Ravi Janardan

He/Him

Professor, Department of Computer Science & Engineering

Contact

janardan@umn.edu

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Ravi Janardan

He/Him

Professor, Department of Computer Science & Engineering

Research

Research Interests

Janardan's research interests center around the design and analysis of efficient algorithms for representing, reasoning about, and manipulating large numbers of discrete geometric entities (e.g., points, line-segments, polygons, and polytopes) that have spatiotemporal attributes. Questions of interest concern intersection, containment, proximity, similarity, spread, shape, etc., and are motivated by applications in domains as diverse as computer-aided design and manufacture, bio-medical modeling and simulation, location-based services, and machine learning.

Research Division
Computing Foundations

Current Research
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Ph.D. Graduates
Jie Xue (2019); Rahul Saladi (2017); Yuan Li (2017); Akash Agrawal (2016); Yokesh Kumar (2012); Jieping Ye (2005); Ivaylo Ilinkin (2003); Jayanth Majhi (1998); Prosenjit Gupta (1995); Siu Wing Cheng (1992).

Biography

Education

Ph.D. in Computer Science, Purdue University (1987)
M.S. in Computer Science, Purdue University (1985)
M.Tech in Computer Science, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras (1982)
B.Tech in Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras (1980)

Professional Background

Ravi Janardan joined the Department of Computer Science & Engineering in 1987 as an assistant professor. He was promoted to full professor in 1998 and served as Associate Head of the Department from 2000-05. Janardan conducts research on the theoretical and applied aspects of geometric computing. His collaborative research on digital dentistry resulted in a University Innovations Award (2012). His excellence in teaching was recognized by an Outstanding Instructor Award (1989) and by the George W. Taylor/CSE Alumni Society Award for Distinguished Teaching (2015).

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Teaching

Publications & Awards

Honors and Awards

2015: George W. Taylor/CSE Alumni Society Award for Distinguished Teaching
1988: Science and Engineering Student Board - Best Professor Award

Selected Grants
II-New: Research Infrastructure for Big Spatial and Temp
Mokbel, M. F., Hecht, B. J., Janardan, R. & Shekhar, S.; National Science Foundation; 7/1/15 - 6/30/20.

Data Science Research Interests