V A S U N D H A R A P U T T A G U N T A
C ONTACT I NFORMATION
Dept. of Computer Science & Electrical Engg., Email : v p u t t a 1 @ c s e e . u m b c . e d u
University of Maryland Baltimore County, URL : http://www.csee.umbc.edu/~vputta1
1000 Hilltop Circle, Baltimore, MD 21250.
Work phone
Home phone
: (410) 455 8945
: (410) 242 4132
Google search : http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=vasundhara+puttagunta
R ESEARCH I NTERESTS
Data Mining, Information Retrieval, Databases, Scientific Computing, Bio-informatics, Streaming and
Distributed Algorithms.
E DUCATION
U N I V E R S I T Y O F M A R Y L A N D B A L T I M O R E C O U N T Y
Ph. D. Candidate in Computer Science
Topic: Query Processing and Data Mining over Streaming Data
Thesis Advisor: Prof. Konstantinos Kalpakis
U N I V E R S I T Y O F M A R Y L A N D B A L T I M O R E C O U N T Y
M.S.
in Computer Science
S R I V E N K A T E S W A R A U N I V E R S I T Y
B. Tech in Computer Science & Engineering
Graduated with Highest Honors
Baltimore, MD
May 2002 – Present
Expected: August 2005
Baltimore, MD
January 2002
Tirupathi, INDIA
August 1995 – June 1999
R ELATED C OURSE W ORK
Principles of Databases, Object-Relational Database Systems, Advanced Operating Systems, Design and
Analysis of Algorithms, Automata Theory, Combinatorics and Graph Theory, Introduction to Data
Mining, Neural Network Computing, Applied Bio-informatics, Introduction to Computational
Information Retrieval, Advanced Computer Architecture, undergraduate Operations Research.
C OMPUTER R ELATED S KILLS
Programming &
Scripting Languages
Operating Systems
Application Software
Proficient in C, C++, Java, MATLAB
Good Command of
Linux (Kernel Programming), Microsoft Windows, Solaris
Oracle, Informix, JADE agents
Perl, PL/SQL, Splus
S ELECTED P ROJECTS
[1] A Spatio-temporal Extension to ORACLE.
[2] Interfacing Informix and IDL. (See publication [ 7 ])
[3] Disease Outbreak Detection through Pattern Association.
(Implementation and experimentation using Oracle, C++ and Matlab)
[4] Distributed File System implementation in Java
[5] Semi-automated setting of multi-lingual question papers.
H ONORS
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Recipient of the 2002 Goddard Earth Sciences & Technology (GEST) Graduate Fellowship.
Member of Upsilon Pi Epsilon Honor Society in the Computing Society.
Was awarded First class with Distinction in Undergraduate.

W ORK E XPERIENCE
A G N I K , L L C .
Software Intern
Work: Research and Programming for Distributed Data Mining applications.
U N I V E R S I T Y O F M A R Y L A N D B A L T I M O R E C O U N T Y
Graduate Teaching Assistant
Graduate and Undergraduate courses: Algorithms, Operating
Systems, Automata Theory, Neural Networks, Discrete
Structures and C++ programming.
Graduate Research Assistant
Advisor: Prof. K. Kalpakis
Subject Areas: Data Mining over Streaming Data, Time Series
Databases, Science Applications using Object-Relational
Database Systems
H A R I T H A E C O L O G I C A L I N S T I T U T E
Software Intern
Work: Programming for scientific applications
Instructor : High School Physics (12 th grade)
Topic: Semi-conductors
Baltimore, MD
December 2003 – January 2004
Baltimore, MD
January 2003 – May 2005
August 1999 – December 1999
January 2000 – December 2002
Khammam, INDIA
June 1999 – August 1999
July 1999 – August 1999
P UBLICATIONS
[1] Konstantinos Kalpakis, Vasundhara Puttagunta and Parag Namjoshi,
" Accuracy Vs. Lifetime: Linear Sketches for Approximate Aggregate Range Queries in Sensor
Networks ."
In the Proceedings of the DIALM-POMC Joint Workshop on Foundations of Mobile Computing ,
Philadelphia, PA, USA, October 1, 2004. Extended version invited for review for the Special Issue of Algorithmica.
[2] Hillol Kargupta and Vasundhara Puttagunta
" An Efficient Randomized Algorithm for Distributed Principal Component Analysis from
Heterogeneous Data.
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In the Proceedings of the Workshop on Data Mining in High Performance Data Mining at SIAM
Intl. Conference on Data Mining, April 22 – 24, 2004.
[3] Hillol Kargupta and Vasundhara Puttagunta
" Onboard Vehicle Data Stream Monitoring and Fast Computation of Sparse Correlation Matrices.
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In the Proceedings of the Workshop on Data Mining in Resource Constrained Environments at
SIAM Intl. Conference on Data Mining, April 22 – 24, 2004. Extended journal version in preparation.
[3] Vasundhara Puttagunta and Konstantinos Kalpakis,
" Linear Sketches for Approximate Aggregate Range Queries ."
Technical Report, Univ. of Maryland Baltimore County. TR CS-03-29, Dec 2003. Submitted for review to the Information Systems Journal.
[4] Vasundhara Puttagunta and Konstantinos Kalpakis,
" Adaptive Multi-dimensional Histogram Computation over Streams.
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[5] Vasundhara Puttagunta and Konstantinos Kalpakis,
" Adaptive Methods for Activity Monitoring of Streaming Data ."
In the Proceedings of the 2002 International Conferences on Machine Learning and Applications
(ICMLA'02), Las Vegas, Nevada, June 24 - 27, 2002. pp. 197-203.
[6] Konstantinos Kalpakis, Dhiral Gada, and Vasundhara Puttagunta,
" Distance Measures for Effective Clustering of ARIMA Time-Series ."
In the Proceedings of the 2001 IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM'01), San
Jose, CA, November 29-December 2, 2001, pp. 273-280.
[7] K. Kalpakis, M. Riggs, M. Pasad, V. Puttagunta, and J. Behnke,
" A System for Fast Low-Cost Access to Very Large Catalogs ."
In the Proceedings of the 10th Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems Conference
(ADASS'00), November 12--15, 2000. September 2000.
T ALKS , L ECTURES & O THER P UBLICATIONS
 Graduate Seminar in the Dept. of CSEE, UMBC. "Accuracy Vs. Lifetime: Linear Sketches for Query
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Processing in Sensor Networks". October 2004.
Gave lectures in undergraduate courses such as Databases, Operating Systems, Automata Theory, and Discrete Structures at UMBC (Dept. of CSEE).
Tutorial on "Time-Series Data mining" given at the 3 rd Semi-Annual UMBC CSEE Student Research
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Conference, Baltimore, December 11, 2002.
"Eminent Persons and Experiments in Education". Translation from Telugu. Published by
Harithapuri prachuranalu , Andhra Pradesh, India.
A CTIVITIES
 Graduate student Program Committee Member of the 2005 International Conference on Data Mining
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(DMIN'05: June 20-23, 2005, Las Vegas, USA).
Co-Founder of SCALE for Alternate Learning Experience at UMBC. Focus topic for Summer and
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Fall 2003: Randomized Algorithms.
External Reviewer for 11 th International Conference on Information & Knowledge Management
(CIKM) 2002.
Program Committee Member, the 3 rd Semi-Annual UMBC CSEE Student Research Conference,
Baltimore, December 11, 2002.
Student Volunteer at 2 nd SIAM Intl. Conf. on Data Mining, Arlington, VA. April 2002.
Member of IEEE Computer Society, and ACM.
Member of IEEE Women in Engineering.
C URRENT V ISA S TATUS
F-1 (Student)
R EFERENCES
Dr. Konstantinos Kalpakis
Associate Professor,
Dept. of Computer Science and Electrical Engg.,
University of Maryland Baltimore County,
1000 Hilltop Circle, Baltimore, MD 21250.
Email: kalpakis@csee.umbc.edu
Phone: (410) 455-3143
Fax : (410) 455-3969
Dr. Hillol Kargupta
Associate Professor,
Dept. of Computer Science and Electrical Engg.,
University of Maryland Baltimore County,
1000 Hilltop Circle, Baltimore, MD 21250.
Email: hillol@csee.umbc.edu
Phone: (410) 455-3972
Fax : (410) 455-3969