Vasant Honavar

Computer Scientist

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Who is Vasant Honavar?

Vasant G. Honavar is an Indian born American computer scientist, researcher, and professor and Edward Frymoyer Chair in the Penn State College of Information Sciences and Technology at Pennsylvania State University.

He received his Ph.D. in 1990 from the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where he worked with Leonard Uhr. He is known for his research contributions in artificial intelligence, machine learning, data mining, knowledge representation, neural networks, semantic web, big data analytics, and bioinformatics and computational biology. He has published over 200 research articles as well as edited several books on these topics. His recent work has focused on scalable algorithms for constructing predictive models from large, semantically disparate distributed data, learning predictive models from linked open data, big data analytics, analysis and prediction of protein-protein, protein-RNA, and protein-DNA interfaces and interactions, social network analytics, secrecy-preserving query answering, representing and reasoning about preferences, and causal inference and meta analysis.

During 1990-2013, Honavar was professor of computer science and headed the Iowa State University Artificial Intelligence Research Laboratory. In 2006 he became director of the Iowa State University Center for Computational Intelligence, Learning and Discovery. He was also on the faculty of the interdepartmental graduate programs in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, and Human-Computer Interaction.

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Nationality
  • India
  • United States of America
Profession
Education
  • University of Wisconsin-Madison
Employment
  • Iowa State University

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on July 23, 2013

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