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MLSIG: Machine Learning Special Interest Group | IISc

MLSIG: Machine Learning Special Interest Group

Indian Institute of Science

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Faculty

Shivani Agarwal
CSA, IISc

Shalabh Bhatnagar
CSA, IISc

Chiranjib Bhattacharyya
CSA, IISc

Statistical learning, ranking,

complex prediction problems,
bioinformatics, cheminformatics,
information retrieval

Stochastic control and

optimization, simulation,
communication networks,
reinforcement learning

Convex optimization, kernelbased learning methods,

bioinformatics, computer vision

Ambedkar Dukkipati
CSA, IISc

Aditya Gopalan
ECE, IISc

Jayant Haritsa
CSA/SERC, IISc

Information theory, statistical

learning, computational algebra

Communication networks,
learning and control, performance
analysis

Database systems, data mining,

biological databases, multi-lingual
databases

Ravi Kannan
Microsoft Research + CSA, IISc
Mathematical foundations of
computing, algorithms for largescale data, spectral algorithms,
clustering

Y. Narahari
CSA, IISc

P.S. Sastry
EE, IISc

Game theory, mechanism design, Pattern recognition, computational

incentive-compatible learning
neuroscience, temporal data
mining

Shirish Shevade
CSA, IISc

Partha Pratim Talukdar

SERC, IISc

C.E. Veni Madhavan

CSA, IISc

Convex optimization, data mining

Machine learning, natural

language processing, data
integration, cognitive science

Algorithms, cryptography,
cognitive science, natural
language processing

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Visitors / Fellows

B Ravindran
CSE, IIT Madras
(July-Dec, 2012)
Reinforcement learning, social
network analysis, data/text
mining

Shivaram Kalyanakrishnan
INSPIRE Faculty Fellow, CSA,
IISc
(July 2014 - Jan 2015)
Sequential decision making,
multiagent learning, multi-armed
bandits, humanoid robotics

PhD Students
Arpit Agarwal
Research Supervisor: Shivani Agarwal
Research Interests: Machine learning for practical prediction problems

Annervaz K. M.
Research Supervisor: Ambedkar Dukkipati
Research Interests: Feature learning from big data

P. Balamurugan
Research Supervisor: Shirish Shevade
Research Interests: Structured Prediction

Sahely Bhadra
Research Supervisor: Chiranjib Bhattacharyya
Research Interests: Scalable and robust classification; handling uncertain data; convex optimization;
computational bioinformatics

Mrinal Kanti Das

Research Supervisor: Chiranjib Bhattacharyya
Research Interests: Hierarchical bayesian models; text processing (including Indian languages)

Debarghya Ghoshdastidar
Research Supervisor: Ambedkar Dukkipati
Research Interests: Hypergraph partitioning and tensor based methods for unsupevised and semisupervised learning

Harish Guruprasad
Research Supervisor: Shivani Agarwal
Research Interests: Learning theory; consistency of algorithms

Achintya Kundu
Research Supervisor: Chiranjib Bhattacharyya
Research Interests: Kernel methods; learning kernels; online convex optimization; matrix learning
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Adway Mitra
Research Supervisor: Chiranjib Bhattacharyya
Research Interests: Graphical models; matrix completion and recovery; computer vision

Harikrishna Narasimhan
Research Supervisor: Shivani Agarwal
Research Interests: Learning to rank; statistical learning theory; game theory

Divya Padmanabhan
Research Supervisor: Shirish Shevade
Research Interests: Machine Learning and Game Theory

Gaurav Pandey
Research Supervisor: Ambedkar Dukkipati
Research Interests: Unsupervised feature learning for object and speech recognition tasks

Anusha Posinasetty
Research Supervisor: Shirish Shevade
Research Interests: Data Mining, Machine Learning

Arun Rajkumar
Research Supervisor: Shivani Agarwal
Research Interests: Statistical learning theory; rank aggregation; spectral algorithms

Aadirupa Saha
Research Supervisor: Shivani Agarwal
Research Interests: Machine learning & game theory, in particular learning predictive models from
incomplete data sets, and connections between online learning & prediction markets

Raman Sankaran
Research Supervisor: Chiranjib Bhattacharyya
Research Interests: Multiple kernel learning; computer vision

Y. R. Siddartha
Research Supervisor: Shivani Agarwal and C.E. Veni Madhavan
Research Interests: Online learning and multi-armed bandits

Srijith P. K.
Research Supervisor: Shirish Shevade
Research Interests: Non parametric Bayesian methods like Gaussian processes and Dirichlet processes
to solve problems like preference learning, multi-task learning and structured prediction

Goutham Tholpadi
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Research Supervisor: Chiranjib Bhattacharyya/Shirish Shevade

Research Interests: Language (text) processing; information retrieval; topic models; multilinguality

Lavanya Sita Tekumalla

Research Supervisor: Chiranjib Bhattacharyya
Research Interests: Bayesian Non-parametric modeling, Probabilistic Graphical models and their
applications

Jithin Vachery
Research Supervisor: Ambedkar Dukkipati
Research Interests: Power-law distributions, generalized information measures and fractals in learning
methods

Rohit Vaish
Research Supervisor: Shivani Agarwal
Research Interests: Problems at the intersection of Machine Learning & Game Theory

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