Alum Achieves NSF Recognition


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Congratulations go to Dr. Sriram Chellappan for his recent CAREER Award from the National Science Foundation (NSF). This award is given to junior faculty to recognize the excellence in their early work and to encourage the potential shown. Sriram joins the elite list of 18 of his fellow alums.

The work that impressed the NSF is titled: Human Behavior Assessment from Internet Usage: Foundations, Applications and Algorithms. Siram sees his work advancing "human behavior assessment based on real Internet usage data." He plans to collect the data continuously, yet passively in the background and with the user's privacy still protected and unbreached. To do this, he will build "practical foundations, create two Internet enabled applications (one relating to online mental healthcare and the other to online socializing), and leverage results in behavioral psychology to design classification algorithms that demonstrate the ability to achieve significant insights and to detect behavioral similarities (relating to symptoms of depression and preferences in social contacts) based on Internet usage."

Sriram Chellappan is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Missouri University of Science and Technology. His primary research interests are in Mobile Networking, Cyber Security and Human-Centered Computing. His research projects are funded by several agencies including National Science Foundation, Army Research Office, DARPA, National Security Agency and Department of Education. He received the NSF CAREER Award in 2013. Sriram received the PhD degree in Computer Science and Engineering from The Ohio-State University in December 2007 under the supervision of Dr. Dong Xuan.