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Consultant , Handwriting Recognition Group, Sloan School of Management, MIT, Cambridge, MA. 1991 - 1996.
Consultant for the sales data prediction project, PROFIT program, Sloan School of Management, MIT, Cambridge, MA. 1996.
Research Assistant , Center for the study of Neuronal Populations and Behavior, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, September 1991 - August 1992.
Project Leader , Handwriting Recognition Systems Project, Sloan School of Management, MIT, Cambridge, MA. September 1990 - August 1991.
Research Student , Theoretical Computer Science, IIT, Madras, August 1988 - August 1990.
Networked Information Gathering Worked on a team building an agent-based networked information gathering system. Was resposible for the planner component and the integration of all the system components. (COMMON LISP/C)
Machine Learning Systems Built a number of machine learning systems in both LISP and C. Programmed ID3, IBL, and CBR systems, wrote code for Genetic Algorithms and designed and built a flexible neural networks simulator in C. (LISP/ C).
Pattern Recognition Systems Project leader for a team that built a handwritten numerals recognition system for automated bank check processing. Was actively involved in building various components in addition to managing the team.
Information Retrieval Built a complete IR system as a part of Information Retrieval course. The system creates inverted indices, retrieves and ranks documents and displays them to the user. (C).
Expert Systems Built an expert system for Psychiatric Evaluation using the VP Expert shell (200 rules).
Information Extraction and Natural Language Processing Built a small IE system for the ``terrorist events'' domain using methods for statistical NLP for information extraction.
Compilers & OS Implemented a complete two-pass compiler for a considerable subset of MODULA to generate assembly code for MIPS R3000 architecture. This includes developing a scanner, parser, semantic processing and assembly language code generation. Also wrote code for device drivers and a shell.
M. V. Nagendra Prasad, Victor R. Lesser and Susan Lander "Reasoning and Retrieval in Distributed Case Bases", in the Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation, Special Issue on Digital Libraries Vol 7(1), Academic Press, 1996. pp 74--87.
M V Nagendra Prasad, Victor R Lesser and Susan E Lander "Learning Organizational Roles for Negotiated Search in a Multi-agent System," to appear in Special issue on Evolution and Learning in Multiagent Systems in the International Journal of Human-Computer Studies (IJHCS) (1997).
M V Nagendra Prasad, A. Gupta, V. Feliberti, "Correction of Slant in Handwritten Numerals for Automated Document Processing", in Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence Vol 8(4), Pergamon Press, 1995, pp 469 - 472.
Nagendra Prasad, M. V., Wang, P.S.P., Gupta, A.(1993), "Algorithms for Thinning and Rethickening Binary Digital Patterns", in Digital Signal Processing, 3, pp 97-102.
Gupta, A., Nagendra Prasad M. V., Liu, A., P. S. P. Wang and S. Ayyadurai, (1993), "An Integrated Architecture for Recognition of Totally Unconstrained Handwritten Numerals", International Journal of Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence, Vol 7 (4), pp 757 - 773.
M V Nagendra Prasad, Peter L. Sparks, and Amar Gupta, (1993) "A Heuristic Multi-stage Algorithm for Segmenting Simply Connected Handwritten Numerals", Heuristics: The Journal of Knowledge Engineering & Technology, Vol 6 No. 4, pp 16 - 26.
K. Krithivasan, Nagendra Prasad M. V., M. Mahajan (1992), "Forgetful L-Systems", in Lindenmayer Systems: Impacts on Theoretical Computer Science, Computer Graphics, and Developmental Biology, (Eds) G. Rozenberg, A. Salomaa, pp 419 - 436.
Wang, P.S.P., Nagendra Prasad M. V., Gupta, A.(1992), "A Neural-net based Hybrid approach to Handwritten Numeral Recognition", From Pixels to Features III: Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition, (Eds) S. Impedovo and J C Simon, Elsevier Science Publishers, pp 142 - 154.
Nagendra Prasad M. V., M. Mahajan, K. Krithivasan (1990), "Fuzzy L-Systems", in International Journal of Computer Mathematics vol. 36, pp 139-161.
M V Nagendra Prasad and Enric Plaza, "Corporate Memories as Distributed Case Libraries", to be presented in the Corporate Memory and Enterprise Modeling Track at the Tenth Knowledge Acquisition Workshop -- KAW'96, Banff, Alberta, Canada. Also as Center for Intelligent Information Retrieval Technical Report IR--90, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 1996.
M V Nagendra Prasad, Victor R Lesser and Susan E Lander "Learning Organizational Roles in a Heterogeneous Multi-agent System", to be presented at the Second International Conference on Multi-agent Systems, Kyoto, Japan, 1996.
M V Nagendra Prasad, Keith Decker, Alan Garvey, and Victor Lesser, "Exploring Organizational Designs with TAEMS: A Case Study of Distributed Data Processing", to be presented at the Second International Conference on Multi-agent Systems, Kyoto, Japan, 1996.
M V Nagendra Prasad , Susan Lander and Victor R. Lesser, "Cooperative Learning over Composite Search Spaces: Experiences with a Multi-agent Design System", presented at the Thirteenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Portland, Oregon, 1996.
M V Nagendra Prasad, and Victor R Lesser "Learning Situation-specific Coordination in Generalized Partial Global Planning" presented at the 1996 AAAI Spring Symposium on Adaptation, Co-evolution and Learning in Multi-agent Systems, Stanford, CA.
M V Nagendra Prasad, Victor R Lesser and Susan Lander, "Learning Organizational Roles in a Heterogeneous Multi-agent System" presented at the 1996 AAAI Spring Symposium on Adaptation, Co-evolution and Learning in Multiagent Systems, Stanford, CA.
M V Nagendra Prasad, Victor R Lesser and Susan E Lander "Learning Experiments in a Heterogeneous Multi-agent System", presented at the IJCAI-95 Workshop on Adaptation and Learning in Multi-agent Systems, Montreal, Canada, August, 1995.
Tim Oates, M.V. Nagendra Prasad, Victor R. Lesser, and Keith Decker "A Distributed Problem Solving Approach to Cooperative Information Gathering" presented at the AAAI-95 Spring Symposium on Information Gathering from Heterogeneous, Distributed Environments, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, March, 1995.
M. V. Nagendra Prasad, Victor R. Lesser and Susan Lander "On Reasoning and Retrieval in Distributed Case Bases", in the Proceedings of the 1995 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, Vancouver, Canada, Oct. 1995.
Keith Decker, Victor Lesser, M V Nagendra Prasad, and Thomas Wagner "MACRON: An Architecture for Multi-agent Cooperative Information Gathering" in the Proceedings of the CIKM Workshop on Intelligent Information Agents, Baltimore, Maryland, December, 1995
Susan E Lander, Victor R Lesser and M V Nagendra Prasad "Information Sharing among Heterogeneous Reusable Agents in Cooperative Distributed Search", 13th International Workshop on Distributed Artificial Intelligence (DAI-94), Seattle, WA, USA, July, 1994.
Tim Oates, M.V. Nagendra Prasad and Victor Lesser "Networked Information Retrieval as Distributed Problem Solving", CIKM Workshop on Intelligent Information Agents, NIST, Gaithersburg, Maryland, December, 1994.
Nagendra Prasad, M. V., Wang, P.S.P., Gupta, A.(1992), "An improved Algorithm for Thinning Binary Digital Patterns", in the Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Pattern Recognition, The Netherlands.
Nagendra Prasad M. V., Liu, A., Gupta, A., (1992), "A System for Automatic Recognition of Totally Unconstrained Handwritten Numerals", Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Automation, Robotics and Computer Vision, Singapore, September, 1992.
Sparks, P. L., Nagendra Prasad M. V., Gupta, A., (1992), "An Algorithm for Segmenting Handwritten Numerals", Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Automation, Robotics and Computer Vision, Singapore, September, 1992.
Richard Wang, Patrick Kennicut, M V Nagendra Prasad and G Sreenivas, (1991) "Towards data quality: An attributes approach", in the proceedings of the First Workshop on Information Processing, MIT, Cambridge, MA, October 1991.
Wang, P.S.P., Nagendra Prasad M. V., Gupta, A.(1991), "A Hybrid Approach to Handwritten Numeral Recognition", in the Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition, Paris.
Nagendra Prasad M. V., M. Mahajan, K. Krithivasan (1991), "Introducing Fuzziness into L-Systems", presented at the A K Choudhury Symposium on Circuits and Systems, Calcutta, India, February, 1991.
M V Nagendra Prasad and Suresh B.,(1990), "Fuzzy Reasoning", presented at the Workshop for Expert Systems for Engineers, IIT, Madras, June, 1990.
Received the National Talent Search Scholarship awarded by Govt of India (1982 - 1990).
Received State and National merit scholarship for performance in High School (1982).
Honorable mention in the Andhra Pradesh State Mathematics Olympiad (1981).
Reviewer for AAAI Symp. on Adaptation, Co-evolution and Learning in Multiagent Systems
Reviewer for Tenth Knowledge Acquisition Workshop -- KAW'96
Maintainer of Learning in Multi-agent Systems Webliography (WWW-repository of learning related material for multi-agent systems).
Member, IEEE Society for Systems, Man, and Cybernetics
Member, IEEE Computer Society
References Prof. Victor Lesser Dr. Susan Lander Department of Computer Science Blackboard Technology Group University of Massachusetts 401 Main Street Amherst, MA 01003 Amherst, MA 01002 Ph. No: (413)545-1322 Ph. No: (413) 256-8990 Fax: (413)545-1249 Fax: (413) 256-3179 Email: lesser@cs.umass.edu Email: lander@bbtech.com Prof. Sandip Sen Department of Mathematical Prof. Keith Decker & Computer Sciences Department of CIS The University of Tulsa University of Delaware 600 S. College 103 Smith Hall Tulsa, OK 74104 Newark, Delaware 19716 Ph. No: (918)631-2985 Ph. No: (302)831-1959 Fax: (918)631-3077 Fax: (302)831-8458 Email: sandip@kolkata.mcs.utulsa.edu Email: decker@cis.udel.edu Prof. Shlomo Zilberstein Prof. Amar Gupta Department of Computer Science Sloan School of Management University of Massachusetts Massachusetts Institute Amherst, MA 01003 of Technology Ph. No: (413)545-4189 50 Memorial Drive, Fax: (413)545-1249 Cambridge, MA 02142 Email: shlomo@cs.umass.edu Ph. No: (617)253-8906 Fax: (617)258-7579 Email: agupta@mit.edu