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Om P. Damani Associate Professor Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering, IIT Bombay Also associated with Centre for Technology Alternatives for Rural Areas (CTARA)

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Academic Interests

Teaching

Selected Publications

• Noun Group and Verb Identification for Hindi - Smriti Singh, Om P. Damani, Vaijayanthi M. Sarma. 24th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, COLING 2012.
• Wikipedia is a practical alternative to the Web for measuring Co-occurrence basedWord Association - Om P. Damani, Pankhil Chedda, and Dipak Chaudhari. 4th Conference on Language and Technology, CLT 2012.
• Re-ordering Source Sentences for SMT - Amit Sangodkar and Om P. Damani. The Eighth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC 2012
• Lexical Co-occurrence, Statistical Significance, and Word Association - Dipak L. Chaudhari, Om P. Damani, and Srivatsan Laxman. Conference on Empirical Methods on Natural Language Processing, EMNLP 2011.
  • resources used in the paper.
• Generating Hierarchical State Based Representation From Event-B Models - Dipak L. Chaudhari and Om P. Damani. B 2011 Workshop. (Presentation)
• Transliteration for Resource Scarce Languages - Manoj K. Chinnakotla, Om P. Damani, Avijit Satoskar. ACM Transactions on Asian Language Information Processing (TALIP), Vol. 9, No. 4, Article 14, Dec 2010.
  • Data-set used in the paper.
  • Parts of this paper appeared as Character Sequence Modeling for Transliteration in 7th International Conference on Natural Language Processing, ICON 2009.
• English to UNL (Interlingua) Enconversion - Manoj Jain and Om P. Damani. Poster paper at 2nd Conference on Language and Technology, CLT 2009.
• A System for Compound Noun Multiword Expression Extraction for Hindi - Anoop Kunchukuttan and Om P. Damani. 6th Intl. Conf. on Natural Language Processing, ICON 2008.
• Hindi to English and Marathi to English Cross Language Information Retrieval Evaluation - Manoj Chinnakotla, Sagar Ranadive, Om P. Damani, and Pushpak Bhattacharyya. 8th Workshop of the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum, CLEF 2007.
  • This work secured the first place for any Indian Language to English CLIR and fifth place for any language to English CLIR at CLEF 2007.
• Hindi Generation from Interlingua (UNL) - Smriti Singh, Mrugank Dalal, Vishal Vachhani, Pushpak Bhattacharyya, Om P. Damani. Machine Translation Summit XI, 2007.
  • Presentations: pdf, ppt
• Interference-Constrained Wireless Coverage in a Protocol Model - Prateek Kapadia, and Om P. Damani. 9th ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Wireless and Mobile Systems (MSWIM'06), 2006.
  • expanded Tech Report.
• Distributed Recovery with K-Optimistic Logging - Om P. Damani, Yi-Min Wang, and Vijay K. Garg. Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, 63(12), 1193-1218, 2003.
  • Parts of this paper appeared in ICDCS 1997.
• Optimistic Recovery in Multi-threaded Distributed Systems - Om P. Damani, Ashis Tarafdar, and Vijay K. Garg, 18th IEEE Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems, 234-243, 1999.
• Fault-Tolerant Distributed Simulation - Om P. Damani and Vijay K. Garg. 12th ACM Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Simulation (PADS'98), 38-45, 1998.
• Optimistic Distributed Simulation Based on Transitive Dependency Tracking - Om P. Damani, Yi-Min Wang, and Vijay K. Garg. 11th ACM Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Simulation (PADS'97), 90-97, 1997.
• ONE-IP: Techniques for Hosting a Service on a Cluster of Machines - Om P. Damani, Pi-Yu Emerald Chung, Yennun Huang, Chandra Kintala, and Yi-Min Wang. Journal of Computer Networks and ISDN Systems, 29, 1019-1027, 1997.
  • Based on the paper in 6th Intl. World Wide Web Conf., April 1997.
• Reliability and Availability Issues In Distributed Component Object Model (DCOM) - Yi-Min Wang, Om P. Damani, and Woe J. Lee. 4th Intl. Workshop on Community Networking, 59-63, 1997.
• How to Recover Asynchronously and Efficiently when Optimism Fails - Om P. Damani and Vijay K. Garg. 16th IEEE Intl. Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS'96), 108-115, 1996.

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External Interaction

• Providing consultancy services to various government and private organizations including National Securities Depository Limited (NSDL), Clearing Corporation of India Limited (CCIL), and Municipal Corportaion of Greater Mumbai (MCGM).
• Received the IIT Bombay Industrial Impact Award 2010, along with Prof. Umesh Bellur and Prof. D. B. Phatak, for the consultancy work of Designing a New Mission-Critical Depository System for National Securities Depository Limited (NSDL), Mumbai.

Lifelong Education

• 2004+ Faculty Member, IIT Bombay.
• 2003-04 Research Staff Member, IBM T J Watson Research Lab, NY, USA.
• 1999-03 Research Scientist, Akamai Technologies Inc., Cambridge, MA, USA.
• 1994-99 Ph.D. in Computer Sciences, the University of Texas at Austin.
  • Dissertation: Optimistic Protocols for Fault-tolerance in Distributed Systems, Advisor: Prof. Vijay K. Garg.
• 1990-1994 B. Tech. in Computer Science and Engineering, IIT Kanpur.
• 1988-1990 Uchcha Madhyamik (Higher Secondary), St. Lawrence High School, Ballygunge, Kolkata.
• 1977-1988 Madhyamik (Secondary), Tantia High School, Burra Bazar, Kolkata.
• 1973-1977 Learning to cry, eat, speak, walk,..live.

Past Teaching