Raja Sooriamurthi, PhD Associate Teaching Professor Information Systems Program, Carnegie Mellon University Mailing address: Dr. Raja Sooriamurthi Information Systems Program Porter Hall 224D Carnegie Mellon University 5000, Forbes Avenue Pittsburgh, PA 15213-3890           raja /at/ cmu.edu http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/~sraja Phone: 412.268.9593 Dept. phone: 412.268.3259 Dept. fax: 412.268.9946
		Brief Bio

Teaching Interests

Teaching Awards

• Teaching Incentive Program Award, January 2000.
  College of Science and Technology, University of West Florida.
• Excellence in under-graduate teaching and advising award, February 1999.
  College of Science and Technology, University of West Florida.
• Lieber Memorial Teaching Associate Award, March 1995.
  Indiana University.
• Outstanding Associate Instructor Award, May 1995.
  The alumni board of the College of Arts and Sciences, Indiana University.
• Outstanding Associate Instructor Award, April 1994.
  Computer Science Department, Indiana University.

Other Awards / Honors

• Most Enthusiastic Professor, May 2007, MSIS class of 2007, Kelley School of Business, Indiana University.
• CIS Club Students' Choice Award, April 2006, Kelley School of Business, Indiana University.
• New Faculty Fellow award, IEEE Frontiers in Education, October 2004.
• Finalist, Trustees Teaching Award, 2006, Kelley School of Business, Indiana University.
• Nominated for Innovative Teaching Award, 2004, Kelley School of Business, Indiana University.
• Nominated for Student Choice Award, 2004, Student Alumni Association, Indiana University.
• Nominated for the Gordon Faculty Award 2004, Vice Chancellor of Student Affairs and Dean of Students Office, Indiana University.

Research Interests

My other interests include higher order programming languages, software development, computer science / information systems pedagogy.

Activities

• Member of the program committee, FLAIRS-10
• Member of the program committee, ICCBR-09
• Member of the program committee, IICAI-2009
• Member of the program committee, FLAIRS-09
• Member of the program committee, ECCBR-08
• Member of the program committee, CBR special track at FLAIRS-08
• Member of the program committee, FLAIRS-08
• Member of the program committee, ICCBR-07
• Member of the program committee, IICAI-2007
• Member of the program committee, CBR special track at FLAIRS-07
• Member of the program committee, FLAIRS-07
• Publicity / Web Chair, FLAIRS-06
• Member of the program committee, ECCBR-06
• Member of the program committee, CBR special track at FLAIRS-06
• Member of the program committee, FLAIRS-06
• Co-chair of the CBR special track at IICAI-2005
• Co-chair of the CBR special track at FLAIRS-05
• Member of the program committee, IICAI-2005
• Member of the program committee, ICCBR-05
• Member of the program committee, FLAIRS-05
• Co-chair of the CBR special track at FLAIRS-04
• Editor (Learning Lisp), 1997 -- 2002. Association of Lisp Users.

• Puzzle-Based Learning: An Introduction to Critical Thinking and Problem Solving
  Zbigniew Michalewicz, Nickolas Falkner, Raja Sooriamurthi
  Proceedings of the 41st annual meeting of the Decision Sciences Institute, San Diego, November 2010.
  Republished in Decsion Line, Vol 42, No 5, October, 2011
  2010 DSI Instructional Innovation Award Competition Finalist

• Puzzle-Based Learning for Engineering and Computer Science
  Nickolas Falkner, Raja Sooriamurthi, and Zbigniew Michalewicz
  IEEE Computer, Vol 43, No 4, April 2010.
  

• Puzzle-Based Learning: The first experiences
  Nickolas Falkner, Raja Sooriamurthi, and Zbigniew Michalewicz
  Proceedings of the 20th Australasian Association for Engineering Education (AAEE) , Adelaide, Australia, December, 2009.
  

• The Essence of Object Orientation for CS0: Concepts without Code
  Raja Sooriamurthi
  Proceedings of 25th Annual Eastern Conference of the Consortium of Computing Sciences in Colleges (CCSC-E), October, 2009., Villanova, Pennsylvania, October, 2009.
  

• Bridging the Gap: Experience with the Qatar Summer College Preview Program
  Gloria Hill and Raja Sooriamurthi
  Proceedings of the Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE), San Antonio, Texas, October, 2009.
  

• Introducing Abstraction and Decomposition to Novice Programmers
  Raja Sooriamurthi.
  Proceedings of the 14th annual conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education (ITiCSE), Paris, France July, 2009.
  

• Introduction to Programming and Software Development: an Interactive, Incremental and Iterative Approach
  Raja Sooriamurthi
  Proceedings of the 36th Annual Meeting of the Decision Sciences Institute (DSI-2005), San Francisco, California, November 2005.

• Case Dispatching versus Case-Base Merging: when MCBR matters
  David Leake and Raja Sooriamurthi.
  International Journal on Artificial Intelligence Tools: Architectures, Languages and Algorithms (IJAIT). Special issue on recent advances in techniques for intelligent systems. Vol 13, No 1, 2004, pp 237--254.

• Experience in Developing a Mobile Course Portal
  Meng Xu, Mark Fountain, Scott MacArthur, Matt Braunstein, Raja Sooriamurthi.
  Proceedings of the World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education (eLearn-2004), Washington DC, November 2004.

• Java Engagement for Teaching Training: An Experience Report
  Raja Sooriamurthi, Arijit Sengupta, Suzanne Menzel, Katie Moor, Sid Stamm and Katy Börner
  Proceedings of the Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE), Savannah, Georgia, October, 2004.
  

• Dispatching Cases versus Merging Case-Bases: When MCBR Matters
  David Leake & Raja Sooriamurthi.
  Proceedings of the Sixteenth Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society (FLAIRS) Conference, St. Augustine, Florida, May, 2003.
  Nominated for best paper award.

• Automatically Selecting Strategies for Multi-Case-Base Reasoning
  David Leake & Raja Sooriamurthi.
  Proceedings of the Sixth European Conference on Case-Based (ECCBR) , Aberdeen, Scotland, September, 2002.
  Nominated for best paper award.

• Managing Multiple Case-Bases: Dimensions and Issues
  David Leake & Raja Sooriamurthi.
  Proceedings of the Fifteenth Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society (FLAIRS) Conference, Pensacola, Florida, May, 2002.
  

• When Two Case Bases are Better Than One: Exploiting Multiple Case Bases
  David Leake & Raja Sooriamurthi.
  Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Case-Based Reasoning (ICCBR) , Vancouver, Canada, July, 2001.
  

• Problems in Comprehending Recursion and Suggested Solutions
  Raja Sooriamurthi.
  Proceedings of the Sixth annual conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education, Canterbury, UK, June, 2001.
  

• Prelude to the Java Event Model
  Raja Sooriamurthi.
  Proceedings of the Sixth annual conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education, Canterbury, UK, June, 2001. Code and Slides from the presentation.

• Literate Engines in Lisp
  Raja Sooriamurthi.
  Proceedings of the Fifth International Lisp Users and Vendors Conference,Boston, MA, 1995.
  

• An Architecture for Goal-Driven Explanation
  Raja Sooriamurthi and David B. Leake.
  Proceedings of the eighth Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Symposium, Melbourne Beach, FL, April 1995. pp 218-222.
  

• Towards Situated Explanation
  Raja Sooriamurthi and David Leake.
  Proceedings of the twelfth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Seattle, WA, 1994, AAAI Press.

Sample Talks/Presentations

• A GA to Solve the TSP
  Nifty assignments special track, SIGCSE 2008, Portland, OR.
• Mind Reader: a program that predicts choices
  Nifty assignments special track, SIGCSE 2007, Covington, KY.
• The Essence of Object Orientation
  Indiana Multi-Media Users Group (IU-MMUG), February 22, 2007.
  Slides and the recording of the webcast are available.
• Taming the Tiger: Taking the Terror out of a Talk.
  Indiana University, Arts and Sciences Placement Office, March, 2005; April 2006; Dual Career Network, March 2006.
• "That reminds me of ..." : The Case-Based Reasoning Problem Solving Paradigm.
  Pensacola chapter of the IEEE society, May 22, 2000.
• Dynamic Object Oriented Programming: Beyond C++ and Java.
  Eglin Computer Technology Awareness Seminar, Eglin Airforce Base, March 29, 2000.
• Why are computers so smart and yet so dumb?
  Science Seminar for High School Students, University of West Florida, March 26, 1998

Where I've Been