Vijay V Raghavan
Dr. Vijay Raghavan is a Professor Emeritus in Computer Science at the Center for Advanced Computer Studies. His research interests are in information retrieval and extraction, data and web mining, multimedia retrieval, data integration, and literature-based discovery. He has published around 300 peer-reviewed research papers (Publications at ResearchGate). These and other research contributions cumulatively accord him an h-index of 44, based on Google Scholar citations to his publications. He has served as major adviser for 35 doctoral students and has garnered over $15 million in external funding. Dr. Raghavan brings substantial technical expertise, interdisciplinary collaboration experience, and management skills to his projects.
His service work at the university includes coordinating the Louis Stokes-Alliance for Minority Participation (LS-AMP) program since 2001. Raghavan has served as PC Chair, PC Co-chair or PC member in countless ACM and IEEE conferences. He received the ICDM 2005 Outstanding Service Award. Raghavan was an ACM National Lecturer from 1993 to 2006. He was a member of the Advisory Committee of the NSF Computer and Information Science and Engineering directorate, from 2008-2010. He serves on the Executive Committee of the IEEE -TCII and on the Steering committees of WIC Consortium and Int'l Rough Sets society. He received WIC 2013 Outstanding Service Award. He was one of the Editors-in-Chief of Web Intelligence journal and an Associate Editor of ACM Transactions on Internet Technology.
He was the founding director of the Visual and Decision Informatics (CVDI), an NSF-funded Industry University Cooperative Research Center, which completed its phase II (lasting 6 years) operations in March 2023, and is a co-director of the Laboratory for Internet Computing .
Dr. Raghavan is an ACM Distinguished Scientist, an ACM Life Member, a Web Intelligence Academy Founding Fellow and an IEEE Life Senior Member
General Information
Suggested Readings
Suggested Readings in Information Retrieval and Data Mining
- Experiments on the determination of the relationships between terms
- Retrieval System Evaluation Using Recall and Precision: Problems and Answers
- Impact of Decision-Region based classification Mining Algorithms on Database Security
- Extended Boolean query processing in the Generalized Vector Space Model
- Data Mining: Trends in Research and Development
Classes and Relevant Links
Related Links of Interest
Selected Research Projects
Research Projects and Labs
Edited Books
- Big Data Analytics: Handbook of Statistics, Volume 33
- Cognitive Computing: Theory and Applications:Handbook of Statistics, Volume 35
- Book Reviews
- Pawan Lingras: St. Mary's University, Halifax Canada (Big Data Analytics)
- Sugata Sanyal: Tata Consultancy Services (Retired) Mumbai, India (Big Data Analytics)
- Steven Noel: The MITRE Corporation, McLean, VA (Big Data Analytics)
- Pawan Lingras: St. Mary's University, Halifax Canada (Cognitive Computing)
- Weiyi Meng: Binghamton University, Binghamton, NY (Cognitive Computing)
Special Issues Guest Edited
- Int'l J. on Semantic Web and Information Systems - Special Issue on Big Data and Data Analytics Research: Challenging Data and Web Science for Next Generation High Performance Information Systems
- IEEE Computer - Special Issue on Big Data Management
- Neurocomputing- Special Issue on Advances in Web Intelligence
- Journal on Information Fusion- Special Issue on Web Information Fusion
- J. Amer. Society for Information Science & Technology: Special Issue on Data Mining
- Editors' Introduction- IEEE Computer Magazine- Special Issue on Content Based Image Retrieval Systems
Patents Issued
- 'Architecture and Method for Providing Insight in Networks Domain,' University of Louisiana at Lafayette, US11100415B2, Issued Aug 24, 2021
- 'System, method and computer program product for information sorting and retrieval using a language-modeling kernal function,' Araicom Research L.L.C., US9177047, Issued Nov 3, 2015
- 'Method and apparatus for information visualized expression, visualized human computer interactive expression interface thereof,' Senovation L.L.C., US8732621, Issued May 20, 2014
- 'Semantic Relationship Extraction, Text Categorization and Hypothesis Generation,' Araicom Research L.L.C., US8494987, Issued July 23, 2013