Prof. V.S. Subrahmanian
Professor of Computer Science
University of Maryland
Head of the Center for Digital International Government
USA

Professor of Computer Science at the University of Maryland and heads the Center for Digital International Government, having previously served as Director of the University of Maryland's Institute for Advanced Computer Studies (UMIACS) for 6+ years. Prof. Subrahmanian develops big data analytics including methods to analyze vast bodies of text, learn models of behaviors of entities from the data, forecast actions by these entities, and methods to influence these behaviors. He developed the OASYS opinion analysis system which works on 8 languages and won the 2007 Computerworld Horizon Award, the CARA Cultural Reasoning Architecture and the SOMA stochastic logical model for building models of group behaviors. He has applied this to modeling over 45 terror groups worldwide. His SCARE system for identifying locations of IED weapons caches in Baghdad and in the provinces of Helmand and Kandahar in Afghanistan was the first system to accurately and efficiently identify locations of weapons caches. He is credited with accurately forecasting terror attacks by groups such as Hezbollah, Lashkar-e-Taiba, and Indian Mujahodeen. He is wrapping up the first global measure of cyber-vulnerability of countries around the world. He has written six books and edited seven including textbooks on advanced databases and on multimedia databases. Prof. Subrahmanian has published over 200 articles in leading international conferences and journals. He was previously named to ISIHighlyCited.com which lists the most cited computer scientists of all time and to the top 20 best computer science "mentors" (post 1993) in a worldwide study by the Indian Institute of Science in 2004. He was elected a Fellow of both the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence. Prof. Subrahmanian's work has been described in articles in the Baltimore Sun, the Economist, Science, Nature, Computerworld, the Washington Post, American Public Media, The New Scientist, Scientific American.com, and many other international media outlets. He has served on numerous editorial boards and government/corporate boards.