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Arcot K Rajasekar Department of Computer Science University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40506 Office: (606) 257-3892 Home: (606) 272-9805 Email: sekar@cs.engr.uky.edu Fax: (606) 323-1971 RESEARCH INTERESTS: Database Systems and Knowledge Base Systems Data Mining Logic Programming and Default Reasoning EDUCATION: Ph.D. in Computer Science , 1989, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, USA M.S. in Computer Science , 1983, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India B.E. (Honors) in Electronics and Communications, 1979, University of Madras, Madras, India. SYSTEMS AND LANGUAGES: Database Systems: Oracle, DB/2, Sybase Main Languages: C, C++, Prolog, Pascal and HTML Operating System: UNIX, MS-DOS and Windows Utilities and Packages: Several in Unix, Dos and Windows environment VISA STATUS: Permanent Resident of the United States PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE: Assistant Professor (August 1990 present) University of Kentucky at Lexington. Research Associate (July 1989 August 1990) University of Maryland Institute for Advanced Computer Studies Research work in logic programming and non-monotonic reasoning. Faculty Research Assistant (January 1989 June 1989) Department of Computer Science, University of Maryland. Research work on disjunctive logic programming. MAJOR SOFTWARE PROJECTS: PRISM - Parallel Inference System (85-89) DISLOG - DISjunctive LOGic programming (91-93) Inductive Dependencies (91-95) Expert System for Profile Grinders (92-93) Evolutionary Databases (92-94) SLOG - String-oriented Logic Database (95- ) MAGIC-DISJ - Magic Set Evaluation for Disjunctive Databases (95) UK-OODB - Object-oriented database System (95- ) UK-ADB - Active Database System (95- ) Data mining Algorithms (95- ) TED - Trans-Epistemic Defaults and Multi Agent Reasoning (94- ) SELECTED PUBLICATIONS: (from more than 35 papers in reputed journals, conferences, workshops and books) 1. Foundations of Disjunctive Logic Programs (with J. Minker and J. Lobo), MIT Press, 1992. 2. Disjunctive Logic Programs, (with J. Minker and J. Lobo). In INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS: State of the art and future directions edited by Zbigniew Ras and Maria Zemankova, North Holland. 3. Inductive Dependencies and Approximate Databases, (with D. Keen). In Information and Knowledge Management: Special Issue of Selected Papers from CIKM 92, T.W. Finin, C.K. Nicholas and Y. Yesha, eds., LNCS, 752, 98-114, 1993. 4. Complexity of Computing with Extended Propositional Logic Programs,'' (with V. Marek and M. Truszczynski), Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence, Vol. 15 357-378,1995. 5. DWAM - A WAM model extension for disjunctive logic programming, (with H. Yusuf). Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence, Vol. 14:2-4 275-308,1995. INSTRUCTIONAL WORK: Graduate and under-graduate courses in programming languages, discrete mathematics, databases and artificial intelligence. Advanced level courses in data mining, machine learning, deductive databases and knowledge representation. MAJOR PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES: Member of the Association of Logic Programming (ALP) and the American Association for Artificial Intelligence (AAAI). Guest editor for Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence `Logic in Databases, Knowledge Representation and Reasoning: Special Issue in honor of Jack Minker', Volume 14, Nos. 2,3 \& 4, September 1995. Guest editor for Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence Special issue on `Disjunctive Logic Programming', Volume 12, Nos. 1,2, December 1994. Co-organizer for Workshop on Logic Programming with Incomplete Information, 1993 Co-organizer for Workshop on Disjunctive Logic Programs,1991 Reviewer for several conferences: ICLP, IJCAI, PODS, ISMIS, etc. Reviewer for several journals: JLP, JAR, TKDE, NGC, etc. SELECTED GRANTS: Research in String-oriented Databases, PI, DOD/EPSCoR, 1995, 3 years, $238,000, awarded. A Knowledge Communication Language for Intelligent Tutoring System,, Co-Investigator, NSF/EPSCoR Enhancement Grant, 1993-94, $14,999 Development of an Expert System for V-Belt Grinders, PI, Gates Rubber Company, Elizabethtown, KY, 1992, $20,000 Research in Disjunctive Logic Programming, PI, NSF, Research Initiation Award, 1991-93, $60,000 Major Equipment Award,Co-PI, UK, $44,000, 1991.