Anand Panangadan

My webpage has changed: http://www.fullerton.edu/ecs/faculty/apanangadan/

Email: apanangadan AT fullerton DOT edu
Phone: 657-278-3998
Fax: 657-278-7168
Office: CS-548
Office hours (Fall 2019): Thu 4-5:30pm, 7-8:30pm

My research interests are in applications of machine learning, text mining, social network analysis, and sensor networks.

I was a Senior Research Associate at USC's Ming-Hsieh Department of Electrical Engineering where I jointly supervised the Big Data Analytics group with Viktor Prasanna. The group's work addresses the challenge of rapidly analyzing large heterogeneous data sources together. The group's work is largely supported by the USC-Chevron Center for Interactive Smart Oilfield Technologies.

I was a Research Specialist at the Saban Research Institute of the Children's Hospital Los Angeles from 2004 to 2012 and a post-doctoral affiliate at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. During this time, I worked on resource optimization in embedded sensor networks (including body sensor networks).

I worked with Prof. Adnan Darwiche at the UCLA Computer Science Department on embedding reasoning algorithms based on efficient representations of propositional logic into a Sony Aibo robot.

My Ph.D. dissertation work under Michael G. Dyer. demonstrated how agents built with a connectionist architecture could construct arbitrary physical structures in a simulated environment.