Prakash Ramanan

Prakash Ramanan is a Professor at the School of Computing within the College of Engineering at Wichita State University. His research focuses on algorithms, distributed computing, database systems, and XML processing. He holds an office at 208 Jabara Hall on the university's main campus.

His academic interests include parallel algorithms, MapReduce frameworks, computational complexity, and query processing in XML databases. His work spans theoretical algorithm analysis to practical implementations in distributed systems.

Ramanan's publications emphasize algorithmic efficiency, lower bounds analysis, and optimization techniques. His recent work addresses MapReduce-based matrix multiplication and XPath query evaluation over XML streams. Earlier contributions include foundational studies on tree patterns, join operations, and parallel computing.

No scientific awards or grants are explicitly listed in the provided information. He currently advises no listed students or supervisees. His research activities involve collaborations in distributed systems and database query optimization.