Virendrakumar (Virendra) C. Bhavsar
Honorary Research Professor and Professor Emeritus
(former Professor and Dean)
Coordinator, Advanced Computational Research Lab.
Founding Fellow, The International Institute of Cognitive Informatics and
Cognitive Computing
B. Eng. (Univ. of Poona), M.Tech., Ph.D. (Indian
Institute of Technology/Bombay)
Gillin Hall, Room
E-109A
Faculty of Computer Science
University of New Brunswick,
Fredericton, E3B 5A3 Canada
Current research interests include the following
areas:
* Parallel and Distributed Intelligent Systems:
Knowledge Engineering and Deep Learning, Semantic matching, semantic search and
semantic matchmaking with applications in search engines, e-business. e-Health,
e-Learning, Natural language processing and text-to-scene conversion. (Funded
by NSERC Canada and New Brunswick Innovation Foundation).
* Parallel/ Distributed Computing: Semantic
Matching and Natural Language Processing with Cluster and GPGPU computing, Big
Data Computing.
*Big Data
Analytics: Spatio-Temporal Databases, In-Memory
Aggregation and Hash-Joins
Past research work spans many other areas of computer
science including computer architecture, real-time process control systems,
fault-tolerant computing, transliteration, 3-D computer graphics, fractals, and
multi-lingual systems. Founded the first research group in computer science at
the University of New Brunswick in 1986 and also Ied
the Canadian Foundation for Innovation (CFI)
project on the Advanced Computational Research Laboratory (ACRL) and established the laboratory in
2000.
Carried out research work with researchers from the
National Research Council, Ottawa; University of Akron, Ohio; Center for Development of Advanced Computing, India;
University of Illinois, Urbana; University of Poona, India, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, Georgia State University, Atlanta, USA and University of New Brunswick.
Authored more than 170 research papers in journals and conference
proceedings and has edited 4 volumes. He has supervised/co-supervised over 70 master's theses and doctoral theses and has also worked
with many post-doctoral
fellows/research associates. Please follow this link to the list of Research Papers/Reports.
He has been involved in organizing and leading high
performance computing activities in Canada for over three decades. He was an
Executive Member of HPCnet (1996-98) and a founding
member of the Board of Directors of C3.ca, Inc. (1998-2003). He co-led the ACEnet (Atlantic Computational Excellence Network) project
– a $30+ million high performance computing initiative in Atlantic
Canada.
He is a Life member of IEEE, and a member of ACM, and CIPS.
He holds Information Systems Professional (ISP) designation from CIPS, Canada. He was the Vice-President of CIPS,
Fredericton Section. He is the Past Chair of the IEEE, New Brunswick Section of the
IEEE Canada, 2000-2002. He has conducted many professional courses for
industries and research laboratories in USA, Canada and India. He has organized
many conferences. He has been also a Program Committee Member of many
conferences.
He has been involved in organizing many national and
international conferences/workshops. He has given numerous keynote talks at
conferences and workshops around the world. He has co-organized a series of
workshops on Grid, Cluster and Big Data Computing as a part of
the International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposia (IPDPS).
He was the Dean, Faculty of Computer Science,
University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, from July 1, 2003 to June 30,
2008. Since 1990, he has been collaborating with the Centre for
Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC),
Pune, India. He was the Distinguished Visiting Professor at the International Institute of Information Technology,
Pune, India, during 2008-09. He was a faculty member at the Dept. of Computer
Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, India,
1976-83.
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