S. Lakshmivarahan

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Learning algorithms, interconnection networks, scientific computing and parallel processing, data mining, and dynamic data assimilation and their applications to meteorology and finance.

BIOGRAPHY

Dr. S. Lakshmivarahan received his BS (Physics) with Distinction in 1964 from the M. D .T Hindu College, (Tirunelveli), University of Madras, India; BE (Electrical Engineering) with Distinction in 1967; ME (Applied Electronics and Servomechanisms) with Distinction in 1969 and PhD (Learning Algorithms for Stochastic Automata) in 1973, all from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India. Before joining the University of Oklahoma in 1978 where he is currently a George Lynn Cross Research Professor at the School of Computer Science, he has held faculty/postdoctoral positions at the Yale University (1976-78), Brown University (1975-76) and Indian Institute of Technology at Madras (1973-75). He received the University of Oklahoma Regents' award for accomplishment in research and creative activities in 1982, University of Oklahoma Regents' award for superior teaching in 1991 and the George Lynn Cross Research Professor in 1995. He is a Fellow of the IEEE (1993) and a Fellow of ACM (1995). He has held short term visiting positions at the AMOCO Research Center, Tulsa, Oklahoma; University of Bonn, Germany; Laval University in Quebec, Canada; ITESM in Monterrey, Mexico; National Institute of Standards and Technology; Storm Prediction Center, Norman, Oklahoma; CIMAT, in Guanajuato, Mexico; National Tsing-Huo University in Taiwan; Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India and Forecast Systems Laboratory, Boulder, Colorado and British Meteorological Office in Bracknell, England. His research interests include learning algorithms, interconnection networks, scientific computing and parallel processing, data mining, and dynamic data assimilation and their applications to meteorology and finance.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

J. M. Lewis, S. Lakshmivarahan and S. K. Dhall (2006) Dynamic Data Assimilation: A least squares approach, Cambridge University Press, 654 pages (Volume 104 in the Series on Encyclopedia of Mathematics and its Applications)

S. Lakshmivarahan, M. Baldwin and T. Zheng (2006) “Further Analysis of Lorenz’s Maximum Simplification Equations”, Journal of Atmospheric Sciences, Vol 63, pp 2673-2999

S. Lakshmivarahan and D. Stock (2006) “Explaining Municipal Bond Volatility: Implications for Practice”
Municipal Finance Journal, Vol 27, pp 1 – 33

N. Pappu, S. Lakshmivarahan and D. Stock (2006) “Models of Conditional Variance for Bond Prices”,
Journal of Fixed Income, Vol 16, pp 65 – 70

K. Kelleher, K.K. Droegemeier, J. J. Levitt, C. Sinclair, D. E. Jahn, S. D. Hill, T. D. Crum, S. D. Smith, S. A. Del Greco, S. Lakshmivarahan, L. Miller, M. Ramamamurthi, B. Domenico, D. W. Fulker, and H. Edmon (2007) “Project CRAFT: Technical Aspects of a Real Time Delivery System for NEXRAD Level II Data via the Internet”, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, July 2007, pp 1-13.

S. Lakshmivarahan and Yunheng Wang (2007) On the structure of Energy Conserving low-order models and their relations to Volterra Gyrostats. Journal of Nonlinear Analysis: Real World Applications, (Accepted for publication)