Sunil Movva
Phone: (865) 574-3229
Fax: (865) 241-6261
Email: movvas@ornl.gov
Education
Candidate for Ph.D.: Computer Science. U. of Alabama in Huntsville
MS, Computer Science, University of Alabama - Huntsville (2001)
BE, Computer Science and Engineering, University of Madras, Chennai, India (1999).
Professional Experience:
Computational Sciences & Engineering Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Research Scientist — Nov 2010 – Present
Information Technology and Systems Center, University of Alabama in Huntsville
Research Scientist — Apr 2009 – Oct 2010
Research Associate — Jan 2002 – Apr 2009
Student Researcher — Aug 2001 – Dec 2001
Graduate Research Assistant — Aug 2000 – Aug 2001
Advanced Technology Center, Skytel Communications, (MCI-WorldCom)
Intern Apr 2000 – Aug 2000
Research Focus:
Current research specializes in Semantic Knowledge Integration Frameworks and their applications to Earth Sciences. I am the primary designer for semantics search tool – Noesis. I am a major contributor in the research and development of Earth Science Markup Language, an XML based data interchange standard used by NASA. My research also spans multi-agent systems and datamining tools for computational grids and cluster environments.
Technical Skills:
- Design and develop frameworks for Semantic metadata integration.
- Design and develop Semantic enabled Search Engines.
- Design and develop collaborative frameworks for distributed environments.
- Design and develop distributed architectures involving web-services and grid-services.
- Develop data-mining tools for computational grid and cluster environments.
- Design and develop metadata representation models for Science data systems.
- Design and develop multi-agent distributed applications for wireless sensor networks.
- Expert in inference engines ( Pellet, RACER and Jena) and query languages (Hands on experience with triple-stores (ARC, Oracle and RDFStore)
Program committees and Review Panels:
- Reviewer: The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2008 International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium.
- Program Committee Member: The Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), Semantic Scientific Knowledge Integration.
- Reviewer: The Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) conference on data-mining, Eight Workshop on Mining Science and Engineering Datasets (MDS’05).
Publications:
Refereed:
Ramachandran, R., S. Movva, M. Maskey, A. Kulkarni, H. Conover and U.S. Nair, 2012: Talkoot: software tool to create collaboratories for earth science. Earth Science Informatics, 5(1), 33–41.
Ramachandran, R., S. Movva, U. S. Nair, C. Lynnes, and P. Fox, 2010: Mining as a Service. IEEE International Geoscience & Remote Sensing Symposium, Honolulu, HI.
Lazarus, S. M., M. E. Splitt, R. Ramachandran, X. Li, S. Movva, and S. Graves, 2010: Evaluation of Data Reduction Algorithms for Real-time assimilation and analysis. Weather Analysis and Forecasting, 25, 837-851.
Ramachandran, R., S. Movva, H. Conover, and C. Lynnes, 2009: Talkoot Software Appliance for Collaborative Science. IEEE International Geoscience & Remote Sensing Symposium, Cape Town, South Africa.
Movva, S., R. Ramachandran, S. Graves, and H. Conover, 2008: Customizable Search Engine with Semantic and Resource Aggregation Capability. 10th IEEE Conference on E-Commerce Technology (CEC' 08).
Zavodsky, B., S. Lazarus, R, Ramachandran, X. Li, S. Movva, S. Graves, M. Splitt, M. Lueken, and W. Lapenta, 2008: Intelligent Data Thinning Algorithms for Satellite Imagery. IEEE International Geoscience & Remote Sensing Symposium, Boston, Massachusetts.
Li, X., R. Ramachandran, S. Graves, and S. Movva, [Submitted in 2008]: A Hybrid Object-/Pixel-based Classification Approach for Shape-oriented Atmospheric Phenomena Detection. Computers & Geosciences.
Movva, S., R. Ramachandran, X. Li, P. Cherukuri, S. Graves, 2007: Noesis: A Semantic Search Engine and Resource Aggregator for Atmospheric Science. NASA Science Technology Conference, College Park, MD.
Ramachandran, R., X. Li, S. Movva, S. Graves, U. S. Nair, and C. Lynnes, 2007: Investigating Data Mining Techniques to Detect Dust Storms in MODIS Imagery. 32nd International Symposium on Remote Sensing of Environment, San Jose, Costa Rica.
Ramachandran, R., X. Li, S. Movva, S. Graves, B. Zavodsky, S. Lazarus, M. Splitt, and M. Lueken, 2007: An Improved Data Reduction Tool in Support of the Real-Time Assimilation of NASA Satellite Data Streams. NASA Science Technology Conference, College Park, MD.
Ramachandran, R., X. Li, S. Movva, and S. Graves, 2006: A Simple and Efficient Feature Extraction Algorithm for Geophysical Phenomena. IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium and 27th Canadian Symposium Remote Sensing, Denver, Colorado.
Movva, S., R. Ramachandran, X. Li, S. Khaire, K. Keiser, H. Conover, and S. Graves, 2005: Syntactic and Semantic Metadata Integration for Science Data Use. Computers & Geosciences, 31, 1079-1200.
Ramachandran, R., S. A. Christopher, S. Movva, X. Li, H. T. Conover, K. R. Keiser, S. J. Graves, and R. T. McNider, 2005: Earth Science Markup Language: A Solution to Address Data Format Heterogeneity Problems in Atmospheric Sciences. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society.
Li, X., R. Ramachandran, S. Graves, S. Movva, B. Akkiraju, D. Emmitt, S. Greco, R. Atlas, J. Terry, and J. C. Jusem, 2005: Automated detection of frontal systems from numerical model-generated data. The Eleventh ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD-05), Chicago, IL, USA.
Movva, S., R. Ramachandran, X. Li, S. Khaire, K. Keiser, H. Conover, and S. Graves, 2004: MIDAS: An Agent Based Data Transcoding Services Framework. Earth Science Technology Conference, Palo Alto, California.
Ramachandran, R., S. Graves, S. Movva, and X. Li, 2004: Agent Framework for Intelligent Data Processing. IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, Anchorage, Alaska, IEEE.
Li, X., R. Ramachandran, M. He, S. Movva, J. Rushing, and S. Graves, 2004: Comparing Different Thresholding Algorithms for Segmenting Auroras. Space Science Computation and IT Applications, International Conference on Information Technology, Las Vegas, NV.
Ramachandran, R., X. Li, S. Movva, J. Rushing, S. Tanner, S. Graves, B. Jewett, and R. Wilhelmson, 2004: Mining Ensemble Model Data. Seventh Workshop on Mining Scientific and Engineering Datasets, SIAM International Conference on Data Mining, Lake Buena Vista, Florida.
Li, X., R. Ramachandran, S. Movva, S. Graves, G. Germany, W. Lyatsky, and A. Tan, 2004: Dayglow removal from FUV Auroral Images. IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, Anchorage, Alaska, IEEE.
Ramachandran, R., H. Conover, S. Movva, and S. Graves, 2003: Using ESML in a Semantic Web Approach for Improved Earth Science Data Usability. International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2003), Sanibel, FL.
Ramachandran, R., M. Alshayeb, B. Beaumont, H. Conover, S. J. Graves, X. Li, S. Movva, A. McDowell, and M. Smith, 2001: Earth Science Markup Language: A Solution for Generic Access to Heterogeneous Data Sets. NASA's Earth Science Technology Conference, College Park, MD.
Ramachandran, R., H. Conover, S. J. Graves, K. Keiser, S. Movva, and S. Tanner, 2001: Flexible Earth Science Data Mining Architecture. Fourth Workshop on Mining Scientific Datasets, Seventh ACM SigKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, San Francisco, CA.
Extended Abstracts and Non-Refereed Articles:
Li, X., R. Ramachandran, S. Movva, S. Graves, B. Plale, and N. Vijayakumar, 2008: Storm Clustering for Data-driven Weather Forecasting. 88th AMS Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA.
Splitt, M., S. Lazarus, M. Lueken, R. Ramachandran, X. Li, S. Movva, S. Graves, B. Zavodsky, and W. Lapenta, 2008: An Improved Data Reduction Tool in Support of the Real-Time Assimilation of NASA Satellite Data Streams. 88th AMS Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA.
Movva, S., R. Ramachandran, X. Li, P. Cherukuri, and S. Graves, 2007: Customizing a Semantic Search Engine and Resource Aggregator for different Science Domains. Geoinformatics, San Diego, CA.
Graves, S., H. Conover, S. Movva, R. Ramachandran, P. Fox, and D. L. McGuinness, 2007: Prototyping a knowledge integration framework to solve science problems. Fall American Geophysical Union Meeting, San Francisco, CA.
Ramachandran, R., X. Li, S. Movva, S. Graves, B. Zavodsky, S. Lazarus, M. Splitt, and M. Lueken, 2007: An Improved Data Reduction Tool in Support of the Real-Time Assimilation of NASA Satellite Data Streams. 87th AMS Annual Meeting, San Antonio, TX.
Ramachandran, R., S. Movva, X. Li, P. Anantharam, and S. Graves, 2007: WxGuru: An ontology driven chatbot prototype for Atmospheric Science Outreach and Education. Geoinformatics, San Diego, CA.
Ramachandran, R., S. Movva, D. Hardin, 2007: The Application of Ontological Methods toward Coastal Restoration. Fall American Geophysical Union Meeting, San Francisco, CA.
Ramachandran, R., S. Movva, S. Graves, and S. Tanner, 2006: Ontology-based Semantic Search Tool for Atmospheric Science. 22nd International Conference on Interactive Information Processing Systems (IIPS), 86th American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting, Atlanta, Georgia.
Ramachandran, R., S. Movva, P. Cherukuri, and S. Graves, 2006: Noesis: An Ontology-based Semantic Search Tool and Resource Aggregator. Geoinformatics 2006, Reston, Virginia.
Ramachandran, R., S. Movva, X. Li, P. Cherukuri, and S. Graves, 2006: Noesis: Ontology based Scoped Search Engine and Resource Aggregator for Atmospheric Science. AGU Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA.
Ramachandran, R., X. Li, S. Movva, S. Graves, S. Greco, D. Emmitt, J. Terry, and R. Atlas, 2005: Intelligent Data Thinning Algorithm for Earth System Numerical Model Research and Application. 21st International Conference on Interactive Information Processing Systems (IIPS) for Meteorology, Oceanography, and Hydrology, 85th AMS Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA.
Ramachandran, R., H. Conover, K. Keiser, S. Movva, and S. Graves, 2004: A Syntactic and Semantic Metadata Solution for Intelligent Applications in Earth Science. American Geophysical Union 2004 Fall Meeting, San Fransisco.
Ramachandran, R., S. Movva, and S. Graves, 2003: Coupling Ontology with Earth Science Markup Language for Scientific Dataset Description. Geological Society of America Meeting, Seattle, WA.
Ramachandran, R., E. Criswell, S. Movva, J. Rushing, and S. Graves, 2003: Coupling Data Mining with Cellular Automata to Model Dynamic Phenomena. Huntsville Simulation Conference, Huntsville, AL.
Ramachandran, R., M. Alshayeb, B. Beaumont, H. Conover, S. J. Graves, N. Hanish, X. Li, S. Movva, A. McDowell, and M. Smith, 2001: Earth Science Markup Language. 17th Conference on Interactive Information and Processing Systems for Meteorology, Oceanography, and Hydrology, 81st American Meteorological Society (AMS) Annual Meeting, Albuquerque, NM.
