Vasant Honavar

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Professor of Informatics and Intelligent Systems @ Penn State University
State College, PA, US
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University Park, Pennsylvania, United States, United States
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About Vasant Honavar

I currently hold the Dorothy Foehr Huck and J. Lloyd Huck Chair in Biomedical Data Sciences and Artificial Intelligence at Penn State University. I have extensive research, curriculum and program development, and leadership in Artificial Intelligence, Data Sciences, and Informatics. My research has resulted in scalable methods for learning predictive models from (distributed, heterogeneous, multi-modal, longitudinal, and very high-dimensional) data; representation learning from complex data; eliciting causal effects from observational and experimental data; selective sharing of knowledge across disparate knowledge bases; and applications in bioinformatics and health informatics (predictive and causal modeling of health risks and health outcomes from clinical, socio-demographic, and behavioral data). I have published over 300 research articles that have been cited more than 19000 times (h-index = 63). I have mentored 39 PhD students, 10 postdoctoral researchers and scores of masters and undergraduate researchers and junior faculty who have gone on to establish successful careers. I have co-founded and led innovative interdisciplinary graduate and undergraduate programs.I have received multiple awards and honors including the National Science Foundation (NSF) Director’s Award for Superior Accomplishment for my leadership of the NSF Big Data Program, Iowa Board of Regents Award for Faculty Excellence and numerous other awards from Iowa State University and Pennsylvania State University. I have been elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and the European Association for Innovation, and Distinguished member of the Association for Computing Machinery.As the Director of the Center for Artificial Intelligence Foundations and Scientific Applications, I lead new research initiatives that leverage AI and data sciences to advance scientific knowledge and innovation across diverse domains, such as life sciences, biomedical and health sciences, material sciences, and more. As Associate Director of the Institute for Computational and Data Sciences, I lead strategic faculty co-hire initiatives, multi-institutional partnerships, and interdisciplinary research collaborations. My key focus is to develop and apply cutting-edge AI and data sciences methods to address complex scientific challenges and societal problems, as well as to create and disseminate interdisciplinary curricula that integrate AI and data sciences across all disciplines.

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State College, PA, US
Vasant Honavar Work Experience Details
  • Penn State University
    Professor Of Informatics And Intelligent Systems
    Penn State University
    State College, Pa, Us
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  • Penn State University
    Associate Director For Ai And Strategic Initiatives, Nsf Ncems
    Penn State University May 2024 - Present
    University Park, Pa, Us
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  • Penn State University
    Dorothy Foehr Huck And J. Lloyd Huck Chair In Biomedical Data Sciences And Artificial Intelligence
    Penn State University Oct 2021 - Present
    University Park, Pa, Us
    Research and education in Artificial Intelligence (Knowledge Representation, Machine Learning, Causal Inference) and Data Sciences, with applications to Predictive and Causal Modeling in Biological, Biomedical, Behavioral, Cognitive, Social and Physical Sciences
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  • Penn State University
    Director, Center For Artificial Intelligence Foundations And Scientific Applications
    Penn State University Apr 2021 - Present
    University Park, Pa, Us
    Developed new research initiatives focused on accelerating science through advances in artificial intelligence; with initial emphasis on life sciences; biomedical and health sciences; material sciences leading to several large externally funded research projects.
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  • Penn State University
    Associate Director, Institute For Computational And Data Sciences
    Penn State University Sep 2014 - Present
    University Park, Pa, Us
    Co-developed and co-led the institute's strategic research initiatives in Data Science and Artificial Intelligence; developed the Center for Artificial Intelligence Foundations and Scientific Applications; Led strategic faculty co-hire initiatives with several departments and colleges; developed multi-institutional partnerships e.g., virtual data collaboratory, Institute for AI-enabled materials discovery, design, and synthesis, northeast big data hub, eastern regional network.
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  • Penn State University
    Director, Artificial Intelligence Research Laboratory
    Penn State University Sep 2013 - Present
    University Park, Pa, Us
    Led research projects, and training graduate and postdoctoral students artificial intelligence, machine learning from large, federated, multimodal, longitudinal, richly structured data, causal inference from observational and experimental data, representing and reasoning about preferences, knowledge, and arguments, algorithmic fairness; applications in bioinformatics (analysis and prediction of protein-protein, protein-RNA, and protein-DNA interactions, interfaces, and complexes), brain informatics (analysis and modeling of network biomarkers), biomedical and health informatics (predictive and causal modeling of health risks and outcomes from clinical, sociodemographic, behavioral, genomic, and environmental data), materials informatics, security informatics, and social informatics; artificial intelligence enabled scientific discovery; federated data and computing infrastructure for data and compute intensive collaborative science.
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  • Penn State University
    Professor Of Informatics (Graduate Program)
    Penn State University Sep 2013 - Present
    University Park, Pa, Us
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  • Penn State University
    Professor Of Information Sciences And Technology
    Penn State University Sep 2013 - Present
    University Park, Pa, Us
    Established and led research programs in Artificial intelligence, Data Sciences, and related areas; Co-led the development of an inter college Data Sciences undergraduate degree program; developed and taught graduate and undergraduate courses in artificial intelligence, machine learning, causal inference, knowledge representation, foundations of informatics, and related topics; served on college, university, and national committees in leadership or advisory roles (e.g., CRA Computing Community Consortium; AAAS Section on Computing, Information and Communication Nominating Committee, Eastern Regional Network Steering Committee, Northeast Big Data Hub Executive Committee); Served as program chair for the 36th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence.
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  • Penn State University
    Professor Of Computer Science (Graduate Program)
    Penn State University Oct 2015 - Present
    University Park, Pa, Us
    Research, graduate (PhD) student training and teaching in Computer Science (especially artificial intelligence, big data analytics, machine learning, and related topics).
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  • Penn State University
    Professor Of Bioinformatics And Genomics (Graduate Program)
    Penn State University Sep 2013 - Present
    University Park, Pa, Us
    Research and graduate training in bioinformatics and computational biology.
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  • Penn State University
    Professor Of Public Health Sciences
    Penn State University Oct 2021 - Present
    University Park, Pa, Us
    Research in biomedical data sciences and artificial intelligence, with emphasis on predictive and causal modeling of health risks and outcomes from biomedical, behavioral, environmental and sociodemographic data
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  • Penn State University
    Professor Of Neuroscience (Graduate Program)
    Penn State University Sep 2014 - Present
    University Park, Pa, Us
    Research and graduate training in neuroinformatics, computational neuroscience, cognitive neuroscience, computational models of learning, perception, and action.
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  • Penn State University
    Faculty Member, Operations Research (Graduate Program)
    Penn State University Aug 2014 - Present
    University Park, Pa, Us
    Research and graduate training in machine learning, optimization, and related topics.
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  • Penn State University
    Director, Center For Big Data Analytics And Discovery Informatics
    Penn State University Nov 2014 - Present
    University Park, Pa, Us
    Fostered fundamental research in algorithms, methods, and software for big data analytics and discovery informatics; catalyzed interdisciplinary collaborations that leverage large-scale data analytics and predictive modeling to advance sciences, engineering, and humanities, with particular emphasis on biomedical, behavioral, brain, and cognitive sciences, leading to campus-wide collaborations, multi-institutional partnerships e.g., Northeast Big Data Hub, and several large funded projects.
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  • Penn State University
    Faculty Member, Huck Institutes Of The Life Sciences
    Penn State University Sep 2013 - Present
    University Park, Pa, Us
    Research and graduate training in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology.
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  • Penn State University
    Faculty Member, Institute For Computational And Data Sciences
    Penn State University Sep 2013 - Present
    University Park, Pa, Us
    Research on data analytics applied to scientific discovery.
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  • Penn State University
    Professor And Edward Frymoyer Chair Of Information Science And Technology
    Penn State University Sep 2013 - Oct 2021
    University Park, Pa, Us
    Research, graduate (PhD, MS) student training and teaching in artificial intelligence, machine learning, big data analytics, bioinformatics, security informatics and related topics; Leading a new research initiative in Discovery Informatics.
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  • Indian Institute Of Science
    Sudha Murty Distinguished Visiting Chair Professor In Neurocomputing And Data Science
    Indian Institute Of Science Oct 2016 - Present
    Bangalore, Karnataka, In
    Collaborative research in Data Sciences and Brain Sciences with faculty and students of the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore (including in particular, the Department of Computer Science and Automation, Department of Computational and Data Sciences, Centre for Neuroscience, Centre for Infectious Disease Research, the Molecular Biosciences Unit, the Department of Electrical Engineering, and the Department of Electrical Communication Engineering).
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  • Eastern Regional Network
    Steering Committee Member
    Eastern Regional Network Aug 2017 - Present
    Envisioning, developing and deploying federated data and computing infrastructure for data and computation Intensive collaborative research across disciplinary and organizational boundaries. Initial scientific foci are structural biology and materials discovery.
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  • Association For The Advancement Of Artificial Intelligence (Aaai)
    Program Chair, Thirty-Sixth Aaai Conference On Artificial Intelligence
    Association For The Advancement Of Artificial Intelligence (Aaai) Apr 2021 - Feb 2022
    Washington, District Of Columbia, Us
    Program Chair for AAAI-22, responsible for organizing the scientific peer review of approximately 10,000 research articles and selection of a subset to be presented at AAAI-22.
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  • Northeast Big Data Innovation Hub
    Executive Committee Member
    Northeast Big Data Innovation Hub Oct 2015 - Dec 2019
    The North East Big Data Innovation Hub aims to create partnerships that bring together academia, industry, government, and non-profits to foster innovation in big data management, analytics, and applications. It will facilitate sharing of data, tools, infrastructure, techniques, and knowledge to address challenges using big data. Initial areas of focus include Health, Energy, Finance, Cities/Regions, Discovery Science, and Data Science in Education with Data Sharing, Privacy & Security, Ethics & Policy, and Education as cross-cutting themes. The Hub will create an ecosystem to bridge across government, private and public organizations.
  • Computing Research Association
    Computing Community Consortium Council Member
    Computing Research Association Jul 2014 - Jun 2017
    In my role as a member of Computing Community Consortium (CCC) Council, I worked with the broader computing research community to identify, articulate, and communicate computing research opportunities and challenges, with particular emphasis on Data Sciences, Artificial Intelligence, and applications to enhancing and accelerating science and addressing societal needs, e.g., health, social justice and civil rights, and education.
  • National Science Foundation
    Program Director, Information Integration And Informatics; Big Data Science And Engineering
    National Science Foundation Sep 2010 - Sep 2013
    Alexandria, Va, Us
    Intergovernmental Personnel Act (IPA) Appointment. Led the NSF-NIH Big Data Science and Engineering Program (as a lead program director), Contributed to the NSF Information Integration & Informatics (especially Data Mining and Machine Learning, Semantic Web, Social Networks and Media, and Bioinformatics), Smart and Connected Health, Expeditions in Computing, Science of Learning Centers, Integrative Graduate Education and Research Training (IGERT), and Computing Research Infrastructure Programs; Research planning workshops in Discovery Informatics, Population Health Informatics, Knowledge Representation, and related topics.
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  • Iowa State University
    Director, Center For Computational Intelligence, Learning, & Discovery
    Iowa State University Jul 2005 - Sep 2013
    Ames, Iowa, Us
    Led interdisciplinary research initiatives in Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Data Mining, Big Data Analytics, Knowledge Representation and Inference, Semantic web, Discovery Informatics, Genomics, Bioinformatics, Health Informatics, Energy Informatics, Immune Informatics, Social Informatics, Security Informatics, Computational Systems Biology and related areas.
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  • Iowa State University
    Professor Of Computer Science
    Iowa State University Aug 2001 - Sep 2013
    Ames, Iowa, Us
    Developed scalable algorithms for learning predictive models from large, distributed, semantically disparate data; machine learning algorithms for learning from partially specified data, richly structured (sequence, relational, graph-structured) data; logics for selective knowledge sharing across federated knowledge bases; algorithms for secrecy-preserving query answering; algorithms for representing and reasoning about qualitative preferences; algorithms for service composition, substitution, and adaptation; algorithms and software for comparative analysis of gene expression and protein interaction networks; machine learning approaches to predicting protein-protein, protein-RNA, protein-RNA interfaces, B-cell and T-cell epitopes, and other functionally important sites of proteins. Authored or co-authored over 240 peer-reviewed journal and conference papers including two receiving best paper awards, 20 book chapters, and 1 research monograph during 1990-2013; Secured approximately $30 million in research and training grants from NSF, NIH, and USDA as PI or co-PI during 1990-2013; Mentored 31 Ph.D. graduates (8 employed as tenure-track or tenured faculty in academia, 12 employed in academic research, and 11 employed in industrial research and development), 25 MS graduates (24 employed in industry, one in academic research); Designed and taught graduate and undergraduate courses in Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Semantic web, Bioinformatics, and Computational Functional Genomics and Systems Biology; Served in various capacities in the department (director of research, chair of graduate admissions, member of graduate curriculum committee, undergraduate curriculum committee, chair of promotion and tenure committee); Served on editorial board of several journals and program committees of conferences (AAAI, ISMB, ICML, SDM, ACM-BCB, among others).
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  • Iowa State University
    Professor Of Bioinformatics And Computational Biology
    Iowa State University Aug 2001 - Sep 2013
    Ames, Iowa, Us
    Developing with colleagues in Biological, Mathematical, and Statistical Sciences) the establishment of a new interdepartmental PhD program in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, which is one of the first and largest PhD programs of its kind in the US, with support from an NSF Integrative Graduate Education and Research Training (IGERT) award in 2000, renewed for a second 5-year period in 2005, and served as associate chair of the program during 2001-2003 and chair during 2003-2005; Designing and teaching graduate courses in Bioinformatics; Computational Functional Genomics and Systems Biology; leading interdisciplinary research programs in algorithms and software for analysis and prediction of macromolecular (protein-protein, protein-DNA, and protein-RNA) interfaces, comparative analysis of macromolecular interaction networks.
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  • Iowa State University
    Director Of Artificial Intelligence Research Laboratory
    Iowa State University Aug 1990 - Sep 2013
    Ames, Iowa, Us
    Established a research program in Artificial Intelligence; Developed graduate and undergraduate curricula in Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Knowledge Representation and Inference; Developed and led interdisciplinary research programs in Bioinformatics, Security Informatics, and Energy Informatics.
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  • Iowa State University
    Director Of Research, Department Of Computer Science
    Iowa State University Aug 2005 - Aug 2010
    Ames, Iowa, Us
    Developed strategic interdisciplinary research initiatives in data science, bioinformatics, and related areas; worked with the department and the university to improve research infrastructure for computer and information sciences; fostered interdisciplinary research partnerships with other units on campus.
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  • Iowa State University
    Chair, Bioinformatics And Computational Biology Graduate Program
    Iowa State University Aug 2003 - Jul 2005
    Ames, Iowa, Us
    Leading the interdepartmental PhD program in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology with approximately 40 core and 40 affiliate faculty (drawn from 12 academic departments in 4 colleges) during its formative stages; Leading a major curriculum development effort focused on required core courses for the graduate program in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, culminating in the creation of a Bioinformatics graduate core curriculum comprising of 4 core courses covering Genomics to Systems Biology.
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  • Iowa State University
    Associate Professor Of Bioinformatics And Computational Biology
    Iowa State University Aug 1998 - Jul 2001
    Ames, Iowa, Us
    Research, graduate student supervision, curriculum development, and teaching in bioinformatics and computational biology.
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  • Iowa State University
    Associate Professor Of Computer Science
    Iowa State University Aug 1996 - Jul 2001
    Ames, Iowa, Us
    Research, graduate student supervision, curriculum development, and teaching in Computer Science (especially Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Knowledge Representation, Informatics and related areas)
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  • Iowa State University
    Assistant Professor Of Computer Science
    Iowa State University Aug 1990 - Jul 1996
    Ames, Iowa, Us
    Research, graduate student supervision, curriculum development, and teaching in Computer Science (especially Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Neural Computation, and related areas).
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  • University Of Wisconsin-Madison
    Visiting Professor Of Biomedical Informatics And Biological Statistics
    University Of Wisconsin-Madison Aug 2001 - May 2002
    Madison, Wi, Us
    Sabbatical.
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  • Carnegie Mellon University
    Visiting Professor
    Carnegie Mellon University Sep 1998 - Dec 1998
    Pittsburgh, Pa, Us
    Sabbatical
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Vasant Honavar Skills

Machine Learning Data Mining Artificial Intelligence Bioinformatics Algorithms Computer Science Big Data Computational Biology Research Science Semantic Web Genomics Mathematical Modeling Systems Biology University Teaching Pattern Recognition Higher Education Ontologies Predictive Modeling Informatics Information Retrieval Text Mining Program Management Academic Administration Lifesciences Leadership Text Analytics Natural Language Processing Computer Vision Predictive Analytics Knowledge Representation Strategic Planning Semantic Technologies Computational Modeling Neuroinformatics Grant Writing Information Integration Functional Genomics Cognitive Science Curriculum Development Social Informatics Discovery Informatics Health Informatics Biomedical Informatics Structural Genomics Causal Inference Energy Informatics Immunoinformatics Science Writing Security Informatics

Vasant Honavar Education Details

  • University Of Wisconsin-Madison
    University Of Wisconsin-Madison
    Computer Science
  • University Of Wisconsin-Madison
    University Of Wisconsin-Madison
    Computer Science
  • Drexel University
    Drexel University
    Electrical And Computer Engineering
  • B. M. S. College Of Engineering
    B. M. S. College Of Engineering
    Electronics Engineering
  • Bangalore University
    Bangalore University
    Electronics Engineering

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