Contact

 

Dr. Wallapak Tavanapong

Associate Professor of Computer Science

Department of Computer Science

232 Atanasoff Hall

Iowa State University

Ames, IA 50011-1040

Email: tavanapo at cs.iastate.edu (best way to reach me)

Tel: 1-515-294-2987

Fax: 1-515-294-0258

 

Education

 

Ph.D. 1999

Computer Science, University of Central Florida

M.S.  1995

Computer Science, University of Central Florida

B.S. 1992

Computer Science, Thammasat University, Thailand

 

Research Interests

 

Multimedia computing, analysis of medical video/images, multimedia systems and networking support, multimedia databases,

Peer-to-Peer systems, Web performance, XML, parallel and distributed databases

 

Current Research

 

  • Design and implementation of video database management systems for videos generated from medical procedures such as colonoscopy and upper gastrointestinal endoscopy. 
  • Design and implementation of a hybrid architecture to support scalable content delivery and distributed interactive applications

 

CV updated on June 19, 2008