Ravanasamudram N Uma

Dr. R. N. Uma is a professor of Computer Science in the Department of Mathematics and Physics at NCCU, Durham, NC. Her research interests include data science, scheduling and resource allocation with applications to cloud computing, robotics, wireless sensor networks, multimedia networking, and large logistics problems. Her research has spanned from purely theoretical to experimental and simulations.

She has published several papers in leading conferences and journals, as well as a book, in her areas of expertise. On the education front, she is interested in increasing the enrollment and retention of minority students, particularly in mathematical sciences including computer science, and towards this end, she has implemented several federally funded projects.

She has served her professional community in a variety of roles including guest editor, TPC co-chair, and publications chair, in addition to routine roles such as TPC member, reviewer and session chair. She received her B.Sc. degree in Mathematics from the University of Madras, Chennai, India; her M.E. degree in Computer Science from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India; and her Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from NYU Tandon School of Engineering, New York. She is a senior member of IEEE.

In the "Broadening Participation Research Project: Research for Social Justice - Broadening Participation through Data Science," the researchers inject social justice issues into science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) learning through data science. They incorporate data science projects within a social justice context to demonstrate how STEM serves as a vehicle for addressing social inequities with the goal of encouraging interest and promoting persistence in STEM, particularly among underrepresented minorities.