Abhay S. Harpale 5th Year Graduate Student Language Technologies Institute School of Computer Science Carnegie Mellon University Office: 6401 Gates Hillman Center

Research Interests

Machine Learning, Information Retrieval, Active Learning, Multi-Task learning, Collaborative Filtering and Personalization. The most frequent words from my publications:

Publications

• U Kang, Evangelos Papalexakis, Abhay Harpale, and Christos Faloutsos. GigaTensor: Scaling Tensor Analysis Up By 100 Times - Algorithms and Discoveries. KDD 2012. [pdf]

• Abhay Harpale, Yiming Yang, Siddharth Gopal, Daqing He and Zhen Yue. CiteData: A new multi-faceted dataset for evaluating personalized search performance. CIKM 2010. [pdf]

• Abhay Harpale, and Yiming Yang. Active Learning for Multi-Task Adaptive Filtering. ICML 2010. [pdf]

• Yiming Yang, Abhay Harpale, and Subramaniam Ganapathy. Protein Identification from Tandem Mass Spectra With Probabilistic Language Modeling. ECML-PKDD 2009. [pdf]

• Yiming Yang, Subramaniam Ganapathy, and Abhay Harpale. Protein Identification as an Information Retrieval Problem. SIGIR 2009. [pdf]

• Zhen Yue, Abhay Harpale, Daqing He, Jonathan Grady, Yiling Lin, Jon Walker, Siddharth Gopal and Yiming Yang. CiteEval for evaluating personalized social web search. In the Future of IR Evaluations Workshop. SIGIR 2009 [pdf]

• Abhay Harpale, Yiming Yang. Personalized Active Learning for Collaborative Filtering. SIGIR 2008. [pdf]

• Yiming Yang, Abhimanyu Lad, Ni Lao, Abhay Harpale, Bryan Kisiel, Monica Rogati, Jian Zhang, Jaime Carbonell, Peter Brusilovsky, Daqing He: Utility-based information distillation over temporally sequenced documents. SIGIR 2007: 31-38. [pdf]

• Shantanu Godbole, Abhay Harpale, Sunita Sarawagi, Soumen Chakrabarti. Document classification through interactive supervision of document and term labels. ECML-PKDD 2004 [pdf]

• Shantanu Godbole, Abhay Harpale, Sunita Sarawagi, Soumen Chakrabarti. HIClass: Hyper Interactive text Classification by interactive supervision of document and term labels. ECML-PKDD 2004. (demo paper)[pdf]

Professional Activities

• Reviewer: ICML 2008, SIGIR 2008, SDM 2009, SIGIR 2009, SIGIR 2010, SIGIR 2011, Pattern Recognition Journal
• On the organizing team of the SCS Student Seminar Series (Fall 2007, Spring 2008)
• Teaching Assistant: 15-493 Search Engines and Web Mining (Fall 2009), 11-741 Information Retrieval (Spring 2011)

Courses (at CMU)

• Fall 2006:
  • Intermediate Statistics
  • Adv. Statistical Learning Seminar
• Spring 2007
  • Machine Learning
  • Information Retrieval
• Fall 2007
  • Adv. IR Seminar
  • Algorithms for Natural Language Processing
  • Software Engineering for Information Systems
• Spring 2008
  • Optimization
  • Statistical ML

Trivia

For all that it is worth, my Erdos number is 4 (Erdos > Michael O. Molloy > Alan M. Frieze > Soumen Chakrabarti > Me) Source: MathSciNet. Nothing significant in the light of a horse having erdos number 3 [Extended Erdos Number]