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Purushottam Kar
PhD (IIT Kanpur)
Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Research Interest
Online and stochastic learning and optimization, Multi-label classification, High dimensional statistics, Kernel methods, Statistical learning theory.
Office:
RM 509 (CSE Extension),
Rajeev Motwani building
Department of Computer Science and Engineering,
Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur,
Kanpur-208016, INDIA
Specialization
Machine Learning, Optimization, Statistical Learning Theory
Education
Ph.D., IIT Kanpur, 2014
B.Tech., IIT Kanpur, 2008
Teaching Area
Machine Learning
Online Learning
Statistical Learning Theory
Selected Publications
Please visit my homepage for complete list of publications and manuscripts1. Robust Regression via Hard Thresholding, Kush Bhatia, Prateek Jain, and Purushottam Kar, 29th Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS), 2015.
2. Harikrishna Narasimhan, Purushottam Kar, and Prateek Jain, 32nd International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2015.
3. Surrogate Functions for Maximizing Precision at the Top, Purushottam Kar, Harikrishna Narasimhan, and Prateek Jain, 32nd International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2015.
4. Sparse Local Embeddings for Extreme Multi-label Classification, Kush Bhatia, Himanshu Jain, Purushottam Kar, Manik Varma, and Prateek Jain, 29th Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS), 2015.
5. On the Generalization Ability of Online Learning Algorithms for Pairwise Loss Functions, Purushottam Kar, Bharath Sriperumbudur, Prateek Jain, and Harish Karnick, 30th International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2013.
Awards & Fellowships
Please visit my homepage for details1. International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) Reviewer Award, 2015.
2. Indian Unit of Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence (IUPRAI) Doctoral Dissertation Award, 2014.
3. Yahoo! Key Scientific Challenges (Yahoo! KSC) Program Honourable Mention, 2012.
4. Microsoft Research (MSR India) PhD Fellowship, 2010.
5. Academic Excellence Awards by IIT Kanpur for the years, 2005, 2006.
Professional Experience
Post-doctoral Researcher, Microsoft Research India Pvt. Ltd., Jul 2013 - August 2015.
Doctoral Research Intern, Microsoft Research India Pvt. Ltd., May 2012 - Aug 2012.