Kasilingam Periyasamy, Ph.D.

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Kasilingam Periyasamy, Ph.D.

Program Director of Computer Science Graduate Program
Clinical Associate Professor of Computer Science

Office Location: Caruth Hall 449

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Education

  • Ph.D. in Computer Science, Concordia University Montreal, Canada
  • M.S. in Computer Science, Concordia University Montreal, Canada

Biography

Kasi Periyasamy is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science. His research interests are in software engineering, in particular, formal methods applied to software development, software testing, software tools customized to support software development and data science. He is the co-author of the book Specification of Software Systems published by Springer-Verlag (first edition in 1998 and the second edition in 2011). He had a number of publications in international conferences and journals and had been invited as keynote speaker in some of the conferences. Recently, he has been working on several healthcare projects using Data Science techniques and Software Engineering principles.

 

Kasi Periyasamy was a Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Wisconsin - La Crosse (UWL) for 24 years. He created and served as the Program Director for the Master of Software Engineering (MSE) program at UWL. Before that, he also served as a faculty member in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada for eight years. 

 

Research

  • Software Engineering

  • Formal Methods

  • Data Science

  • Healthcare Applications

Recent Publications

  • K. Periyasamy, A. Kaivelikkal and V. Iyer, “A Predictor Generator for Healthcare Applications”, Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Electrical, Computer, Communication and Mechatronics Engineering (ICECCME’22), Maldives, Nov 2022.
  • X. Feng and K. Periyasamy, “A Cost Estimation Model for Scrum Projects”, presented at the Consortium for Computing in Small Colleges (CCSC MW 2022), Menomonie, WI, Oct 2022. Published by ACM.
  • K. Periyasamy, A. Kaivelikkal and V. Iyer, “A Mobile Application for Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) Diagnosis”, Proceedings of the International Conference on Medical and Health Informatics (ICMHI 2022), Kyoto Japan, Virtual presentation, May 2022.
  • X. Feng and K. Periyasamy, “A Scrum Tool with Support for Cost Estimation”, Proceedings of the Midwest Instruction and Computing Symposium (MICS 2022), Milwaukee, WI, April 2022.
  • K. Periyasamy and Venkat Iyer, “Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) Helper”, Workshop on Data Science and Knowledge Transfer for 21st Century Healthcare Deliver, part of the IEEE International Conference on Health Informatics 2020, Virtual presentation, Nov 2020.