BLN's Resume

Curriculum Vitáe

Narayan L. Bhamidipati (aka B. Lakshmi Narayan)

ISI-INSEAD Research Fellow,
Machine Intelligence Unit,
Indian Statistical Institute,
203, B. T. Road, Kolkata,
INDIA. PIN - 700108.

Phone: +91-9339215629 (M), +91-33-25753109/0 (O)
Email: bln_r isical.ac.in, blnarayan gmail.com
URL: http://www.isical.ac.in/~bln_r/



Name:                    B. Lakshmi Narayan  (aka Narayan L. Bhamidipati)
Date of Birth:           March 15, 1978
Status:                  Pursuing Ph.D. in Computer Science,
Topic:                   Web Mining 
Supervisor:              Prof. Sankar K. Pal 
Title of Thesis:         On Methods of Mining for Web Search Systems 
Submission Date:         First half of 2006
Research Interests:      Integration of Content and Link Analysis, 
                         Modeling of the Web, Statistical Learning Theory, 
                         Soft Computing, Graph Theory, Information Theory

Education: 

B. Stat (Honours)            1995-1998  Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata 
M. Stat                      1998-2000  Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata 
Junior Research Fellow       2000-2002  Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata 
ISI-INSEAD Research Fellow   2002-      Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata 

CSIR Junior Research Fellowship awarded in 2003 through National Eligibility Test
conducted by the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), India 
and called for the prestigious Shyama Prasad Mukherjee Fellowship Test.



Skill Set:

Programming:       C, C++, Perl, Java, HTML, Javascript, XML, Shell scripting
Operating Systems: Linux, Solaris, Windows, Vax/VMS, Irix
Misc.:             Matlab, LaTeX, SAS, SPSSX, BerkeleyDB, SQL

Some Relevant Courses Attended (during B. Stat (Hons), M. Stat or PhD):

 

Stochastic Processes (BS)                  Sociology and Sociometry (BS)
Multivariate Statistical Analysis (MS)     Time Series Analysis (MS)
Applied Stochastic Processes (MS)          Optimization Techniques (MS)
Information Storage and Retrieval (MS)     Pattern Recognition (MS, PhD)
Graph Theory and Combinatorics (PhD)       Internet and Multimedia Technologies (PhD)

Selected Publications:

Journals:
- B. L. Narayan, C. A. Murthy and Sankar K. Pal, "Maxdiff KD-Trees for Data Condensation", Pattern Recognition Letters, Vol. 27, No. 3, pp. 187-200, February, 2006. [pdf]
- Sankar K. Pal, B. L. Narayan and Soumitra Dutta, "A Web Surfer Model Incorporating Topic Continuity", IEEE Trans. Knowledge and Data Engg., Vol. 17, No. 5, pp. 726-729, May, 2005. [pdf]
- B. L. Narayan and Sankar K. Pal, "A Strong Stemmer for Classification and Retrieval" (communicated)
Conferences:
- B. L. Narayan, C. A. Murthy and Sankar K. Pal, "Topic Continuity for Web Document Categorization and Ranking", In Proceedings of the 2003 IEEE/WIC International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI 2003), pp. 310-315, October 2003, Halifax, Canada. [pdf]
- B. L. Narayan and Sankar K. Pal, "Detecting Sequences and Cycles of Web Pages", In Proceedings of the 2005 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI'05), September 2005, Compiégne, France, pp. 80--86 [pdf] [slides presented at WI05]
- B. L. Narayan and Sankar K. Pal, "A Fuzzy Web Surfer Model", In Proceedings of the 2005 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI'05), September 2005, Compiégne, France pp. 120--123 [pdf] [slides presented at WI05]
- B. L. Narayan and Sankar K. Pal, "Distribution Based Stemmer Refinement", In Proceedings of the First International Conference on Pattern Recognition and Machine Intelligence, PReMI'05, 2005, pp. 672--677 [pdf] [slides presented at PReMI05]

References

1. Prof. Sankar K. Pal,
Distinguished Scientist & Head,
Machine Intelligence Unit,
Indian Statistical Institute,
203, B. T. Road, Kolkata,
INDIA.  PIN: 700108
Email: sankar isical.ac.in
Phone: +91-33-25753101/0
Phone/Fax : +91-33-2578-3357
URL: http://www.isical.ac.in/~sankar/

2. Dr. Pabitra Mitra,
Dept. of Computer Science & Engineering
Indian Institute of Technology,
Kanpur,
INDIA.  PIN: 208016
Email: pmitra iitk.ac.in
Phone: +91-0512-2597584 
URL: http://www.cse.iitk.ac.in/users/pmitra/

3. Dr. Mandar Mitra,
Assistant Professor,
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Unit,
Indian Statistical Institute,
203, B. T. Road, Kolkata,
INDIA.  PIN: 700108
Email: mandar isical.ac.in
Phone: +91-33-25752858/0
URL: http://www.isical.ac.in/~mandar/

4. Prof. Soumitra Dutta,
Dean of Executive Education,
Roland Berger Professor of Business and Technology,
INSEAD, Boulevard de Constance,
77305 Fontainebleau.
Tel: (33) (0)1 60 72 40 47
Fax: (33) (0)1 60 74 55 00/01
E-mail: soumitra.dutta insead.edu 
URL: http://www.insead.edu/facultyresearch/tom/dutta/

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