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.
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, entity resolution, bioinformatics, business analytics, computer systems, and social networks, etc.
Please feel free to contact me (at the email address below) regarding research collaborations, questions about my work, or general discussions.
Recent News
*News* We have launched an aesthetics prediction demo called ACQUINE.
*News* I will serve as the local arrangement chair for the ACM MIR 2010 Conference to be held in Philadelphia, PA in March 2010. Please consider submitting a paper there.
*News* I will serve on the Program Committee of the Workshop on Large-Scale Multimedia Mining and Retrieval, to be held at the ACM Multimedia 2009 conference.
*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.