Congratulations are due Dr. Hakan Ferhatosmanoglu and Dr. Srinivasan Parthasarathy for receiving the 2010 IBM Faculty Awards. To be eligible for this award, an IBM staff member must nominate the faculty member. Generally, IBM Faculty Awards are intended to recognize outstanding achievement and encourage exploratory projects of interest to IBM. Equally important, because it is a highly competitive worldwide program, IBM means for them to:
Associate Professor Hakan Ferhatosmanoglu received the award in recognition of his recent work in data management systems. His work is primarily done through the Database Research Group. Studying mostly studies in environmental and biomedical sciences, the lab investigates a broad spectrum of database and data mining methods looking to achieve ease of multi-dimensional data exploration online.
Dr. Ferhatosmanoglu is no stranger to awards. In 2003, he received an Early Career Principal Investigator Award from the US Department of Energy. The National Science Foundation recognized his potential in 2006 bestowing a CAREER Award. He gained a Lumley Research Accomplishment Award from the OSU College of Engineering in 2007.
Hakan has courtesy appointments with Biomedical Informatics and Biophysics, in the Mathematical Biosciences Institute both within OSU. Hakan joined OSU-CSE in Autumn 2001 after receiving his Ph.D. from the University of California, Santa Barbara and Bachelors of Science from Bilkent University in Ankara, Turkey.
IBM selected Professor Srinivasan Parthasarathy as reward for his work in high performance data mining. Within the area of data mining, the Data Mining Research Laboratory investigates; Structure Mining, the development of novel algorithms for frequent pattern mining particularly in the context of mining structured data (e.g. graphs, 3D structures, and XML data); Anomaly Detection, the design and development of novel anomaly detection algorithms; and Data Preprocessing, the development of novel data preprocessing strategies that address issues such as how to effectively use sampling in the context of data mining, how to handle missing data, and how to discretize continuous attributes in an effective manner.
Awards have also plentiful in Dr. Parthasarathy's career. This is his second IBM Faculty Award having gained one in 2007. Also this year, he received his second OSU-CSE Lumley Research Award. Google gave him the Google Research Award in 2009. In 2004, he was doubly honored attaining both the NSF CAREER Award and the DOE Early Career Principal Investigator Award. After arriving at OSU-CSE in 2000, Srini, as he is commonly known, received the 2001 Ameritech Faculty Fellow. He has earned multiple Best Paper Awards at multiple conferences including VLDB, ACM SIGKDD, IEEE ICDM and SIAM Data Mining.
Parthasarathy received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Rochester in 2000, as well as his Masters in 1996. He also has a Masters in Mathematics from the University of Cincinnati (1994). His undergraduate B.E. was earned at the University of Roorkee (India) in 1992.