Pramod Anantharam

I am a PhD student at the Kno.e.sis center, Wright State University, Dayton, OH. I work in the area of semantic web under the guidance of Dr. Amit P. Sheth, who is the founder and director of Kno.e.sis center. Currently I am working in the Semantic Sensor Web project under the guidance of my co-advisor Dr. T. K Prasad. My particular interests include knowledge representation, knowledge extraction and discovery from heterogeneous sensory observations, exploiting complementary nature of social and sensor observations for reasoning under uncertainty in physical-cyber-social systems, and surprise modeling.

Contact Information: email: pramod at knoesis dot org, pramod dot atre at gmail dot com Mailing Address: Pramod Anantharam Ohio Center of Excellence in Knowledge-Enabled Computing(Kno.e.sis) Wright State University 3640 Colonel Glenn Hwy. Dayton, Ohio 45435-0001 CV

Short Bio I was born and brought up in Bangalore, which is called the Garden City, in India. I received my B.S degree from B.M.S College of Engineering, Bangalore. I worked in Hewlett-Packard, Bangalore, as a software engineer for two and a half years before I started my graduate studies at the Kno.e.sis center, Wright State University.

Specific Research Interest

Sensory streams in real world may include machine sensor and citizen sensor streams. Building graphical models from these streams to deal with uncertainty in a domain (e.g. sustainability, healthcare, system health monitoring) is my research focus. Particularly, I specialize in using background knowledge (e.g. ConceptNet5, Linked Open Data) for supporting such graphical models.

General Research Interests

The idea of infusing intelligence into objects around us fascinates me. Given these objects may have sensors and are connected to the web has profound implications on it's ability to integrate and process observations. It all started with my enthusiasm in building robots during my undergrad days where I played with sensors, actuators, and computational components.
I'm interested in exploring how humans combine background knowledge with sensory observations to act intelligently. Understanding interaction between high-level conceptual knowledge and low-level sensory knowledge will help us develop systems that are intelligent and adaptive.

Research Activities

PC member IJCAI 2013
External reviewer AAAI AIW 2013
External reviewer WWW2013
External reviewer HTS2013
External reviewer WWW2012
External reviewer EKAW2012
External reviewer ER2012

k-Health

kHealth is a knowledge-enabled semantic platform to enhance decision making and improve health, fitness, and well-being. It supports contextual (e.g., condition specific) annotation, integration, and interpretation of sensor and mobile data from individuals using deep domain (e.g., disease) specific knowledge base.

Semantic Sensor Web

This project uses Semantic Web representation and reasoning for processing observations from millions of sensors monitoring physical, physiological, and social observations.

Trust in Interpersonal, Social, and Sensor Networks

Trustworthiness is crucial in interpersonal, E-commerce, social, and sensor networks. In this project, we research on semantics of trust representation and inference.

Twitris

Twitris is a semantic social web application which performs event specific processing of twitter data using Semantic Web technologies

Conference and Workshop Papers

2013

• Pramod Anantharam, Biplav Srivastava, Amit Sheth, 'Utility-driven Evolution Recommender for a Constrained Ontology', International Conference on Web Intelligence, Mining and Semantics (WIMS-13), Madrid, Spain, June 12-14, 2013.
• Pramod Anantharam, Krishnaprasad Thirunarayan, and Amit Sheth, 'Traffic Analytics using Probabilistic Graphical Models Enhanced with Knowledge Bases,' 2nd International Workshop on Analytics for Cyber-Physical Systems (ACS-2013) at SIAM International Conference on Data Mining (SDM13), Texas, USA, May 2-4, 2013.
• Amit Sheth, Pramod Anantharam, and Cory Henson, 'Physical-Cyber-Social Computing: An Early 21st Century Approach,' IEEE Intelligent Systems, pp. 79-82, Jan./Feb. 2013.

2012

• Pramod Anantharam, Krishnaprasad Thirunarayan, and Amit Sheth, 'Topical Anomaly Detection from Twitter Stream', Research Note: In the Proceedings of ACM Web Science 2012, Evanston, Illinois, pp. 23-26, June 22-24, 2012.
• Pramod Anantharam, Alan Smith, Josh Pschorr, Krishnaprasad Thirunarayan, and Amit Sheth 'Demonstration: Dynamic Sensor Registration and Semantic Processing for ad-hoc MOBile Environments (SemMOB)', In: Proceedings of 5th International Workshop on Semantic Sensor Networks 2012 (SSN 2012), co-located with the 11th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2012), Boston, USA, 2012.

2011

• Pratikkumar Desai, Cory Henson, Pramod Anatharam, Amit Sheth, 'SECURE: Semantics Empowered resCUe Environment', In: Proceedings of 4th International Workshop on Semantic Sensor Networks 2011 (SSN 2011), co-located with the 10th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2011), Bonn, Germany, pp. 110-113, 2011.
• Krishnaprasad Thirunarayan and Pramod Anantharam, 'Trust Networks: Interpersonal, Sensor, and Social,' In: Proceedings of 2011 International Conference on Collaborative Technologies and Systems (CTS 2011), pp. 13-21, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, May 23-27, 2011 (invited paper).

2010

• Pramod Anantharam, Cory A. Henson, Krishnaprasad Thirunarayan, and Amit P. Sheth, 'Trust Model for Semantic Sensor and Social Networks: A Preliminary Report', In: Proceedings of 2010 National Aerospace & Electronics ConferenceDayton, OH, USA, July 14-16, 2010.
• Krishnaprasad Thirunarayan, Pramod Anantharam, Cory A. Henson, Amit P. Sheth, 'Some Trust Issues in Social Networks and Sensor Networks,', In: Proceedings of 2010 International Symposium on Collaborative Technologies and Systems (CTS 2010), Chicago, IL, May 17-21, 2010.

2009

• Satya S. Sahoo, D. Brent Weatherly, Raghava Mutharaju, Pramod Anantharam,Amit P. Sheth, Rick L. Tarleton 'Ontology-driven Provenance Management in eScience: An Application in Parasite Research', OnTheMove Federated Conferences & Workshops (OTM 2009) - ODBASE& #39;09, Vilamoura, Algarve-Portugal, Nov 03 - 04 - 05, 2009.

Tutorial

2011

• Krishnaprasad Thirunarayan, Pramod Anantharam 'Trust Networks: Interpersonal, Sensor, and Social', Tutorial Presentation at International Conference on Collaborative Technologies and Systems (CTS 2011), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.

Posters and Demos

2010

• Ashutosh Jadhav,Hemant Purohit, Pavan Kapanipathi, Pramod Ananthram, Ajith Ranabahu, Vinh Nguyen, Pablo Mendes, Alan Gary Smith, Michael Cooney, and Amit P. Sheth 'Twitris 2.0 : Semantically Empowered System for Understanding Perceptions From Social Data' Demo submitted to, 9th International Semantic Web Conference, ISWC 2010, Shanghai, China, November 7-11, 2010.

2009

• Ashutosh Jadhav, Wenbo Wang, Raghava Mutharaju, Pramod Anantharam, Vinh Nyugen, Amit P. Sheth, Karthik Gomadam, Meenakshi Nagarajan, and Ajith Ranabahu 'Twitris: Socially Influenced Browsing' Semantic Web Challenge 2009, 8th International Semantic Web Conference, Oct. 25-29 2009, Washinton, DC, USA.
• Pramod Anantharam, Satya S. Sahoo, D. Brent Weatherly, Flora Logan, Raghava Mutharaju, Amit P. Sheth, and Rick Tarleton. 'Trykipedia: Collaborative Bio- Ontology Development using Wiki Environment' Ohio Collaborative Conference on BioInformatics (OCCBIO 2009), June 14-17, 2009.
• Raghava Mutharaju, Satya S. Sahoo, D. Brent Weatherly, Pramod Anantharam, Flora Logan, Amit P. Sheth, and Rick Tarleton. 'Ontology Driven Integration of Biology Experiment Data', Ohio Collaborative Conference on BioInformatics (OCCBIO 2009), June 14-17, 2009.

Research Prototypes

• k-Health: sensors for monitoring physiological parameters
  An android application to aid patients discharged from hospitals in reducing their readmissions by constant monitoring of their vitals and deriving actionable abstractions.
• SECURE:Semantics Empowered resCUe enviRonmEnt
  Demonstrates a mobile platform equiped with sensors such as CO2, IR, temperature, etc., using Semantic Web backend in processing streaming sensor observations. Semantic Web backend empowers representation of background knowledge of the domain (e.g. in this case, types of fires) used to interpret incoming sensor observation streams.
• Trusted Perception Cycle
  Visualization of trustworthiness computed over time for around eight hundred weather stations during a blizzard in Utah.
• Twitris
  A social semantic web application that performs spatio-temporal-thematic analysis of citizen sensor observations.

Building Robots (during my undergrad days)

• An attempt to build an automous robot using discarded stepper motor from 5 1/2 in flopy drive, DC motors from another toy, and some PVC base used as chasis. Only investment is for the microcontroller LC5738 and the batteries.



• Sumo robot built from salvaged motors to participate in a competition at IIT madras, Shastra 2005.



• At IIT Madras with Sumo robot.