Pani Chakrapani
Professor
Math & Computer Science
Education
- Doctoral work in computer science, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India
- M.S., mathematics, University of Madras, Chennai, India
Professional Background
Pani Chakrapani has worked in numerous areas of computer science for more than 30 years. He has published papers and articles in a variety of journals and co-authored a chapter in Transactions on Engineering Technologies, World Congress on Engineering and Computer Science 2014. His current focus is on the pedagogy of computing in a rapidly changing technological environment and on the study of agents in artificial intelligence.
Experience
- Assistant professor of computer science, Wichita State University, Wichita, Kansas
- Lecturer, School of Automation, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India
- Programmer, Computer Center, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India
- Programmer, Computer Center, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India
Areas of Expertise
- Artificial intelligence
- Computer uses in education
- Database design
- Software engineering
- Theory of computation
- Web design
Publications
- “Intentional Agents.” With Nandan Parameswaran. In Transactions on Engineering Technologies, World Congress on Engineering and Computer Science 2014. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-7236-5_18
- Book review of Querying Databases Privately: A New Approach to Private Information Retrieval (Lecture Notes in Computer Science 3128), by D. Asonov. ACM Computing Reviews Online, April 2006.
- Hands-on Approach to Using Software on a PC. Erudition Books Publishing Co., 2001, 2002.
- Book review of Automatic Algorithm Recognition and Replacement: A New Approach to Program Optimization, by R. Metzger and Z. Wen. ACM Computing Reviews, August 2002, 251–252.
- Review of Using C++: An Introduction to Programming (second edition), by Hennefeld, Baker, and Burchard, completed at the request of Brooks/Cole Thomson Learning, 2001.
- “Microsoft Word 98 for the Macintosh.” Chapter in Doing Macintosh, McGraw-Hill College Division Series, 1998.
Presentations
- “Modeling with Events from Policy Descriptions.” Paper presented in the session on semantics, logics, information extraction, and AI at the Thirtieth International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference (FLAIRS-30), May 2017. With Nandan Parameswaran.
- “Performance Analysis of an Optoelectronic Localization System for Monitoring Brain Lesioning with Proton Beams.” IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society Conference, June 2007. With Fadi Shihadeh, Reinhard Schulte, and Keith Schubert.
- “Opening Up Technological Education: The Perspective from Social Informatics.” International Symposium on Technology and Society (ISTAS 2004), June 2004. With Hamid R. Ekbia.
Awards and Service
- Fellow, American Society of Business and Behavioral Sciences
- Senior member, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
- Senior member, Association for Computing Machinery
- Outstanding Teaching Award, University of Redlands, 1999
- Editor, e-Journal of the American Society of Business and Behavioral Sciences, 2008–2015
- Editor, Proceedings of the Annual Conferences of the American Society of Business and Behavioral Sciences, 2003–2006
Affiliations
- Senior member, Association for Computing Machinery
- Senior member, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers