Dr. Ranga Raju Vatsavai
Research Scientist
Phone: (865) 576 3569
Fax: (865) 241 6261
Email: vatsavairr@ornl.gov
Expertise
Spatiotemporal data mining
Computational GeoInformatics
Parallel and Distributed Computing
Ph.D., Computer Science, University of Minnesota, 2006.
M.S., Computer and Information Science, University of Minnesota, 2003.
Education
BA, Environmental Studies, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2009
Work Experience:
2006 – Present, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Scientist
2004 – 2006, IBM-Research, IIT-Delhi campus
1999 – 2004, University of Minnesota; Twin-cities, MN
1998, AT&T Labs, Middletown, NJ
1995 – 1998, Center for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC, Pune, India)
1990 – 1995, National Forest Data Management Center
Awards & Recognition:
- Who’s Who in Science and Engineering, 10th Anniversary Ed., 2007.
- Bravo! Best of IBM award, IBM-India Research Lab, 2005.
- Excellent Poster Award and Travel Grant, UCGIS, USA, 2002.
Publications:
Shashi Shekhar, Paul R. Schrater, Ranga R. Vatsavai, Weili Wu, and Sanjay Chawla. “Spatial contextual classification and prediction models for mining geospatial data.” IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, 4(2), June 2002.
Ranga R. Vatsavai, Shashi Shekhar, and Thomas E. Burk. “A Spatial Semi-supervised Learning Method for Classification of Multispectral Remote Sensing Imagery.” KDD/MDM, 2006. (Also accepted for publication in International Journal of Parallel, Emergent and Distributed Systems, 2007).
Ranga Raju Vatsavai, Thomas E. Burk, S. Shekhar, and Mark M. Hansen. “An efficient query strategy for integrated remote sensing and inventory (spatial) databases.” Proceedings of 13th International Conference on Scientific and Statistical Database Management (SSDBM 2001). IEEE Computer Society Press, 2001.
Rohit M. Lotlikar, Ranga R. Vatsavai, Mukesh Mohania, and Sharma Chakravarthy. “Policy Schedule Advisor for Performance Management.” 2nd International Conference on Autonomic Computing (ICAC’05). IEEE CS Press, 2005.
Ranga R. Vatsavai, Sharma Chakravarthi, and Mukesh Mohania. “Access Control Inference and Feedback for Policy Managers: A Fine-Grained Analysis.” 7th IEEE International Workshop on Policies for Distributed Systems and Networks (POLICY’06). IEEE Computer Society Press, 2006.
