I graduated in Summer 2005 and was a computer scientist at the AI Center of SRI International till Spring 2007. I am now a research scientist at Google.

My main areas of research interest are machine learning, data mining, social network analysis, information retrieval, statistical pattern recognition and optimization.

I did my PhD from the department of Computer Sciences  at the University of Texas at Austin. My PhD work focused on the development of new semi-supervised clustering algorithms, with applications to text analysis and bioinformatics. My PhD advisor was Prof. Raymond Mooney, who leads the Machine Learning group at UTCS.

I did my MS from the Computer Engineering Department at the University of California at Santa Cruz in 2000. At UCSC, I worked with the Computational Biology and Machine Learning group. I did my MS Thesis in bioinformatics, on development of a constrained mini-threading algorithm for protein structure prediction, under Prof. Kevin Karplus.

I completed my B.Tech (Hons.) from the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur in 1998, where my thesis was on fast lossless image compression using cellular automata. I worked with Prof. Parimal Pal Chaudhuri and Prof. Dipanwita Roy Chowdhuri.