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	I am a PhD student at School of Information and Library Science at UNC Chapel Hill. I received MTech (Computer Science) from IIT Madras, India and MS (Computer Science) from UMass Amherst. At UMass, I worked with W. Bruce Croft and James Allen in CIIR, and David Jensen in KDL. My work focused on issues related to High Accuracy Retrieval, Topic Detection and Tracking, and Applications of Social Networks in Information Filtering. At present I am working with Gary Marchionini on issues related to Collaborative Information Seeking, Faceted Interfaces, and Contexual Mining for Digital Preservation; and with Diane Kelly on issues related to User/System Relevance, and Perception of Search Engines.
During summer 2007 I interned at FXPAL in California working on various aspects of TRECVid as well as developing a framework for collaborative information retrieval. I spent summer of 2006 as a Visiting research fellow at National Institute of Informatics (NII) at Tokyo working on formal aspects of Story Link Detection and TREC's Blog Track. If you're interested in my YouTube crawling work, check out VidArch site at UNC. The TubeKit that I developed to create YouTube crawler is available from here. You can read description about my research areas or see publications and talks. When I'm not studying or researching, I'm most certainly dancing, traveling, cooking, or writing.