Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, IIT Bombay (Formerly Research Staff Member, IBM India Research Lab) Phone (office): 7728 Room: SI-A418, KReSIT

Publications, Books and Tutorials


Awards

• IBM Faculty Award 2011

Projects

• System Text for Information Extraction
• IITB Intranet Search
• Cross Lingual Information Access
• CSAW: Curating and Searching the Annotated Web

Software

• System Text for Information Extraction
• IBM OmniFind Personal E-mail Search
• Analytic Hierarchical Process (AHP)

Teaching

• CS725: Foundations of Machine Learning
• CS717: Statistical Relational Learning
• CS709: Convex Optimization
• SI501: Topics in Theoretical Computer Science
• Guest Lectures in CS705 Course by Prof. Soumen Chakrabarti
• Guest Lectures in CS621 Course by Prof. Pushpak Bhattacharyya

Research Interests   

1. Statistical Relational Learning
2. Other topics in Machine Learning such as Graphical Models and Support Vector Machines.
3. Information Extraction

Other Professional Activities   

1. Program Committee (PC) Member for ACL 2011
2. Program Committee (PC) Member for IJCNLP 2011
3. Tutorial Co-chair for the Pattern Recognition and Machine Intelligence Conference, 2009.
4. Program Committee (PC) Member for ACL-IJCNLP 2009 (Joint conference of the 47th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 4th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing).
5. Program Committee (PC) Member for IICAI 2009 (4th Indian International Conference on Artificial Intelligence).
6. Program Committee (PC) Member for the 25th International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2008).
7. Program Committee (PC) Member for ICWIS09 - International Conference on Web Intelligent Systems.
8. PC Member for ICDE 2008 Workshop on Data Engineering for Blogs, Social Media, and Web 2.0.
9. PC Member for the Workshop on Information Integration on the Web (IIWeb'07) in conjunction with AAAI 2007.

Other Interests   

1. Check out my latest explorations of Yoga from a Vedic perspective.
   • I am extremely grateful to my friends Ramnath Subramanian and Abhishek Ghosh for thought provoking discussions and for providing valuable insights into Yoga, especially as expounded in the Bhagavad Gita.
   • I have also been benefited by thought provoking books such as Gita on the Green: The Mystical Tradition Behind Bagger Vance, Holy War: Violence and the Bhagavad Gita, Relationships that Work: The Power of Conscious Living, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, Jedi in the Lotus and Krishna's Song: a new look at the Bhagavad Gita.
   • Also check out my new blog.
2. Computational Fairy Tales