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Parameswaran (Parmesh) Ramanathan

Parmesh Ramanathan

Professor
Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor

Recent focus of Professor Ramanathan’s research group is in the area of genomic networks. In a collaborative project with faculty in Biochemistry, Chemistry, and Chemical & Biological Engineering, his group is working on developing computational tools for genome foundries and genome-aided biodesign. Ongoing research projects focus on developing computational algorithms for elucidating DNA-protein binding, for optimizing metabolic pathways, and for identifying gene regulatory networks.

The longer term focus of his research is on developing the architectures, the protocols, and the mechanisms needed to meet the diverse quality of service requirements of applications in wireless and wireline networks. One of the research thrusts involves developing communication support for sustaining end-to-end gigabit throughputs to mobile hosts in future Internet. Another thrust involves developing sensing and communication algorithms in millimeter wave networks. In additional to developing the necessary theoretical algorithms, research also involves implementing and experimenting with these algorithms on network testbeds.

Department

Electrical & Computer Engineering

Contact

3348, Engineering Hall
1415 Engineering Dr
Madison, WI

  • PhD 1989, University of Michigan
  • MS 1986, University of Michigan
  • B.Tech. 1984, Indian Institute of Technology

  • Wireless and Wireline Networks
  • Mobile Computing
  • Real-time Systems
  • Fault-tolerant Computing
  • Parallel Processing
  • Distributed Systems

  • 2017 University of Wisconsin-Madison, Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professorship
  • 2010 International Conference on Heterogeneous Networking for Quality, Reliability, Security, and Robustness, Keynote Speaker
  • 2009 International Conference on on Communications Systems and Networks, Keynote Speaker
  • 2006 Commitee of Institutional Cooperation (CIC) Academic Leadership Program, Fellow
  • 1989 College of Engineering, The University of Michigan, Distinguished Achievement Award for outstanding graduate work in Computer Science and Engineering
  • 1988 School of Graduate Studies, The University of Michigan, Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship
  • 1988 VLSI Design Contest, First prize
  • Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), Fellow

  • Wu, Z., Huang, C., & Ramanathan, P. (2025). MIQA: An application agent for immersive content delivery over millimeter waves. To appear in IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing.
  • Madabushi, S., & Ramanathan, P. (2023). Two-Cloud Private Read Alignment to a Public Reference Genome. In Proceedings of Privacy Enhancing Technologies (PoPETs).
  • Bhimsaria, D., Rodriques-Martinez, J. A., Mendez-Johnson, J. L., Ghoshdastidar, D., Varadarajan, A., Bansal, M., Daniels, D. L., Ramanathan, P., & Ansari, A. Z. (2023). Hidden modes of DNA binding by human nuclear receptors. Nature Communications, 14(4179).
  • Wu, Z., Huang, C., & Ramanathan, P. (2023). MIA: A Transport-Layer Plugin for Immersive Applications in Millimeter Wave Access Networks. In Proceedings of International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM) (pp. 1–10).
  • Wu, Z., Huang, C., & Ramanathan, P. (2022). COded Taking And Giving: Enhancing transport layer performance over indoor millimeter wave access networks. In Proceedings of International Conferences on Communications (ICC).
  • Wu, Z., Huang, C., & Ramanathan, P. (2022). Measuring millimeter wave based link bandwidth fluctutations during indoor immersive experience. IEEE Networking Letters, 1--5.
  • Kumar, P., Adamczyk, P. A., Zhang, X., Andrade, R. M., Romero, P. A., Ramanathan, P., & Reed, J. (2021). Active and machine-learning-based approaches ro rpadily enhance microbial chemical production. Metabolic Engineering, 67, 216--226.
  • Loh, F., Saluja, K. K., & Ramanathan, P. (2021). Fault-tolerant Lanczos eigensolver via an invariant checking method. Journal of Electronic Testing, 1--14.
  • Larson, S., Popov, V., Ali, A. M., Ramanathan, P., & Jung, S. (2021). Healthcare professionals' perceptions of telehealth: Analysis of tweets from pre- and during COVID-19 pandemic. In Proceedings of International Conference on Quantitative Ethnography.
  • Sur, S., Nelakuditi, S., Zhang, X., & Ramanathan, P. (2020). MilliCam: Hand-held millimeter-wave imaging. In Proceedings of International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks.

  • E C E 551 - Digital System Design and Synthesis (Spring 2025)
  • E C E 790 - Master's Research (Fall 2024)
  • COMP SCI 799 - Master's Research (Summer 2024)
  • E C E 790 - Master's Research (Summer 2024)
  • COMP SCI 750 - Real-time Computing Systems (Spring 2024)
  • E C E 750 - Real-time Computing Systems (Spring 2024)
  • E C E 790 - Master's Research (Spring 2024)
  • E C E 990 - Dissertator's Research (Spring 2024)
  • E C E 610 - Seminar in Electrical and Computer Engineering (Fall 2023)
  • E C E 699 - Advanced Independent Study (Fall 2023)
  • E C E 990 - Dissertator's Research (Fall 2023)
  • E C E 990 - Dissertator's Research (Summer 2023)