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Name: Nagarajan Prabakar, Associate Professor
Office Info: ECS 382, 305-348-2033
E-mail: prabakarcis.fiu.edu
Homepage: http://www.cis.fiu.edu/~prabakar/
Office Hours: T/R 11:00AM - 12:00 PM , 5:00-6:00 PM &
9:15-10:00 PM

Research and Instructional Interests
  • Imaging Science Systems Technology
  • Semantic Database Systems
  • Real-Time Systems
  • Computer Organization
  • Data Communications
  • Programming Languages
Background Education
1985 - Ph.D., University of Queensland, Australia
1979 - M.E., Indian Institute of Science, India
1977 - B.E., Annamalai University, India


Professional Experience
1991 - present
  Associate Professor, School of Computer Science, Florida International University, Miami, FL 33199
1985 - 1991
  Assistant Professor, School of Computer Science, Florida International University, Miami, FL 33199
1984 - 1985
  Visiting Assistant Professor, School of Computer Science, Florida International University, Miami, FL 33199
1981 - 1984
  Teaching Assistant, Department of Computer Science, University of Queensland, Australia
1979 - 1981
  Assistant Executive Engineer, Indian Telephone Industries, Bangalore, India


Professional Services
  • Chairs
    • Chair of the session on Fault Tolerant/Prediction/Correction Schemes (FTPC) for Industrial Automation and Communications, IEEE Southcon'92 at Orlando, FL. - March 1992
    • Chair of the session on Expert Systems I, ACM/SIGAPP Symposium on Applied Computing at Kansas City, MO. - March 1992
    • Chair of the session on Neural Network Theory, IEEE Region 10 International Conference at New Delhiin. - August 1991
    • Co-Chair of the publicity committee and a member of the organizing committee of PARBASE-90: - March 1990
      International Conference on Databases, Parallel Architectures, and Their Applications:
      • the publicity for the conference in journals
      • call for paper announcement preparation, typesetting, printing and distribution.
      Programming Committee member of PARBASE-90 conference. Reviewed I 10 fulll papers and 8 short papers for this conference.
    • Chair of the panel session on The Outstanding Problem for Today's Database Technology, PARBASE-90 conference at Miami.- March 1990
    • Chair of the paper session on Databases: The Logical Level/Languages and Design, PARBASE90 conference at Miami. - March 1990

  • Judge for the ACM Southeast Regional Programming Contest (Miami). Responsible for choosing a programming problem for the contest and evaluating about 40 teams from several universities in the Southeast region of the nation. - November 1989

  • Reviewer
    • Reviewer for Western Multiconference Object-Oriented Simulation. - 1991
    • Reviewer for the following Journals:
      • ACM Transactions on Database Systems
      • IEEE Computer
      • Information Systems
      • Information and Software Technology
    • Reviewed the following Books:
      • Principles of Relational Database Systems, Mishra, Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, 1989
      • Integrated Databases: Concepts, Design and Practice, E. Ozkarahan, Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, 1988

  • Consultation with public agencies:
    Had several discussions with Commander Bob Johns of Metro Dade Police Department to automate the information of subpoena for police officers using database tools - 1987.


Selected Publications
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  1. R. Rangaswami, S.M. Sadjadi, N. Prabakar , and Y. Deng:'Automatic generation of user-centric multimedia communication services'. Toappear in Proceedings of the 26th IEEE International Performance Computingand Communications Conference (IPCCC) , New Orleans, April 2007.

  2. V. Hristidis, P.J. Clarke, N. Prabakar , Y. Deng, J.A.White, R.P. Burke: 'A Flexible Approach for Electronic Medical Records Exchange'. Proceedings of the International Workshop on Health Information and KnowledgeManagement (HIKM) , in conjunction with ACM CIKM, pp. 33-40, 2006

  3. Y. Deng, S.M. Sadjadi, P.J. Clarke, C. Zhang, V. Hristidis, R.Rangaswami, and N. Prabakar : 'A communication virtual machine'. Proceedingsof the 30th Annual International Computer Software and Applications Conference(COMPSAC 2006) , Chicago, pp. 521-531, September 2006.

  4. P.J. Clarke, V. Hristidis, Y. Wang, N. Prabakar , and Y.Deng: 'A Declarative Approach for Specifying User-Centric Communication'. Proceedingsof the International Symposium on Collaborative Technologies and Systems(CTS 2006) , Las Vegas, pp. 89-98, MAY 2006.

  5. G. Paschos, I. Radev, and N. Prabakar : 'ImageContent-Based Retrieval Using Chromaticity Moments'. IEEE Trans. onKnowledge and Data Engg. Vol. 15, No. 5, pp. 1069-1072, 2003.