Professor Atallah's main research interest
is algorithms, in particular for computer security, geometry, and parallel
computation. He received a Presidential Young Investigator Award from the
National Science Foundation in 1985. A Fellow of the IEEE, he has served
on the editorial boards of SIAM Journal on Computing, Journal of Parallel
and Distributed Computing, Information Processing Letters, Computational
Geometry: Theory & Applications, International Journal of Computational
Geometry & Applications, Parallel Processing Letters, Methods of Logic
in Computer Science. He was Guest Editor for a Special Issue of Algorithmica
on Computational Geometry, has served as Editor of the Handbook of Parallel
and Distributed Computing (McGraw-Hill), as Editorial Advisor for the Handbook
of Computer Science and Engineering, (CRC Press), and as Editor-in-Chief
for Handbook of Algorithms and Theory of Computation (CRC Press). He was
selected to serve on the Program Committees of various conferences and
workshops (including ACM Symposium on Computational Geometry, SIAM Symposium
on Discrete Algorithms, Workshop on Algorithms and Data Structures, IEEE
Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing, IEEE International Parallel
Processing Symposium, International Symposium on Algorithms and Computation,
and many others). He was Keynote and Invited Speaker at many national and
international meetings.
Dr. Prabhakar's research focuses on issues
in large-scale, distributed applications such as multimedia databases,
data warehouses, and digital libraries. The efficient execution of I/O
is a critical problem for these applications. He is currently developing
techniques that improve I/O performance for traditional and multimedia
databases. He has developed declustering algorithms for multidimensional
data that result in increased parallel I/O scheduling algorithms for robotic
removable media libraries. Dr. Prabhakar's interest also lies in the design
and development of digital libraries for the management and study of scientific
research data.
Students who have worked on the project:
Max Karpiak
Salvador Mandujano
Saurabh Sandhir
Mei-Lin Sun
Yuanhua Lu
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