Venkatakrishnan Ramaswamy (
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(How do you pronounce that?)
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Office:
Silberman Building, Room 3-305
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Givat Ram, Jerusalem 91904
Israel.
Phone:+972-(0)2-6586086
Fax: +972-(0)2-6584440
venkat.ramaswamy@mail.huji.ac.il
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About me
I am a Postdoctoral Fellow with Haim Sompolinsky in the Interdisciplinary Center for Neural Computation which is part of the Center for Brain Sciences at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
I graduated with a Ph.D. in Computer and Information Science and Engineering from the University of Florida.
My dissertation was on Computational Neuroscience and I was advised by Arunava Banerjee.
Publications
- Venkatakrishnan Ramaswamy, Arunava Banerjee
Connectomic Constraints on Computation in Networks of Spiking Neurons,
Computational and Systems Neuroscience (Cosyne) 2013.
- Venkatakrishnan Ramaswamy, Arunava Banerjee
On the trade-off between single-neuron complexity and network size with
respect to spike-timed computations,
Twenty First Annual Computational Neuroscience Meeting: CNS*2012. [PDF]
- Tamer Kahveci, Venkatakrishnan Ramaswamy, Han Tao, Tao Li
Approximate Global Alignment of Sequences,
Proceedings of IEEE 5th Symposium on Bioinformatics & Bioengineering 2005 (BIBE 05), Minneapolis, 2005. [PDF]
- Ravi Gummadi, N.S. Narayanaswamy, Venkatakrishnan R
Algorithms for Satisfiability using Independent Sets of Variables,
Proceedings of Seventh International Conference on Theory and Applications of Satisfiability Testing (SAT 2004), Vancouver, 2004.
Revised Selected Papers, Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), Vol. 3542: 133-144, 2005 . [PDF]
Theses
- The Transformational Complexity of Acyclic Networks of Neurons, Ph.D. Thesis, 2011. [PDF]
- Empirical Study of Divide and Conquer Algorithms for Satisfiability, B.Tech. Project Report, 2004. [PS]
Teaching
In Spring 2010, I was a Teaching Assistant for CAP 6610 Machine Learning.
In the past, I have taught
and served as a Teaching Assistant for
- COT 5405 Analysis of Algorithms (Fall 2008, Summer 2007, Spring 2007 and Fall 2006)
- COT 3100 Applications of Discrete Structures (Spring 2009, Fall 2007, Spring 2006 and Fall 2005)
- CIS 3023 Programming for CIS Majors II (Summer 2005 and Spring 2005)
- CIS 3020 Introduction to Computer Science (Fall 2004).
Notes
On the PCP Theorem and Approximability.
Software
ISAT
ISAT is an Incomplete Satisfiability Solver that uses a Randomized Algorithm with Independent Set (inspired by PPSZ-like Algorithms) with Heuristic Local Search to a shallow depth. It participated in the SAT Competition 2004. It was designed along with Ravi Gummadi and N.S. Narayanaswamy.
The source is available here. This
software has been released under the GNU General Public License. In case you make any further improvements, we would appreciate hearing from you.
Webpage Wizard
Webpage Wizard is a text-based, menu-driven Webpage designer for designing simple webpages. It was written in C++ for MS-DOS. This was my high school project. It can be downloaded from here
Links
Courses on the web
MIT OpenCourseWare
Berkeley Webcast
Rice Connexions
Charles
Leiserson's
Algorithms course (with videos)
Gilbert Strang's Linear Algebra course (with videos)
Gilbert Strang's Applied Math course (with videos)
Leonid Levin's Theory of Computation
Richard Feynman - The Douglas Robb Memorial Lectures
UF CISE lecture videos
Special Topics in Machine Learning, Spring 2006
Neural Networks, Fall 2005
Computer Vision, Fall 2005
Formal Languages and Computation Theory, Spring 2004
Ph.D./Research Advice
How to Be a Good Graduate Student
The Ph.D experience
So long and thanks for the PhD!
Advice for Finishing that Damn Ph.D.
Advice for undergraduates considering graduate school
Applying to Ph.D. programs in Computer Science
Four Golden Lessons - Advice to students at the start of their scientific careers
Manuel Blum's Advice to a Beginning Graduate Student
100 Reasons to be a Scientist
Leo Esaki's 5 Don'ts for success
You and your research
How to Present a Paper in Theoretical Computer Science: A Speaker's Guide for Students
The Researcher's Bible
A Computer Scientist's guide to writing and publishing Technical Articles
Dissertation Advice
Networking on the Network
The Science of Scientific Writing
Mathematical Writing
On proof and progress in mathematics
Humor
Calvin & Hobbes - An Introduction
Piled Higher and Deeper
Automatic CS Research topic generator
Madras Bashai
The Travails of Single South Indian men of conservative upbringing
A field guide to getting married in South India
Misc.
How We Broke Academia
The Big Crunch - A brief history of science
Computing machinery and intelligence
To Dream The Possible Dream - 1995 Turing Award lecture
Science must push copyright aside
The Right to Read
Why nerds are unpopular (in the US)
Florida Linux Users - the Gainesville LUG
The Graduate Student's Guide to Indian Recipes
Scrooge and intellectual property rights
The Science of Love
Internet Archive - The Wayback Machine
Free Hugs
Trivia
My Erdös number is 4, through the path VR - N.S. Narayanaswamy - C. E. Veni Madhavan - Renu C. Laskar - PE.
Academic Genealogy
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