Vasant Honavar

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Vasant Honavar
Nationality 
Biomedical Informatics
InstitutionsIowa State University
National Science Foundation
Pennsylvania State University
Doctoral advisorLeonard Uhr

Vasant G. Honavar is an Indian-American

researcher and professor
.

Early life and education

Vasant Honavar was born at Pune, India to Bhavani G. and Gajanan N. Honavar. He received his early education at the Vidya Vardhaka Sangha High School and M.E.S. College in Bangalore, India. He received a B.E. in Electronics & Communications Engineering from the B.M.S. College of Engineering in Bangalore, India in 1982,[1] when it was affiliated with Bangalore University, an M.S. in electrical and computer engineering in 1984 from Drexel University, and an M.S. in computer science in 1989, and a Ph.D. in 1990, respectively, from the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where he studied Artificial Intelligence and worked with Leonard Uhr.[2]

Career

Honavar is on the faculty of

Artificial Intelligence Research Laboratory,[5] Associate Director of the Institute for Computational and Data Sciences[6] and the Director of the Center for Artificial Intelligence Foundations and Scientific Applications[7] at Pennsylvania State University. Honavar serves on the Leadership Team of the Northeast Big Data Innovation Hub.[8] Honavar served on the Computing Research Association's Computing Community Consortium Council during 2014-2017,[9][10]
where he chaired the task force on Convergence of Data and Computing, and was a member of the task force on Artificial Intelligence.

Honavar was the first Sudha Murty Distinguished Visiting Chair of Neurocomputing and Data Science by the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India.[11] Honavar was named a Distinguished Member of the Association for Computing Machinery for "outstanding scientific contributions to computing";[12] and elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science for his "distinguished research contributions and leadership in data science".[13]

As a

Big Data Program.[14]

Honavar was a

Computational Biology (and served as its Chair during 2003–2005).[15][16]

Honavar has held visiting professorships at Carnegie Mellon University, the University of Wisconsin–Madison, and at the Indian Institute of Science.[17]

Research

Honavar has made substantial research contributions in

meta analysis.[citation needed
]

Honavar has been active in fostering national and international scientific collaborations in Artificial Intelligence, Data Sciences, and their applications in addressing national, international, and societal priorities in accelerating science, improving health, transforming agriculture through partnerships that bring together academia, non-profits, and industry.

Selected publications

Books

Articles

Position papers on artificial Intelligence, data sciences and related topics

  • Barocas, S., Bradley, E., Honavar, V. and Provost, F. (2017). Big Data, Data Science, and Civil Rights. Computing Community Consortium. arXiv preprint arxiv:1706.03102.
  • Hager, G., Bryant, R., Horvitz, E., Mataric, M., and Honavar, V. (2017). Advances in Artificial Intelligence Require Progress Across all of Computer Science. Computing Community Consortium. arXiv preprint arXiv:1707.04352
  • Honavar, V., Yelick, K., Nahrstedt, K., Rushmeier, H., Rexford, J., Hill, Mark., Bradley, E., and Mynatt, E. (2017). Advanced Cyberinfrastructure for Science, Engineering, and Public Policy. Computing Community Consortium. arXiv preprint arXiv:1707.00599.
  • Honavar, V., Hill, M. Yelick, K. (2016). Accelerating Science: A Computing Research Agenda, Computing Community Consortium.
  • Honavar, V. (2014). Honavar, V. (2014). The Promise and Potential of Big Data: A Case for Discovery Informatics Review of Policy Research 31:4 10.1111/ropr.12080.

Causal Inference

Machine learning, neural networks, and deep learning

Knowledge representation and semantic web

Data and Computational Infrastructure for Collaborative Science

Applied Informatics: Bioinformatics, Health informatics, Materials Informatics

Computer and information security

Honors

References

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  2. ^ "Mathematics Genealogy Project". Retrieved 1 August 2022.
  3. ^ "Vasant Honavar". faculty.ist.psu.edu.
  4. ^ a b "Vasant Honavar named Huck Chair in Biomedical Data Sciences and AI". Retrieved 20 October 2021.
  5. ^ "Artificial Intelligence Research Laboratory". Retrieved 29 May 2015.
  6. ^ "Penn State Institute for Computational and Data Sciences". Retrieved 29 May 2015.
  7. ^ "Penn State center to advance AI tools to accelerate scientific progress". Retrieved 12 July 2021.
  8. ^ "Northeast Big Data Innovation Hub". Retrieved 13 July 2021.
  9. ^ "Computing Community Consortium Members". Retrieved 29 May 2015.
  10. ^ "CCC Announces new members". Retrieved 31 May 2015.
  11. ^ "'Sudha Murty' chair launched at IISc". 13 October 2016. Retrieved 13 July 2021.
  12. ^ "2018 ACM Distinguished Members Recognized for Contributions that Have Revolutionized How We Live, Work and Play". Retrieved 13 July 2021.
  13. ^ "AAAS Honors Accomplished Scientists as 2018 Elected Fellows". Retrieved 13 July 2021.
  14. ^ "NSF 12-499 Core Techniques and Technologies for Big Data". Retrieved 29 May 2015.
  15. ^ "From Data Analytics to Computational Discovery and Discovery Informatics". Retrieved 29 May 2015.
  16. ^ "BCB Program Administrative Committees 2003-2004". Archived from the original on 2004-06-22. Retrieved 12 July 2022.
  17. ^ a b "Sudha Murty' chair launched at IISc". 13 October 2016. Retrieved October 14, 2016.
  18. ^ "AAAI 2022: AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence". Retrieved 13 July 2021.
  19. ^ "ORCID". orcid.org.
  20. ^ "Vasant Honavar's Google Scholar Page". Retrieved 13 July 2021.
  21. ^ "Library of Congress Catalog Search". Retrieved 29 May 2015.
  22. ^ "Northeast Big Data Innovation Hub". Retrieved 20 October 2019.
  23. ^ "Eastern Regional Network". Retrieved 20 June 2021.
  24. ^ "Workshop on Brain, Computation, and Learning". Retrieved 20 October 2019.
  25. ^ "Global Innovation Forum: Transforming Intelligence". Retrieved 20 October 2019.
  26. ^ "US-Serbia and West Balkan Data Science Workshop". 12 August 2018. Retrieved 20 October 2019.
  27. ^ "International Summer School on Deep Learning". Retrieved 20 October 2019.
  28. ^ "AI-Enabled Materials Discovery, Design, and Synthesis (AIMS) Institute". Retrieved 14 February 2022.
  29. ^ "Accelerating Science: A Grand Challenge for AI". Retrieved 14 February 2022.
  30. ^ "Combat the Diseases of Despair Epidemic". Retrieved 14 February 2022.
  31. ^ "Honavar honored for his leadership of the NSF Big Data Program". Retrieved 29 May 2015.
  32. ^ "Inside Iowa State" (PDF). Retrieved 31 May 2015.
  33. ^ "Teaching, service and research awards to LAS faculty, staff". Retrieved 31 May 2015.
  34. ^ "2007 Fall University Convocation & Awards Ceremony". Retrieved 31 May 2015.
  35. ^ "125 People of Impact". Archived from the original on 2016-08-28. Retrieved 25 August 2016. (Accessible through Internet Archive)
  36. ^ "2018 ACM Distinguished Members Recognized for Contributions that Have Revolutionized How We Live, Work and Play". Retrieved November 8, 2018.
  37. ^ "AAAS Honors Accomplished Scientists as 2018 Elected Fellows". Retrieved November 29, 2018.
  38. ^ "We are proud to announce the first EAI Fellows". 10 May 2019. Retrieved February 15, 2022.

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