Abhimanyu Lad Fourth year PhD student Language Technologies Institute, School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University, 5000 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15213. alad [at] cs cmu edu I am a fourth year PhD student at the Language Technologies Institute, advised by Prof Yiming Yang. Currently I am working on joint probabilistic modeling of regression, classification, and retrieval tasks using graphical models, and optimal ordering of a sequence of such interrelated tasks to maximize overall utility. I did my summer internship at Yahoo! Santa Clara, under Jan Pedersen, on machine learning approaches to ranking, aka learning to rank for IR. My Curriculum Vitae. Thanks to Yahoo! for supporting my research through the Yahoo! PhD Fellowship for 2007-09. I received my B.Tech. in Information Technology from IIIT Allahabad, India in 2005. Research Interests Statistical machine learning, algorithms for text retrieval and web data processing. Publications Lad A., Yang Y., Generalizing from Relevance Feedback using Named Entity Wildcards. CIKM 2007. Yang Y., Lad A., ..., Utility-based Information Distillation over Temporally Sequenced Documents. SIGIR 2007. Lad, A., Saggar, M., Carnivore - A Web Clustering Program. IEEE IRI-2004. Lad, A., SpamNet - Spam Detection using PCA and Neural Networks. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 2004, pp. 205-213. Links An applet showing decision surfaces created by kNN. An applet showing EM for estimating Gaussian mixtures. A tag cloud of most common words in the book "Information Retrieval" (Rijsbergen). Last updated: 1 Feb 2008