Associate Scientist

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
College of Engineering
Iowa State University

Office: 2215 Coover Hall
Mailing Address:
2215 Coover Hall,
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Ames, IA, 50011, USA

Email: gsanthan AT iastate.edu

Research Interests

Software Engineering: Program Analysis, Malware Detection, Program Comprehension, Model Checking, Android

Artificial Intelligence: Knowledge Representation and Reasoning, Qualitative Preference Reasoning, Multi-criteria Decision Analysis

Professional Experience

Associate Scientist, January 2016- present, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Iowa State University.
Post-doctoral Research Associate, October 2014 - December 2015, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Iowa State University.
Post-doctoral Research Associate, May 2014 – October 2014, Department of Material Science and Engineering, Iowa State University.
Post-doctoral Research Associate, 2011 - 2014, Department of Computer Science, Iowa State University.
Research Assistant, Fall 2007 – Fall 2010, Department of Computer Science, Iowa State University.
Senior Software Engineer, 2004 – 2007, HCL Technologies, Chennai, India.

Research Grants

Senior Personnel. Decision Support System for Reasoning with Preferences. Funded by the Computer and Communications Foundations division of National Science Foundation, Award number CCF 1143734 (2011-2013). Grant amount: $111,393.00

Publications

Books

Ganesh Ram Santhanam, Samik Basu, Vasant Honavar. Representing and Reasoning with Qualitative Preferences: Tools and Applications. Morgan & Claypool Publishers. ISBN: 9781627058391. January, 2016. 154 pp. [url] [bib]


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  author = {Santhanam, Ganesh Ram and Basu, Samik and Honavar, Vasant},
  publisher = {Morgan & Claypool Publishers},
  year = {2016},
  pages = {154},
  isbn = {9781627058391}
}

Journal Articles

Ganesh Ram Santhanam. Qualitative optimization in software engineering: A short survey. Journal of Systems and Software 111 (2016): pp 149-156. [url] [bib]


@article{santhanam2016qualitative,
  title={Qualitative optimization in software engineering: A short survey},
  author={Santhanam, Ganesh Ram},
  journal={Journal of Systems and Software},
  volume={111},
  pages={149--156},
  year={2016},
  publisher={Elsevier}
}

Ganesh Ram Santhanam, Samik Basu and Vasant Honavar. Representing and Reasoning with Qualitative Preferences for Compositional Systems. Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research. Publisher: AI Access Foundation. Volume 42; pp 211 – 274. 2011. [url] [bib]


@article{santhanam2011representing,
  title={Representing and reasoning with qualitative preferences for compositional systems},
  author={Santhanam, Ganesh Ram and Basu, Samik and Honavar, Vasant},
  journal={Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research},
  volume={42},
  pages={211--274},
  year={2011},
  publisher={AI Access Foundation}
}

Ganesh Ram Santhanam and Kasthurirangan Gopalakrishnan. Pavement Life-Cycle Sustainability Assessment and Interpretation Using a Novel Qualitative Decision Procedure. Journal of Computing in Civil Engineering. Publisher: American Society of Civil Engineers. Volume: 27(5); pp: 544-554. 2013. [url] [bib]


@article{santhanam2013pavement,
  title={Pavement Life-Cycle Sustainability Assessment and Interpretation Using a Novel Qualitative Decision Procedure},
  author={Santhanam, Ganesh Ram and Gopalakrishnan, Kasthurirangan},
  journal={Journal of Computing in Civil Engineering},
  volume={27},
  number={5},
  pages={544--554},
  year={2013},
  publisher={American Society of Civil Engineers}
}

Conference Articles (Peer-reviewed & Archived)

Tom Deering, Ganesh Ram Santhanam, and Suresh Kothari. FlowMiner: Automatic Extraction of Library Data-Flow Semantics for Partial Program Analysis . International Conference on Information Systems Security. 2015, pages: 171-191. Publisher: Springer, LNCS 9478. [url] [bib]


@incollection{deering2015flowminer,
  title={FlowMiner: Automatic Summarization of Library Data-Flow for Malware Analysis},
  author={Deering, Tom and Santhanam, Ganesh Ram and Kothari, Suresh},
  booktitle={Information Systems Security},
  pages={171--191},
  year={2015},
  publisher={Springer International Publishing}
}

Zachary J. Oster, Ganesh Ram Santhanam, and Samik Basu. Scalable Modeling and Analysis of Requirements Preferences: A Qualitative Approach using CI-Nets. IEEE 23rd International Requirements Engineering Conference (RE) 2015. pages: 214-219. Publisher: IEEE [url] [bib]


@inproceedings{oster2015scalable,
  title={Scalable modeling and analysis of requirements preferences: A qualitative approach using CI-Nets},
  author={Oster, Zachary J and Santhanam, Ganesh Ram and Basu, Samik},
  booktitle={Requirements Engineering Conference (RE), 2015 IEEE 23rd International},
  pages={214--219},
  year={2015},
  organization={IEEE}
}

Ganesh Ram Santhanam, Gopalakrishnan Sivaprakasam, Giora Slutzki and Samik Basu. A Knowledge Based Framework for Case-specific Diagnosis. International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence. 2015. ISBN 978-989-758-074-1, pages 482-488. [url] [bib]


@conference{icaart15,
author={Ganesh Ram Santhanam and Gopalakrishnan Sivaprakasam and Giora Slutzki and Samik Basu},
title={A Knowledge Based Framework for Case-specific Diagnosis},
booktitle={Proceedings of the International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence},
year={2015},
pages={482-488},
doi={10.5220/0005272104820488},
isbn={978-989-758-074-1},
}

Ganesh Ram Santhanam, Samik Basu and Vasant Honavar. Verifying Preferential Equivalence & Subsumption via Model Checking. International Conference on Algorithmic Decision Theory (ADT); pages: 324–335. 2013. [url] [bib]


@incollection{santhanam2013verifying,
  title={Verifying preferential equivalence and subsumption via model checking},
  author={Santhanam, Ganesh Ram and Basu, Samik and Honavar, Vasant},
  booktitle={Algorithmic Decision Theory},
  pages={324--335},
  year={2013},
  publisher={Springer Berlin Heidelberg}
}

Ganesh Ram Santhanam, Samik Basu and Vasant Honavar. Preference based Service Adaptation using Service Substitution. IEEE/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence; pages: 487–493. 2013. [url] [bib]


@inproceedings{santhanam2013preference,
  title={Preference based service adaptation using service substitution},
  author={Santhanam, Ganesh Ram and Basu, Sreetama and Honavar, Vasant},
  booktitle={Web Intelligence (WI) and Intelligent Agent Technologies (IAT), 2013 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Joint Conferences on},
  volume={1},
  pages={487--493},
  year={2013},
  organization={IEEE}
}

Zachary Oster, Ganesh Ram Santhanam, Samik Basu and Vasant Honavar. Model Checking of Qualitative Sensitivity Preferences to Minimize Credential Disclosure. International Symposium on Formal Aspects of Component Software. Publisher: Springer; pages: 205–223. 2012. [url] [bib]


@incollection{oster2012model,
  title={Model checking of qualitative sensitivity preferences to minimize credential disclosure},
  author={Oster, Zachary J and Santhanam, Ganesh Ram and Basu, Samik and Honavar, Vasant},
  booktitle={Formal Aspects of Component Software},
  pages={205--223},
  year={2012},
  publisher={Springer Berlin Heidelberg}
}

Zachary Oster, Syed Adeel Ali, Ganesh Ram Santhanam, Samik Basu and Partha Roop. A Service Composition Framework Based on Goal-Oriented Requirements Engineering, Model Checking, and Qualitative Preference Analysis. International Conference on Service Oriented Computing. Publisher: Springer; pages: 283–297. 2012. [url] [bib]


@incollection{oster2012service,
  title={A service composition framework based on goal-oriented requirements engineering, model checking, and qualitative preference analysis},
  author={Oster, Zachary J and Ali, Syed Adeel and Santhanam, Ganesh Ram and Basu, Samik and Roop, Partha S},
  booktitle={Service-Oriented Computing},
  pages={283--297},
  year={2012},
  publisher={Springer Berlin Heidelberg}
}

Ganesh Ram Santhanam, Yuly Suvorov, Samik Basu and Vasant Honavar. Verifying Intervention Policies for Infection Propagation over Networks: A Model Checking Approach. AAAI National Conference on Artificial Intelligence. Publisher: AAAI Press. Pages: 1408 – 1414. 2011. [url] [bib]


@inproceedings{santhanam2011verifying,
  title={Verifying Intervention Policies to Counter Infection Propagation over Networks: A Model Checking Approach.},
  author={Santhanam, Ganesh Ram and Suvorov, Yuly and Basu, Samik and Honavar, Vasant},
  booktitle={Twenty-Fifth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence},
  pages={1408--1414},
  year={2011},
  organization={AAAI Press}
}

Zachary Oster, Ganesh Ram Santhanam and Samik Basu. Automating Analysis of Qualitative Preferences in Goal-Oriented Requirements Engineering. IEEE/ACM International Conference on Auto- mated Software Engineering. Publisher: IEEE; pages: 448 – 451. 2011. [url] [bib]


@inproceedings{oster2011automating,
  title={Automating analysis of qualitative preferences in goal-oriented requirements engineering},
  author={Oster, Zachary J and Santhanam, Ganesh Ram and Basu, Samik},
  booktitle={26th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering},
  pages={448--451},
  year={2011},
  organization={IEEE Computer Society}
}

Zachary Oster, Ganesh Ram Santhanam and Samik Basu. Identifying Optimal Composite Services by Decomposing the Service Composition Problem. IEEE International Conference on WebServices. Publisher: IEEE; pages: 267 – 274. 2011. [url] [bib]


@inproceedings{oster2011identifying,
  title={Identifying optimal composite services by decomposing the service composition problem},
  author={Oster, Zachary J and Santhanam, Ganesh Ram and Basu, Samik},
  booktitle={Web Services (ICWS), 2011 IEEE International Conference on},
  pages={267--274},
  year={2011},
  organization={IEEE}
}

Ganesh Ram Santhanam, Samik Basu and Vasant Honavar. Dominance Testing via Model Checking. AAAI National Conference on Artificial Intelligence. Publisher: AAAI Press; pages: 357 – 362. 2010. [url] [bib]


@inproceedings{santhanam2010dominance,
  title={Dominance Testing via Model Checking.},
  author={Santhanam, Ganesh Ram and Basu, Samik and Honavar, Vasant},
  booktitle={Twenty-Fourth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence},
  pages={357--362},
  year={2010},
  organization={AAAI Press}
}

Ganesh Ram Santhanam, Samik Basu and Vasant Honavar. Efficient Dominance Testing for Unconditional Preferences. International Conference on the Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning. Publisher: AAAI Press; pages: 590 – 592. 2010. [url] [bib]


@inproceedings{santhanam2010efficient,
  title={Efficient Dominance Testing for Unconditional Preferences.},
  author={Santhanam, Ganesh Ram and Basu, Samik and Honavar, Vasant},
  booktitle={Twelfth International Conference on the Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning},
  pages={590--592},
  year={2010},
  organization={AAAI Press}
}

Zachary Oster, Ganesh Ram Santhanam and Samik Basu. Decomposing the Service Composition Problem. European Conference on Web Services. Publisher: IEEE; pages: 163 – 170. 2010. [url] [bib]


@inproceedings{oster2010decomposing,
  title={Decomposing the service composition problem},
  author={Oster, Zachary J and Santhanam, Ganesh Ram and Basu, Samik},
  booktitle={Web Services (ECOWS), 2010 IEEE 8th European Conference on},
  pages={163--170},
  year={2010},
  organization={IEEE}
}

Ganesh Ram Santhanam, Samik Basu and Vasant Honavar. Web Service Substitution Based on Preferences Over Non-Functional Attributes. IEEE International Conference on Services Computing. Pub- lisher: IEEE; pages: 210 – 217. 2009. [url] [bib]


@inproceedings{santhanam2009web,
  title={Web service substitution based on preferences over non-functional attributes},
  author={Santhanam, Ganesh Ram and Basu, Samik and Honavar, Vasant},
  booktitle={Services Computing, 2009. SCC'09. IEEE International Conference on},
  pages={210--217},
  year={2009},
  organization={IEEE}
}

Ganesh Ram Santhanam, Samik Basu and Vasant Honavar. TCP-Compose* - A TCP-net based Algorithm for Efficient Composition of Web Services Based on Qualitative Preferences. International Conferenceon Service Oriented Computing. Publisher: Springer-Verlag; pages: 453 – 467. 2008. [url] [bib]


@incollection{santhanam2008tcp,
  title={TCP- Compose*--A TCP-Net based algorithm for efficient composition of web services using qualitative preferences},
  author={Santhanam, Ganesh Ram and Basu, Samik and Honavar, Vasant},
  booktitle={Service-Oriented Computing--ICSOC 2008},
  pages={453--467},
  year={2008},
  publisher={Springer Berlin Heidelberg}
}

Technical Reports, Workshop/Conference Articles, Posters (Lightly Peer-reviewed)

Ganesh Ram Santhanam, Pallavi Dubey, Scott Broderick, Krishna Rajan. Decision Theoretic Framework for Materials Selection in the Presence of Uncertainty. Materials Research Society's Fall Meeting. 2014. [url] [bib]


@inproceedings{santhanam2014decision,
  title={A Decision Theoretic Framework for Materials Selection in the Presence of Uncertainty},
  author={Santhanam, Ganesh Ram and Dubey, Pallavi and Srinivasan, Srikant and Broderick, Scott and Rajan, Krishna},
  booktitle={Materials Research Society Fall Meeting},
  year={2014},
  organization={https://mrsfall14.zerista.com/event/member/146946}
}

Zachary Oster, Ganesh Ram Santhanam and Samik Basu. Automating Analysis of Qualitative Preferences in Goal-Oriented Requirements Engineering. Technical Report 11-06. Department of Com- puter Science, Iowa State University. 2011. [url] [bib]


@techreport{oster2011automatingTR,
     title = {{Automating Analysis of Qualitative Preferences in Goal-Oriented Requirements Engineering.}},
     author = {Oster, Zachary J and Santhanam, Ganesh Ram and Basu, Samik},
     group = {Formal Methods Group, TR11-06},
     year = {2011},
     institution = {Iowa State University, Department of Computer Science},
     month = {August},
     Date-Added = {2011-12-08}
}

Ganesh Ram Santhanam, Samik Basu and Vasant Honavar. Identifying Sustainable Designs using Preferences over Sustainability Attributes. AAAI Spring Symposium on Artificial Intelligence and Sustainable Design. 2011. [url] [bib]


@inproceedings{santhanam2011identifying,
  title={Identifying Sustainable Designs Using Preferences over Sustainability Attributes.},
  author={Santhanam, Ganesh Ram and Basu, Samik and Honavar, Vasant},
  booktitle={AAAI Spring Symposium: Artificial Intelligence and Sustainable Design},
  pages={91--97},
  year={2011},
  organization={AAAI Press}
}

Ganesh Ram Santhanam, Samik Basu and Vasant Honavar. Identifying Sustainable Designs using Preferences over Sustainability Attributes. Poster. Symposium on Sustainability, Iowa State Univer- sity. 2011. [url]

Ganesh Ram Santhanam. A Dominance Relation for Unconditional Multi-Attribute Preferences. Technical Report 09-24. Computer Science, Iowa State University. 2009. [url] [bib]


@techreport{santhanam2009dominance,
     title = {{A dominance relation for unconditional multi-attribute preferences}},
     author = {Santhanam, Ganesh Ram and Basu, Samik and Honavar, Vasant},
     year = {2009},
     institution = {Iowa State University, Department of Computer Science},
     month = {July},
     Date-Added = {2009-07-12}
}

Hieu Pham, Ganesh Ram Santhanam, James McCalley, Vasant Honavar. BenSOA: a Flexible Service-Oriented Architecture for Power System Asset Management. North American Power Symposium. 2009. [url] [bib]


@inproceedings{pham2009bensoa,
  title={BenSOA: a flexible service-oriented architecture for power system asset management},
  author={Pham, Hieu Q and Santhanam, Ganesh Ram and McCalley, James D and Honavar, Vasant G},
  booktitle={North American Power Symposium (NAPS), 2009},
  pages={1--6},
  year={2009},
  organization={IEEE}
}

Ganesh Ram Santhanam, Samik Basu and Vasant Honavar. On Utilizing Qualitative Preferences in Web Service Composition: A CP-net Based Approach. Workshop on Service Composition and Adaptation held in conjunction with IEEE International Conference on Services Computing. 2008. [url] [bib]


@inproceedings{santhanam2008utilizing,
  title={On utilizing qualitative preferences in web service composition: A CP-net based approach},
  author={Santhanam, Ganesh Ram and Basu, Samik and Honavar, Vasant},
  booktitle={Services-Part I, 2008. IEEE Congress on},
  pages={538--544},
  year={2008},
  organization={IEEE}
}