Research Interests
Data mining, machine learning, big data analysis in parallel and distributed infrastructure for climate applications, graph algorithms for social network analysis, anomaly detection, heterogenous time series analysis, sparse learning algorithms
Education
University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA
- PhD in Computer Science (2009)
- M.S. in Computer Science (2005)
Kalyani University, West Bengal, India
- B.Tech. in Computer Engineering (2003)
Experience
NASA Ames Research Center
- Research Scientist, Sep 2010 - Present
- Postdoctoral Associate, Oct 2009 - Aug 2010
Technische Universität, Dortmund
- Visiting Researcher July 2011
- Host: Prof. Katherina Morik, Collaborative Research Center SFB 876
University of Maryland Baltimore County
- Graduate Research Assistant, 2007 - 2009
- Graduate Assistant 2006 - 2007
- Graduate Teaching Assistant, 2003 - 2005
University of Maryland Baltimore, School of Medicine
- Graduate Research Assistant, 2005 - 2006
Agnik LLC
- Software Engineering Summer Intern, 2005
Research Funding
- Co-I, Orbit-to-Core Fund 2018, NASA Ames Project: Employing a Machine Learning Approach to Interpolate Individual Observations of Land Surface-Atmosphere CO2 Exchange to the State of California Budget: $50,000.00 Duration: Oct 2017– Sep 2018 PI: Rodney Martin (NASA Ames Research Center) USGS Partner: Paul Selmants
- Co-I, AIST, NASA Project: NeMO-Net: The Neural Multi-Modal Observation and Training Network for Global Coral Reef Assessment Budget: $1,000,000.00 Duration: Oct 2017– Sep 2019 PI: Ved Chirayath (NASA Ames Research Center)
- Co-I, Center Innovation Fund 2017, NASA Ames Project: Ask-the-Expert: Minimizing human review for big data analytics through active learning Budget: $50,000.00 Duration: Oct 2016– Sep 2017 PI: Nikunj Oza (NASA Ames Research Center)
- Co-I, CMAC, NASA Project: Scalable Analysis of Earth System Data Using Parallelized Graph-Based Approaches Budget: $496,286.00 Duration: 2015–2017 PI: Vipin Kumar (University of Minnesota)
- PI, AIST, NASA Project: Uncovering effects of climate variables on global vegetation Budget: $1,011,559.00 Duration: 2015–2017 Co-Is: Josh Bongard (UVM) and Sangram Ganguly (NASA Ames)
- Co-PI, DARPA ADAMS Project: GLAD-PC Budget: $3,500,000 Duration: 2011–2013 PIs: Oliver Brdiczka, Juan Liu (PARC)
Awards and Honors
- NASA Ames Contractor Council Certificate of Excellence (group award), 2017
- UARC Staff Appreciation and Recognition Award, 2015
- NASA Ames Contractor Council Certificate of Excellence (group award), 2014
- NASA Exceptional Public Service Medal, 2014
- UARC Staff Appreciation and Recognition Award, 2014
- Nominated for the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, 2014
- NASA Ames Contractor Council Certificate of Excellence, 2011
- NASA Aeronautics Associate Administrator Exemplary Performance Award for Technology and Innovation, 2010
- SDM 2011 NSF Postdoc/Early Career Award
- SDM 2009 Student Travel Award
- Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing Scholarship Award 2008
- M.P. Birla Smarak Kosh Foundation, 2003
- Certificates of Merit, State of West Bengal, India 1999, 1997
Professional Activities
Conference Chairing Activities
- Program Co-Chair Applied Data Science Track. ECML-PKDD 2017
- Program Co-Chair SDM Workshop on Optimization Methods for Anomaly Detection. 2014
- Publications Chair - NASA Conference on Intelligent Data Understanding (CIDU) 2012
- Communications Chair - NASA Conference on Intelligent Data Understanding (CIDU) 2011
- Communications Chair - NASA Conference on Intelligent Data Understanding (CIDU) 2010
Conference Program/Technical Committee Member
- Program Committee - 18th IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM), 2018
- Program Committee - IEEE International Conference on Data Science and Advanced Analytics (DSAA)
- Senior Program Committee - Applied Data Science Track, the 24th ACM SIGKDD conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD), 2018
- Program Committee - Applied Data Science Track, the 23rd ACM SIGKDD conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD), 2017
- Program Committee - Industry, Government and NGO Track, the European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (ECML PKDD), 2016
- Program Committee - Research Track, the 22nd ACM SIGKDD conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD), 2016
- Program Committee - Computational Sustainability Track, 30th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-16), 2016
- Program Committee - Industry, Government and NGO Track, the European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (ECML PKDD), 2015
- Program Committee - Computational Sustainability Track, 24th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2015
- Program Committee - Practice Track, the 21st ACM SIGKDD conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD), 2015
- Program Committee - Research Track, the 21st ACM SIGKDD conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD), 2015
- Program Committee - Computational Sustainability Track, 29th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-15), 2015
- Program Committee - 15th SIAM International Conference on Data Mining (SDM), 2015
- Program Committee - Industry & Government Track, The 20th ACM SIGKDD conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD), 2014
- Program Committee - 14th SIAM International Conference on Data Mining (SDM), 2014
- Program Committee - 2014 International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining (ASONAM)
- Program Committee - 22nd ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2013)
- Program Committee - 13th IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM), 2013
- Program Committee - Industry & Government Track, The 19th ACM SIGKDD conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD), 2013
- Program Committee - 2013 International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining (ASONAM)
- Program Committee - 12th IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM), 2012
- Program Committee - Industry & Government Track, The 18th ACM SIGKDD conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD), 2012
- Program Committee - 12th SIAM International Conference on Data Mining (SDM), 2012
- Program Committee - 16th Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD) 2012
- Program Committee - 2012 International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining (ASONAM)
- Program Committee - SIGKDD 2011 workshop on Knowledge Discovery, Modeling and Simulation (KDMS), 2011
- Program Committee - SIGKDD 2011 workshop on Knowledge Discovery from Sensor Data (SensorKDD), 2011
- Program Committee - 11th IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM), 2011
- Program Committee - 11th SIAM International Conference on Data Mining (SDM), 2011
- Program Committee - NIPS 2010 Workshop on Low-rank Methods for Large-scale Machine Learning
- Program Committee - 10th SIAM International Conference on Data Mining (SDM), 2010
- Program Committee - European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (ECML PKDD), 2009
- Organizing Committee, National Science Foundation Symposium on Next Generation of Data Mining and Cyber-Enabled Discovery for Innovation (NGDM), 2007
Journal Reviewer
- IEEE Computer
- Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery
- Wiley Statistical Analysis and Data Mining
- IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering
- IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computations
- Information Fusion
- IEEE Intelligent Systems Journal
- IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics
- Springer Information Systems Frontiers
Conference External Reviewer
- IEEE International Conference on Data Mining 2010
- SIAM International Data Mining Conference 2006-2009
- IEEE International Conference on Data Mining 2006-2008
- Conference on Information and Knowledge Management 2006-2007
- ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining 2006-2009
Invited Talks
- Keynote, 15th International Conference on Information Technology:New Generations, April 2018
- NASA Cloud Analytics Workshop, February 2018
- Paypal Machine Learning, September 2017
- NASA Earth Day Workshop, Ames Research Center, April 2017
- The 2nd Symposia of the Consortium for Heliophysics, Aug 2010
- CRA-W Graduate Cohort Workshop, Mar 2006