Faculty Profiles
Ramamohan Paturi
Professor, CSE
Associate Dean for Artificial Intelligence Strategy and Implementation
Algorithms, complexity theory, satisfiability, lower bounds, digital libraries, data mining, machine learning, and information technology (IT) education.
Mohan Paturi studies the theoretical underpinnings of computer science, efficient algorithms, and their complexity. He focuses on improved exponential-time algorithms for certain NP-complete (Nondeterministic Polynomial) problems and the interesting connection between efficient algorithms and lower bounds on computational efficiency. Paturi is also an expert in digital libraries, ontologies, and text data mining, and a company he founded (see bio) has created a number of digital libraries for professional societies such as IEEE and ACM.
Paturi's research interests also include learning theory and machine learning. Paturi is the Director of the Laboratory for Emerging Intelligence (LEI) in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at UC San Diego. He is the leader of the team within the LEI that created an AI Tutor platform that has secured funding for further development and evaluation from the State of California and other sources.
Capsule Bio:
Mohan Paturi joined the UC San Diego faculty in 1986 after a post-doctoral fellowship at Harvard University. He obtained his Ph.D. from Pennsylvania State University in 1985. He is a past recipient of the Jacobs School's Teacher of the Year Award. Paturi founded Parity Computing, a San Diego-based digital library and data mining technology company.
