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Dr.Praveen Madiraju
Professor of Computer Science
Director of Data Science and Text Analytics Research (DATA) Lab
Graduate Chair for Computer Science Program at Marquette
Department of Computer Science
Room 377,Cudahy Hall
Marquette University
Email: praveen.madiraju[at]marquette[dot]edu
Phone : 414-288-6340

Recent News :

      PI for "Mentor Matching for Veterans with Post-traumatic Stress Disorder". Drs. Praveen Madiraju (PI), Zeno Franco(MCW PI), Sabirat Rubya (Co-I), and Sheikh Iqbal Ahamed (Co-I). Advancing Healthier Wisconsin Endowment (AHW), Community-Led Seed Grants, $50,000, 2024-2025 new
      Co-I for "Aligning Generative AI and Human Heuristics". Drs. Larry Zhiming Xu (PI), Praveen Madiraju (Co-I), and Kambiz Saffarizadeh (Co-I). Northwestern Mutual Data Science Institute, $50,000, 2023-2024 new
      Co-PI for "Auto Completion of Chief Complaint".Drs. Priya Deshpande (PI), Praveen Madiraju (Co-PI), and Carissa W. Tomas (Co-I). Northwestern Mutual Data Science Institute, $49,998, 2023-2024 new
      Co-I (But PI for Marquette) for "Implementation research on innovative overdose prevention programs". Drs. Julia Dickson-Gomez(PI), Jennifer Hernandez-Meier (Co-I), Praveen Madiraju (Co-I), Constance Kostelac (Co-I), Sergey Tarima (Co-I), Zeno Franco(Co-I). Advancing Healthier Wisconsin Endowment (AHW) Project Formation Award, $249,046, 2023-2024 new
      Co-PI (But PI for Marquette) for "Commercialize QRF+ Predictive Mental Health Crisis Intervention Tool for Trauma & Substance Abuse". Drs. Zeno Franco(PI), Katinka Hooyer(Co-PI), Praveen Madiraju (Co-PI), Sabirat Rubya (Co-I), Sheikh Iqbal Ahamed (Co-I), Niharika Jain(Co-I). Advancing Healthier Wisconsin Endowment (AHW), $200,000, 2022-2023
      PI for "REU Site: Data Science Across Disciplines", National Science Foundation, Dr. Praveen Madiraju (PI) and Dr. Dennis Brylow (Co-PI). Senior Personnel: Drs. Sheikh Iqbal Ahamed, Shion Guha, Paula E. Papanek, Debbie Perouli , Satish Puri, Aleksandra J. Snowden, and Michael Zimmer. External Evaluator : Dr. Lee Za Ong. 2020-2023 , $404,685. Award#1950826
      Our REU program for Summer 2024 is being reviewed for renewal. We will know by the end of January 2024, if the program will run.

Research Interests :

  • Data Science/Machine Learning : Text Analytics, Text Mining
  • Healthcare Informatics : Behavioral Informatics, Machine Learning Applications for Healthcare, Mobile Applications
  • Databases and BigData : Social Media (Twitter) Analysis, Data Analytics, NoSQL Systems, Personalization, Global Constraint Checking and Querying in Multidatabases, XML Databases, Constraints in XML Databases
More information on my research can be found from the Data Science and Text Analytics Research (DATA) Lab page. Information on my publications can be found from my publication page

Teaching :


Spring 2024
  • COSC 6380 – Big Data Systems

More information on my past courses can be found at my teaching page