Download Short Curriculum Vitae (March 2010) RAJENDRA AKERKAR

Short Curriculum Vitae (March 2010)
RAJENDRA AKERKAR
Research
Research Expertise: Knowledge Representation & Reasoning, Semantic Web Technologies, Data and Web
Mining, Knowledge Based Systems, Natural Language Interface, Nature-Inspired Computing, Case Based
Reasoning.
Application Areas Include: Knowledge Management, Medical and Health-Care, Tourism, Information
Security, Web Intelligence, etc.
Experience
Academic Experience:
ƒ Guest Professor, Department of Computer Science, Norwegian University of Science &
Technology, Norway. (December 2007 – January 2009 )
ƒ DAAD Visiting Professor, Informatik III, University of Bonn, Germany ( May - July 2007)
ƒ Professor, Computer & Information Science, American University of Armenia, Yerevan,
Armenia. (Affiliated to University of California, USA) (July 2004 – August 06)
ƒ Visiting Professor, Department of Computing Science, Saint Mary’s University, Halifax, Canada.
(July – August 2005)
ƒ TWAS-UNESCO Associate Member, Hanoi Institute of Mathematics, Vietnam (1998 –
2001, Three visits, each of three months)
ƒ DAAD Guest Professor, Department of Computational Mathematics, Universität des
Saarlandes, Germany (March 2000 - June 2000)
ƒ Visiting NBHM Researcher, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai (October 1999 December 1999)
ƒ Visiting Professor of Computational Mathematics, Norwegian University of Science &
Technology, Norway (April 1998 - June 1998)
ƒ Professor, Department of Computer Science, Chh. Shahu Institute of Business Education &
Research, India. (2007 - )
ƒ Professor & Head, Department of Computer Studies, Chh. Shahu Institute of Business
Education & Research, Kolhapur, India. (2001 -2007)
ƒ Reader (Associate Professor), Department of Computer Studies, Chh. Shahu Institute of
Business Education & Research, Kolhapur, India. (1996 -2000)
ƒ Lecturer, Department of Mathematics, Shivaji University (December 1995 - April 1996)
Industry Consultancy & Interaction:
ƒ Sr. Advisor, CCM Soft on project related to semantic web applications (2007 - )
ƒ Sr. Advisor, Epygi Inc on project related to Web driven VoiceXML tools (2005-2006)
ƒ Project Advisor, HPLA Inc. on automation of software configuration management (2004-2005)
ƒ Consultant, Natural language processing related projects at Indigo Ltd. (1997-1999)
Professional Activities
Editorial Activities:
ƒ Editor-in-Chief, International Journal of Computer Science & Applications.
ƒ Editor-in-Chief, TMRF e-Book Series.
ƒ Chief Editor, Journal of Hybrid Computing Research.
ƒ Associate Editor, International Journal of Metadata, Semantics and Ontologies (IJMSO).
ƒ Editorial Board Member, International Journal of Computer and Information Technologies.
ƒ Editorial Board Member, International Journal of Bio-inspired Computation.
ƒ Editorial Board Member, International Journal on Web Services Practices (IJWSP).
ƒ Editorial Board Member, International Journal of Computer Science & Information Technology
(IJCSIT)
ƒ Editorial Board Member, International Journal of Artificial Intelligence & Applications.
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Associate Editor, Journal of Engineering, Computing & Architecture (Scientific Journals
International (SJI))
Associate Editor, Journal of Computer Science, Informatics and Electrical Engineering (Scientific
Journals International (SJI))
Member, Technical Committee on Artificial Intelligence & Expert Systems of the International
Association of Science and Technology for Development (IASTED).
Editorial Advisor, Book Volume: Virtual Community Building and the Information Society: Current
and Future Directions, IGI Publishing.
Scientific Program Committee Member (conferences in 2010)
1. Vice Chair, Program Committee, IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web
Intelligence (WI-10), Toronto, Canada.
2. Metadata and Semantics Research Conference Series (MTSR 2010), Alcalà de Henares, Spain.
3. IADIS e-Commerce 2010, Freiburg, Germany.
4. Second International Conference on Advanced Cognitive Technologies and Applications
(COGNITIVE 2010), Lisbon. Portugal.
5. International Conference on Semantic Systems (I-SEMANTICS 2010)
6. The 2nd International Conference on Web and Semantic Technology (WeST 2010), Chennai, India.
7. International Workshop on Interactive Digital TV in Emergent Countries (BRIC), Organized
in EuroITV2010.
8. 3rd International Conference on Network Security & Applications (CNSA 2010), Chennai, India.
Symposia, Conferences and Workshops Organized:
1. International Symposium on Applications of Computer Algebra (ISACA'2000) Oct. 3-5, 2000
2. International Symposium on Artificial Intelligence (ISAI'2001) Dec. 18-20, 2001
3. International Conference on Applied Artificial Intelligence (ICAAI'2003) Dec. 15-16, 2003
4. National Conference on Recent Trends in Information Technology (RTIT'2007) Feb. 2007.
Publications
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69 [Refereed International Journals/Conference Proceedings]
28 [National level conferences]
18 [Technical Reports]
3 [Edited international conference volumes]
12 [Books authored]
Recent Books Authored:
1. Foundations of Semantic Web, Narosa Publishing House, New Delhi & Alfa Science International,
London, ISBN 978-81-7319-985-1, 2009.
2. Knowledge Based Systems, Jones & Bartlett Publisher (USA), ISBN 9780763776473, 2009. (Co-authored
with Priti S Sajja)
3. Building an Intelligent Web: Theory and Practice, Jones & Bartlett Publishers (USA), ISBN
9780763741372, 2007. (Co-authored with Pawan Lingras)
4. Introduction to Artificial Intelligence, Prentice Hall of India, ISBN 978-81-203-2864-8, 2005.
5. Discrete Mathematics, Pearson Education, Singapore, ISBN 8129701189, 2003
6. Nonlinear Functional Analysis, Narosa Publishing House, New Delhi, and American Mathematical
Society, USA, ISBN 81-7319-230-8, 1999.
Books edited:
1. Applications of Computer Algebra, Proceedings of ISACA’2000, (Ed.) Allied Publishers, New Delhi,
2001 [ISBN 81-7764-181-6 ].
2. Future Trends in Artificial Intelligence, Proceedings of ISAI’2001, (Ed.) Allied Publishers, New Delhi,
2002 [ISBN 81-7764-298-7].
3. Applied Artificial Intelligence, Proceedings of ICAAI’ 2003, (Ed.) Technomathematics Research
Foundation, India, 2003 [ISBN 81-901918-0-2].
4. Research Trends in Information Technology, RTIT’2007, (Ed.) Chh. Shahu Central Institute of Business
Education & Research, Kolhapur, India.
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Text books for Engineering Courses in Indian Universities:
ƒ Software Engineering, Mahalaxmi Publishing, Kolhapur, 2000.
ƒ Theory of Computer Science: Automata, Languages & Complexity, Mahalaxmi Publishing, 2000.
ƒ Discrete Mathematics, Mahalaxmi Publishing House, Kolhapur. (with Rupali Akerkar), 2001.
ƒ Glimpses of C Programming, Mahalaxmi Publishing House, Kolhapur ( with S. Bhoite), 2002.
ƒ Glimpses of Visual Basic, Mahalaxmi Publishing House, Kolhapur ( with S. Bhoite), 2002.
ƒ Glimpses of C++ Programming, Mahalaxmi Publishing House, Kolhapur(with S.Bhoite), 2002.
Recent Doctoral Research Supervision
North Maharashtra University, Jalgaon, and Shivaji University, Kolhapur , India.
ƒ Manish R. Joshi: Natural Language Interface. (Ph.D. in Computer Science, North Maharashtra University,
Jalgaon, India (2007))
ƒ D. Rajesh Duthie: Knowledge Representation and Reasoning System. (Ph.D. in Computer Science,
Shivaji University, Kolhapur, India (2009))
ƒ Rajeshree Belekar: Knowledge Intensive Learning. (PhD in Computer Science, Shivaji University,
Kolhapur, India (2009))
Major R&D Projects
7 International and 6 National.
Major Research Funding Agencies:
Third World Academy of Sciences; UNESCO; Department of Science & Tech (Govt. of India);
National Board of Higher Mathematics (Govt. of India), Research Council of Norway.
Scholastic Achievements
1. First and Second Prizes for Mathematical Essay in All India Mathematics Olympiad held at IIT,
Mumbai in 1990 and 1988 respectively.
2. Selection as a Talented Student in Mathematics in 1988 at University Grants Commission (UGC, India)
Organized Workshop for bright students in Mathematics, Kurukshetra University, Kurukshetra, India.
3. German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) Fellowship (1990-92).
4. DAAD Visiting Professorship (2000 & 2007).
5. Young scientist (BOYSCAST) fellowship of Dept. of Science & Technology, Government of India
(1997-98).
6. UNESCO-Third World Academy of Sciences Associate Member (1998-2001).
7. Name appeared in the prestigious "Marquis who’s who in science & engineering".
8. Invited Talks and keynote addresses at various conferences/workshops/symposia in the field of
computer and information science within and outside India.
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Member, Society For Industrial and Applied Mathematics, (SIAM).
Member, Swedish Artificial Intelligence Society.
Senior Member, International Association of Computer Science and Information Technology.
Member of the International Association of Engineers (IAENG).
Life Membership —
1. Indian Society of Industrial and Applicable Mathematics,
2. Indian Academy of Industrial And Applicable Mathematics,
3. Indian Science Congress Association,
4. Indian Mathematical Society,
5. Bharat Ganit Parishad,
6. Shivaji University Mathematics Society.
Founder Trustee, Technomathematics Research Foundation, India.
Member of the Technical Committee on Artificial Intelligence & Expert Systems of the
International Association of Science and Technology for Development (IASTED, Zurich)
Member of the International Society for Developmental Neuroscience, Canada.
Member of the IAENG Society of Artificial Intelligence.
Member of the IAENG Society of Computer Science.
Member of the IAENG Society of Data Mining.