David Sathiaraj

Adjunct Professor of Mathematics

David Sathiaraj is the Director of Data Science at Trabus Technologies where he leads an AI/ML and Data Science team.  He is also an Adjunct Professor at Point Loma University and San Diego State University.  Prior to that he held a faculty position in Data Science at Louisiana State University. His areas of research include applying AI/ML and Data Science on diverse domains such as Environmental Informatics, Maritime Transportation, Healthcare, Predictive Maintenance and Political Science.

Education

  • Ph.D., Computer Science and Engineering, Louisiana State University
  • M.S., Computer Science, Louisiana State University
  • M.S., Industrial Engineering, Louisiana State University
  • B.E., Mechanical Engineering, Osmania University

Courses Taught

  • Data Science Project I
  • Data Science Project II
  • Project for Data Analytics Minor I
  • Project for Data Analytics Minor II

Experience in Field

  • Director of Data Science, Trabus Technologies, San Diego, CA, 2020-Present
  • Adjunct Professor, Point Loma Nazarene University, 2022-Present
  • Adjunct Professor, San Diego State University, 2021-Present
  • Associate Director, NOAA Southern Regional Climate Center, Louisiana State University, 2013-2019
  • Asst. Professor, Louisiana State University, 2015-2019

Dissertations, Presentations, and Publications

  • RippleGo-An AI-based Voyage Planner for US Inland Waterways, D Sathiaraj, A Smith, E Rohli, C Hsieh, A Salindong, N Woolsey, A Tec, 2023 IEEE Conference on Artificial Intelligence (CAI), 372-373
  • Rohli, Eric, Nicholas Woolsey, and David Sathiaraj. "Near-term forecasting of water reservoir storage capacities using long short-term memory." Environmental Data Science 2 (2023): e30.
  • Sathiaraj, David. "Predictive analytical system and method." U.S. Patent No. 11,790,244. 17 Oct. 2023.  
  • Celano, Joseph, David Sathiaraj, Eric Ho, Andrew Nolan Smith, and Eric Vincent Rohli. "Artificial-intelligence-based waterway information system." U.S. Patent Application 18/128,839, filed July 27, 2023.
  • Sathiaraj, D., X. Huang, and J. Chen. "Predicting climate types for the Continental United States using unsupervised clustering techniques." Environmetrics 30.4 (2019): e2524.
  • Sathiaraj, David, Thana-on Punkasem, Fahui Wang, and Dan PK Seedah. "Data-driven analysis on the effects of extreme weather elements on traffic volume in Atlanta, GA, USA." Computers, Environment and Urban Systems 72 (2018): 212-220.
  • Sathiaraj, David, William M. Cassidy Jr, and Eric Rohli. "Improving predictive accuracy in elections." Big data  5, no. 4 (2017): 325-336.