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| Ken Araujo | Hrishi Goradia | M. Padmaja Rao |

Dr. Ken M. Araujo
Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Computer Science Coordinator
Adviser to FMU chapter of UPE, International Honor Society for the Computing and Information Disciplines

Office: FH 227
Phone: (843) 661-1377
Email: karaujo@fmarion.edu

 

Education

Ph.D., The University of South Carolina
M.S., The University of South Carolina
B.S., The University of South Carolina
B.S., Francis Marion College

Area of Expertise

Object-Oriented Modeling
Design Patterns

Biography

Dr. Araujo joined the Francis Marion faculty in 2008. From 1991 to 2008 he was a member of the department of mathematics at Florence-Darlington Technical College and also taught as an adjunct instructor for Coker College. He was a member of the department of mathematics at Francis Marion College from 1986 to 1988. His research has been published in Proceedings of The Annual Reliability and Maintainability Symposium.

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Dr. Hrishi Goradia
Assistant Professor of Computer Science

Office: FH 225
Phone: (843) 661-1807
Email: hgoradia@fmarion.edu

 

Education

Ph.D., University of South Carolina
M.S., University of South Carolina
B.E., University of Mumbai, India

Area of Expertise

Multiagent Systems
Service-Oriented Computing
Software Engineering
Semantic Web

Biography

Dr. Hrishi Goradia joined the Francis Marion faculty in 2008. He teaches courses in the Computer Science curriculum at Francis Marion University. His research interests include multiagent systems, automated negotiations, electronic commerce, service-oriented computing, software engineering, and the semantic Web. His research has been published in many leading conferences and journals, including the Autonomous Agents and Multi Agent Systems, Intelligent Agent Technology, American Association of Artificial Intelligence, and Service-Oriented Computing. He has also authored a book - Automated Negotiations in Multiagent Systems - Modeling, Analysis, and Algorithms.

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Prof. M. Padmaja Rao
Assistant Professor of Computer Science
Adviser to FMU ACM Student Chapter and CS programming contest team.
Coordinator of the CS internship program.

Office: FH 224
Phone: (843) 661-1591
Email: mrao@fmarion.edu

 

Education

M.S., Stevens Institute of Technology
B.S., University of Maryland

Area of Expertise

Software Engineering
Networking

Biography

Padmaja Rao joined the Francis Marion faculty in 2005. She teaches courses in object-oriented programming, software engineering and networking. Before coming to FMU, she worked for eight years in IBM, T. J. Watson Research Center in Hawthorne, New York where her research areas included network management, directory services and security. Her work was presented at many conferences including IEEE 802.9 Working Group Task Force and Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) on secure DNS. She holds a patent in the area of network security architecture.

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