Dr. Vidhya Balasubramanian

Biography

Dr. Vidhya Balasubramanian joined Amrita in 2009; she comes to Amrita from the University of California Irvine, USA, where she received both her M. S. and Ph. D. (2008) in Computer Science. Her dissertation focused on Supporting Scalable Activity Modeling in Simulators. She has experience in large scale spatial temporal data management and customized multimedia information retrieval. As a member of the Distributed Systems Middleware group in University of California, Irvine, USA, Dr. Vidhya worked on user-based multimedia content adaptation for distance learning. She has worked on building large simulation platforms for disaster response in the ITR-Rescue project, part of California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2). She has worked on scalable multi-geography path planning algorithms in the context of designing integrated disaster response simulation test beds. Her experience working on large systems has given her rich experience in large scale data management and scalable algorithms. She was the Principal Investigator of a DST funded project on Indoor GIS which is part of the Amrita Multidimensional Data Analytics Lab. Dr. Balasubramanian joined Amrita because of her wish to be part of Ammas projects to serve society. She believes Amrita University has significantly improved the standards of education in India, and she wants to contribute to research and higher education as part of Amrita. Her current areas of interests are Spatial and temporal data management, Indoor Spatial Data Management, Scalable Data Architectures and Knowledge Representations for Information Retrieval. She is also interested in multimedia content adaptation and management, and geographical information systems. She is currently advising PhD scholars in these areas.

Research Interest

Spatio-Temporal Data Management, Information Retrieval, Knowledge Representation, Data Visualization