Name:

Prof. Kavi Mahesh

Highest qualification and awarding university

PhD, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA.

Designation

Professor and Director

Employer

Indian Institute of Information Technology Dharwad, India

Contact details:

  1. Email

 

drkavimahesh@gmail.com

 

Home page link on your employer web site if available

http://iiitdwd.ac.in/Dr.Kavi_Mahesh.php

Key areas of interest

Data Analytics and Knowledge management

Web link for personal profile

 

https://scholar.google.co.in/citations?user=ZVQV4CAAAAAJ&hl=en

Brief career profile

Dr. Kavi Mahesh is the Director of the Indian Institute of Information Technology, Dharwad. Previously, he was the Dean of Research at PES University, Director of the World-Bank funded Research Centre for Knowledge Analytics and Ontological Engineering – KAnOE and a Professor of Computer Science. His areas of interest are knowledge management, analytics, epistemology, ontology, classification studies, text processing and unstructured data management. He has three US patents and has published two books, 16 book chapters and 80 papers which have received over 1300 citations with a h-index of 20, i10-index of 28 and a g-index of 35. Notable among these are the textbook Theory of Computation: A ProblemSolving Approach (Wiley India, 2012) and Ten Steps to Maturity in Knowledge Management (Elsevier Pub. UK, 2006). He was earlier with Oracle Corporation, USA and New Mexico State University and has consulted in the area of Knowledge Management with Infosys, Hewlett Packard, United Nations and EasyLib.com. He holds an M. Tech. in Computer Science from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay (1989) and an MS (1991) and a PhD (1995) in Computer Science from Georgia Institute of Technology, USA.

 

Research projects completed or on-going


2013 - present

Rs. 500 lakhs

TEQIP-World Bank/MHRD, Govt of India

COE - KAnOE

2015 - present

Rs. 100 lakhs (consortium)

TDIL-DeitY, Govt of India

Indian language modelling

2013 - 2014

Rs. 11 lakhs

MODROBS-AICTE

Ontological Engg

 

Key publications

  1. Sastry CS, Jagaluru DS, Mahesh K. Author ranking in multi-author collaborative networks. Collnet Journal of Scientometrics and Information Management. 2016 Jan 2;10(1):21-40.

  2. Ratkal AG, Akalwadi G, Patil VN, Mahesh K. Farmer's Analytical Assistant. In2016 IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing in Emerging Markets (CCEM) 2016 Oct 19 (pp. 84-89). IEEE.

  3. Peterson J, Mahesh K, Goel A, Eiselt K. KA: situating natural language understanding in design problem solving. InProceedings of the Sixteenth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society 2019 May 23 (pp. 711-716)..

  4. Kavi Mahesh, Ashwini Venkatesh, Lalitha M. V., Jyothi Narayana And Anantha Krishna Thantri, Crowd-Sourcing Of Multimedia Content In Low-Resource Languages, IAENG Transactions on Engineering Sciences, pp. 177-190 (2016)

  5. Sastry C.S., Jagaluru D.S., Mahesh K. (2018) Visualizing Textbook Concepts: Beyond Word Co-occurrences. In: Gelbukh A. (eds) Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing. CICLing 2017. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 10761. Springer, Cham.