About Me
I currently work at Google, hoping to make your search experience better.
Before that, in February 2009, I completed my Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering at Penn State. I was advised by Prof. James Z. Wang and Prof. Jia Li. Even earlier, I finished a Bachelor of Engineering degree from the Bengal Engineering and Science University, Shibpur in July 2004, which at 150 years is one of the first technical schools built in India. I was a recipient of the Glenn Singley Memorial Graduate Fellowship in Engineering for the incoming academic year 2004-05 at Penn State.
My research interests lie in statistical modeling and machine learning based analysis, interpretation, inferencing, and organization of data for a range of applications, e.g., image content analysis, content-based image search, aesthetic quality inference, bioinformatics, business analytics, and social networks. More recently, I have been interested in machine learning approaches to Web and text analysis.
Please feel free to contact me at datta [AT] CSE [DOT] psu [DOT] edu .
For my photography and music recordings, please visit Exposure to Music.
Professional Activities
Program Committee Member of SMANE 2012.
Program Committee Member of ICME 2012.
Program Committee Member of ACM Multimedia 2011.
Program Committee Member of ICME 2011.
NSF Funding Review Panelist, for IIS Division, April 2010.
Program Committee Member of ACM Multimedia 2010.
Program Committee Member of ICME 2010.
Program Committee Member of WWW 2010.
Local Arrangement Chair of ACM MIR 2010.
Program Committee Member of ACM MIR 2010.
Program Committee Member of the LS-MMRM Workshop, ACM Multimedia 2009.
Other News
*News* Some aesthetics datasets described here have been released here. If you are interested in our older smaller dataset from the ECCV 2006 paper, you will find links to it there as well.
