Research Interests
- Developing scalable data mining algorithms for processing massive volumes of data
- Statistical machine learning
- Text analysis
- Data mining in streaming environments and distributed platforms
- Time series analysis
Academic Background
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Work Experience
- Manager, Research Scientist, Apple Inc., Aug 2017 - Present
- Tech Lead, Research Scientist, Netflix Inc.., April 2016 - July 2017
- Senior Manager, Principal Scientist, Intuit Inc., June 2015 - April 2016
- Senior Data Scientist, Netflix Inc., April 2012 - June 2015
- Research Scientist, Intelligent Data Understanding, MCT Inc/NASA Ames Research Center, April 2008 - April 2012
- Visiting Research Scientist, LS8 Dept of Computer Science, TU Dortmund Germany , June - July 2011
- Summer Intern, Symantec Corporation, May - June 2007
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Open Source Software
- Nu-anomica: a scalable algorithm for anomaly detection from large datasets [download]
- MTS: a fast algorithm for multivariate time series search on very large databases [download]
- P2P algorithms: old code corresponding to my thesis work (not very clean, but I can answer questions) [download]
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Service
Journal Guest Editor
- Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery (DMKD) Journal special issue on Data Mining for a Sustainable World, 2010
Journal Reviewer
- ACM TKDD, IEEE TKDE, IEEE TMC, IEEE SMC, Springer DMKD, Wiley SADM, Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews (WIREs): Special Issue on Data Mining & Knowledge Discovery
Chair
- 2012: Poster Chair NASA Conference on Intelligent Data Understanding (CIDU) 2012
- 2011: Poster Chair NASA Conference on Intelligent Data Understanding (CIDU) 2011
- 2010: Poster Chair NASA Conference on Intelligent Data Understanding (CIDU) 2010
- 2009: Demo and Exhibit Co-Chair ICDM 2009
Conference Program Committee
- 2015: SIGKDD, CIKM, SDM
- 2014: SIGKDD, SDM, ASONAM
- 2013: SIGKDD, ICDM, ASONAM, BigData, BigSpatial
- 2012: SIGKDD, SDM, ICDM, PAKDD, ASONAM, ACS, SensorKDD, KDCloud, BigSpatial
- 2011: ASONAM, SDM, ICDM, SIGKDD, SensorKDD, KDMS, KDCloud
- 2010: ASONAM, SDM, ICDM, KDCloud
- 2009: PAKDD, SDM, SIGKDD, ICDM
Proposal Panel
- NASA SBIR/STTR
- NSF Information Integration and Informatics Proposal Review Panel
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Honors/Awards
- NASA Group Achievement Award to Toyota Unintended Acceleration Assessment Team
- NASA Aeronautics Associate Administrator Exemplary Performance Award for Technology and Innovation, 2010
- NASA Ames Contractor Council Excellence Award 2010
- NSF travel award for attending SDM'09 conference
- NSF early career/postdoc award for attending SDM'08 conference
- Paper on multi-objective optimization based privacy was selected as one of the outstanding papers
of IEEE P2P'09
- Paper on distributed eigen monitoring was adjudged as the Best of SDM'08 (6 out of 282 submissions)
- Paper on Online community formation was selected as the most interesting paper from the ACM WebKDD'06 workshop