CV

Education

• Ph.D in Computer Science, University of Technology of Compiegne, France, 2016
• M.S. in Computing Science, Umea University, Sweden, 2013
• B.Tech. in Computer Science and Engineering, Kerala University, India, 2004

Work experience

• Fall 2012: Research Assistant
  • Qatar Computing Research Institute, Doha, Qatar
  • Supervisor: Sihem Amer-Yahia
• Summer 2015: Research Assistant
  • Qatar Computing Research Institute, Doha, Qatar
  • Supervisor: Sanjay Chawla

Skills

• Python, Julia, Perl, Java, Matlab,

Publications

Optimizing F-Measures by Cost-Sensitive Classification

On Inferring the Time-Varying Traffic Connectivity Structures of an Urban Environment

A coverage-based approach to recommendation diversity on similarity graph

Effective urban structure inference from traffic flow dynamics

SAGA: A Submodular Greedy Algorithm for Group Recommendation

Popularity Agnostic Evaluation of Knowledge Graph Embeddings

Simple and effective neural-free soft-cluster embeddings for item cold-start recommendations

Talks

Topic Extraction and Bundling of Related Scientific Articles

July 30, 2013

Talk at BaSoTi 2013, University Of Tartu, Estonia, Tartu, Estonia

Optimizing Pseudo-linear Performance Measures for Classification

June 01, 2014

Presentation at UTC, France, Compiegne, France

A coverage-based approach to recommendation diversity on similarity graph

September 17, 2016

Conference proceedings talk at MIT, Boston, USA

Tutorial on multi-armed bandit algorithms

May 09, 2019

Tutorial at Qatar Computing Research Institute, Doha, Qatar

Services

• Reviewer: AAAI 2019, 2020; CIKM 2019