Sindhu Sindhu Raghavan

Department of Computer Sciences
The University of Texas at Austin

sindhu@cs.utexas.edu



About Me

I am a PhD candidate in the Department of Computer Sciences at the University of Texas at Austin. I am a member of the Machine Learning Research Group and my research advisor is Prof. Ray Mooney.

Research

My main research interests are in the areas of machine learning and data mining. I am currently working on statistical relational learning. I am also interested in natural language processing and bioinformatics.

In the past, I have also worked with Prof. Tandy Warnow and Prof. Randy Linder on problems in computational biology - multiple sequence alignment and phylogenetic estimation.

Publications

  • Learning to read between the lines using Bayesian Logic Programs
    Sindhu Raghavan, Raymond Mooney, and Hyeonseo Ku
    To appear in ACL 2012

  • Modality Specific Meta Features for Authorship Attribution in Web Forum Posts
    Thamar Solorio, Sangita Pillay, Sindhu Raghavan and Manuel Montes y Gomez
    Proceedings of International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing IJCNLP 2011

  • Abductive Plan Recognition by Extending Bayesian Logic Programs PDF
    Sindhu Raghavan and Raymond Mooney
    Proceedings of European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (ECML-2011)
    Acceptance rate: 20%

  • Authorship Attribution Using Probabilistic Context-Free Grammars [PDF]
    Sindhu Raghavan, Adriana Kovashka, and Raymond Mooney
    Proceedings of the 48th Annual Meeting of Association of Computational Linguistics (ACL-2010)
    Acceptance rate: 25%

  • Bayesian Abductive Logic Programs [PDF]
    Sindhu Raghavan and Raymond Mooney
    AAAI-10 Workshop on Statistical Relational AI (Star-AI 10)

  • Rapid and Accurate Large-Scale Coestimation of Sequence Alignments and Phylogenetic Trees
    Kevin Liu, Sindhu Raghavan, Serita Nelesen, C. R. Linder, and Tandy Warnow
    Science, vol. 324, no. 5934, pp. 1561-1564, 19 June 2009

  • Barking up the wrong treelength: The impact of gap penalty on alignment and tree accuracy
    Kevin Liu, Serita Nelesen, Sindhu Raghavan, C.R. Linder, and Tandy Warnow
    IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, vol. 6, no. 1, pp. 7-21, Jan.-Mar. 2009
    • Education

    M.S/PhD in Computer Science, University of Texas at Austin, 2007 - current.
    B.E in Computer Science, R.V. College of Engineering, Bangalore, 2003.

    Courses

  • CS381K Artificial Intelligence, Fall 2007.
  • CS391L Machine Learning, Fall 2007.
  • CS395T Algorithms for Computational Biology, Spring 2008.
  • CS395T Computational Statistics with Applications to Bioinformatics, Spring 2008.
  • CS388G Algorithms: Techniques and Theory, Fall 2008.
  • CS386M Communication Networks, Fall 2008.
  • EE380L Data Mining, Spring 2009.
  • CS386S Network Protocol Security, Spring 2009.
  • CS388 Natural Language Processing, Fall 2009.
  • SSC384 Bayesian Statistics, Fall 2009.