Laks V.S. Lakshmanan
Professor
Department of Computer Science
Faculty of Arts
Research Themes: Evolving Language in an Information Economy
Dr. Laks V.S. Lakshmanan is a Professor of Computer Science at the University of British Columbia.
His research interests span a wide spectrum of topics in Database Systems and related areas, including: relational and object-oriented databases, advanced data models for novel applications, OLAP and data warehousing, database mining, data integration, semi-structured data and XML, directory-enabled networks, querying the WWW, information and social networks and social media, recommender systems, and personalization.
A common theme underlying his research is to model problems not traditionally viewed as standard data management problems and bring the technology of efficient data management and mining to bear on them, thus pushing the frontiers of technology. This has often taken him to the "flip" side of many fields and problems. He collaborates widely with both industry and academia the world over.
His research is funded by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), the Network of Centres of Excellence/Institute of Robotics and Intelligent Systems (NCE/IRIS), and Mathematics of Information Technology and Complex Systems (MITACS), and an NSERC strategic grant on Business Intelligence.
