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Raghu N Kacker (Fed)
Raghu Kacker is a scientist in the Applied and Computational Mathematics Division (ACMD) of the Information Technology Laboratory (ITL) of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). His current interests include combinatorial methods for black box testing and their applications; mathematics of metrology; quantification of uncertainty in measurements from physical experiments and computational models.
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Additional Data:
- ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7666-3391
- Google Scholar: Raghu Kacker
Awards
- Fellow, American Society for Quality ASQ (2000)
- Fellow, American Statistical Association ASA (1994)
- U.S. Department of Commerce Silver Medal (2014)
- U.S. Department of Commerce Bronze Medal (1994)
- Distinguished Technical Staff Award, AT&T-Bell Laboratories (1985)
- Federal Laboratory Consortium Award for combinatorial testing tool (2009)R&D 100 Award, Team Member for developing the software S-check (1997)
- PATENT: United States Patent number: US 10,552,300 B2. Date: February 4, 2020. Title: Oracle-free match testing of a program using covering arrays and equivalence classes. Owner: U.S. Department of Commerce. Inventors: D. Richard Kuhn and Raghu N. Kacker.
Selected Publications
Laleh S. Ghandehari, Yu Lei, Raghu N. Kacker, D. Richard Kuhn, Tao Xie, and David Kung. A Combinatorial Testing-Based Approach to Fault Localization, IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, 46 (June 2020) pp. 616-645. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=8438933
Jin Chu Wu, Alvin F. Martin and Raghu N. Kacker. Bootstrap variability studies in ROC analysis on large datasets, Communications in Statistics - Simulation and Computation, 43 (2014) pp. 225-236. https://doi.org/10.1080/03610918.2012.700362
Yu Lei, Raghu N. Kacker, D. Richard Kuhn, Vadim Okun, and James F. Lawrence. IPOG/IPOG-D: Efficient test generation for multi-way combinatorial testing, Software Testing, Verification and Reliability, 18 (2007) pp. 125-148. https://doi.org/10.1002/stvr.381
Raghu N. Kacker and James F. Lawrence. Trapezoidal and triangular distributions for Type B evaluation of standard uncertainty, Metrologia, 44 (2007) pp. 117-127. https://iopscience.iop.org/volume/0026-1394/44
Karl K. Irikura, Russell D. Johnson, and Raghu N. Kacker. Uncertainties in scaling factors for ab-initio vibrational frequencies, Journal of Physical Chemistry A, 109 (2005) pp. 8430-8437. https://doi.org/10.1021/jp052793n
Raghu N. Kacker and Albert T. Jones. On use of Bayesian statistics to make Guide to the expression of uncertainty in measurement consistent, Metrologia, 40 (2003), pp. 235-248. https://iopscience.iop.org/journal/0026-1394
Raghu N. Kackar. Off-line Quality Control, Parameter Design, and the Taguchi Method, with discussion and response, Journal of Quality Technology, 17 (1985), pp. 176-209. https://doi.org/10.1080/00224065.1985.11978964
Raghu N. Kackar and David A. Harville. Approximations for Standard Errors of Estimators of Fixed and Random Effects in mixed Linear Models” Journal of American Statistical Association, 79 (1984), pp. 853-862. https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/2288715.pdf