Ramgopal Mettu
Ramgopal Mettu holds B.S. (1997), M.S. (1999), and Ph.D. (2002) degrees in Computer Science from University of Texas at Austin. His dissertation was supervised by C. Greg Plaxton and gave new, practical approximation algorithms for several facility location problems. He did postdoctoral research at Dartmouth College in the area of protein structure determination under Bruce Donald, and subsequently joined the ECE Department at University of Massachusetts Amherst as an Assistant Professor. Dr. Mettu is a native of India, but grew up in the Gulf South and came to Tulane in 2011 to help with the exciting project of restarting the Department of Computer Science. He was instrumental in designing the undergraduate curriculum and setting an interdisciplinary focus for both teaching and research in the department. Dr. Mettu's research is driven by the quest to find better algorithmic solutions that have practical impact. To this end, he works in a number of research areas: computational biology, robotics, machine learning, and discrete optimization. His work has been featured in the top conferences and journals in their respective areas, and was also recognized with an NSF CAREER award in 2007.
G. Best, O. Cli, T. Patten, R. R. Mettu, R. Fitch, \Decentralised Monte Carlo Tree Search for Active Perception," In Proceedings of the 12th International Workshop on Algorithmic Foundations of Robotics (WAFR) , December 2016.
S. Lensgraf, R. R. Mettu, \Beyond Layers: A 3D-Aware Toolpath Algorithm for Fused Filament Fabrication," In Proceedings of the 2016 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Best Automation Paper Award .
R. R. Mettu, T. Charles, S. J. Landry. \CD4+ T-cell Epitope Prediction Using Antigen Processing Constraints," Journal of Immunological Methods , 2016. http://dx.doi.org/ 10.1016/j.jim.2016.02.013 .
A. K. Reddy, S. Shanbag, C. Wang, R. R. Mettu, T. Wolf. \VHub: Single-Stage Virtual Network Mapping through Hub Location." Journal of Computer Networks , 77(2015):169{180.
One of my favorite places to run in town is the loop around Audubon Park and the Fly.
Ramgopal Mettu holds B.S. (1997), M.S. (1999), and Ph.D. (2002) degrees in Computer Science from University of Texas at Austin. His dissertation was supervised by C. Greg Plaxton and gave new, practical approximation algorithms for several facility location problems. He did postdoctoral research at Dartmouth College in the area of protein structure determination under Bruce Donald, and subsequently joined the ECE Department at University of Massachusetts Amherst as an Assistant Professor. Dr. Mettu is a native of India, but grew up in the Gulf South and came to Tulane in 2011 to help with the exciting project of restarting the Department of Computer Science. He was instrumental in designing the undergraduate curriculum and setting an interdisciplinary focus for both teaching and research in the department. Dr. Mettu's research is driven by the quest to find better algorithmic solutions that have practical impact. To this end, he works in a number of research areas: computational biology, robotics, machine learning, and discrete optimization. His work has been featured in the top conferences and journals in their respective areas, and was also recognized with an NSF CAREER award in 2007.
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics; Robotics; Design, Analysis and Implementation of Algorithms; Data Mining, Clustering, Machine Learning; Approximation Algorithms; Discrete Optimization
G. Best, O. Cli, T. Patten, R. R. Mettu, R. Fitch, \Decentralised Monte Carlo Tree Search for Active Perception," In Proceedings of the 12th International Workshop on Algorithmic Foundations of Robotics (WAFR) , December 2016.
S. Lensgraf, R. R. Mettu, \Beyond Layers: A 3D-Aware Toolpath Algorithm for Fused Filament Fabrication," In Proceedings of the 2016 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Best Automation Paper Award .
R. R. Mettu, T. Charles, S. J. Landry. \CD4+ T-cell Epitope Prediction Using Antigen Processing Constraints," Journal of Immunological Methods , 2016. http://dx.doi.org/ 10.1016/j.jim.2016.02.013 .
A. K. Reddy, S. Shanbag, C. Wang, R. R. Mettu, T. Wolf. \VHub: Single-Stage Virtual Network Mapping through Hub Location." Journal of Computer Networks , 77(2015):169{180.
My research interests are in algorithms, machine learning and computational biology. Specifically, my work is focused on the design and analysis of algorithms with guarantees on running time and solution quality that are motivated by, and are necessary for, problems in computational biology. Applications of my work include protein structure prediction and determination, protein-protein interactions, compound screening, as well as problems in high-throughput sequencing and proteomics.
One of my favorite places to run in town is the loop around Audubon Park and the Fly.
