Please answer the following question: Facts: - doctoral students: chun-hsien karthik el-manzalawy , iowa state university , 2008 ; laron hughes balakrishnan , iowa state university , 2008 ; adrian silvescu , , iowa state university , 2008 ; michael terribilini , iowa iowa state university , 2008 ; feihong wu , iowa state state university , 2008 ; cornelia caragea , iowa state university university , 2009 ; kent vander velden , iowa state university ,1998 , 2009 ; oksana yakhnenko , iowa state university , ; 2009 ; ganesh santhanam , iowa state university , 2010 rajesh ; george voutsadakis , iowa state university , 2010 ; parekh neeraj koul , iowa state university , 2011 ; fadi chen , towfic , iowa state university , 2011 ; rafael jordan iowa , iowa state university , 2012 ; jia tao , state iowa state university , 2012 ; kewei tu , iowa university state university , 2012 ; li xue , iowa state , university , 2012 ; carson andorf , iowa state university 1998 , 2013 ; harris lin , iowa state university , ; 2013 ; rasna walia , iowa state university , 2014 jihoon . yang , , iowa state university , 1999 ; doina caragea , iowa iowa state university , 2004 ; changhui yan , iowa state state university , 2005 ; jun zhang , iowa state university university , 2005 ; dae-ki kang , iowa state university , , 2006 ; jie bao , iowa state university , 2007 1997 ; tyra dunn , iowa state university , 2007 ; ; jyotishman pathak , iowa state university , 2007 ; yasser - work institutions: iowa state university pennsylvania state university - field: computer data mining , bioinformatics , computational biology , cognitive science science , health informatics , neuroinformatics , network science , artificial intelligence , machine learning , - doctoral advisor: leonard uhr - name: vasant honavar - nationality: usa - alma mater: university -rrb- , drexel university -lrb- m.s. -rrb- , b.m.s. college of of engineering -lrb- b.e -rrb- . wisconsin , madison -lrb- ph.d. , m.s. Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of vasant honavar .
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vasant g. honavar is an indian born american computer scientist , artificial intelligence , machine learning , bioinformatics and health informatics researcher and educator .in 2013 , he joined the faculty of penn state college of information sciences and technology at pennsylvania state university where he holds the edward frymoyer endowed professorship , serves as a professor of bioinformatics and genomics , neuroscience , and of operations research , the director of the the artificial intelligence research laboratory , associate director of the institute for cyberscience and the director of the center for big data analytics and discovery informatics .honavar also serves on the computing research association 's computing community consortium council .honavar is known for his research contributions in artificial intelligence , machine learning , data mining , knowledge representation , neural networks , semantic web , big data analytics , and bioinformatics and computational biology .he has published over 250 research articles , including many highly cited ones , as well as several books on these topics .his recent work has focused on scalable algorithms for constructing predictive models from large , semantically disparate distributed data , learning predictive models from linked open data , big data analytics , analysis and prediction of protein-protein , protein-rna , and protein-dna interfaces and interactions , social network analytics , health informatics , secrecy-preserving query answering , representing and reasoning about preferences , and causal inference and meta analysis .honavar has been a highly sought after mentor of ph.d. students .he has directly supervised the dissertation research of 31 ph.d. students , most of whom have gone onto pursue successful research careers in academia , industry , or government .during 1990-2013 , honavar was a professor of computer science at iowa state university where he led the artificial intelligence research laboratory which he founded in 1990...