Dr. Vasant Honavar Department of Computer Science honavar@cs ...

Teaching Interests
I have a strong interest in teaching undergraduate and graduate courses in artificial intelligence, machine learning,
bioinformatics and computational biology, intelligent agents and multi-agent systems, knowledge representation and
inference, semantic web and related topics. I would like to further develop my courses to respond to new research
challenges and to incorporate significant advances in the relevant disciplines.
Given an opportunity, I would especially enjoy developing and teaching a course that introduces computer science as an
intellectual discipline to a broad audience of undergraduates (and perhaps graduate students from other disciplines)
drawn from across all areas of science, engineering, and the humanities.
I would also enjoy contributing to the development of new graduate and undergraduate programs designed to train a new
generation of scientists well-versed in computer and information sciences and the creative and skillful application of
information processing approaches to address fundamental scientific problems in biological, agricultural, cognitive,
environmental, health, physical and social sciences.
OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
ADVISORY BOARDS AND WORKING GROUPS
2005- External Advisory Committee, NSF HBCU-UP Program, Tuskegee University.
1999-03 Member of Advisory Board, Emergent Computational Neural Network Architectures, Universities of
York, Edinburgh, and Sunderland, United Kingdom
2004 Member of Bioinformatics Group, National Science Foundation Intelligent Data Management PI
Workshop, Boston, MA
2003 Member of Information Integration Working Group, National Science Foundation Intelligent Data
Management PI Workshop, Seattle, WA.
1999 Member of Intelligent Agents Working Group, Information Institute, Information Directorate, Air Force
Research Labs, Rome, New York
1999 Member of Search Committee, Senior Science and Technology Position in Defensive Information
Warfare, Air Force Research Laboratory, Rome, New York.
2000 Reviewer, University of Georgia Board of Regents, Proposal for a Ph.D. Program in Artificial
Intelligence.
1999 Member, Intelligent Agents Working Group, Information Institute, Information Directorate, Air Force
Research Labs
1998 Member, Intelligent Knowledge-Based Systems Working Group, Information Institute, Information
Directorate, Air Force Research Labs
1997 Invited Participant, NSF Workshop on Decision Based Design, Sacramento, CA
CONFERENCE OR WORKSHOP PROGRAM CHAIR
2006 Organizer and Chair AAAI Fall Symposium on Collaborative Discovery from Semantically
Disparate Autonomous Distributed Information Sources, Washington,
DC.
2005 Organizer and Chair IEEE Workshop on Knowledge Acquisition from Distributed,
Autonomous, Semantically Heterogeneous Information Sources, IEEE
Conference on Data Mining, Houston, Texas
2004 Program Co-Chair International Conference on Intelligent Information Processing, Beijing,
Dec 2005
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