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
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.
"
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.
"
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.
"
[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
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
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
(DMIN'05: June 20-23, 2005, Las Vegas, USA).
Co-Founder of SCALE for Alternate Learning Experience at UMBC. Focus topic for Summer and
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