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发言人详细信息

Assistant Professor Ganesh Ramarkrishnan
Ganesh began his career in 2004 as a Research Staff member with IBM India Research Lab. During his stint with IBM Research, he contributed in designing a declarative framework for Information Extraction from text called SystemT (http://researcher.watson.ibm.com/researcher/view_group.php?id=1264) and induction in its query language called Annotator Query Language. He joined IIT Bombay in 2009 as an Assistant Professor in Computer Science and Engineering Department. He was awarded the IBM Faculty Award in 2011. Currently, he is an Associate Professor and J.R. Issac Assistant Chair
Professor in the Institute.

Since joining IIT Bombay, Ganesh has worked extensively in the area of feature induction and relational learning in machine learning, including algorithms and data structures for scaling them up. Apart from these, Ganesh has made significant contributions to (1) Sandhan, an Indian Language search engine (www.tdil-dc.in/sandhan), (2) Programmable Machine Translation (http://www.cse.iitb.ac.in/~ganesh/kcap.html) (3) Search over entities and relationships (http://www.cse.iitb.ac.in/~soumen/doc/CSAW/) and (4) BET, a tool for Inductive Logic Programming that integrates several existing algorithms and induction frameworks (BET stands for Background + Example = Theory).

Beside his contributions in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Ganesh works closely with the Centre for Technology Alternatives for Rural Areas (www.ctara.iitb.ac.in). Some of his notable contributions in that area include (1) voice and video based solutions for information dissemination for farmers and others in the informal sector (http://ruralict.cse.iitb.ac.in/) and (2) technology alternatives for improving supply chain efficiency for farmers and cottage industries (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mobile.ict.cart).

Ganesh has been serving in the committees of several conferences, which include ACL, KDD, AAAI, EMNLP, VLDB and ISWC, etc.
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