Dr. B. Prabhakaran

Professor (CS, CE, & TE)

Ph.D., Department of Computer Science & Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras @ Chennai, – 600 036, India, 1995
M.S., Department of Computer Science & Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Chennai, (formerly, Madras) – 600 036, India, 1990
B.E., Electronics & Communication, Madurai-Kamaraj University, 1986

Multimedia Systems
Video and health-care data analytics
Streaming of 3D video, animations, and deformable 3D models
Content protection and authentication of multimedia objects
Quality of Service (QoS) guarantees for streaming multimedia data in wireless adhoc and mesh networks
Collaborative Virtual Environments

Invited Exhibitor, Arc of Science: From Research to Results, NSF – Capitol Hill Event (invited demonstrations to Congressmen and Senators), (2017).
Best Associate Editor 2015, Springer’s Multimedia Systems Journal (2015).
General Co-Chair, IEEE International Conference on Health Informatics (ICHI) (2015).
General Chair, IEEE Haptic, Audio, and Virtual Environments (HAVE) (2014).
Member, Editorial Board, Multimedia Systems Journal, Springer; Member, Editorial Board, Advances in Multimedia, Hindawi Publishers (2012).
General Co-Chair, ACM International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval (ICMR); Technical Program Committee Co-Chair, IEEE World of Wireless, Mobile, and Multimedia (WoWMoM) (2013)
ACM Distinguished Scientist, (2011).
Recipient, US National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award, (2003).
2007 School of Engineering Outstanding Service Award for Computer Science Department, 2007
Anston Clark Foundation Grant (Jointly awarded to B. Prabhakaran and R.N. Uma), “Scheduling delivery of multimedia information”, (2002).

Kanchan Bahirat, Yu-Yen Chung, Thiru Annaswamy, Gargi Raval, Kevin Desai, Balakrishnan Prabhakaran, Michael Riegler:
Using Mr. MAPP for Lower Limb Phantom Pain Management. ACM Multimedia 2019: 1071-1075
Kanchan Bahirat, Nidhi Vaishnav, Sandeep Sukumaran, Balakrishnan Prabhakaran:
ADD-FAR: attacked driving dataset for forensics analysis and research. MMSys 2019: 243-248
B. Prabhakaran, Yu-Gang Jiang, Hari Kalva, Shih-Fu Chang:
Editorial IEEE Transactions on Multimedia Special Section on Video Analytics: Challenges, Algorithms, and Applications. IEEE Trans. Multimedia 20(5): 1037 (2018)
Rittika Shamsuddin, Barbara M. Maweu, Ming Li, Balakrishnan Prabhakaran:
Virtual Patient Model: An Approach for Generating Synthetic Healthcare Time Series Data. ICHI 2018: 208-218
Rittika Shamsuddin, Yizhong Wang, Balakrishnan Prabhakaran:
Exploring functional clinical attributes for macular dystrophy detection. IWISC 2018: 38-43