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Kalyan Veeramachaneni

Kalyan completed his B.S in Electrical Engineering from J. N. T. U, Hyderabad, India. He received M.S in Computer Engineering in 2005 from Syracuse University, and is a Doctoral candidate in Electrical Engineering at Syracuse University. He expects to finish his Ph.D. in Summer 2009.

Kalyan’s doctoral dissertation focuses in organizing and configuring distributed detection (sensor) networks using swarm intelligence based approaches. The traditional approaches limit the use of these networks for “signals buried in additive noise”. A universal design approach is achieved by using bottom-up swarm intelligence based approaches.

Applications of the design are in Biometrics [1], diagnostics and prognostics of critical infrastructure [5] and detection of non-line-of sight components in received ultra-wide band signals. The design has lead to a novel fusion algorithm, AMBM, for multimodal biometrics [1], [6].

Representative Publications:

[1] Veeramachaneni, K. ; Osadciw, L.; Ross, A.; Srinivas, N., “Decision-level fusion strategies for correlated biometric classifiers,” Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops, 2008. CVPRW '08. IEEE Computer Society Conference on, pp.1-6, 23-28 June 2008 (Best Paper Award) (pdf)

[2] Veeramachaneni, K; Osadciw, L., “Swarm intelligence based optimization and control of decentralized serial sensor networks,” Swarm Intelligence Symposium, 2008, IEEE , pp.1-8, 21-23 Sept. 2008. (pdf)

[3] Veeramachaneni, K ; Osadciw, L, “Design of distributed detection system with correlated heterogeneous sensors,” Proceedings of 45 th Annual Allerton Conference, Allerton Park, September 26-28, 2007. (pdf)

[4] Veeramachaneni, K.; Osadciw, L.; Kamath, G., “Probabilistically driven particle swarms for optimization of multi valued discrete problems: design and analysis,” Swarm Intelligence Symposium, 2007. SIS 2007. IEEE, pp.141-149, 1-5 April 2007 (Best Paper Award). (pdf)

[5] Veeramachaneni, K.; Weizhong Yan; Goebel, K.; Osadciw, L., “Improving classifier fusion using particle swarm optimization,” Computational Intelligence in Multicriteria Decision Making, IEEE Symposium on, pp.128-135, 1-5 April 2007. (pdf)

[6] Veeramachaneni, K.; Osadciw, L.; Varshney, P. K., “An adaptive multimodal biometric management algorithm,” Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Part C: Applications and Reviews, IEEE Transactions on, vol.35, no.3, pp.344-356, Aug. 2005. (pdf)