About
I'm a 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 and have worked on some of the interesting machine learning problems within Rexa.
Last year, I received the Yahoo! Key Scientific Challenges Award for the year 2010-2011 (yahoo link, umass story). For the year 2009-2010, I was granted the Department Award for Accomplishments in Search and Mining (sponsored by Yahoo!) by the Computer Science Department. I was also awarded the Graduate School Fellowship by the university for the year 2010-2011.
I co-chaired the fourth North-East Students Colloquium on Artificial Intelligence (NESCAI) 2010 with David Mimno. The conference was held at UMass on April 16-18, 2010.
I interned at Google Research at Mountain View, CA last summer, where I worked on inference for large graphical models, with cross-document coreference as the task. In summer 2009, I worked with the Advertising Sciences team in Yahoo! Labs on extracting entities from ads using minimal supervision. 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 starting my PhD, I finished my MS in Computer Science from Vanderbilt in May 2007, where I worked with Doug Fisher. I grew up in New Delhi, India, got my Bachelors in Electrical Engineering from NSIT in 2004, and graduated from Sardar Patel Vidyalaya in 2000.