Dr. B. Prabhakaran is currently with the Department of Computer Science, University of Texas at Dallas. Dr B. Prabhakaran works in the area of multimedia systems. Currently, he is focusing on: (i) content-based retrieval of 3D models and motion sequences; (ii) streaming of 3D animations and deformable 3D models; (iii) content protection and authentication of 3D objects; (iv) Quality of Service (QoS) guarantees for streaming in wireless adhoc and mesh networks; and (v) collaborative virtual environments. In the past, he has worked on multimedia databases, authoring & presentation, resource management, and scalable web-based multimedia presentation servers. He has published several research papers in prestigious conferences and journals in this area.
Dr. Prabhakaran received the NSF CAREER Award FY 2003 for his proposal on Animation Databases. Dr. Prabhakaran has served as an Associate Chair of the ACM Multimedia'2003 (November 2003, California), ACM MM 2000, and ACM MM'99 conferences. He has served as guest-editor (special issue on Multimedia Authoring and Presentation) for ACM Multimedia Systems journal. He is also serving on the editorial board of Multimedia Tools and Applications journal, Kluwer Academic Publishers. He has also served as program committee member on several multimedia conferences and workshops. Dr. Prabhakaran has also presented tutorials in several conferences on topics such as network resource management, adaptive multimedia presentations, and scalable multimedia servers
Office:
ECSS, #3-706, Department of Computer Science,
University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX 75083
Ph:+1- 972 883 4680
praba@utdallas.edu