Abhay Harpale

Abhay S. Harpale

4th Year Graduate Student

Language Technologies Institute

School of Computer Science

Carnegie Mellon University

Office: 6401 Gates Hillman Center

Research Interests

Machine Learning, Information Retrieval, Active Learning, Collaborative Filtering and Personalization

Publications

Yiming Yang, Abhay Harpale, and Subramaniam Ganapathy. Protein Identification from Tandem Mass Spectra With Probabilistic Language Modeling. ECML-PKDD 2009. [pdf]
Yiming Yang, Subramaniam Ganapathy, and Abhay Harpale. Protein Identification as an Information Retrieval Problem. SIGIR 2009. [pdf]
Abhay Harpale, Yiming Yang. Personalized Active Learning for Collaborative Filtering. SIGIR 2008. [pdf]
Yiming Yang, Abhimanyu Lad, Ni Lao, Abhay Harpale, Bryan Kisiel, Monica Rogati, Jian Zhang, Jaime Carbonell, Peter Brusilovsky, Daqing He: Utility-based information distillation over temporally sequenced documents. SIGIR 2007: 31-38. [pdf]
Shantanu Godbole, Abhay Harpale, Sunita Sarawagi, Soumen Chakrabarti. Document classification through interactive supervision of document and term labels. ECML-PKDD 2004 [pdf]
Shantanu Godbole, Abhay Harpale, Sunita Sarawagi, Soumen Chakrabarti. HIClass: Hyper Interactive text Classification by interactive supervision of document and term labels. ECML-PKDD 2004. (demo paper)[pdf]

Professional Activities

Reviewer: ICML 2008, SIGIR 2008, SDM 2009, SIGIR 2009
On the organizing team of the SCS Student Seminar Series (Fall 2007, Spring 2008)

Courses (at CMU)

Fall 2006:
- Intermediate Statistics
- Adv. Statistical Learning Seminar
Spring 2007
- Machine Learning
- Information Retrieval
Fall 2007
Spring 2008
- Optimization
- Statistical ML

Trivia

For all that it is worth, my Erdos number is 4 (Erdos > Michael O. Molloy > Alan M. Frieze > Soumen Chakrabarti > Me) Source: MathSciNet. Nothing significant in the light of a horse having erdos number 3 [Extended Erdos Number]