Aparna Varde

Dr. Aparna Varde is a Tenure Track Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Montclair State University New Jersey, USA. She is also a Doctoral Faculty Member in the Environmental Management Program at Montclair State University. She obtained her Ph.D. and M.S. in Computer Science, both from Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Massachusetts, USA and her B.E. in Computer Engineering from the University of Bombay, India. Dr. Varde has been a Visiting Senior Researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Informatics Germany; and a Tenure Track Assistant Professor in the Department of Math and Computer Science at Virginia State University, USA. Her research interests span Data Mining, Artificial Intelligence and Database Management with particular emphasis on multi-disciplinary work. She holds research collaborations with organizations such as ISB, the Institute of Systems Biology, USA; and CHTE, the Center for Heat Treating Excellence, an international industry-university consortium. Her collaborative grants are from NSF, the National Science Foundation; NIH, the National Institute of Health and DOE, the Department of Energy of the USA. Her research has led to several publications in reputed international journals and conferences as well as trademarked software tools. Dr. Varde's professional activities include serving as a Panelist for NSF; a Reviewer for journals such as the VLDB journal, IEEE's TKDE and Elsevier's DKE; Co-chair of ACM CIKM's Ph.D. workshop; Program Committee Member in conferences such as IEEE's ICDM, Springer's DEXA and SIAM's SDM. In 2005, she was nominated as an Associate Member of Sigma Xi, the Scientific Research Society, for excellence in multi-disciplinary research. She has worked in the corporate world as a Computer Engineer in multi-national companies such as Lucent Technologies and Citicorp. Dr. Varde is currently working on research projects in Text Mining, Scientific Data Mining, Web Databases and Machine Learning.

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