Dr. Prasad Chetti

Assistant Professor

Education

• Ph.D. Information Technology; University of Nebraska-Omaha, 2023
• M.Tech. Computer Science and Engineering; Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati (IITG), 2014
• M.Tech. Geo-Informatics and Surveying Technology; Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University Hyderabad (JNTUH), 2009
• B.Tech. Computer Science and Engineering; P.R.R.M. Engineering College (Affiliated to JNTUH), 2002

Courses Taught

• Computer Organization
• Data Science
• Database Management
• Graph Theory
• Machine Learning
• Artificial Intelligence
• Programming Languages

Courses Taught at Various Engineering Colleges and Universities:

Academic Interests

• Data Science
• Graph Clustering Algorithms
• Artificial Intelligence
• Machine Learning
• Computational Biology
• Population Analysis

Scholarly Activity

Conference Proceedings:

• Chetti, P., & Ali, H. Identifying Significant Parameters of the US Bridges (2022). ACCSE, 2022, pp.13-17
• Hatami, Z., Chetti, P., Ali, H., & Volkman, D. (2022, January). A Novel Population Analysis Approach for Analyzing Financial Markets under Crises-2008 Economic crash and Covid-19 pandemic. In HICSS(pp. 1-10).
• Chetti, P., & Ali, H. (2022, June). Impact of Daily Traffic on Various Bridge Decks in Different Climatic Regions. In European Workshop on Structural Health Monitoring(pp. 1116-1121). Cham: Springer International Publishing.
• Developing a new Decision Support System using Population Analysis to analyze safety and performance of Civil Infrastructures (2022). Student Research and Creative Activity Fair, University of Nebraska at Omaha. https://digitalcommons.unomaha.edu/srcaf/2022/schedule/121.

• Chetti, P., Ali, H. H., Ghersi, D., Ghandi, R. A., Ricks, B., & Najjar, L. (2021). A New Approach for Analyzing Safety and Performance Factors in Civil Infrastructures Using Correlation Networks and Population Analysis. In S. Farhangdoust, A. Guemes, & F-K. Chang (Eds.), Structural Health Monitoring 2021: Enabling Next-Generation SHM for Cyber-Physical Systems - Proceedings of the 13th International Workshop on Structural Health Monitoring, IWSHM 2021 (pp. 593-600). (Structural Health Monitoring 2021: Enabling Next-Generation SHM for Cyber-Physical Systems - Proceedings of the 13th International Workshop on Structural Health Monitoring, IWSHM 2021). DEStech Publications Inc..
• Chetti, P., Ali, H., Gandhi, R., Ricks, B., Ghersi, D., & Najjar, L. (2021). A Population Analysis Approach to Identify Significant Parameters of Highway Bridges. Regional Community Meeting of Midwest Bigdata Innovation Hub,2021. https://midwestbigdatahub.org/2021-rcm-student-presentation-abstracts.

• Chetti, P. (2020). Assigning Risk Ranks to Civil Infrastructure using Big Data Analytics and Correlation Network Models. Student Research and Creative Activity Fair, UNO, March 2020.https://digitalcommons.unomaha.edu/srcaf/2020/schedule/169.

• Chetti and H. Ali, (2019). “Analyzing the Structural Health of Civil Infrastructures Using Correlation Networks and Population Analysis”. Proceedings of the eighth international conference on data analytics. September 22-26, 2019, Porto, Portugal.
• Chetti, P. (2019). A correlation network model for managing safety and performance issues in bridges and civil infrastructure. Student Research and Creative Activity Fair, UNO, March 2019.https://digitalcommons.unomaha.edu/srcaf/2019/Schedule/77.

• Chetti, P. (2018). Predicting Structural Health and Inspection Frequencies of Civil Infrastructure using Correlation Network Model. Student Research and Creative Activity Fair, UNO, March 2018. https://digitalcommons.unomaha.edu/srcaf/2018/schedule/136.

Journal Publications:

• ZahraHatami, Prasad Chetti, Hesham Ali & David Volkman (2023) A novel population analysis approach for analyzing financial markets under crisis - a focus on excess returns of the US stocks under 9/11 and COVID-19, Applied Economics, DOI: 10.1080/00036846.2023.2174939
• Analyzing Structural Health of US Bridges Using Correlation Networks and Population Analysis (2023) (Doctoral dissertation, University of Nebraska at Omaha)
• Sharma, Pawankumar and Chetti, Prasad and Dash, Bibhu and Ansari, Meraj, Data Modeling Best Practices Key to Data Mining and Data Standardization (January 25, 2023). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4337595 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4337595
• Sharma, P., Chetti, P., & Najjar, L. Testing-As-A Service (TAAS)– Capabilities and features for Real-time testing in Cloud (2022), IJCSIT, Volm 14, No 6, December 2022
• Hatami, Z. (2022). A new approach for analyzing financial markets using correlation networks and population analysis(Doctoral dissertation, University of Nebraska at Omaha)
• Chetti and H. Ali, (2020). “Estimating the Inspection Frequencies of Civil Infrastructures Using Correlation Networks and Population Analysis”. International Journal on Advances in Intelligent Systems, v 13 n 1&2 2020.

Articles Under Review:

• Chetti, and H. Ali, (2023). “Validating Correlation Network Model using Simple Linear Regression and Robustness Analysis”.

Poster Presentations:

• Chetti, (2019). “A correlation network model for managing safety and performance issues in bridges and civil infrastructures”. Student Research and Creative Activity Fair, University of Nebraska at Omaha, March 1^st, 2019.
• Chetti, (2018). “Predicting Structural Health and Inspection Frequencies of Civil Infrastructures using Correlation Network Model”. Student Research and Creative Activity Fair, University of Nebraska at Omaha, March 2^nd, 2018.
• Chetti, (2013). “Benchmarks for developing overlapping community detection algorithms”. Student Poster Presentations, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, India. December 2013.

Invited Talks:

• Invited by the Department of Mathematics, Gokaraju Rangaraju Institute of Engineering & Technology, Hyderabad, Telangana, India. to deliver a lecture on “Introduction to Algorithms”, February 2015.
• Invited by the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Vignana Bharathi Institute of Technology, Hyderabad, Telangana, India, to conduct “An International Webinar on Decidable and Undecidable Problems in Theory of Computation”, June 2022.
• Panelist on ChatGPT at the MINKWIC 2023 conference.
• Conducted a Data Science workshop at the MINKWIC 2023 conference on “Analyzing the structural health of U.S. bridges using Correlation Networks”.

Student Group Advisement

Students Projects Guided:

• Developing a correlation network pipeline to analyze the structural health of U.S. bridges (under development)
• A senior year student project entitled “An Application of Community Detection Algorithms: Human Proteins Vs Virus Proteins”, was guided at Gokaraju Rangaraju Institute of Engineering & Technology, Hyderabad, India. January 2016 to May 2016. Student participants: B.S. Susmitha, P.R. Felix, P.Sanku, and Y.S. Ronisha.
• A junior year student mini project entitled “How to Avoid Accidents on Highways”, was guided at Gokaraju Rangaraju Institute of Engineering & Technology, Hyderabad, India. January 2016 to May 2016. Student participants: T. Vamshi, N.J. Simha, P.P. Jadav, and P.M. Krishna.

Other Professional Experience

• Assistant Professor, School of CSIS, Northwest Missouri State University, Spring 2022-
• Graduate Research Assistant for the NSF project entitled “Smart Big Data Pipeline for Aging Rural Bridge Transportation Infrastructure (SMARTI)”, Award Abstract #1762034, Fall2021.
• Instructor for “Introduction to Applied Statistics (CIST 2500)” at the College of IS&T, University of Nebraska at Omaha, Omaha, USA, Spring 2020-Spring2021.
• Graduate Teaching Assistant for CIST 1400 (Introduction to Computer Science I), and CSCI-1620 (Introduction to Computer Science II), from Fall-2017 to Fall-2019.College of IS&T, University of Nebraska at Omaha, Omaha, USA.
• Graduate Research Assistant for the NSF project entitled “Smart Big Data Pipeline for Aging Rural Bridge Transportation Infrastructure (SMARTI)”, Award Abstract #1762034. Summer 2019.
• Assistant Professor in Computer Science & Engineering, Gokaraju Rangaraju Institute of Engineering & Technology, Hyderabad, Telangana, India. August 2014 to August 2016.
• Graduate Teaching Assistant in Computer Science & Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati (IITG), India. July 2013 to May 2014.
• Adjunct Faculty in Computer Science & Engineering, NITS Institute of Science & Technology, Mirza, India. July 2013 to May 2014.
• Part time Faculty for coaching Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE) classes in Computer Science & Engineering, GATEFORUM, Guwahati, India. October 2013 to February 2014.
• Assistant Professor in Computer Science & Engineering, Adam’s Engineering College, Paloncha, Telangana, India. December 2006 to October 2011.
• Assistant Professor in Computer Science & Engineering, Vivekananda Institute of Technology & Science, Telangana, Karimnagar, Telangana, India. June 2006 to December 2006.
• Assistant Professor in Computer Science & Engineering, Royal College of Engineering, (Currently named as HITAM), Medak, Telangana, India. August 2004 to June 2006.
• Assistant Professor in Computer Science & Engineering, Sree Kavitha Engineering college, Khammam, Telangana, India. June 2003 to August 2004.

Awards:

• Received the GRACA (Graduate Research and Creative Activity) award of $5,000 for the project entitled "Building a new Decision Support System using Population analysis to analyze safety and performance issues of Civil Infrastructures", May 2021. University of Nebraska at Omaha, Omaha, USA.
• Received the best paper award at the eighth international conference on data analytics. September 22-26, 2019, Porto, Portugal
• Received the GRACA (Graduate Research and Creative Activity) award of $5,000 for the project entitled "A Correlation Network Model (CNM) for managing safety and performance issues in bridges and civil infrastructures", May 2018. University of Nebraska at Omaha, Omaha, USA.

Internship:

• State of Bank of India, Guwahati branch sponsored project for developing an e-commerce website for the weavers at Sualkuchi village of Assam state, India. May 2013.

Volunteer Services at Various Conferences:

• Volunteer/Session Facilitator at the 21^st Annual Conference on IT Education held at the University of Nebraska at Omaha, USA. (SIGITE 2020).
• Volunteer at the IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence WI 2016 hosted by the University of Nebraska at Omaha, USA. (WI 2016).
• Volunteer at the 33^rd Foundations of Software Technology and Theoretical Computer Science conference at IIT Guwahati, India. (FSTTCS 2013).

Services Rendered to the University:

• Member of the University Faculty Research Committee (2023-24)
• Member of the University Faculty Welfare and Budget Committee (2023-24)
• Member of the University Library Committee (2023-24)
• Member of the University Diversity & Inclusion Committee (2023-24)
• Member of the University Designated Curriculum Matters Committee (2023-24)
• Member of the University Library Committee (2022-23)

Educational Achievements:

• Qualified in GATE (Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering) Computer Science & Engineering in 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2010, 2011,2012, 2013, 2014, and 2015 with highest percentile of 98.35.
• Got All India 74^th rank in I.I.T Roorkee’s Post Graduate Entrance Examination held in the year 2002.
• Got state 95^th & 210 ranks in Non – GATE conducted by JNT University, Hyderabad, India, held in the years 2004 and 2005, respectively.
• Qualified in Faculty Eligibility Test (FET)-2011, conducted by JNT University, Hyderabad, India.

Charity Work:

• Presently I am looking after an educational society named after my father CHETTI BHUSHANAM. The basic objective of this educational society is to provide educational facilities to poor students who come from villages.