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PhD (Computer Science),
Brandeis University, 2007
Email: shiva [at] brandeis [dot] edu |
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PhD (Computer Science),
Brandeis University, 2007
Email: shiva [at] brandeis [dot] edu |
I am a postdoc in Robert Sekuler's Vision Lab, and am interested in understanding how recognition memory works; and how we perceive and plan motor behavior in social settings (specifically, spatial navigation in populated spaces, and imitation behavior).
I got my PhD at the DEMO lab (advised by Jordan Pollack). The focus was on characterizing the role of representation-dependent effects in Evolutionary Computation. Specifically, I sought to understand the impact of having two independent yet interacting representations as is the case in coevolutionary algorithms and the developmental evolutionary algorithms.
Viswanathan, S., The secondary substrate problem in Co-Evolution and Developmental-Evolution, PhD Dissertation, Brandeis University, May 2007.
Viswanathan, S. and Pollack, J.B., 2005, "On the coevolutionary construction of learnable gradients, Coevolutionary and Coadaptive Systems, AAAI Fall Symposium 2005, Washington D.C.
Viswanathan, S. and Pollack, J.B., 2005, " How Artificial Ontogenies can retard evolution", SEEDS workshop, at the 2005 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2005), ACM Press, 2005
Viswanathan, S. and Pollack, J.B., 2005, " On the robustness achievable with stochastic development", The 2005 NASA/DoD Conference on Evolvable Hardware, IEEE Press, 2005
Viswanathan, S. and Pollack, J.B., 2004, "Towards an evolutionary-developmental approach for real-world substrates", Proceedings of the ninth international conference on the simulation and synthesis of living systems (Artificial Life IX), Boston, USA (September 2004), pp. 45 - 50, MIT Press
While getting my MS (advised by Venkat Allada), I worked on a class of computational and geometric problems that arise in the context of Environment Conscious Design. Specifically, (a) how can the suitability of a product for post-life disassembly be automatically and meaningfully evaluated in a principled manner? and (b) how can this evaluation be used to improve the design?
Viswanathan, S., and Allada, V., 2006, Product configuration optimization for disassembly planning: A differential approach, Omega: The International Journal of Management Science, Special issue on "Reverse Production Systems: Disassembly and other Reverse Manufacturing related practices", Vol 34, No. 6, pp 599-616
Viswanathan, S., and Allada, V., 2001, Product configuration analysis to support design for end-of-life disassembly, International Journal of Production Research, Vol. 39, No. 8, pp. 1733-1753.
Viswanathan, S., and Allada, V., 1999, A framework for the grouping of products for flexible disassembly, Journal of Electronics Manufacturing, Vol.9, No. 1, pp. 53-66.
Viswanathan, S., and Allada, V., 2000, Configuration analysis to support product redesign for end-of-life disassembly, Proc. ASME DETC - Design for Manufacturing Conference, Baltimore, MD, Sept. 10-13. [received the Best Paper award]
Viswanathan, S., and Allada, V., 1999, Value-based product structure evaluation for disassembly, Eco-Design'99: International Symposium on Environmentally Conscious Design and Inverse Manufacturing, Feb. 1-3, Tokyo, pp. 778-783.
Investigations in the design of products and factories for end-of-life disassembly, 2001, M.S. Thesis, University of Missouri-Rolla.