Prasenjit Mitra

2367 Sagamore Drive

State College, PA16803

814-865-4454(Off.), 861-2459 (Res.), 814-441-2327(Mob.)

Education

Aug, 2004

StanfordUniversity, Stanford, CA

Doctor of Philosophy, Electrical Engineering, GPA 3.95/4.00

Dec, 1994

May, 1993

The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX
Master of Science, Computer Science, GPA 4.00/4.00

Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India

Bachelor of Technology (Honors), Computer Science and Engineering

Work Experience

2008-Present

Assistant Professor, College of Information Sciences and Technology,

Department of Computer Science and Engineering,

Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering,

The PennsylvaniaStateUniversity, University Park, PA

Leading scientific research teams to investigate cutting-edge issues in database systems, data mining and business intelligence, web information systems, information retrieval and search engines, semantic web, and computer networks

2008-Present

Chief Scientist, Global IDs, New York, NY

Consulting on the research and development of the company’s data integration products and intellectual property and its protection. Providing a vision for future directions.

2002

Senior Software Engineer, DBWizards, Menlo Park, CA

Consulted on the research and development of schema matching and ontology matching algorithms and the use of Resource Description Framework to represent semantic information.

2001-2002

Senior Software Engineer, Narus, Incorporated, Palo Alto, CA

Designed and implemented a join algorithm for generating reports from a database of streaming network data.

1999-2003

Research Assistant, Department of Computer Science, StanfordUniversity, Stanford, CA

Conducted research on data warehouses, data integration and interoperation, and semantic technologies.

1997-2000

Senior Member of Technical Staff, Oracle Corporation, Redwood Shores, CA

Designed and implemented the object cache, inheritance and schema evolution in Oracle 8i.

1995 – 97

Member of Technical Staff, Oracle Corporation, Redwood Shores, CA

Designed and implemented the connection load balancer and the Oracle Trace Logging utility for the Oracle Parallel Server.

1994

Research Assistant, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX

Developed efficient linear algebra algorithms for use in parallel numerical computation.

1993-94

Teaching Assistant, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX

Assisted in teaching courses: Spring,1994 CS 352: Computer System Architecture. Fall,1993 CS 310: Computer Organization and Programming

1992

Instructor, Mahila Samity Polytechnic Institute, Oil and Natural Gas Corporation, Dehradun, UP, India

Taught a course: Computer Systems Analysis and Design.

1992

Intern, Institute for Management Development, Oil and Natural Gas Corporation, Dehradun, UP

Developed database software on IBM/CICS VMS.

1991

Intern, Natl. Ctr. of Knowledge Based Computing, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, WB

Developed an image-processing algorithm for the automated testing of PCBs.

Awards &Honors

1989-1993

National Talent Search Award and Scholarship, NationalCenter for Educational Research and Training, India

Order of Merit in Literary Activities, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India. Member of the university team in debates and other public speaking contests and creative writing for four years.

1993

1994

ACM Programming Contest, UT Austin: member of winning team, represented the University of Texas at Austin.

1994-1995

1995-1996

Member, Phi Beta Kappa Honor Society

Member, MENSA International

Professional Membership

President, Oracle Orators, a Toastmaster International Club.

1998

1997

2001-2007

1994-Present

2005-Present

Vice-President, Oracle Orators.

Member, ACM Special Interest Group for the Mgmt. of Data (SIGMOD).

Member, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).

Member, Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE).

Member, Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI).

Grants & Sponsored Projects

External Funding (Awarded 11 Totaling $4,294,032)

Completed

2004-2005

U.S.Department of Defense, “IA Scholarship Program at Penn State/Institutional CapacityBuilding/with Optional Year 2”, Total: $201617 Credit: 5% Co-Principal Investigator.

2005-2006

2006-2007

2007-2008

2005-2010

2006-2008

2007-2009

U.S. Department of Defense, “ DOD IA Scholarship Program at Penn State/Institutional CapacityBuilding,” Total: $247,139, Credit: 10%, Co-Principal Investigator.

Net Institute, “Empirically Grounded Modeling of Standard-Development Processes,” Total: $6,000, Credit: 33.33%, Principal Investigator.

Battelle, (Oak Ridge National Laboratory, ORNL) “Identifying Rare Events from Multiple Information Sources,” Total: $58,510, Credit: 100%, Principal Investigator.

Microsoft Corporation, Unrestricted Gift, Total:$20,000, Credit:33%, Co-Principal Investigator.

2. InProgress

National Science Foundation, “CI-TEAM Implementation Project: Collaborative Research – A National Engineering Dissection Cyber-Collaboratory,” Total:$151,700, Credit:20%, Co-Principal Investigator.

National Science Foundation, “Cyberinfrastructure and research facilities: developing collaboratory tools to facilitate multi-disciplinary multi scale research in environmental molecular sciences,” Total: $2,293,125, Credit: 20% Co-Principal Investigator.

Battelle, (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, PNNL) “Visualization to Support Coordinated Geospatial Decision-Making: Interpretation, Representation of Quality,” Total: $266,000, Credit: 15%, Co-Principal Investigator, Term: 1/3/2006-4/1/2008.

Battelle, (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, PNNL) “Knowledge-enabled Visual Analytics: Supporting Individuals and Teams from Analysis through Action,” Total: $1093944, Credit: 15%, Co-Principal Investigator.

National Geospatial Intelligence Agency, “Geographic Contextualization for Accounts of Movement (GeoCAM): Representing, extracting, Mapping,” Total:$299,998, Credit:33%, Co-Principal Investigator.

2000

2002

2003

Selected Publications

Mitra, P., Kersten, M., and Wiederhold, G. A Graph-Oriented Model for Articulation of Ontology Interdependencies. 7th Int. Conf. Extending Database Tech.,(EDBT’00), LNCS, Springer Verlag, 2000;1777:86-100.

Decker, S., Mitra, P. and Melnik, S. Framework for the Semantic Web: An RDF Tutorial.IEEE Internet Computing, 2000;4(6): 68-73.

Mitra P., Wiederhold, G., and Decker, S. A Scalable Framework for the Interoperation of Information Sources. In Cruz, I., Decker, S., Euzenat, J. and McGuiness, D. (Eds.) The Emerging Semantic Web, in the Frontiers In Artificial Intelligence and Applications Series, IOS Press, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. 2002.

Afrati, F., Li, C. and Mitra, P. Answering Queries Using Views with Arithmetic Comparisons. 21st ACM Symposium on Principles of Database Systems (PODS’02), ACM Press, New York, NY, 2002; 209-220.

Mitra, P. and Wiederhold, G. An Ontology Composition Algebra. In Staab S. and Studer, R. (Eds.) Handbook on Ontologies in Information Systems, In series on International Handbooks on Information Systems, Springer Verlag GmbH.2003;XVI(660): 93-114.

2004

Afrati, F., Li, C. and Mitra, P. On Containment of Conjunctive Queries with Arithmetic Comparisons. 9th Int. Conf. on Extending Database Tech., (EDBT’02) LNCS, Springer Verlag GmbH. 2004; 2992 (XVIII, 877): 459-476.

2005

Debnath, S., Mitra, P., Pal, N. and Giles, C. L. Automatic Identification of Informative Sections of Webpages. IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, (TKDE), 2005;17(9): 1233-1246.

Mitra, P., Noy, N.F. and Jaiswal A. R. Ontology Mapping Discovery with Uncertainty. Fourth International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC’05), LNCS, Springer Verlag GmbH. 2005; 3729: 537-547.

Kang, J., Han, T.S., Lee, D., and Mitra, P. Establishing Value Mappings Using Statistical Models and User Feedback. 14th ACM Conf. on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM’05), ACM Press. 2005; 68-75.

On, B-W., Lee, D., Kang, J., and Mitra, P. Comparative Study of Name Disambiguation Problem using a Scalable Blocking-based Framework. ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL 2005),2005; 434: 344-353.

2006

Lu, X., Mitra, P., Wang, J.Z., and Giles, C.L. Automatic Categorization of Figures in Scientific Documents. ACM and IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, (JCDL’06),Chapel Hill, 2006;129-138.

Afrati, F.N., Li, C., & Mitra, P. Rewriting queries using views in the presence of arithmetic comparisons. Theoretical Computer Science, (TCS). 2006;368(1-2): 88-123.

Snow, D. R., Gahegan, M., Giles, C. L., Hirth, K. G., Milner, G. R., Mitra, P., and Wang, J.Z. (2006) Next Generation Cybertools in Archaeological Science. Science. 2006; 311(5763): 958-959.

Umapathy, K., Paul, S., Purao, S., Bagby, J., and Mitra, P. Avatars of Participants in Anticipatory Standardization Process. Bolin, S. (Ed.), Standardization: Divider or Unifier, Standards Edge Series, Sheridan Books, Ann Arbor, MI, 2006.

2007

Liu Y., Bai, K., Mitra, P., and Giles, C.L. Automatic Table Metadata Extraction and Search in Digital Libraries. ACM and IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, (JCDL’07), Vancouver. 2007; 91-100.

Lee, D., Kang, J., Mitra, P., Giles, C.L. and On, B-W.Are Your Citations Clean?: New Scenarios and Challenges in Maintaining Digital Libraries. Communications of the ACM (CACM). 2007; 50(12): 33-38.

Sun, B., Mitra, P., Giles, L., Zha, H., and Yen, J. Topic Segmentation with Shared Topic Detection and Alignment of Multiple Documents. 30th International ACM SIGIR Conference, (SIGIR’07), 2007;199-206.

Tan, Q., Zhuang, Z., Mitra, P., and Giles, C.L. A clustering-based sampling approach for refreshing search engine's database. 10th International Workshop on the Web and Databases, (WebDB’07), Beijing. 2007.

Tan, Q., Mitra, P., and Giles, C.L. Designing Clustering-Based Web Crawling Policies for Search Engine Crawlers. ACM 16th Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM’07). 2007;535-544.

Zhao, Q., Mitra, P., and Chen B. Temporal and Information Flow Based Event Detection from Social Text Streams. 22nd AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, (AAAI’07), Vancouver, Canada. 2007;1501-1506.

Ying Liu, Kun Bai, Prasenjit Mitra, C. Lee Giles: TableRank: A Ranking Algorithm for Table Search and Retrieval. 22nd AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, (AAAI’07), Vancouver, Canada. 2007; 317-322.

Sun, B., Tan, Q., Mitra, P., and Giles, C.L. Extraction and Search of Chemical Formulae in Text Documents on the Web. 16th International World Wide Web Conference, (WWW’07), Banff, Alberta, Canada. 2007; 251-260.

2008

Sun, B., Mitra, P., and Giles, C.L. Mining, Indexing, and Searching for Textual Chemical Molecule Information on the Web. The 17th International World Wide Web Conference, (WWW’08), 2008, Beijing.

Zhang, X., Lee, W-C., Mitra, P., and Zheng, B. Processing Transitive Nearest Neighbor Queries in Multi-Channel Access Environments.11th Conf. on Extending Database Technology (EDBT’08), 2008, Nantes.

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