I am a postdoctoral scholar at the Computer Science division of U. C. Berkeley. My postdoctoral advisor is Prof. Michael Jordan. Until recently, I was a graduate student in the Machine Learning Department at CMU. My doctoral advisor was Prof. Andrew W. Moore. I worked on designing fast random-walk based algorithms for ranking in very large databases. Random walk-based proximity measures are widely used to capture contextual similarity in graphs. Although random walks in graphs is a very well investigated area in Mathematics, designing fast and memory efficient algorithms for computing these measures in very large databases is still a challenge. My thesis research has been aimed at analyzing theoretical properties of different proximity measures arising from random walks, as well as use them to create fast algorithms. Here is a link to my thesis.

Before joining Carnegie Mellon, I was an undergraduate at the Computer Science and Engineering Department in Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, where I spent four years. During my undergrad years I also worked with Prof. Charles Isbell as a summer intern in Georgia Tech. I grew up in Calcutta, and my native language is Bengali.