Professor, School of Computing Dr. Lakshmish Ramaswamy is a Professor in the Dept. of Computer Science at the University of Georgia. He also serves as the Associate Director of the Georgia Informatics Institutes for Research and Education (GII). Dr. Ramaswamy directs the Data-Intensive Pervasive Systems Lab. Dr. Ramaswamy's research interests include Data-Intensive Systems, Pervasive Systems, Cloud Computing, Health Informatics, Online Social Media, and Information Security, Privacy and Trust. He received the best paper award at the CoopIS-2010 conference for his research on cooperative mashup execution. He also received the best paper award at the WWW-2004 conference and the Pat Goldberg best paper award for the work on dynamic web content caching and delivery. Dr. Ramaswamy obtained PhD from the College of Computing at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He also has an MS degree in Computer Science from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India. Education: PhD College of Computing, Georgia Institute of technology MSc Computer Science from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India. Of note: Current Projects SCOUTS: Smart Sensor-based Analysis and Mitigation of Urban Heat Islands (Sponsored by NSF) CyanoTracker: Multi-Cloud Infrastrcture for Effective Monitoring of Inland Waters and Coastal Wetlands (Sponsored by NSF) Human Acitivity Recognition Using Wearable Sensors Indexing and querying of large time-evolving graphs