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Dr.Viswanath Avasarala
Information Scientist
e-mail: avasaral@research.ge.com
Tel: (518)387-6800
Dial*comm.: *833-6800 |
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Academic Background |
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- B.Tech in Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute
of Technology Madras, 2001
- Ph.D. in Information Sciences and Technology,
Pennsylvania State University, 2006.
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Research Interests |
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- Data Mining
- Market-oriented Programming
- Data Fusion
- Soft Computing
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Experiences |
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GE Global Research — Niskayuna, NY
Research Scientist (Oct 2006-present) |
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| Award and Honors |
- Team award for standout innovation for most
focused IT innovation within Lockheed Martin
in 2006
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| Selected Publications |
- Data Fusion
- Tracy Mullen, Viswanath
Avasarala and David Hall. Customer driven
Sensor Management, IEEE Intelligent
Systems, Special Issue on Self-Management
through Self-Organization in Information
Systems, 2006.
- Viswanath Avasarala, Tracy Mullen and
David Hall. A Comprehensive Sensor Management
Approach based on Market-oriented Programming,
Submitted to IEEE SMC part C , 2006.
- Viswanath Avasarala, Tracy Mullen, David
Hall and Amulya Garga. MASM: A market
architecture for sensor management in distributed
networks. Proceedings of the SPIE Defense
and Security Symposium, held at Orlando,
Florida USA, 12-16 April 2005.
- Viswanath.Avasarala, Tracy Mullen and
David Hall. Bringing the Market to Level-4
Fusion: Investigation of Auction Methods
for Sensor Resource Allocation. Proceedings
of the MSS National Symposium on Sensor
Data Fusion (NSSDF), Monterey, CA USA, 16-20
May, 2005.
- Viswanath Avasarala and Shankar Narasimhan.
Multi-objective Sensor Network Design
using Genetic Algorithms. Proceedings
of the 4th IFAC Workshop on On-Line Fault
Detection & Supervision in the Chemical
Process Industries, June 8-9, Seoul, Korea,
2001.
- Viswanath Avasarala, Himanshu Polavarapu,
Tracy Mullen, "An Approximate Algorithm
for Resource Allocation Using Combinatorial
Auctions," Intelligent Agent Technology,
2006. IAT '06. IEEE/WIC/ACM International
Conference on , vol., no.pp.571-578,
Dec. 2006
- Viswanath Avasarala, Goebel Kai, Jose
Celaya and Neil Eklund. Sensor Validation
in Non-Destructive Evaluation using Kernel-Split-Find
and Clustering. Proceedings of the
SPIE Smart Structures/NDE conference, San
Diego, California, USA, March 6-10, 2005.
- Goebel Kai, Jose Celaya and Viswanath
Avasarala. Defect Classification of
highly noisy NDE Sensor data using a linear-discriminant
classifier. SPIE Smart Structures/NDE
conference, San Diego, California, USA,
March 6-10, 2005.
- E-Commerce
- Viswanath Avasarala and Tracy Mullen.
A mental model approach to understanding
how reputation systems work. Reputation
Systems symposium, MIT, Harvard, April 21-23,
2003
- Supply Chain
- Viswanath Avasarala, Shuang Sun, Tracy
Mullen and John Yen. Team- based agents
for supply chain management. To be
submitted to Academy of Management Review.
- Shuang Sun, Viswanath Avasarala, Tracy
Mullen, and John Yen. PSUTAC: A Trading
Agent designed from Heuristics to Knowledge.
Workshop on Trading Agent Design and Analysis
(Co-located with the Trading Agent Competition)
at AAMAS'04, July 19-23, 2004, New York
City, NY.
- Tracy Mullen, Shuang Sun, Moti Levi, John
Bagby, Viswanath Avasarala, and John Yen.
Implications of Agent-based Supply Chain
Games. IEEE SMC 2004, International
Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics.
October 10-13, 2004, The Hague, The Netherlands
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| Projects |
- Non Destructive Evaluation Algorithms
Worked on sensor validation, feature extraction
and classification algorithms for defect classification
in remote solid structures.
- Level Four Data Fusion
Developed MASM(Market Architecture for Sensor
Management) architecture for using market algorithms
in sensor management.
- Winner Determination in Combinatorial
Auctions
Designed and implemented a specialized approximate
winner determination algorithm, Seeded Genetic
Algorithm (SGA), for CAs.
- E-Bayer
Developed a software agent to help users analyze
trust issues on the online auction website E-
Bay.
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