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Praveen Rao

Big Data Systems Health Informatics Scalable Data Mining Algorithms Diabetes Translation Research Cybersecurity For Healthcare Data

About

Praveen Rao’s research interests are in the areas of Big Data systems, data science, health informatics and cybersecurity. Specifically, he focuses on developing scalable algorithms and software systems to extract meaningful insights from massive, diverse datasets. His research, teaching and outreach activities have been supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF), National Institutes of Health (NIH), National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), Air Force Research Lab (AFRL), the University of Missouri System, University of Missouri Research Board, and companies. He is a co-PI for the NSF IUCRC Center for Big Learning. He is a core scientist of the Washington University Center for Diabetes Translation Research funded by NIH. He serves as the Director of Graduate Studies for Ph.D. in Informatics. He is a Senior Member of the ACM and IEEE.

Research Performance Summary

159
Total Papers
1554
Total Citations
18
H-Index
2001-2026
Active Research Span

First Recorded Paper

Program execution based module cohesion measurement

Year: 2001

Citations: 45

Venue: Proceedings 16th Annual International Conference on Automated Software

Latest Recorded Paper

Small-Sized Reasoning Language Models for Linguistic Screening of Alzheimer’s Disease

Year: 2026

Citations: 0

Venue: medRxiv, 2025.12. 24.25342972

Last 10 Years Publication Activity

This timeline shows the professor's yearly publication activity.

2026
7
2025
19
2024
18
2023
8
2022
10
2021
18
2020
14
2019
9
2018
7
2017
4
2016
6

Publication Venues and Collaboration

Journal, Conference, and Book Publication Breakdown

Conference 53
Journal 23
Book 7

Top Coauthors

Rao Moon Prasanna

Research Impact by Period

2025-2026

Period Stats
Papers 26
Citations 43
Avg. Citations / Paper 1.7
H-Index 3

2020-2024

Period Stats
Papers 68
Citations 373
Avg. Citations / Paper 5.5
H-Index 11

2015-2019

Period Stats
Papers 29
Citations 243
Avg. Citations / Paper 8.4
H-Index 8

2010-2014

Period Stats
Papers 12
Citations 108
Avg. Citations / Paper 9
H-Index 7

2005-2009

Period Stats
Papers 20
Citations 354
Avg. Citations / Paper 17.7
H-Index 9

2000-2004

Period Stats
Papers 4
Citations 433
Avg. Citations / Paper 108.2
H-Index 3

Contact and Professional Links

Contact Information

praveen.rao@missouri.edu
5738844195

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