Automating the Analysis of Spatial Grids

Dr. Valliappa Lakshmanan is an expert in machine intelligence R&D for meteorological applications, and in designing and developing large-scale software systems. He is skilled in communicating technical and non-technical material to diverse audiences. He has studied at the Indian Institute of Technology in Madras, the Ohio State University in Columbus and the University of Oklahoma. Dr. Lakshmanan is currently employed as a Research Scientist at CIMMS, being the technical lead on several software projects and research groups. He also develops automated real-time pattern recognition algorithms and visualization techniques for weather phenomena. He has (co-)written many journal articles.