Geetha Manjunath

Biography

Geetha Manjunath is a Senior Research Scientist and Master Technologist at HP Labs India. She is  currently the co-Principal Investigator of the SWAN project that aims at radical simplification of user’s web  experience particularly in mobile environments. She joined Hewlett Packard in May 1997 as an  extended team member of HP Labs Research, Palo Alto. She has developed several innovative  prototypes and published many papers in the area of Embedded Systems, Java Virtual Machine,  System solutions for mobility, Grid Computing, Storage Virtualization and Semantic Web. Her research  in the above areas has also lead to new product proposals and many US patents. She moved to HP Labs India in June 2007 as a member of the personalization team exploring use of Ontologies and  Semantic Web Models for Content Personalization, Expert finding and Semantic Similarity  Measures. Before joining HP, she was a senior researcher at Centre for Development of Advanced  Computing (C-DAC), Bangalore for 7 years - where she lead a team to develop parallel compilers for  distributed memory machines.  She is a gold medalist from Indian Institute of Science where she did her Masters in Computer Science in 1991 and is currently pursuing her PhD. She was awarded the TR Shammanna Best Student award from Bangalore University in her Bachelors degree for topping across all branches of Engineering.

Research interests

Her research interests are in Semantics of Data, Programming Language Design and Distributed  Computing. Her current research focus is on creating a novel web application platform enabling end-users to package and simplify their own personal web interaction patterns.

Awards

1. Gold Medal from Computer Society of India for topping in Masters program at Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India
2. T R Shamanna Best Student award for topping across all branches of Engineering in Bachelors, Bangalore University

Publications

Refereed:

1. Geetha Manjunath, Venkatesh Krishnan: A Small Hybrid JIT for Embedded Systems,Volume 35, Number 4, April 2000, SIGPLAN Notices,http://www.informatik.unitrier.de/~ley/db/journals/sigplan/sigplan35.html
2. A Toolkit to Develop Web Appliances, Geetha Manjunath, Venugopal, Devaraj Das, Venkatesh Krishnan, HP Embedded Systems Workshop, Oct 2000
3. "sEc: A Portable Interpreter Optimizing Technique for Embedded Java Virtual Machine", Venugopal K S, Geetha Manjunath, and Venkatesh Krishnan, Hewlett-Packard Laboratories , USENIX 2nd JVM research and technology symposium, August 2002
4. "Hotspot!-A Service Delivery Environment For Nomadic Users", Devaraj Das, Geetha Manjunath, Venkatesh Krishnan, IEEE 12th Annual Symposium On Mobile Computing and Applications, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, Feb 2004,. NCC, IISc
5. Hotspot! Server, Devaraj Das,Geetha Manjunath, Venkatesh Krishnan, IEEE Mobility Bangalore Chapter 2004
6. A Content Adaptation Framework that supports Mobility, Workshop on System Support for Wireless, held in conjunction with HiPC 2004
7. G. Manjunath, V. Krishnan, T. Simunic, J. Tourrilhes, A. McReynolds , D. Das, V. Srinivasmurthy, A. Srinivasan: Smart Edge Server - going beyond a wireless access point , WMASH'04, ACM
8. Real Time Asset Tracking in the Data Center, Cyril Brignone, Tim Connors, Mehrban Jam, Geoff Lyon, Geetha Manjunath, Alan McReynolds, Swarup Mohalik, Ian Robinson, Craig Sayers, Cosme Sevestre, Jean Tourrilhes, Venugopal Srinivasmurthy , Distributed Parallel Databases, Springer.
9. Semantic Views for Controlled Access to the Semantic Web, Geetha Manjunath, Craig Sayers, Dave Reynolds, Venugopal KS, Swarup Kumar Mohalik, Badrinath R, John Ludd Recker and Malena Mesarina, Workshop on Semantic Web for Collaborative Knowledge Acquisition, SWeCKA ’07, 6-12 Jan, 2007
10. Temporal Views over RDF Store, Geetha Manjunath, Badrinath Ramamurthy, Craig Sayers, Venugopal KS, WWW'2008, Beijing , April 2008
11. Finding Experts By Semantic Matching of User Profiles, Rajesh Thiagarajan, Geetha Manjunath, Markus Stumptner, PICKME'08, ISWC, Germany, Oct 2008.
12. Personalization: Techniques and Applications, Tutorial ACM Compute 2008, Krishnan Ramanathan, Geetha Manjunath, Somnath Bannerjee, Jan 2008
13. Creating Personal Mobile Widgets without Programming, Geetha Manjunath, Thara S, Hitesh B, Santhi G, Vinay Kumar K, Ragu Raman G, Developer Track, WWW'09 , Madrid Spain, April 2009

Unrefereed:

1. Computing Semantic Similarity Using Ontologies, HPL-2008-87, HPLabs Tech Report
2. Semantic Views for Controlled Access to the Semantic Web, Geetha Manjunath, Craig Sayers, Dave Reynolds, Venugopal KS, et al, HPLabs Tech Report
3. SPARQL/Update : A language for updating RDF graphs,  HPLabs Tech Report, Andy Seaborne,Geetha Manjunath
4. Real Time Asset Tracking in the Data Center, Tim Connors, Mehrban Jam, Geoff Lyon, Geetha Manjunath, Alan McReynolds , et al, HPLabs Tech Report
5. HotSpot ! - a service delivery environment for Nomadic Users System Architecture, Devraj Das, Geetha Manjunath, Venky Krishnan, Prakash Reddy , HPLabs Tech Report
6. COORG: Design of a Virtual Machine for Java on Embedded Systems - Krishnan, Venkatesh; Manjunath, Geetha; Srinivasmurthy, Venugopal K.; Das, Devaraj; Arunachalam, Venkataramani, HPLabs Tech Report, HPL-2001-68
7. SEc: A Portable Interpreter Optimizing Technique for Embedded Java Virtual Machine - Srinivasmurthy, Venugopal; Manjunath, Geetha; Krishnan,Venkatesh, HP Labs Tech Report, HPL-2001-69
8. Das, Devraj; Manjunath, Geetha; Krishnan, Venky; Reddy, Prakash, “HotSpot! -- A Service Delivery Environment for Nomadic Users System Architecture,” HPL-2002-134.
9. Real Time Asset Tracking in the Data Center, Cyril Brignone, Tim Connors, Mehrban Jam, Geoff Lyon, Geetha Manjunath, Alan McReynolds , Swarup Mohalik, Ian Robinson, Craig Sayers, Cosme Sevestre, Jean Tourrilhes, Venugopal Srinivasmurthy , HPL-2006-188

1. Book on “PARAS, A Programming Environment”, Geetha Manjunath, Pankaj Kumar, et al
2. Book Chapter in “High Performance Computing”, edited by Dr. V P Bhatkar
3. Co-Guide to MS Thesis:”Design and Implementation of an Authentication and Authorization Framework for a Nomadic Service Delivery System” Das, Devaraj , Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore
4. Open Source Contribution:
5. 1. ICAP server , IRML parser and proxylet API in sourceforge
   2. SQUID caching proxy - support for ICAP client on sf
   3. Coolbase Appliance Server,