Program of Computer Science, Louisiana Tech University

Work:  235 Nethken Hall,
          Ruston, Louisiana 71272.
Ph:      (318) 257-4612
Email:  pradeep@latech.edu

Ph.D., Computational Analysis and Modeling,
Louisiana Tech University,
Ruston, LA, U.S.A.

2008

M.C.A., Masters of Computer Applications,
St. Joseph’s College of Engineering,
University of Madras, Chennai, India.

2003

B.Sc., Computer Science and Engineering,
Loyola Academy,
Osmania University, Secunderabad, India.

2000

Research Assistant Professor
Program of Computer Science,
Louisiana Tech University,
Ruston, LA., U.S.A.

2014-Present

Post-Doctoral Research Associate (BBC Core)
Louisiana Biomedical Research Network (LBRN)
Louisiana Tech University,
Ruston, LA., U.S.A.

2010-2014

Post-Doctoral Research Associate
Program of Computer Science
Louisiana Tech University
Ruston, LA., U.S.A.

2009-2010

Graduate Research Assistant
Louisiana Tech University
Ruston, LA., U.S.A.

2004-2008

Lab Administrator and Manager
Department of Computer Science
Louisiana Tech University
Ruston, LA., U.S.A.

2004-2012

Access Grid Administrator

Department of Computer Science
Louisiana Tech University
Ruston, LA., U.S.A.

2004-2006

2009-2015

Student Intern

Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO)

Bangalore, India.

2003-2004

Duties: Involved in the design, development, and deployment of automated test environment for electronic components used to build satellites. Developed efficient, yet robust, backend for tested inventory and automated rollback of failed components.

Associate Member of Sigma Xi, Scientific Research Society

2005-Present

Member of International Society of Computational Biology (ISCB)

2006-Present

Member of IEEE

2008-Present

2012 Outstanding Post Doc Award:
College of Engineering and Science,
Louisiana Tech University, Ruston, LA., U.S.A.

2012

Publications Chair:
6^th International Conference on Information Systems, Technology and Management, ICISTM 2012, Grenoble Ecole de Management, France.

2012

Publications Chair:
5^th International Conference on Information Systems, Technology and Management, ICISTM 2011, MDI, Gurgaon, India.

2011

Program Committee:
5^th International Conference on Information Systems, Technology and Management, ICISTM 2011, MDI, Gurgaon, India.

2011

Technical Program Committee:
International Conference on Contemporary Computing, IC3-2009.

2009

Best Paper: Sumeet Dua, Pradeep Chowriappa and Alan Alex, Ranking through Integration of Protein-Similarity for Identification of Cell-cyclic Genes, BIOT-2008.

2008

Best Poster: 8th Annual Student Research Symposium,
Protein Structure Classification-Based on Conserved Hydrophobic Residues, Louisiana Tech University.

2007-2008

Ranked 18th (statewide): The University of Madras for Masters in Computer Applications.

2003

Conference Reviewer:
Biotechnology and Bioinformatics Symposium, BIOT 2012.

2012

3^rd International Conference on Biomedical Engineering and Assistive Technologies, BEATS 2014

2014

Journal Reviewer:
Oxford Bioinformatics.

Social Network Analysis and Mining.

2012-present.

Journal of Medical Imaging and Health Informatics.

present

Database Management Systems (CSC 430) and

Database Theory (CSC 530)

Winter 2013-14, 2014-15,

 2015-16, 2016-17

Computer Networks (CSC 450) and

Advance Computer Networks (CSC 454/554)

Fall 2016,

Winter 2013-14, 2014-15, 2015-16, 2016-17

Spring 2016, 2017

Artificial Intelligence (CSC 475)

Fall 2014, 2015

Operating Systems (CSC 345)

Spring 2016, 2017 and

Winter 2016-17

Tools for Data Analytics (CSC 576)

Spring 2016

Data Structures (CSC 220), and

Advance Data Structures (CSC 325) -

Fall 2016, and

Summer 2016, 2017

Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery (CSC 493/579)

Fall 2015

Foundations of Data Analytics (ITEC 460) IT Certificate at Louisiana Tech University.

Spring 2014

Project Experience (ITEC 411) - IT Certificate at Louisiana Tech University.

Winter 2013-14

Introduction to Data Analytics (CSC 557), at Century Link Monroe, LA.

Spring 2013, 2014, and

Fall 2016

Introduction to MATLAB
Advanced Certifications and Training for Technology (ACTT),
Louisiana Tech University, Ruston, LA., U.S.A.

Winter 2012-13

CSC 580: Advanced Data Mining for Bioinformatics
Topic: Classification Algorithms

Spring 2008, Spring 2009, Winter 2011-12, Winter 2012-13

CSC 580: Advanced Data Mining, Fusion and Applications

Topic: Data Warehousing, Supervised Learning, Data Analytics.

Spring 2010, Spring 2013.

CSC 579: Introduction to Data Mining. Louisiana Tech University.

Fall 2007, Fall 2009

Duties: Conducted lab sessions and guided students in projects.  Conducted lectures on data-mining classification algorithms and introduced protein structure classification.

Chapter: Pradeep Chowriappa, Sumeet Dua, and Yavor Todorov, Introduction to Machine Learning in Healthcare Informatics, Machine Learning in Healthcare Informatics, Ed. Sumeet Dua, Rajendra Acharya, Prerna Dua, Springer

2014

Book: Data Mining for Bioinformatics
Authors: Sumeet Dua and Pradeep Chowriappa, CRC Press

ISBN: 0849328012.

2012

Dissertation: Integrated Mining of Feature Spaces for Bioinformatics Domain Discovery
Authors: Pradeep Chowriappa
ISBN:1243560886.

2011

Chapter: Sumeet Dua and Pradeep Chowriappa, Characterizing Dynamic Group Behavior in Social Networks, Data Analysis for Network Cyber-Security, Ed. Niall Adams and Nicholas Heard, World Scientific. pp. 105-128.

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1142/9781783263752_0004

2014

UR Acharya, A Akter , P Chowriappa, S Dua , U Raghavendra, JEW Koh, J H Tan, SS Leong, A Vijayananthan ,Y Hagiwara, M T R Hamid , K H Ng, Use of nonlinear features for automated characterization of suspicious ovarian tumors using ultrasound images in fuzzy forest framework,  International Journal of Fuzzy Systems (Accepted)

2018

UR Acharya, H Mugasa, P Chowriappa, S Dua, JEW Koh, Y Hagiwara, J H Tan, C Madla, P Kongmebhol, K H Ng, A Data Adaption Classification Framework for Selection of Optimal Binarized Statistical Image Features (BSIF) of Thyroid Lesions Using Ultrasound Images, Medical & biological engineering & computing (Accepted)

2018

UR Acharya, P Chowriappa, H Fujita, S Bhat, S Dua, JEW Koh, Thyroid lesion classification in 242 patient population using Gabor transform features from high resolution ultrasound images, Knowledge-Based Systems 107, 235-245

2016

S Ibrahim, P Chowriappa, S Dua, UR Acharya, K Noronha, S Bhandary, Classification of diabetes maculopathy images using data-adaptive neuro-fuzzy inference classifier, Medical & biological engineering & computing 53 (12), 1345-1360.

2015

P Chowriappa, S Dua, UR Acharya, MMR Krishnan, Ensemble selection for feature-based classification of diabetic maculopathy images, Computers in biology and medicine 43 (12), 2156-2162

2013

S Dua, R Acharya, P. Chowriappa, and Vinitha Sree, Wavelet-Based Energy Features for Glaucomatous Image Classification, IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in BioMedicine (TITB), 16(1):80-87.

2012

P Chowriappa, S. Dua, Rajendra Acharya, Muthu Krishnan, Ensemble Selection for Feature-Based Classification of Diabetic Maculopathy Images, Computers in Biology and Medicine (CBM), 43(12):2156-2162.

2013

P Chowriappa, P Dua, and W J. Lukiw, An Exploratory Analysis of Conservation of Co-Expressed Genes across Alzheimer's Disease Progression, Journal of Computer Science & Systems Biology.6:215-227

2013

S Dua, P Chowriappa, and A E. Alex, Ranking through Integration of Protein-Similarity for Identification of Cell-Cyclic Genes, International Journal of Bioinformatics Research and Applications (IJBRA), 6 (2), 179-190.

2010

S Dua, N Kandiraju, and P Chowriappa, Region Quad-tree Decomposition Based Edge Detection for Medical Images, The Open Medical Informatics Journal, 4 (8), 50-57.

2010

P Chowriappa, S Dua, J Kanno, and H W. Thompson, Protein Structural Classification Based on Conservation of Hydrophobic Residues. IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, 6(4): 639-51.

2009

V Jaitly, P Chowriappa, S Dua, A framework to identify influencers in signed social networks, Advances in Computing, Communications and Informatics (ICACCI), 2016.

2016

P Chowriappa and S Dua, Capturing Hydrophobic Moment using Spectral Coherence for Protein Secondary Structure Prediction, 2013 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (IEEE CIBCB 2013),2013.

2013

S Dua and P Chowriappa, Prediction of Enzyme Classes using Spectral Based AA Information, Proceedings of 12th Information Conference on Information Technology, Dec. 21-24.

2009

H Singh, P Chowriappa, and S Dua, Multi-Domain Protein Family Classification using Isomorphic Inter-Property Relationships, International Conference on Contemporary Computing (IC3), Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 473-484 pages, ISBN-978-3-642-035

2009

A E. Alex, S Dua, and P Chowriappa, Gene Ranking through the Integration of Synchronization Experiments, CIBCB 2008, IEEE and IEEE Computational Intelligence Society.

2008

S Dua, P Chowriappa, and A E. Alex, Ranking through Integration of Protein-Similarity for Identification of Cell-Cyclic Genes, Proceedings of Biotechnology and Bioinformatics Symposium (BIOT-2008), BIOT.

2008

S Dua and P Chowriappa, Characterizing dynamic group behavior in social networks for cybernetics, Data Analytics for CyberSecurity: Workshop 2013, University of Bristol, United Kingdom.

2013

S Dua and P Chowriappa, Functional Classification of Proteins Using a Novel Fractal-Based Approach, Proceedings of 24th Annual Houston Conference on Biomedical Engineering Research, Houston Society for Engineering in Medicine and Biology.

2007

P Chowriappa, S Dua, and R Rajagopalan, Computational Prediction of Protein Secondary Structures using Supervised Classification, Proceedings of 23rd Annual Houston Conference on Biomedical Engineering Research, Houston, Texas, Houston Society for Engineering in Medicine and Biology.

2006

P Dua, C Pinnamaneni, P Chowriappa and W Lukiw,  A Co-expression Network Based Approach for Gene Expression Analysis in Alzheimer’s’ Disease Progression, 16^th Annual International Conference on Research in Computational Molecular Biology (RECOMB 2012), Barcelona, Spain.

2012

Su Dua and P Chowriappa, Protein Maps: Integration of Physico-Chemical Properties for Functional Annotation of Proteins, 7th Asia-Pacific Bioinformatics Conference, The Asia Pacific Bioinformatics Conference (APBC), Beijing, China.

2008

S Dua, P Chowriappa, and R Rajagopalan, Novel Protein Structural Classification by Discovering Coherence in Hydrophobicity Scales, 14th Annual International Conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology (ISMB 2006), Fortaleza, Brazil,.

2006

S Dua, P Chowriappa, and R Rajagopalan, Computational Prediction of Protein Structure using Self-Similarity Based Classification, Proceedings of International Symposium on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics (ISCB 2006), Bhubaneswar, India.

2006

H Adigoppula, P. Dua, P Chowriappa: Identification of Biological Markers in the NF-kB pathway of AD using Text Analytics, 12^th Louisiana Biomedical Research Network – Annual Meeting

2014

A Weber, P. Dua, P Chowriappa, W J. Lukiw, An unsupervised learning approach using statistical technique median-centered expression dataset to effectively identify clusters of miRNAs in Alzheimer’s disease progression, 11^th Louisiana Biomedical Research Network – Annual Meeting

2013

A Shanmugam, P. Dua, P Chowriappa, W J. Lukiw, Rank Based non-linear correlation technique for analysis of miRNA expression data, 11^th Louisiana Biomedical Research Network – Annual Meeting.

2013

P Chowriappa, C M Migliore, J I Quebedeaux Jr: Assessment of the Access Grid Framework Across the State of Louisiana, 2011 Southeast Regional IDeA Meeting

2011

P Chowriappa, S Dua, H W Thompson, Predicting Conformational Changes in Proteins Based on Hydrophobic Cores, NSF EPSCoR Research Infrastructure Improvement Annual Meeting.

2009

A  E. Alex, P Chowriappa, S Dua, H W. Thompson: An Information Fusion Tool for Feature Integration in Synchronized Environments, NSF EPSCoR Research Infrastructure Improvement Annual Meeting.

2009

P Chowriappa, C Clement, S Dua, J Hill, H W. Thompson, D Neumann, Physico-chemical Property Analysis Tool for Assessment of Protein Domain Conservation, NSF EPSCoR Research Infrastructure Improvement Annual Meeting.

2009