Email: priyadarshy@ieee.org

• Managing Director, RKR Group, Inc. October 2007- present. A consulting services group focusing on large scale data mining projects, and computational science (chem- and bio- informatics projects). One client has multiple 60 – 90 Terabyte data warehouses and data increases by few GB per day. The challenges being addressed is to do ‘real’ time analysis and reporting of trends and other statistical quantities that are useful to the business.
• Senior Research Scientist (US) and Coordinator of Research Lab (India) for AOL, Inc. October 1999 – December 2007. Research worked focused on finding solutions to data analysis problems with extremely large data sets. Image recognition projects. Bits transfer across the world in a complex environment, no different than protein electron transfer.
• Associate Director, Computational Chemistry, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey. March 1999 – October 1999. Directed the computational research resources including the Protein Data Bank to support 400 researchers and scientists around the globe.
• Cofounder and Director for Informatics, ScopeLabs, Inc. 1996-1999. A specialized consulting and scientific software development company that focused on data pipelining the drug-discovery data collection and analysis, using multitude of software and developing fast statistical analysis modules.
• Assistant Professor (Research) and Director, Computational Chemistry, University of Pittsburgh. January 1996 – March 1999. Designed, deployed and directed state of the art computational research facility to be used by researchers in Chemistry, Physics and other interdisciplinary subjects.
• Research Associate, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA. February 1993- December 1995. Worked in areas of protein-protein interactions, Non-linear optics, Coupled Quantum-Molecular Dynamics simulations, and electron transfer in DNA and proteins, etc.
• Australian Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow, The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia. November 1990 – January 1993.Molecular dynamics simulations of ‘glassy dynamics’ in model lipid systems.
• Ph.D. – Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, 1990
• MBA – VT or VTech, The Virginia Polytechnic and The state University, 2006

Technical Reports(Internal)

• Impact of browser based accelerators on audience experience of web browsing. PAL-Report-2K-01
• Image compression, bytes downloaded and quality of web pages over dialup and broadband. PAL-Report-2K-02
• Statistical Analysis of web rendering over dialup and broadband and influence of Internet traffic on consumer experience. PAL-Report-2K-03
• Competitive Analysis of browsing experience in AOL, MSN, Netzero, Earthlink, AT&T clients, in near real-time. PAL-Report-2K-04
• Impact of number of objects and javascripts on the consumer experience for browsing. PAL-Report-2K-05
• Impact of tracking javascripts on browsing experience of consumers. PAL-Report-2K-06.
• Comparative analysis of download speeds in high-bandwidth data center versus last mile in people’s home. PAL-Report-2K-07.
• Streaming video performance and load balancing using real-time last mile experience metrics. PAL-Report-2K-08.
• Automated log analysis for ‘terms of service’ violators. CSO-Report-2K-01.
• Implementation of Six-sigma methodology in Internet Operations, resulting in saving of millions of lost dollars, due to network congestion. CSO-Report-2K-02.
• Asset management-A critical review of current practice and need for improvement for a collection of 80,000 hardware/network assets. MBA-Report-2K-01

• Flexible Analysis Powerhouse – Science 297, 2079 (2002) K. Pallavi and S. Priyadarshy. Discusses Axum 7.0, data-analysis and statistical analysis package.
• Drug Discoverer - Science 297, 1199 (2002) S. Priyadarshy and P. Simakov. Reviews Catalyst 4.7 from Accelrys -an integrated environment for visualizing, testing hypothesis and performing database analyses related to drug discovery.
• Chemical Design and Modeling – Science 296, 2419 (2002) S. Priyadarshy. Reviews HyperChem – an easy to use, intuitive molecular modeling package.
• Fastest Gun – Science 296, 561 (2002) S. Priyadarshy. Reviews A/G BLAST – Apple Computer, Inc. and Genetech’s version of super fast BLAST for nucleotide sequence analysis.
• HyperChem 6.03 – Biotech software and Internet Journal 3(1), (2002). D. Laxmi and S.Priyadarshy. A detailed review of all features of molecular modeling and analysis package.
• Pop Quiz – Science 296, 1891 (2002) S. Priyadarshy. A review of starQuiz a software for creating quizzes for teaching purpose.
• Data Cruncher – Science 295, 2473 (2002) K. Pallavi and S. Priyadarshy. Discusses MathCad 2001 professional a mathematical and technical calculations package.
• Statistics Teaching Tool – Science 295, 1913 (2002) S. Priyadarshy. Reviews Minitab – a statistical software package.
• Modeling Chemistry – Science 293, 2481 (2001) D. Laxmi and S. Priyadarshy. Discusses HyperChem 6.0- molecular modeling package.
• Modeling Suite – Science 293, 2281 (2001) S. Priyadarshy. Reviews ICM-Pro – Molecular modeling and bioinformatics package.
• Simple, powerful modeling – Science 293, 1851 (2001) L. Shankar and S. Priyadarshy. Reviews PCMODEL-a simple and easy to use molecular modeling software.
• Infrared Spectra Vending Machine – Science 290, 1381 (2000). S. Priyadarshy. TechSight Review. Reviews HaveIT All IR, a package that implemented a revolutionary way to access world’s largest Infrared specta database.
• DNA Conductance: A Basic Review. Synthesis and Reactivity in Inorganic, Metal-Organic, and Nano-metal chemistry, 37(5), 353, 2007. S. Priyadarshy.
• The nature of tunnel splitting mediated by stacked aromatics. Journal of Physical Chemistry A 104, 7593 (2000). M. K. Lee, M. J. Shephard, S.M. Risser, S. Priyadarshy, , M. N. Paddon-Row, D. N. Beratan.
• Orientational Dynamics of ß-Cyclodextrin Inclusion Complexes, Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 102, 9617 (1998). Natalie Balabai, Brian Linton, Adrian Napper, Satyam Priyadarshy, Alexander P. Sukharevsky, and David H. Waldeck.
• DNA-mediated electron transfer. J. Bioinorganic Chem., 3, 196 (1998). Satyam Priyadarshy, Steven M. Risser and David Beratan.
• Stabilization of the merocyanine form of photochromic compounds in fluoro alcohols is due to a hydrogen bond. J. Chem. Soc., Chem. Commun., 24, 2685 (1998). Takayuki Suzuki, Fu-Tyan. Lin, Satyam Priyadarshy and Stephen.G. Weber.
• Photophysics and intramolecular excimer formation in a constrained anthracenyl diadduct, J. Photochem. Photobiol., 110, 131 (1997). Z. Lin, S. Priyadarshy, A. Bartko and D. H. Waldeck.
• Secondary structure conformations and long range electronic interactions in oligopeptides, J. Phys. Chem., 101, 2986 (1997). John Wolfgang, Steven M. Risser, Satyam Priyadarshy, and David N Beratan
• DNA: Insulator or Wire? Chemistry & Biology, 4, 3 (1997). David N Beratan, Satyam Priyadarshy and Steven M. Risser
• Theory and practice of electron transfer within protein-protein complexes: Applications to the multidomain binding of Cytochrome c and Cytochrome c peroxidase, Chem. Reviews, 96 (7) 2459 (1996). Judith M. Nocek, Jian S. Zhou, Sarah DeForest, Satyam Priyadarshy, David N Beratan, Jose N. Onuchic and Brian M. Hoffman
• DNA double helix mediated long range electron transfer, Int. J. Quantum Chem., 60 (8) QBS 23, 1789 (1996). Satyam Priyadarshy, Steven M. Risser and David N Beratan
• DNA is not a molecular wire: Protein like electron transfer in an extended p-electron system J. Phys. Chem., 100, 17678 (1996). Satyam Priyadarshy, Steven M. Risser and David N Beratan
• Acetylenyl-Linked, Porphyrin-Bridged, Donor-Acceptor Molecules: ATheoretical Analysis of the Molecular First HyperPolarizability in Highly Conjugated Push-Pull Chromophore Structures, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 118, 1504 (1996). Satyam Priyadarshy, M. J. Therien and David N Beratan
• Bridge-Mediated Electronic Interactions: Differences between Hamiltonian and Green Function Partitioning in a Non-Orthogonal Basis, J. Chem. Phys., 104, 9473 (1996). Satyam Priyadarshy, Spiros S. Skourtis, Steven M. Risser and David N Beratan
• Rotational Relaxation in a 2D Crystal of Soft-Core Diatomic Molecules, J. Phys. Chem. 96, 4040 (1992). Satyam Priyadarshy and Peter Harrowell
• Semi empirical MO calculation on Chl-H2O system, Chem. Phys. Letts. 173, 360 (1990). S. N. Datta and S. Priyadarshy
• Transport of excitation energy in a three dimensional doped molecular crystal, Int. J. Quant. Chem. 36, 141 (1989). S. Priyadarshy and S. N. Datta
• A Generalized Time-Dependent Pseudopotential, Chem. Phys. Letts. 135, 147 (1987). S. N. Datta and S. Priyadarshy
• A model calculation on the transport of excitation energy in a molecular crystal, Int. J. Quant. Chem. 32, 411 (1987). S. N. Datta and S. Priyadarshy
• Quenching of excitations in an impure molecular crystal, Pramana-J. Phys. 28, 653 (1987). S. Priyadarshy and S. N. Datta

• Time-Dependent Pseudopotential and Valence Fluctuations in "Theoretical and Experimental Aspects of Valence Fluctuations" eds. L.C. Gupta and S. K. Malik, Plenum Publishers, New York (1987). S. N. Datta, S. Priyadarshy and G. Devaiah

• A Cognitive Perspective on Search Engine Technology and the WWW. Technical COMMUNICATION, 49 (3) 366-367. (2002). S. Priyadarshy.

• Video Recording. Gale Encylopedia of Science (1995). S. Priyadarshy

• Acetylenyl linked Porphyrins: A Theoretical study of through-bond and through-space electronic interactions, J. Phys. Chem. (in preparation). S. Priyadarshy, M. J. Therien and D. N Beratan.
• Six Sigma as a Methodology for Database Driven Applications. Measuring Business Excellence. (in preparation). Chris McCoy, Robert Wilson and Satyam Priyadarshy.
• Role of conformational changes on long range electron transfer in DNA. J. Phys. Chem. (in preparation) Steven M. Risser, S. Priyadarshy and D. N. Beratan.

• Dynamic Data Visualization in Bioinformatics, Practical Innovation at BioCon 2003, February 3-6, 2003, San Diego, CA. S. Priyadarshy.
• Effect of geometrical fluctuations on DNA electron transfer rates: A computational studysubmitted to Fourth INDO-US Workshop in Mathematical Chemistry, Jan 8 – 12 (2005). S. Priyadarshy
• Structure and Energetic of N-Phenylenes, submitted to 9th Electronic Computational Chemistry Conference, Mar. 1 – 30 (2003). S. Priyadarshy
• DNA as a Nanowire-Reality or Myth? Unraveling the Mystery using Coupled QM-MD Computational Methods, submitted to Third INDO-US Workshop in Mathematical Chemistry, Jan 13 – 18 (2003). S. Priyadarshy
• Role of base sequences on long-range electron transfer in DNA. -ACS-SERMACS, Charleston, SC (2002). Nov. 14-16, (2002). S. Priyadarshy
• Peak performance of Internet applications using Six-Sigma principles. ACE–IEEE, New Delhi, India (2001), Chris McCoy, R. Wilson and S. Priyadarshy.
• Translational and Rotational Effects on the Electronic Propagation in Model PI-stacks. Sanibel Symposium (1998). Mikyung Lee, S. Priyadarshy, D.N. Beratan and S. M. Risser.
• Nonlinear Optical Properties of Photochromic Spiropyran Molecules: Theoretical Study of Hyperpolarizability of Open and Closed Forms. Sanibel Symposium (1998). S. Priyadarshy.
• Coupled MD/QM Study of Electron Transfer in DNA. Fourth Electronic Computational Chemistry Conference (1999). J. K. Boshears, K.D.Steed, S.M. Risser and S.Priyadarshy.
• DNA is not a molecular wire: Protein like electron transfer in an extended pi-electron system. 24th Annual meeting of American society for photobiology, Atlanta, June 15-20, 1996. S. M. Risser, S. Priyadarshy and D. N. Beratan.
• DNA double helix mediated long-range electron transfer. Sanibel Symposium, St. Augustine, Fl Feb-24-Mar 2, 1996. S. M. Risser, S. Priyadarshy and D. N. Beratan.
• What is the relationship between secondary structure and electron transfer rates in proteins? South West Regional Meeting of ACS, Fort Worth, Texas Nov 13-14 (1994). S. M. Risser, S. Priyadarshy and D. N. Beratan.
• Tunneling Paths in Proteins: Single or Multiple Paths? 9th Harden Discussion Meeting, Ashford, Kent, UK. Sep. 8-10 (1994). D.N. Beratan, S. Priyadarshy and S. M. Risser.
• Design and activity estimation of potassium channel modulators: A computational combinatorial study. Sanibel Symposium, St. Augustine, FL (1999). S. Priyadarshy, H. Walls and A.K. Singh.
• DNA double helix mediated long-range electron transfer. Sanibel Symposium, St. Augustine, Fl Feb-24-Mar 2, 1996. S.Priyadarshy, S. M. Risser and D. N. Beratan.
• DNA Mediated Long Range Electron Transfer: Bases Vs. Backbone. August Meeting of the American Chemical Society, Chicago, IL, Aug 20-24 (1995). S.Priyadarshy, S.M. Risser and D.N. Beratan
• Relationship between the secondary structure and electron transfer rates in proteins. Biophysical Meeting of the American Physical Society, March 2-4, 1995. S.M.Risser, S. Priyadarshy and D.N. Beratan.
• What is the relationship between secondary structure and electron transfer rates in proteins? South West Regional Meeting of ACS, Fort Worth, Texas (1994). S.M.Risser, S. Priyadarshy and D.N. Beratan.
• Relation between Molecular Structure, Connectivity and Electron Transfer Rates in Macromolecules. Texas Section Meeting of the American Physical Society, Dallas, TX. March 11-12 (1993). S. M. Risser, S. Priyadarshy and D. N. Beratan.
• Relation between proteins and nucleotide structural fluctuations and electron transfer rates. Symposium on Simulation of Polypeptide and Protein Structure, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY May 3-4 1993. S.Priyadarshy, S. M. Risser and D.N. Beratan.
• Rotational Relaxation study in 2D diatomic system presented at the Statistical Mechanics meeting, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia November 7-8, 1991. S. Priyadarshy and Peter Harrowell.
• Time-dependent pseudopotential and valence fluctuation. Vth International conference on valence fluctuation, Bangalore, India January 5-9 1987. S. Priyadarshy, G. Deviah and S. N. Datta.
• Quenching of excitations in an impure molecular crystal. –National conference on spectroscopy and theoretical chemistry, Calcutta, India December 5-7, 1985. S. Priyadarshy and S. N. Datta

• Elected Member of Phi Lambda Upsilon-An honorary society of Chemists, for the scientific contribution to the field of electron transfer in DNA.
• The Scientist 133 (16), p 14 16 Aug 1999 – In article – DNA: from living cells to electronic hardware by Nadia Halim.
• Chemical and Engineering News – February 24, 1997 – In article – DNA: Insulator or Wire? By E. Wilson.

• AOL Technologies – Team Excellence Award 2002
• AOL Technologies Big Brother 2000 Award
• Change Management Program (improved efficiency by 300% with resource reduction by 60%) – Special Recognition Award. – Technology Division, AOL, Inc.

• Charge Transfer in DNA: An ab-initio study. (PI) 1998 – 1999 Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center, Pittsburgh.
• Large Scale Self-Consistent Quantum Calculations on Proteins. (PI) 1997-1998. Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center, Pittsburgh.
• An Ab-initio study of the nature of ?-? interaction in DNA and proteins. (PI) 1996-1997. Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center, Pittsburgh.
• Structure-property relationship in advanced material design: Theoretical and experimental study. (Co-PI). 1996-1997. Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center, Pittsburgh.
• Parallel large-scale semi empirical self-consistent-Hartree-Fock calculations on DNA and proteins. (PI). 1995-1996. Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center, Pittsburgh.
• DNA mediated long-range electron transfer. (Co-PI). 1995-1996. San Diego Supercomputer Center, San Diego.
• Biomolecules mediated long-range electron transfer: Large scale self-consistent quantum calculations. (PI) 1995-1996. Cray Research, Inc. and National Center for Supercomputing Applications.
• Electron tunneling pathways in nucleic acids. (Co-PI). 1994 –1995. Cray Research, Inc. and Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center, Pittsburgh.

• Transition Metal DNA Complexes: Insulators or Wires? awarded by NIH (April 1999) with Professor David Beratan (Pittsburgh) as Principal Investigator and in collaboration with Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center (Pittsburgh), and Professor Steven M. Risser (Commerce-Texas) for US$500K for 4 years.

• Molecular Modeling in Drug Design University of Pittsburgh, REU 1998
• Mathermatica and MathCad for Physical Chemistry University of Pittsburgh
• Concepts of Networking Comp-U-Learn, Pittsburgh, PA

• Managing Information Systems in Global Environment, School of Management, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA Fall-2007 to present.

• Nanotechnology – Impact on Society, Indian Institute of Technology, Powai, Mumbai, February 7, 2007.
• Enhancing the consumer experience through automated testing and analysis: Verify 2007, October 29, 2007.
• XLDB 2007: Extremely large databases workshop: Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, October 25, 2007.
• Nanotechnology – Impact on Society, Indian Institute of Technology, Powai, Mumbai, February 7, 2007.
• Social networking: A Web 2.0 National conference Computer Society of India, Bangalore, India, February 2007.
• Managing Applications: Role of Metrics (which, what, how) for better ROI. Virginia Tech (MBA)
• Unraveling the Mystery of DNA Conductivity, Colloquium of the laboratory for computer design of materials, School of Computational Sciences, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA February 24, 2003.
• Six-Sigma application for Database driven Applications in 24x7 environment, America Online, Inc. (CIBS Division) 2002
• DNA as nanowire. Reality or Myth? The sixth Foresight conference on Molecular Nanotechology, November 12-15, 1998 Santa Clara, CA
• DNA: Insulator or Wire? Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology, Powai, Bombay, July 21, 2001.
• Molecular Modeling in Drug Design. June 18, 1998, NSF-REU, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
• Molecular Modeling in Drug Design, Department of Chemistry, University of Pittsburgh, NSF-REU program, 1998
• Electron Transfer in DNA and Supercomputing, Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center, 1997
• DNA: Insulator or Wire? Physics Colloquium. Indiana University of Pennsylvania, 1998
• Computer modeling of Biomolecules, University of Pittsburgh, 1996.
• DNA mediated long range electron transfer: Base pairs vs. backbone, Gordon Conference on “Electron donor-acceptor interactions” 1994
• Molecular Simulation, 99 (Invited Speaker, unable to attend).

• American Chemical Society
• IEEE
• ASQ
• ACM
• National Honors Society
• Who’s Who in America
• IUPAC
• PMI (Project Management Institute)
• Northern Virginia Technology Council

• Adam Hoffman – Undergraduate -Mathematica in Quantum Mechanics; Tunneling in Quantum Mechanics
• Harold Walls – Undergraduate - QSAR studies of potassium ion channel blockers
• Michael Grabe – Summer and NSF REU student - Quantum mechanical studies of extended porphyrins; Pathways studies of electron transfer in proteins and DNA
• Sarah De Forest – Undergraduate - Electron transfer in Cytochrome c and Cytochrome c peroxidase complex.
• William Curry – Graduate, Pathways studies of electron transfer.
• Latha Shankar – Graduate - Monte Carlo simulation of non-classical ions & Fortran Programming

• Australian Research Council Research Fellowship (1991 – 1993)
• Department of Science and Technology, Post Doctoral Fellowship, India (1989 – 1990)
• Council of Scientific and Industrial Research –Senior Research Fellowship (1987-1989)
• Department of Atomic Energy/Department of Science and Technology, Junior Research Fellowship (1984 – 1987)

• American Chemical Society Journals
• High Performance / Supercomputing grants for Supercomputing centers.

• PMP Certification Training (ESI/GWU/Virginia Tech)
• Facilitative Leadership
• Managing with the Law
• Working with Diverse and Global workforce
• RHCE (Linux)
• Windows .NET
• HP-UX
• SunOS
• IRIX
• Unix Performance Tuning
• Supercomputing Techniques
• Parallel Programming
• E-commerce marketing

• Languages:
  Perl, TCL, Revolution, Shell, PHP, Java, JavaScript, .NET, Python, FORTRAN, C, C++, awk
• Networking:
  Ethernet, VoIP protocol, Cable Modem, DSL Modem, Analog Modem, WiFi
• Web:
  Apache, NPE, AOLserver, Tomcat, Resin, AJAX, XPM
• Databases:
  Sybase, Oracle, MySql, PostgreSQL, ERWin, DBArtisan,
• Hardware:
  SUN/HP/SGI/Intel workstations & servers, Auspex, EMC, Storagetek, Clarion
• Operating Systems:
  Solaris, Linux, OSX, HP-UX, Irix, Windows (all versions)
• Business/Consulting
  Business Process Engineering, Change Management, Six Sigma Quality, Program, Project and People management.
• Analysis:
  ETL , OLAP tools, Visio, SPSS, SigmaPlot, Transform, Mathematica, MathCAD, Minitab, MatLab, TCP trace, HTTP analysis, Web Accelerator analysis, Information Retrieval, Image processing

• Efficient analysis of extremely large structured and unstructured datasets, from ‘diverse’ data sources.
• Scalability and redundancy in building an ‘mashed up’ data warehouse for large data sets.
• Automation and visualization of data mining results.
• Image analysis for object tracking in multi-frame videos.