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Radhakrishnan, Thiruvengadam

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Professor
Email krishnan@cs.concordia.ca
Room EV003.411
Phone 514-848-2424 ext: 3019
Research Areas
  • Software Requirements Engineering
  • User Interface Design and Evaluation
  • e-Health
  • ICT for development and modeling to support Patient Education
Education
  • PhD in Computer Science from Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India in 1971
  • M.Tech in Electrical Engineering from IIT, Kanpur in 1968
  • B.E.(Hons) in Electronic and Communication Engineering from Guindy Engineering College, Madras in 1966.
Employment History
  • 2010 – Professor in the Dept of Computer Science and Software Engineering (CSE), Concordia University
  • 2006 –2010 Chairman of General Studies Unit (then renamed as Center for Engineering and Society) – Contributed to its growth and shaping.
  • 2004 – 2006 Professor in the CSE Department
  • 2001-2004 Chairman of the Computer Science Department – Contributed to hiring about 15 new faculty members, re-naming the department to include Software Engineering and have worked for the first CEAB accreditation.
  •  1974 -2001 Joined Concordia University as a PDF, and progressed in the career to a full professor in 1991 and continued. Went to the National University of Mexico as a visiting fellow during 1978.
  • 1968 – 1974 Served as Lecturer at IIT, Kanpur; planned and helped to establish the Graduate program in Computer Science at IIT, Madras in India
Teaching and Thesis Supervision
  • In the last 35 years of my service, I have taught a large variety of courses at all levels; contributed to the development and design of curricula several times. Of late my teaching commitments are reduced to one or two courses per year due to personal constraints. I teach (a) An undergraduate course on Computer Organization; (b) User Interface Design; at the graduate level(c) Software Engineering Case Study; or (d) Intelligent User Interfaces.
  • I have supervised a large number of students for their Bachelors level projects, and over 80 students at the Masters and PhD level. My specialty is in not only supervising my students for research training but also in mentoring them. Many of them graduated 25 years ago are still in constant contact with me. A gratifying experience.  
  • My research focus has been more on applied side than on pure theoretical side. As a result the research has been funded by several industries in the past. Currently I hold an NSERC Discovery grant and one industry supported grant.
  • The applied nature of research we conduct has resulted in 3 Canadian, US, and UK patterns owned along with my students.

Text Books Published

 
  • In the areas of Computer Logic and organization, Computer Architecture and Assembly Language Programming, along with my PhD thesis supervisor and Guru Dr.V.Rajaraman, Dr. Radhakrishnan has written three text books. Two of them are revised and re-printed several times since 1976. They are still used by more students in India.

Selected Publications

(Boldfaced names indicate the graduate students supervised by Dr. Radhakrishnan )
  1. K. Pitula, T. Radhakrishnan(2011), (Accepted with minor modifications). On eliciting requirements from end-users in the ICT4D Domain. Journal of Requirements Engineering. [based on PhD thesis work where new models, methodologies and tools are developed for ICT4D applications- Resulted in Industrial Collaborations]
  2. D. Dysart-Gale, K. Pitula, T. Radhakrishnan (2011). Culture, Communication and ICT for Development: A Caribbean Study, IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication, March issue.
  3. K. Pitula, D. Dysart-Gale, T. Radhakrishnan (2010). Expanding the Boundaries of HCI: A case study in requirements engineering for ICT4D. Journal of Information Technologies & International Development, 6(1). USC Annenberg Press.
  4. D. Dysart-Gale, K. Pitula, T. Radhakrishnan (2010). Improving Professional Writing for Lay Practitioners: A Rhetorical Approach, IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication, Decemberissue.
  5. D. Dysart-Gale, K. Pitula, T. Radhakrishnan (2009).  Report and Recommendation Writing for Development: Rhetorical Skills for Social Action, Journal- Technical Communication, 56(4): 387-396.
  6. A.Narasimhadevara, B.Leung, T.Radhakrishnan and R.Jayakumar(2008), “On designing a usable interactive software system to support transplant nursing” Journal of Biomedical Informatics, vol 41, pp137-151, 2008
  7. K.Pitula and T.Radhakrishnan(2007), "A Framework and Process for Designing Inclusive Technology";Second International Conference on Software Engineering Advances, August 25-31, 2007, France)
  8.  H.F.Li, Yu Zhang, and T.Radhakrishnan(2006), “TSAF: A Tuple Space Based Agent Programming Framework” Out of a master’s thesis which has been serving as a test vehicle for many master’s theses. Appeared also as a Chapter in a book on Electronic Commerce, Published by Springer Verlag in June 2006.
  9. H.Javahery, A.Seffah and T.Radhakrishnan (2004), “ Beyond Power: Making Bioinformatics Tools User Centered”, Communications of the ACM, vol 47, No.11, pp 58-63, 2004.
  10. P.Desharnais, J.Lu, and T.Radhakrishnan(2002), " Exploring Agent Support at the User Interface in E-Commerce Applications" International Journal of Digital Libraries, Vol 3, pp284-290, 2002.
  11. Xiaojun Shen, T.Radakrishnan and Nicolas D. Georganas(2002),  “vCOM: Electronic Commerce in a Collaborative Virtual World” Journal of Electronic Commerce Research and Applications, vol 1, Issues 3-4, 2002, pp 281-300.
  12. D.Sinnig, K.Pitula, R. Becker, T. Radhakrishnan and P.Forbrig,(2010)  “Structured Digital Storytelling for Eliciting Software Requirements in the ICT4D Domain” Presented at the World Computer Congress-2010, Human Computer Interaction Symposium, held at Brisbane, Australia, sponsored by IFIP
  13. M.Omidbaksh, T.Radhakrishnan and S.P.Mudur (2010), “Patient Preference Elicitation Empowerment” Proceedings of the  2nd workshop on Software Engineering in Healthcare ; SEHC 2010
  14. X.Chen, K. Mendhurwar, S.P.Mudur, T. Radhakrishnan, P. Bhattacharya(2010), “Learning Human Action Sequence Style from Video for Transfer to 3D Game Characters” Presented at the International Conference on Motion in Games 2010 appears as an LNCS issue pages 10.
  15. K.Pitula and T.Radhakrishnan, (2008) “A Multimedia tool to elicit information needs in rural communities”. Presented at the Workshop on HCI for Community and International Development, at 26-th CHI Conference, held in Florence, Italy, August 5-10, 2008.
  16. Book Chapter:             K. Pitula, D. Sinnig, T. Radhakrishnan (2009). Requirements Engineering in the ICT4D Domain, chapter in Mobile Information Communication Technologies Adoption in Developing Countries: Effects and Implications; Published by IGI Global (www.igi-global.com)
  17. M.Wurdel, P.Forbrig, T.Radhakrishnan, and D.Sinnig(2007), “Patterns for Task and Dialog Modelling” Human Computer Interaction International, July 22-27, 2007, Beijing, China
  18. H.Javahery, A.Deichman, A.Seffah, and T.Radhakrishnan, "Incorporating Human Experiences into the Design Process of a Visualization Tool: A Case Study from Bioinformatics" IEEE  SMC Conference in Montreal, October, 20007
  19. Abolfazl Keighobadi Lamjiri, L.Kosseim, and T.Radhakrishnan, “ A Hybrid Unification Method for Question Answering in a Closed Domain”, Third International Workshop on Knowledge and Reasoning for Answering Questions, January 2007, Hyderabad, India in conjunction with AAAI Conference.
  20. Abolfazl Keighobadi Lamjiri, L.Kosseim, and T.Radhakrishnan, “Comparing the Contributions of Syntactic and Semantic features in Closed versus Open domains”, First IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing, September, 2007, Irvine California.
  21. Abolfazl Keighobadi Lamjiri, L.Kosseim, and T.Radhakrishnan, “A Syntactic Candidate Ranking Method for Answering Questions with a main content verb”, RANLP-2007: Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing Conference, Bulgaria, September 2007.
  22. J.Chelin, L.Kosseim and T.Radhakrishnan, “Using Natural Language Processing To Assist the Visually Handicapped in Writing Compositions” Proceedings of the 19th Canadian Conference on Artificial Intelligence", 2006.
  23. Mashrur Mia, S.P. Mudur, T. Radhakrishnan,  “An Interactive System for Negotiation in E-commerce with Incremental User Knowledge” Presented at the IBM CASCON 2005 Conference October 2005, Toronto.
  24. T.Radhakrishnan, S.P.Mudur and N.Heywood,  “On e-learning by Organ Transplant Patients in a Hospital Setting” Presented at the e-Learn 2005 Conference held in Vancouver, October 2005.  
  25. A.Graham, T.Radhakrishnan and C.Grossner, “Incremental Validation of Policy Based Systems” Proceedings of the Policy 2004 Conference held at NewYork. pp 1-11.
  26. A. Alsumait, A. Seffah and T. Radhakrishnan. Use Case Maps: A Visual Notation for Scenario-Based Requirements. 10th International Conference on Human - Computer Interaction, Crete, Greece, June 22-27, 2003.
  27. A.Andreevskaia, R.Abi-Aad and T. Radhakrishnan, “Agent-mediated knowledge acquisition for user profiling”. Proceedings of the International Conference on Intelligent Agents, Web Technologies and Internet Commerce (IAWTIC’03), Feb. 12-14, 2003, Vienna, Austria. 10 pp. [also selected and included as a Chapter in the book M. Mohammadian (ed.) "Intelligent Agents for Data Mining and Information Retrieval" published by Idea Publishing Group (USA)].

 


 
 

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