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Howdy ,

I graduated from my Ph.D. in Fall'17 and joined Aptiv as machine learning autonomous driving scientist in Agoura Hills office.

I am a Ph.D. student at IPNNL under the excellent tutelage of Dr.Michael Manry. I like to spend my time on research in Machine Learning and Data Mining algorithms. I have a formal industrial and academic background in Embedded systems and love to use my multi-disciplinary skills on challenging problems.

Research Interests:

More specifically, my research covers the following topics :

• Tasks : Unsupervised, supervised, self-taught learning, clustering for high dimensional data, extreme classification.

• Models: Second-order neural networks, deep learning algorithms, autoencoders.

• Application: Object detection, automatic music tagging, scene classification.

Timeline:

Fall 2017 - Defended Ph.D. dissertation :)

Fall 2016 - Three papers accepted in IJCNN'16 at Vancouver, Canada.

Summer 2016 - worked as summer intern in cerebra team at Google research.

Summer 2015 - Worked as machine learning development intern in Statistics and Machine Learning toolbox team at The Mathworks, Natick, MA.

Summer 2014 - Paper published in IJCNN'15 titled "An efficient conjugate gradient-based learning algorithm for multiple optimal learning factors of multilayer perceptron neural network".

Spring 2014 - Long due paper published in ICPRAM titled "LDA Optimal Conjugate Gradient algorithm for the generalization of Linear Discriminant Analysis based on L1 norm".

Fall 2013 - Started working on Second Order Deep Learning algorithms.

Summer 2013- Worked as Visiting researcher at Music and Audio Research Lab at Seoul National University with Dr.Kyogu Lee on a topic I wanted to work for a long time, Music processing with Machine Learning.

Fall 2012- Ph.D. student in Computer Science and Engineering Department at Texas A&M University with Dr. Ricardo Osuna (PRISM lab) to work on Speech Accent Conversion.

Aug 2011- 2012- Grad Engineer with the Engineering Research Group for next generation Voltage Regulator at Siemens Energy,Mississippi.

Fall 2011- Graduated with my Master's in Electrical Engineering at The University of Texas at Arlington.

Summer 2011- Visiting Researcher at Multimedia Signal Processing Lab at Ajou University, Korea with Dr. Nojun Kwak.

Spring 2011- Intern at Verizon Wireless, Irving, Texas.

Fall 2010: Inducted into the Tau Beta Pi, Engineering honors society.

May 2008- Aug 2009- Research Assistant in Department of Electrical Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India with Dr. Prem.K.Kalra at Karma Lab