Anshumali Shrivastava

Latest News

Asymmetric Minwise Hashing accepted in WWW 2015

Best Paper Award in NIPS 2014


NIPS 2014 oral paper "Asymmetric LSH for Sub-linear Maximum Inner Product Search"

Best Paper Award at IEEE/ACM ASONAM for paper "A New Space for Comparing Graphs"

Contact

anshu @ cs . cornell . edu

350 Gates Hall

Cornell University

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Anshumali Shrivastava

Research Interests

  • Large Scale Machine Learning
  • Randomized Algorithms for Big Data
  • Graphs and Social Networks Mining

Education

  • Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA.
    Ph.D. in Computer Science (2010-Present)
    • Advisor: Prof. Ping Li.
    • Thesis: Probabilistic Hashing for Efficient Search and Learning.
  • Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India.
    B.Sc.(H) and M.Sc in Mathematics and Computing (2003-2008)
    • Advisor: Prof. Somesh Kumar.
    • Thesis: Behavioural Analysis of Email Traffic and Content Independent Spam Identification.
    • Institute Silver Medal for being Rank 1.

Professional Experience

  • Microsoft Research (MSR) Redmond, WA, USA
    Research Intern (May 2014- August 2014)
    • Mentors: Dr. Misha Bilenko, Dr. Christian Konig and Vishal Joshi.
    • Large Scale Learning with Counts in Presence of Temporal Drift.
  • FICO (Fair Isaac Corp.) Research, Bangalore, India
    Analytic Scientist (2008-2010)
    • Mentors: Dr. Stuart Crawford, Navin Doshi and Prasun Kumar.
    • Segmentation Tree Induction and Pruning (STIP) algorithm for Discovering Heterogeneous Behavioural Segments.

Awards and Achievements

  • Best Paper Award in Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS) 2014
  • Best Paper Award in IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Network Analysis and Mining (ASONAM) 2014.
  • FICO Spot Award, 2009 and 2010.
  • IIT Kharagpur Silver Medal for Graduating at the Top of the Class, 2008.
  • J.C. Gosh Memorial Endowment Prize from IIT Kharagpur for Highest GPA in Mathematics and Computing Program, 2007.
  • DMMS Scholarship for being the Top 3 Entrants in Pure Science Programs at IIT Kharagpur, 2003.
  • Placed 5th in National Science Olympiad (NSO), 2002.
  • Regional Mathematics Olympiad (RMO) (Maharashtra Region), 2000 and 2001.

Publications

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Teaching Experience

Department of Computer Science, Cornell University

  • Teaching Assistant: CS 4740: Introduction to Natural Language Processing, Spring 2011.
  • Head Teaching Assistant: CS 4701: Practicum in Artificial Intelligence, Fall 2010.
  • Teaching Assistant: CS 4700: Foundations of Artificial Intelligence, Fall 2010.

Extra Academic

  • Admin for Machine Learning Discussion Group, Cornell, 2012-2014
  • Research Orientation Mentor for Freshers at FICO Research, 2009
  • President Mathematics Colloquium, Department of Mathematics, IIT Kharagpur, 2007-08
  • Captain of R. P. Hall of Residence Chess Team, IIT Kharagpur, 2005-08
  • Award of Excellence and Hall Color in Chess, IIT Kharapur, 2006