Biography

I am second year Masters student in the Language Technologies Institute within the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University. Currently, I am working on Proactive Machine Learning with Prof. Jaime Carbonell (the founder). Previously, I developed a state-of-the-art near-synonym generating system "NeSS" with Prof. Jaime Carbonell and Prof. Anatole Gershman. I believe that NeSS will benefit a variety of NLP systems including information retrieval, machine translation and question answering, and efforts are currently in progress to verify the same.

Prior to joining CMU, I spent four wonderful years as an undergraduate in Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur studying Materials Science and Engineering. Yes, grad school was the first time I wrote code.

Research Interests

My core machine learning research interests are:

• Statistical Machine Learning
• Non-convex Optimization
• Active Learning

Teaching

Teaching Assistant for:

• Course 08-710: Search Engines, Webpage Optimization (Spring 2014)
• Course 08-711: Data Mining, CRM (Spring 2014)