Ankur Agrawal

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Ankur

Ph.D. Student
Dept. of Computer Science
Medical Informatics Laboratory
GITC Rm 4214,
New Jersey Institute of Technology
University Heights
Newark, NJ, 07102
+1 (973) 596-2867
http://www.ankur-agrawal.com

You see things; and you say, 'Why?'
But I dream things that never were; and I say, "Why not?"

George Bernard Shaw

Profile
I am a second year Ph.D. student in the Department of Computer Science at NJIT and advised by Dr. Yehoshua Perl. My research interests include medical informatics, ontologies, object-oriented database, data mining and semantic web.
I am currently working in the Medical Informatics Lab devising automated and semi-automated techniques to make auditing of medical terminologies easier. My current research domain involves a medical terminology called SNOMED which is maintained by IHTSDO. I program in Java and use Oracle and Access as the backend database.
I have previously worked in the Remote Sensing Lab at NJIT for a year in 2008-09 where I worked with devising techniques to analyse satellite and in situ data to study the impact of climate change on coastal water quality, especially, in the NY-NJ area.
I have also worked as a Lecturer in Kathmandu, Nepal in 2007 and have taught undergraduate courses in Computer Engineering like Simulation and Modeling, Computer Network, Software Engineering and Object Oriented Programming in C++.
Besides, I am the President of the Graduate Student Association at NJIT since Apr 2010. I am also the President Emeritus of DeepCS, the College of Computing Sciences Graduate Student Association.