About Me
I am currently a Ph.D. candidate (A.B.D.) majoring in Computer Science and Engineering at Penn State. Prior to this, I completed my Bachelor of Engineering from the Bengal Engineering and Science University, Shibpur in June 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. Here is my short two-page CV [PDF].
I work on statistical modeling and machine learning based analysis, interpretation, inferencing, and organization of data for a wide range of applications, e.g., image content analysis, content-based image search, visual aesthetic quality inference, bioinformatics (genomics, proteomics), business analytics (resource allocation modeling), computer systems (cache and workload characteristics modeling), and social networks (forming in academic forums) . I am advised by Prof. James Z. Wang and Prof. Jia Li.
Recent News
*News* I am currently working at Google Inc., Pittsburgh, in the Product Search (formerly Froogle) research group, as an intern. The office is located on the Carnegie Mellon University campus.
*News* Our survey paper, titled Image Retrieval: Ideas, Influences, and Trends of the New Age, covering post-2000 progress of image search and annotation, has been published in the April 2008 issue of the ACM Computing Surveys journal.
*News* On 2nd March, 2007, I passed my Ph.D. Comprehensive Exam. My proposal committee consisted of Prof. James Wang (IST, CSE), Prof. Jia Li (Stat, CSE), Prof. Robert Collins (CSE), Prof. Lee Giles (IST, CSE), Prof. David Miller (EE), and Prof. Bhuvan Urgaonkar (CSE). The proposal presentation can be found here [PPT].