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PhD Student
Office 264
Dept of Computer Science
140 Governors Drive
University of Massachusetts
Amherst, MA (USA) 01003
Phone: (615) 945 6618
Email: sameer |{AT}| cs.umass.edu
About
I'm a second year PhD student in Computer Science at UMass Amherst.
I'm working with Andrew McCallum, as part of the Information Extraction and Synthesis Lab (IESL) on various learning and inference techniques for large factor graphs. I've also been working on FACTORIE. Over last summer, I worked on some interesting machine learning problems within Rexa.
Before I started my PhD, I interned for two semesters at Google Pittsburgh, where I got a chance to apply machine learning to some of the biggest data sets available. Before Google, I finished my MS in Computer Science from Vanderbilt in May 2007, where I worked with Doug Fisher and got my Bachelors in Electrical Engineering from NSIT in 2004.
I grew up in New Delhi, India, and graduated from Sardar Patel Vidyalaya in 2000.
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Recent Publications
- A. McCallum, K. Schultz, S. Singh
FACTORIE: Probabilistic Programming via Imperatively Defined Factor Graphs
Neural Information Processing Systems Conference (NIPS), 2009
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- M. Wick, K. Rohanimesh, S. Singh, A. McCallum
Training Factor Graphs with Reinforcement Learning for Efficient MAP Inference
Neural Information Processing Systems Conference (NIPS), 2009
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- S. Singh, K. Schultz, A. McCallum
Bi-directional Joint Inference for Entity Resolution and Segmentation using Imperatively-Defined Factor Graphs
Machine Learning and Knowledge Discovery in Databases (Lecture Notes in Computer Science) and European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (ECML PKDD), 2009
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- S. Singh, J. Kubica, S. Larsen, D. Sorokina
Parallel Large Scale Feature Selection for Logistic Regression
SIAM International Conference on Data Mining (SDM), 2009
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- A. McCallum, K. Rohanimanesh, M. Wick, K. Schultz, S. Singh
FACTORIE: Efficient Probabilistic Programming via Imperative Declarations of Structure, Inference and Learning
Neural Information Processing Systems Workshop (NIPS), 2008
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