Gurpur M. Prabhu
Associate Professor

Office: 231 Atanasoff Phone: (515) 294-2212 Fax: (515) 294-0258 Email: prabhu@cs.iastate.edu Homepage: http://www.cs.iastate.edu/~prabhu/homepage.html

Current Affiliations

• Member of IEEE.
• Member of Sigma Xi.
• Member of Phi Kappa Phi.
• Member of Upsilon Pi Epsilon.

Biographical Sketch

Gurpur Prabhu has been on the faculty of the department of Computer Science at Iowa State University since 1983. He obtained his bachelors degree in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology in Madras, his masters degree in Computer Science from the Indian Institute of Technology in Kanpur, and his doctoral degree in Computer Science from Washington State. He has a broad range of interests in computer science and information technology and has published numerous research papers and a textbook on computer architecture and machine-level programming. He has taught courses on object-oriented programming, parallel and distributed computing, and operating systems. He has also conducted workshops and tutorials on business transformation and 3-tier client/server architecture at national and international conferences. He has been researching the area of innovative information technologies during the last decade. His interdisciplinary efforts in IT have resulted in several publications in international conferences such as the Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences and the International Conference on Systems Integration where his paper on "Enterprise Integration: Art or Science?" was very well received. With the advent of Internet-enabling technologies and E-commerce applications, his research effort in enterprise integration architecture has moved in the direction of developing semantic-based mechanisms to provide true collaborative management of information. While the Internet has connected islands of locally networked computer systems, Dr. Prabhu's focus is on logically bridging isolated islands of data. By making data easy to access and easy to process, Dr. Prabhu's research will advance the state of the art in the development of information fusion applications for scientific discovery using Grid computing, and decision-making domains such as biological sciences, E-commerce, E-governance, and information analysis for combating crime and terrorism. Dr. Prabhu has supervised the research work of several doctoral and masters students.

Research Interests

Parallel processing, computer architecture, and information technology.

Research Areas

Information Integration and Information Retrieval, Parallel Computing

Research Statement

Over the last several years I have carried out research in the areas of parallel processing and information technology. Some of the problems I worked on are described below. With the advent of Internet-enabling technologies my current interests are to develop semantic-based mechanisms for information retrieval and information processing. While the Internet has connected islands of locally networked computer systems, my focus is on logically bridging isolated islands of data. By making data easy to access and easy to process, I hope to advance the state of the art in the development of information applications for scientific discovery using Grid computing, and decision-making domains such as biological sciences, E-commerce, E-governance, and information analysis for combating crime and terrorism.

Curriculum-Vita

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Teaching-Statement

Committee-Service

Courses-Developed

Graduate-Supervision

Teaching-Evaluation

Graduate Student Supervision

Number of Ph.D students directed: 7
Number of Ph.D POS Committees: 37

Number of M.S. students directed: 31
Number of M.S. POS Committees: 111

Total number of POS Committees: 186

Education

Ph.D.   Computer Science, Washington State University   1983
M.S.   Computer Science, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India   1978
B.E.   Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India   1975

Honors and Awards

Teaching  "Outstanding Achievement in Teaching", LAS College, Iowa State University, 2008

$215,000  "Laboratory equipment to enhance VLSI education, Faculty associate with Charles Wright as PI", Hewlett-Packard, 1996-1997

$218,317  "A laboratory to support computer-aided design, Faculty associate with Charles Wright as P.I.", NSF-ILI, 1990-1992

$284,070  "Innovative information technology solutions for distribution, co-PI was Dr. Nilakanta", NGMSI, 1990-1992

$32,000  "Design of a vector processor, co-PI with Glenn Luecke", NASA-Ames, 1989-1990

$30,000  "Paralell algorithms for dynamic security assessment of large power systems, co-PI with Vijay Vittal", NSF, 1988-1989

Representative Publications

Refereed Journal and Conference Publications

Chandru Iyer and G. M. Prabhu. A constructive formulation of the one-way speed of light. American Journal of Physics, American Institute of Physics. Vol. 78. No. 1, Accepted, 2010.

G. M. Prabhu and Prabhakar Balakrishnan. Implementation of Semantic Bridge: Providing Programmable Access to Distributed Heterogeneous data. Journal of Computer Science, Informatics & Electrical Engineering, Scientifc Journals International. Vol. 2. No. 1. pp. 1-14, 2008.

Chandru Iyer and G. M. Prabhu. Composition of two Lorentz boosts through spatial and space-time rotations. Journal of Physical and Natural Sciences, Scientific Journals International. Vol. 1. No. 2. pp. 1-8, 2007.

G. M. Prabhu and Prabhakar Balakrishnan. Design of Semantic Bridge: A Generalized Web service porviding programmable access to distributed heterogeneous data. Journal of Engineering, Computing and Architecture, Scientific Journals International. Vol. 1. No. 2. pp. 1-12, 2007.

Chandru Iyer and G. M. Prabhu. Reply to comment on 'Lorentz transformations with arbitrary line of motion'. European Journal of Physics, IOP. Vol. 28. No. 3. pp. L15-L16, 2007.

Chandru Iyer and G. M. Prabhu. A variation of the clock paradox and a distinguishing feature of an inertial frame. Journal of Physical and Natural Sciences, Scientific Journals International. Vol. 1. No. 1. pp. 1-8, 2007.

Sayan Ranu, Balakrishnan Prabhakar, G. M. Prabhu. Optimization Rules in DLV for the Bridge Crossing Problem. Journal of Engineering, Computing and Architecture, Scientific Journals International. Vol. 1. No. 1. pp. 1-15, 2007.

Chandru Iyer and G. M. Prabhu. Lorentz transformations with arbitrary line of motion. European Journal of Physics, IOP. Vol. 28. No. 2. pp. 183-190, 2007.

Chandru Iyer and G. M. Prabhu. Differing observations on the landing of the rod into the slot. American Journal of Physics, American Institute of Physics. Vol. 74. No. 11. pp. 998-1001, 2006.

Chandru Iyer and G. M. Prabhu. Reversal in the time order of interactive events: collision of inclined rods. European Journal of Physics, IOP. Vol. 27. No. 4. pp. 819-824, 2006.

G. M. Prabhu, Prabhakar Balakrishnan. Programmable access to distributed data: Design of Semantic Bridge. 2nd IASTED International Conference on Communications, Internet, and Information Technology, Scottsdale, IASTED. pp. 589-594, 2003.

Hao Wang, G. M. Prabhu, Eugene Takle, and J. M. Shen. Performance evaluation of climate simulation on a cluster of networked workstations. Proceedings of the International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Processing Techniques and Applications. pp. 2007-2013, 2000.

Rajat Todi, G. M. Prabhu, Yuri Alexeev and John Gustafson. Evaluation of file access patterns using realistic I/O workloads for a cluster environment. Proceedings of ParCo99 International Conference on Parallel Computing, 1999.

Hao Wang, G. M. Prabhu, Eugene Takle, and Rajat Todi. Implementation and performance evaluation for a computation-intensive climate simulation application. Proceedings of ParCo99 International Conference on Parallel Computing, 1999.