UW-Madison
Computer Sciences Dept.

Ramakrishna Varadarajan

Postdoctoral Research Associate

4378, Department of Computer Sciences,

1210 West Dayton Street,

University of Wisconsin-Madison,

WI 53706-1685.

Office tel: 608-890-0015.

Email: ramkris(at)cs.wisc.edu

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Research Interests

 

  • Databases – Graph pattern mining, Ranked Keyword Search on Graph Databases and various domains like biological and clinical databases.
  • Information Retrieval - Web Search, XML search andern mining,  Text Summarization.

 

Publications in DBLP

 

Complete List of Publications (below):

 

Book

1.   Ramakrishna Varadarajan : Ranked Keyword Search on Graph-Structured Databases : Techniques for User-friendly, High Quality and Efficient Information Discovery on Data Graphs. Publisher: VDM Verlag (February 24, 2010) ISBN-10: 3639237269. ISBN-13: 978-3639237269 (Barnes & Noble , Amazon).

 

Book Chapters

2.      Ramakrishna Varadarajan, Vagelis Hristidis, Fernando Farfan: Searching Electronic Health Records (Chapter 6). Book Details: "Information Discovery on Electronic Health Records". CRC - Taylor & Francis, December 2009. Editor: Vagelis Hristidis.

3.   Fernando Farfan, Ramakrishna Varadarajan, Vagelis Hristidis: Electronic Health Records (Chapter 2). Book Details: "Information Discovery on Electronic Health Records". CRC - Taylor & Francis, December 2009. Editor: Vagelis Hristidis.

Journal Papers

4.       Ramakrishna Varadarajan, Vagelis Hristidis, Tao Li: Beyond Single-Page Web Search Results, IEEE TKDE 2008. [Project homepage]

5.       Vagelis Hristidis, Ramakrishna Varadarajan, Paul Biondich, Michael Weiner: Information Discovery on Electronic Medical Records Using Authority-Flow Techniques, In BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making, 2010.

6.       Vagelis Hristidis, Yannis Papakonstantinou, Ramakrishna Varadarajan: Using Proximity Search to Estimate Authority Flow, IEEE TKDE 2010.

 

Conference/Workshop/Poster Papers

7.      Ramakrishna Varadarajan, Vagelis Hristidis, Louiqa Raschid: Explaining and Reformulating Authority Flow Queries (full paper)(extended version), IEEE ICDE 2008, Cancun, Mexico. [Project homepage] [acceptance rate 19% - Number of Submissions - 617 ; Accepted Full papers - 118] [Estimated Impact factor of ICDE - 0.97].

8.      Ramakrishna Varadarajan, Vagelis Hristidis, Louiqa Raschid, Maria-Esther Vidal, Luis lbanez, Hector Rodriguez-Drumond: Flexible and Efficient Querying and Ranking on Hyperlinked Data Sources (full paper), EDBT 2009, Saint-Petersburg, Russia. [acceptance rate 32% - Number of Submissions - 283 ; Accepted Full papers - 92] [Estimated Impact factor of EDBT - 0.90].

9.      Ramakrishna Varadarajan, Vagelis Hristidis: A System for Query-Specific Document Summarization (full paper), ACM CIKM 2006, Arlington, VA. [Project home page] [acceptance rate 15% - Number of Submissions - 537 ; Accepted Full papers - 81] [Estimated Impact factor of CIKM - 0.90].

10.  Ramakrishna Varadarajan, Vagelis Hristidis, Tao Li: Searching the Web using Composed Pages (poster paper), ACM SIGIR 2006, Seattle, WA. [Project homepage] [acceptance rate 37% - Number of Poster Submissions - 140 ; Accepted posters - 52] [Estimated Impact factor of SIGIR – 0.94].

11.  Ramakrishna Varadarajan, Vagelis Hristidis: Structure-Based Query-Specific Document Summarization (poster paper), ACM CIKM 2005, Bremen, Germany. [Project homepage].

12.  Ramakrishna Varadarajan, Felix Eichinger, Jignesh Patel, Matthias Kretzler: Molecular Re-Classification of Renal Disease using Approximate Graph Matching, Clustering and Pattern Mining (poster paper PDF PPT), ISMB 2010, Boston.

13.  Felix Eichinger, Ramakrishna Varadarajan, Jignesh Patel, Matthias Kretzler: Towards a Molecular Classification of Kidney Diseases Based on Network Analysis (presentation paper), Rocky 2010, Colorado.

14.  Vagelis Hristidis, Eduardo Ruiz, Alejandro Hernández, Fernando Farfán, Ramakrishna Varadarajan: PatentsSearcher: A Novel Portal to Search and Explore Patents (Search Patents). In 3rd International Workshop on Patent Information Retrieval, at ACM CIKM 2010.

 

Presentations

1.   Ranked Search on Data Graphs, PhD Dissertation Defense, Florida International University, School of Computing & Information Sciences, Miami.

2.   Web Information Extraction using Visual Regions, summer internship at IBM India Research lab, August 2008.

3.   Explaining and Reformulating Authority Flow Queries, IEEE ICDE 2008 at Cancun, Mexico.

4.   Ranked Search on Data Graphs PhD Proposal, Florida International University, School of Computing & Information Sciences, Miami.

5.   A System for Query-Specific Document Summarization, ACM CIKM 2006 at Arlington, Virginia.

 

Past Research Projects

 

 

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