Biography and Interests

My research interests are in Machine Learning and its applications to Text Mining and Information Retrieval. Prior to SRI, I was a research associate at Stanford University from 2008-2011, and a Researcher at Lex Machina, a Stanford spinoff from 2009-2011. I got my Ph.D. in CS from University of Massachusetts in 2006, and did my post doctoral work at Carnegie Mellon University from 2006 to 2008. I am currently working on the IARPA-ALADDIN project that aims at detecting pre-specified events in video data. For more information about my background and research, please visit my home page listed above.

Current Projects

Copernicus: Automating Emergence Detection IARPA’s Foresight and Understanding from Scientific Exposition (FUSE) Program seeks to develop automated methods that aid in the systematic, continuous, and comprehensive assessment of technical emergence using publicly available information found in published scientific, technical and patent literature. SRI’s team uses a theory-directed extension of best-of-breed language and network modeling techniques to produce the Copernicus system. SRI’s CSTED leads the theory of emergence task.