Ramnath Balasubramanyan
[rbalasub AT cs.cmu.edu]

Resume

I am a first year student at the Language Technologies Institute in the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University.
I am advised by Prof. William Cohen.

  Research  

My research interests center around statistical modeling and machine learning; and its applications in Natural Language Processing (NLP).
I currently work on the RADAR project, specifically on Message Task Linking (aka MeTaL).

Recently, Vitor Carvalho, William and I worked on a Thunderbird extension to do recipient prediction and information leak detection. Please do give CutOnce a whirl and send us any feedback. It will be much appreciated.
Latest: We are now running a user study - Please check Vitor's page on the user study for more details

Please drop by at the Text Learning meeting every Tuesday to listen to some great talks.

  A list of courses I've taken  

Spring '08 Fall '07
Optimization Machine Learning
Language & Statistics Algorithms in NLP
Statistical Machine Learning (Auditing)  
Lab in NLP  

  Coordinates  

My lab is in the 2nd floor of Newell Simon Hall. Due to Pittsburgh's abhorrence of flat terrain, the 2nd floor of Newell Simon Hall is deep in the recesses of the earth. While natural light might be scarce, I am assuredly safe in the event of a nuclear explosion.
If making the journey halfway (or thereabouts give or take a few thousand kilometres) to the center of the earth is a bother, you can find me through the tubes at rbalasub AT cs.cmu.edu

  Other random info  

I was born and raised in Bangalore, India where the dosas are reason enough for living.
I graduated from PESIT with a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science and Engineering in 2003. After that I worked on Automatic Text Categorization and Information Extraction problems at Yahoo! for four years before enrolling in this grad program at the LTI.
I blamed my sometimes sad demeanor on excessive exposure to B.B. King who rules the blues.
Also, please consider writing your Congressman asking for Stewie Griffin from Family Guy to be declared a national treasure.