Research Interests!
My research interests are mainly in the areas of information systems, databases and information retrieval including search engines, recommender systems, digital libraries, web caching and data clustering. In the past I have also worked on NSF funded research projects in the area of digital libraries and recommender systems.
Research Experience
General Recommendation Engine
The General Recommendation Engine (GRE) provides recommendations for the National Science Digital Library collections. GRE is developed by combining three next generation approaches to recommendations: collaborative-filtering, content-based and knowledge-based recommendations to craft the best set of links to related information. Responsibilities included; designing and developing software/database applications, developing research methods, designing surveys and research collection tools, performing quantitative and qualitative research, transcribing and analyzing data, and drafting final reports. For this web-based application developed three recommendation engines using visual studio .net, c#, vb.net, visual C++, asp.net and SQL Server. Also developed and integrated GRE with the NJIT library catalog, DLESE, Econport and Teachers Domain demo websites with GRE.
Digital Library Service Integration :
The Digital Library Service Integration (DLSI) infrastructure provides a systematic approach for integrating digital library collections and services. Developed applications for lightweight integration between heterogeneous systems in digital libraries. Lightweight integration is achieved by the use of wrappers to identify similar concepts in diverse systems and provide information and services for these items of interest. Used Java and MySQL for implementation.
McMaster University Library Recommender System:
As part of Digital Library group, investigated various aspects of Endeca information access platform to be used in digital libraries. Also developed a recommender system prototype for the library catalog using state of the art technologies.