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Institute Affiliation:
California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology
Contact Information:
Phone:
858-534-6658
Email:
paturi@cs.ucsd.edu
Personal Home Page
| | Ramamohan Paturi - Professor and Past Chair
Algorithms, complexity theory, satisfiability, lower bounds, digital libraries, data mining, machine learning,
and information technology (IT) education.
During his tenure as Chair of the department, Professor Paturi developed a top computer science and engineering
department. He focused on recruiting exceptional faculty and attracting the best students. Additionally, he
established a Center for Information Technology Education to deliver IT education for UCSD students, based on the
premise that the conceptual and practical understanding of IT is fundamentally necessary for all UCSD students. Paturi
can also speak about the extension of computer science into new disciplines, including biology (bioinformatics),
economics and management (e-commerce), and psychology/cognitive sciences (computer vision and machine learning). He is
developing faculty and courses in these fields, while also building on the department's core strengths in software,
systems (including computer security and networking), theory, computer architecture/engineering, and artificial
intelligence (including data mining and data integration). In his research, Paturi studies the theoretical
underpinnings of computer science, efficient algorithms, and their complexity. He focuses on improved exponential-time
algorithms for certain NP-complete (Nondeterministic Polynomial) problems and the interesting connection between
efficient algorithms and lower bounds on computational efficiency. Paturi is also an expert in digital libraries,
ontologies, and text data mining, and a company he founded (see bio) has created a number of digital libraries for
professional societies such as IEEE and ACM. Paturi's other interests include learning theory and machine
learning.
Capsule Bio:
Mohan Paturi joined the UCSD faculty in 1986 after a post-doctoral fellowship at Harvard University. He
obtained his Ph.D. from Pennsylvania State University in 1985. Paturi is a past recipient of the Jacobs School's
Teacher of the Year Award. In 2001, he assumed the position of Chair of the Computer Science and Engineering
Department. Paturi founded Parity Computing, a San Diego-based digital library and data mining technology
company.
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