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About me

At present I am a doctoral candidate in the department of Computer Science at Georgia State University. My advisor is Dr. Yng Zhu . Previously I have completed my masters in statistics from here and earlier I have done my undergrad in Electronics & Communication Engineering from India.

Areas of Reasearch Interest

Current : Data Visualization, Document Visualisation, Scientific Visualization.
Earlier : Monte Carlo methods, Stochastic estimation for nonliner dynamic systems, Behavior based modelling,
Intelligent Agents,Clustering Statistics, Model fitting, Regressional Statistics.

Publications

Paper: Adriane B. Randolph, Saurav Karmakar, Melody Moore Jackson,"Towards Predicting Control of a Brain-Computer Interface". International Conference on Information Systems(ICIS 2006). December 10-13, 2006 @ Milwaukee, WI [Acceptance Rate~15%].
Paper: Fasheng Qiu, Xiaolin Hu, Xue Wang, Saurav Karmakar,"Modeling Social Group Structures in Pedestrian Crowds". International Conference on System Simulation and Scientific Computing(ICSC 2008). October 10-12, 2008 @ Beijing, China.
Poster: Saurav Karmakar, Xiaolin Hu,"Context-Dependent Adaptability – from Model Crayfish, to Mobile Robots, to Virtual Human Crowd", Brains & Behavior Spring Retreat at GSU (2007) .
Poster: Saurav Karmakar, Susmita Datta, "Statistical stability and biological validity of clustering algorithms for analyzing microarray data ", SECABC Fall 2005(Worshop on Biocomputing). (Related Thesis)

Professional Activities

Chair(2009-10), ACM Student Chapter, Georgia State University.
Secretary(2008-09), ACM Student Chapter, Georgia State University.
Reviewer, ICISTM 09.