1. Rajendra Prasath, Ph.D
Post Doctoral Fellow (ERCIM)
rajendra@idi.ntnu.no 348, IT-bygget, IDI, NTNU
drrprasath@gmail.com Sem Sælands Vei 7-9, NO - 7491
www.idi.ntnu.no/~rajendra Trondheim, Norway
DoB: 29/05/1974 +47 968 26570(Cell), +47 735 97410(off)
ED UCA TI O N Q UAL I F I CA TI O N S
M.Sc [Mathematics], Ramanujan Institute For Advanced Study in Mathematics (RIASM),
University of Madras, Chennai
M.Tech* [Computer Science and Engineering], Indian Institute of Technology (IIT),
Kharagpur, West Bengal, India
Ph.D [Mathematics – Computer Science], University of Madras, Chennai
Thesis : Design of algorithms for shared resource allocation and certain
selected problems in distributed systems
* Thesis was nominated for The Best Application Thesis Award at IIT Kharagpur
FI EL D O F RES EA RCH
 Textual Case Based Reasoning, Analysis of Textual content
 Machine Learning, Information Retrieval and evaluations, Content Filtering, Information
Extraction, Web Ranking, Text Categorization, Clustering
 Complex Networks and Distributed Algorithms [Message Passing Systems]
A CA D EM I C A CH I EVEM EN TS
 Recently three of my tools were copyrighted under CLIA Project, Govt of India.
 Awarded “Allan Bensoussan Post Doctoral Fellowship” by ERCIM
 Organized Seminar on “Algorithms & Artificial Systems” at Univ. of Madras
 Acted as Reviewer for International Journals: IEEE/ACM Trans. on Networking,
Information Sciences and Journal of Convergence Information Technology.
 Listed in Marquis’ Who is Who in Science and Engineering, 6th Ed., USA.
A CA D EM I C PRO J ECTS / RES EA RCH
Institution: Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur - 721302
Research Area: Information Retrieval and Machine Learning
Project: “Enhancing Text Categorization using External Knowledge Repositories”
This project deals with design and analysis of efficient, innovative adaptive text
categorization techniques (using knowledge repositories) that try to make better text
representation so as to maximize the categorization accuracy.
Technologies Used: C, JAVA, rainbow (A statistical tool), graclus
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Institution: University of Madras, Chennai – 600 005
Research Area: Distributed Algorithms for Message Passing Systems
Project: “Design of algorithms for shared resource allocation and certain selected problems
in distributed systems”
This thesis describes distributed algorithms for single shared resource allocation in
interconnection networks like augmented rings, meshes, graphs and solutions for distributed
sorting & prefix computation on line and static ad hoc mobile networks.
Technologies Used: Discrete event simulator in C under Linux (RHEL)

2. LI S T O F PUBL I CA TI O N S
Journals:
1. Rajendra Prasath, Learning Age and Gender using Co-occurrence of Non-Dictionary
Words from Stylistic Variations, to Appear in: Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence,
LNAI 6086, Springer - Heidelberg, 2010, pp. 548–553.
2. Pinar Öztürk, Rajendra Prasath and Hans Moen, Distributed Representations to
detect Higher Order Term Correlations in Textual Content, to Appear in: Lecture Notes
in Artificial Intelligence, LNAI 6086, Springer - Heidelberg, 2010, pp. 744-753.
3. M.Rustagi, R.Rajendra Prasath, Sumit Goswami and Sudeshna Sarkar, Learning Age
and Gender of Blogger from Stylistic Variation, LNCS 5909, Springer-Verlag,
Heidelberg, 2009, pp. 205–212.
4. R.Rajendra Prasath, Token based control with fault tolerance in augmented rings
network, College Sadhana (ISSN: 0974 6838), 2(1) 2009, pp. 1-10
5. R.Rajendra Prasath and Sudeshna Sarkar, Augmenting Texts for Improving
Categorization using External Knowledge Repository, College Sadhana (ISSN: 0974
6838), 1(1) 2008, pp. 1-8.
6. R.Rajendra Prasath and P.Thangavel, Shared resource allocation using token
passing strategy in interconnected networks, Information – An International Journal, 6
(2) 2003, pp. 197-206.
7. P.Thangavel and R.Rajendra Prasath, A note on token based control in rings and
linear arrays, The Journal of CSI, 32(3) March 2002, pp. 62-65.
8. R.Rajendra Prasath and P.Thangavel, Token based message passing in bidirectional
ring extensions, Journal of Madras University (WMY-2000 Special Issue) - Section B:
Sciences, 52 (2000) pp. 145-159.
Conferences:
1. R.Rajendra Prasath and Sudeshna Sarkar, Unsupervised Feature Generation using
Knowledge Repositories for Effective Text Categorization, In: ECAI 2010.
2. R.Rajendra Prasath, An alternative time - optimal distributed sorting algorithm on a
line network, accepted in INC2010: 6th International Conference on Networked
Computing, 2010.
3. Pinar Öztürk and Rajendra Prasath, Abductive reasoning to the best case in TCBR: A
two-stage model, accepted in: ICCBR 2010
4. R.Rajendra Prasath and Sudeshna Sarkar, Improving text categorization using
hyperlinks in external knowledge repository, in: Proc. of the First Norwegian Aritificial
Intelligence Symposium(NAIS 2009) held at: NTNU, Norway, Nov. 2009, pp. 79 – 90.
5. R.Rajendra Prasath and P.Thangavel, Token based control algorithms for shared
resource allocation in general networks, in Proc. of Third International Conference on
Information 2004, held at Hosei University, Tokyo, Japan, Nov. 2004, pp. 531-534.
6. R.Rajendra Prasath and P.Thangavel, Token based control algorithm with central
coordinators, in: Proc. of the National Seminar on Algorithms and Artificial Systems,
Allied Publishers, Chennai, January 2003, pp. 25-40.
7. R.Rajendra Prasath and P.Thangavel, Shared resource allocation in Chordal ring
networks using token based control mechanism, in: Proc. of the International
Conference on Industrial Mathematics (ICIM'2000), held at Indian Institute of
Technology, Madras during August 2001.
8. R.Rajendra Prasath and P.Thangavel, Shared Resource Allocation using Token based
control strategy in ring extension topologies, in: Recent Trends in Mathematical
Sciences, (Eds.) J.C.Misra and S.B.Sinha, Narosa Publishing House, New Delhi, Dec.
2000, pp. 53-63.
9. R.Rajendra Prasath, Shared resource allocation using baked potato routing, in: Proc.
of International Conference Asia-Pacific Telecom 2000 (APT – 2000) on Advances in
Telecommunication and Information Technology, December 2000, pp. 144-152.

3. BOOKS:
1. R.Suguna and R.Rajendra Prasath (Edited), Proceedings of the National Workshop
on Network Security, Chennai, September 2004.
TECHNICAL REPORTS:
1. TamilNews -The Search Engine for Regional News, April 2007.
2. Routing Issues in Sensor Network, April 2007.
3. Interaction Styles using Haptic Devices - The Designer Approach, May 2007.
4. Modeling Epidemics on Complex Networks, March 2007.
5. Garbage Collection – Handling Dynamic Memory Management, November 2006.
6. Delay Tolerant Routing, November 2006.
OTHER PAPERS:
1. R.Rajendra Prasath and Sumit Goswami, Embedding Open Source Search
Engine, PC Quest, November, 2008, pp. 87-88.
2. R.Rajendra Prasath, The power of Parallel Computation – Basic Design Issues
(Monograph), in: “EXPLORA: Knowledge Unleashed”, Sep. 2002, pp. 115-121.
Communicated:
Algorithms for distributed sorting and prefix computation in static ad hoc mobile networks
TECH N I CAL S KI L L S
 Programming : FORTRAN, C, Core Java, J2EE (JSP, Servlets), Swing, XML
Perl, PHP, Javascript, CSS
 Databases : MySQL, MS SQL
 Platforms : Enterprise Linux, Ubuntu, Solaris, Windows 2000, XP, Vista
 Tools : Netbeans IDE, Apache Tomcat Server, Lex & Yacc, Matlab, Maple
and Latex[all Versions], Nutch, Lucene, tomcat
PRO F ES S I O N A L EXPERI EN CE
Organization : IIT Kharagpur May 2008 – Jul 2009
Title : Senior Project Officer
Department : Communication Empowerment Lab, IIT Kharagpur
Sponsored by: Ministry of Information Technology, Govt. of India
Responsibilities: Research and Development of CLIA system
[Content Filtering, Information Extraction, ranking algorithms for web
searches, Index Creation, Query Analysis, Module integration]
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Organization : MNM Jain Engineering College July 2004 – July 2006 Job
Title : Assistant Professor
Department : Information Technology
Students : Under graduates [B.E / B.Tech]
Responsibilities: Teaching, Research & Administrative responsibilities
[Member-College Council, Faculty Advisor, In-charge (Accreditation &
inspection committee and Time Table)]
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Organization : University of Madras Nov 1998 – June 2004
Job Title : Research Scholar / Guest Lecturer
Students : Post graduate Students
Responsibilities: Research, Teaching and Project
[Seminars, Lectures, project & Conference in-charge]
M EM BERS H I PS / O RGA NI ZA TI O N A S S O CIA TED
 Member, Young Researchers Committee, World Federation of Soft Computing
 Member, Information Retrieval Facility Society, Vienna, Austria
 Member, Information Retrieval Society of India
 Member, The Computer Society of India
EXTRA CURRI CUL A R A CTI VI TI ES
LYRICS Writing Lyrics in Tamil and Management articles in Magazines
WEB DESIGN Designing Professional web pages using the popular technologies
SOCIAL WORK Participated in NSS and NCC at School and College Level
HOBBIES Listening to Silence, Reading, writing stories, Trying to model science

4. behind natural evolution, watching Tennis

5. PRO J ECTS HA N D L ED / M AN A GED
ON-GOING:
Title : Cross Lingual Information Access (CLIA) System
Developed at : Communication Empowerment Laboratory, IIT, Kharagpur
Duration : 3 Years [currently in the Third Year] - Also granted Phase - II
Funded by : Dept. of Information Technology (DIT), Govt. of India, New Delhi
Deliverables : IndiaSearch with the support of 6 Indian Languages
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MAJOR RESEARCH PROJECT – WORKED IN:
Title : Enhancing Text Categorization using External Knowledge
Repositories
Worked with : Prof. Sudeshna Sarkar [sudeshna@cse.iitkgp.ernet.in]
Developed at : Dept. of Computer Science & Engineering, IIT Kharagpur
Partially Funded : All India Council for Technical Education [AICTE], New Delhi
Output : Research papers [Journal – 2 (submitted)]
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Title : A Study on Design of Distributed Algorithms, Neural Networks
and Applications
Worked with : Dr. P.Thangavel [thangavelp@yahoo.com]
Developed at : Dept. of Computer Science, University of Madras
Funded by : All India Council for Technical Education [AICTE], New Delhi
Output : Research papers [Journal – 1 (Cited by 3); Conferences – 2]
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Title : Study of Parallel Algorithms for Message Passing and Related
Problems in Parallel Architectures and Selected Combinatorial
Problems
Worked with : Dr. P.Thangavel [thangavelp@yahoo.com]
Developed at : Dept. of Computer Science, University of Madras
Funded by : Council of Scientific and Industrial Research [CSIR], New Delhi
Output : Research papers [Journal – 2; Conferences –3]
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MINI PROJECTS DONE:
Title : TamilNews1 - The Search Engine for Regional News
With : Prof. Sudeshna Sarkar [sudeshna@cse.iitkgp.ernet.in]
Developed at : Department of Computer Science and Engineering, IIT, Kharagpur
Tools used : Java - JSP servlet, Lucene, PERL Crawler, JavaScript and mySQL.
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Title : Garbage Collection – Handling Dynamic Memory Management
Supervisor : Prof. Rajeev Kumar [rkumar@cse.iitkgp.ernet.in]
Developed at : Department of Computer Science and Engineering, IIT, Kharagpur
Tools used : Java (JVM).
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Title : Discrete Event Simulator for Distributed Sorting
Developed at : Department of Computer Science and Engineering, IIT, Kharagpur
Tools used : C under RHEL4.0
Output : Research paper [Conferences – 1]
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