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Background:
Agnik’s mission is to develop software products and offer services in
the areas of Mobile
and Distributed data
mining. As a first
step to fulfilling
that mission,
Agnik's founders Hillol
Kargupta and Kakali
Sarkar started its
operation in June
2003 at the
University of
Maryland Baltimore
County Technology
Center with award
from Maryland
Technology
Development
Corporation (TEDCO)
and a contract from
US Air Force.
Agnik Co-Founders:
Hillol Kargupta,
Ph.D., President
Hillol Kargupta is
one of the co-founders of Agnik LLC. Hillol Kargupta is also an
Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science and
Electrical Engineering, University of Maryland Baltimore County. He
received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from University of Illinois
at Urbana-Champaign in 1996.
Hillol Kargupta won a
National Science Foundation CAREER award in 2001 for his research on
ubiquitous and distributed data mining. He along with his co-authors
has received the best paper award in the 2003 IEEE International
Conference on Data Mining for a paper on privacy-preserving data
mining. He won the 2000 TRW Foundation Award and the 1997 Los Alamos
Award for Outstanding Technical Achievement. His dissertation earned
him the 1996 Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM)
annual best student paper prize. He has published more than eighty
peer-reviewed articles in journals, conferences, and books. He is an
associate editor of the IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data
Engineering and IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, Cybernetics, Part
B among others. He served as the Program Co-Chair of the 2005 SIAM
Data Mining Conference, Associate General Chair of the 2003 ACM SIGKDD Conference, Vice-Chair of the 2005 IEEE International
Conference on Data Mining, Area Chair of the 2005 16th European
Conference on Machine Learning (ECML) and the 9th European
Conference on Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in
Databases (PKDD), 2005. He has co-edited two books: (1) "Advances in
Distributed and Parallel Knowledge Discovery", AAAI/MIT Press, and
(2)" Data Mining: Next Generation Challenges and Future Directions"
by AAAI/MIT Press. He is in the program committee of almost every
major data mining conference (e.g. ACM, IEEE, SIAM). He regularly
serves as an invited speaker in many international conferences and
workshops. More information about him can be found at
http://www.cs.umbc.edu/~hillol .
Kakali Sarkar, Chief Operating
Officer
Kakali Sarkar is the Co-founder and Chief Operating
Officer of AGNIK, LLC. She received two M.S. degrees
in Computer Science and Metallurgical Engineering from
University of New Mexico and University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign. She has 17 years of
experience in the Software Engineering and Machine
Learning areas. She has
leaded several US
Govt. projects at
Agnik.
Prior to founding AGNIK, Ms. Sarkar worked for Intel
Motherboard division
of Intel
Corporation and software division of IBM.
She has worked on several software projects at Intel and
IBM. She was a key member of the Intel's 1
GHz system Integration project and was awarded Intel's
Divisional Recognition Award for her contribution in
this project. Prior to joining the industry, she
worked at the Beckman Institute, University of
Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She also won a Gold
Medal for securing
the first position
in every year of her
undergraduate
studies. Ms. Sarkar has several
peer-reviewed journal, conference publications and
book-chapters.
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