Katyaini Himabindu Lakkaraju

Contact Information IBM Research - India Manyata Business Park Bangalore, India - 45 Phone: +919740298231 E-mail: lvhimabindu@gmail.com https://researcher.ibm.com/researcher/view.php?person=in-klakkara

Research Interests

Data Mining - Probabilistic Graphical Models, Approximate Inference Techniques, Unsupervised Learning, Semi-supervised Learning, Bayesian Nonparametrics, Statistical Methods for Large Scale Data Mining Applications - Natural Language Processing, Web Data Mining, Social Network Analysis, Information Retrieval

Education

Indian Institute of Science Aug 2008 - Jul 2010 Master of Engineering in Computer Science & Automation Grades: Thesis - 8.0/8.0 and Course - 6.4/8.0; Overall: 7.0/8.0 Thesis: Exploring Topic Models for Understanding Sentiments expressed in Customer Reviews (guided by Prof. Chiranjib Bhattacharyya) Visveswaraiah Technological University Aug 2003 - Jul 2007 Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science Grades: 83.46% Thesis: Routing Algorithms for the Interactive Service Layer of the Service Oriented Optical Network Architecture (guided by Prof. Purushotham B V)

Work Experience

IBM Research - India, Bangalore, India Jul 2010 - Present Technical Sta Member Designing algorithms for automatically extracting useful insights from unstructured text data on the web and analyzing social media SAP Research, Bangalore, India Jul 2009 - Mar 2010 Collaborator (Academic Research Alliance with IISc) Designed ecient and eective algorithms for unsupervised extraction of product facets from customer reviews Adobe Systems Pvt. Ltd., Bangalore, India Jul 2007 - Jul 2008 Software Engineer Designed and implemented image to pdf export features and geometric shape drawing algorithms for products Adobe Dreamweaver and Adobe Fireworks

Honors and Awards

Best Paper Award, SIAM International Conference on Data Mining (SDM) 2011 Masters Thesis proposal received research grants from SAP Research (Only 5 project proposals selected from India) Business Proposal for a Web-based Startup cleared 2nd round of screening at 2nd Annual DFJ Cisco Global Business Plan Competition, 2010 (Only 2 proposals selected from India) Runners-up in International World Wide Web (WWW) 2011 Novel Web Software Contest for the software Web-based Image Recognizer SPOT Award for outstanding contributions at Adobe Systems Pvt. Ltd. (Youngest Employee of Adobe India to receive the same)

 All India Rank 32 (99.82%ile) in Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE), 2008, entrance exam of the IISc & IITs, in Computer Science & Engineering, out of 18,224 candidates Best Outgoing Student, College Level, Bachelor of Engineering, 2007 University Rank 10, Bachelor of Engineering, Computer Science (out of 8000 students from 121 colleges), Visveswaraiah Technological University, 2007 University Topper in Mathematics Examinations in Undergraduate Study for 2 Semesters, Visveswaraiah Technological University, 2003-04 Publications Refereed Conferences & Workshops Himabindu Lakkaraju, Chiranjib Bhattacharyya, Indrajit Bhattacharya, Srujana Merugu. Exploiting Coherence for the Simultaneous Discovery of Latent Facets and associated Sentiments. SIAM International Conference on Data Mining (SDM), pp. 498-509, 2011 Best Paper Award Himabindu Lakkaraju, Jitendra Ajmera. Attention prediction on social media brand pages. ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), pp. 2157-2160, 2011 Himabindu Lakkaraju, Angshu Rai, Srujana Merugu. Smart news feeds for social networks using scalable joint latent factor models. International World Wide Web Conference (WWW), pp. 73-74, 2011 Himabindu Lakkaraju, Angshu Rai. Unied Modeling of User Activities on Social Networking Sites. NIPS Workshop on Computational Social Science and the Wisdom of Crowds, 2011 Himabindu Lakkaraju, Hyung-Il Ahn. A Non Parametric Theme Event Topic Model for Characterizing Microblogs. NIPS Workshop on Computational Social Science and the Wisdom of Crowds, 2011 Manuscripts in Preparation Himabindu Lakkaraju, Indrajit Bhattacharya, Chiranjib Bhattacharyya. Understanding the Inuence of Global Trends, Friendship Networks, and Geography on User Generated Content Himabindu Lakkaraju, Rashmi Gangadharaiah. Easy Read: Towards Intelligent News Portals Himabindu Lakkaraju, Jitendra Ajmera, Hyung-Il Ahn. Joint Modeling of Themes and Events for Characterizing Microtext Mrinal Kanti Das, Himabindu Lakkaraju, Sachindra Joshi. Scalable Generative Modeling of Activity on Social Media Brand Pages Hemant Purohit, Jitendra Ajmera, Himabindu Lakkaraju, Sachindra Joshi, Ashish Verma. Locating Inuencers on Social Media Brand Pages Patents Filed Himabindu Lakkaraju, Chiranjib Bhattacharyya, Sunil Aravindam, Kaushik Nath. Extraction and Grouping of Feature Words Jitendra Ajmera, Shantanu Godbole, Ashish Verma, Himabindu Lakkaraju. Enhancing knowledge bases using social media

Invited Talks

Topic Modeling for Analyzing Customer Reviews at Yahoo IR Summer School, Bangalore, 2011 Exploiting Coherence in Reviews for Discovering Latent Facets and Associated Sentiments at IISc CSA Talk Series, 2011 Predicting Post Popularity on Brand Pages in Social Networks at Gracehopper India Chapter, 2011 Extracting Aspects and Sentiments from Unstructured Text at IBM ICARE workshop, 2010

Professional Activities Selected Research Projects

Reviewer for AAAI 2011, UAI 2011, CIKM 2011 PC member for Gracehopper India 2011

IBM Research

Jul 2010 - Present

Smart News Feeds for Social Networks (with Dr. Srujana Merugu ) - Identifying content on social networking catering to user interests - Proposed a latent factor model based on mixed membership block modeling - Work published in WWW11 and NIPS workshop, 2011 Attention Prediction on Social Media Brand Pages (with Dr. Jitendra Ajmera ) - Predicting the interestingness of posts in Brand Pages on Facebook - Classication and regression based approaches with various features - Work published in CIKM11 and 1 patent led with US PTO Non-Parametric Approaches for Characterizing Microtext (with Dr. Hyung-Il Ahn ) - Investigating eective ways of characterizing content on microblogs - Proposed non-parametric models considering temporal and spatial similarity - Preliminary results published in NIPS CSS workshop, 2011 - 1 patent submitted and 1 paper in preparation Easy Read: Towards Intelligent News Portals (with Dr. Rashmi Gangadharaiah ) - A novel visualization framework for news portals - Proposed generative model for extracting topics, events, entities from articles - 1 patent submitted and 1 paper in preparation Understanding the Inuence of Exogenous Factors on User Generated Content (with Prof. Indrajit Bhattacharya, Prof. Chiranjib Bhattacharyya and Dr. Srujana Merugu ) - Modeling content generation process on social networking sites - Analyzing inuence of factors - friendship links, global events, geography - 1 paper in preparation Leveraging Tag Hierarchies to improve Enterprise Search (with Dr. Sriram Raghavan ) - Investigating how social bookmarking can help improve enterprise search - Understanding the behavior patterns for user bookmarking in enterprises - Proposed a unied hierarchical representation for bookmarks and documents

 Finding Actionable Business Insights from Structured and Unstructured Data - Member of the research team working on this hosted service - Proposed clustering methods for extracting concepts and sentiments - Project adjudged Runners-up in NASSCOM Innovation Awards - Project rated as Outstanding Accomplishment within IBM, 2011

Indian Institute of Science

Aug 2008 - Jul 2010

Exploring Topic Models for Understanding Sentiments expressed in Customer Reviews (in collaboration with SAP Research) Masters thesis: Guide: Prof. Chiranjib Bhattacharyya - Extraction of facets and sentiments associated with a product domain - Proposed topic models for unsupervised extraction of facets and sentiments - Published in SDM11 (Received Best Paper Award) - 1 patent led with US PTO and 1 journal paper under review Truth Discovery on the Web Course Project: Data Mining Guide: Prof. Shirish Shevade - Determine the trust associated with each information provider - Proposed algorithm to propagate scores between facts & information providers - Project adjudged as Best Course Project Teaching Experience Co-guided interns at IBM Research - India May 2011 - Jul 2011 - Hemant Purohit, 2nd year Ph.D., CSE, Wright State University, USA - Mrinal Kanti Das, 4th year Ph.D., CSE, Indian Institute of Science, India Teaching Assistant at Visweswariah Technological University - Object Oriented Programming - Computer Graphics Lab Spring 2005 Fall 2006

Taught Mathematics & English to Primary & Higher Secondary School Students 2009 - 10 - Times Teach India Initiative and UNICEFs Awaaz Do campaign Computer Skills Languages: C, C++, Java Scientic Computing: Matlab, Octave Platforms: Linux, Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X Extra Curricular Inter-collegiate Chess Champion, Bangalore (2003) Volunteer in Times Teach India initiative which worked towards the free education of under privileged kids (2009-10) Volunteer for UNICEFs Awaaz Do campaign which focussed on improving literacy rates in southern part of India (2010) Member of the web team responsible for the technical maintenance and content of IISc Computer Science Department webpage (2009-10) Member of the web team responsible for the web presence of Human Language Technologies group, IBM Research (2010-present)