring Semesters of 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007)

· CS6600 Topics in Software Engineering (Spring 2006, Monsoon 2007)

· CS4731 Information Retrieval and Information Extraction (Monsoon semesters of 2005, 2006, 2007)

· CS4725 Introduction to Natural Language Processing (With Prof. Rajeev Sangal Monsoon semesters of 2004, 2006)

· CS5728 Applications in NLP (With Prof. Rajeev Sangal Spring semesters of 2003, 2004)

· CS4740 Content and Knowledge Management (Monsoon Semesters of 2002, 2003)

· CS3150 Principles of Programming Languages (Monsoon 2007)

· CS1000 Introduction to Programming (Monsoon 2004 and Tutor in 2005)

· CS4650 : Software Quality Management in Practice (Monsoon 2002)

Students

 

Current Research Students: Ph.D.

Prasad Pingali - Indian Language Search

Kula Kukeba - Cross Language Information Access

Kirti Garg  - Software Engineering Education

Bhudeb Chakravarti - Reuse in Software, SOA

Current Research Students: MS by Research

Rahul K (Summarization)

Sowmya VB (Indian language input methods)

Chandan Kumar (Personalized Summarization)

Santosh Raju (IE from Semi structured documents)

Sethuraman (Summarization)

Nihar Sharma (Enterprise Search)

Jaideep Dhok (Distributed Computing for IR)

Padmini Priyadarshini (Clustering)

Amit Sangroya (SOA Evaluation)

Senior Dual Degree Students (MS by Research  - Integrated)

Sai Krishna, Srinivasa Rao, Nithin Kumar M, Kiran Sarvabatla

G.R.J. Srinivas, V Surya Ganesh, Y Sriharsha

K. Pavan Kumar

 

Past Research Students:

Jagadeesh Jagarlamudi (Now with Microsoft Research),

Rohini U (now with AOL)

Administrative and Contact Details:

Personal Assistant: Mahender Kumar: Mahender@iiit.ac.in

Office: Research Block A, IIIT Campus, Gachibowli, Hyderabad  500 032, INDIA.

Phone +91 40 2300 1969 ext 179; Fax: +91 40 2300 1413

Last Modified: August 18, 2008