Anirban Dasgupta - Research Scientist

Research Area: Search Technologies, Community Systems
Location: Yahoo! Research Silicon Valley

Profile

Anirban did his undergraduate studies at the Computer Science department of IIT Kharagpur, and joined Cornell CS department as a graduate student in 2000. After finishing his PhD in 2006, he joined Yahoo Research. Anirban's research interests span linear algebraic techniques for information retrieval, algorithmic game theory, modeling of and algorithms for social networks and the design and analysis of randomized and approximation algorithms in general.

Recent Publications, Projects and News

  • Graph Partitioning - Yahoo! Research is hard at work creating innovative and scalable graph partitioning algorithms that make it possible to efficiently extract latent structures from large complex data networks.
  • Yahoo! Research at SIGMOD/PODS 2008 - The 28th ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data/Principles of Database Systems was held June 9 to 12 in beautiful Vancouver, British Columbia. The joint conference is universally regarded as the leading international forum for database researchers, practitioners, developers, and users.
  • Yahoo! Shines at KDD Conference - Yahoo! was in the spotlight at the 13th annual ACM SIGKDD, the premier international conference on knowledge discovery and data mining, held August 12th-15th in San Jose.