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The eGranary Ambassador to India
Dr. Padmini Srinivasan
Padmini Srinivasan's research is in the areas of text
retrieval and text mining where the latter refers to
knowledge discovery from large text collections.
Specifically she is interested in the design,
implementation and evaluation of algorithms for
retrieval and mining. She has designed and tested
methods that address research problems in domains such
as biomedicine and accounting as well as problems
deriving from heteregenous collections on the WWW. For
example, in collaboration with her students she has
built Manjal, (http://sulu.info-science.uiowa.edu/Manjal.html)
a prototype text mining system for biomedicine.
Professor Srinivasan teaches courses such as digital
libraries, text retrieval, computing foundations and
health informatics. She is co-coordinator of the UI
Health Informatics Initiative. Professor Srinivasan
holds a joint appointment with the Department of
Management Sciences in the Tippie College of Business.
Director of the WiderNet Project
Prof. Cliff Missen
Cliff has over 20 years professional experience in
computers, networking, multimedia design, and
applications development. At the WiderNet Project, he
combines this with his long-term interest in
international development. His first visit to Africa
was with a medical team in 1982 and he continues to
teach and promote appropriate water well drilling
technology through the U.S. non-profit organization
Wellspring Africa
Former Assistant
Dr. "Raj" Rajagopal
Dr. Rajagopal facilitated the first installation of the
eGranary Digital Library at the Tuberculosis Research
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