Research interests

Statistical (generative) models for pattern discovery
Machine learning and data mining in adversarial settings
Security-related applications of machine learning and data mining

Recent Publications

Debprakash Patnaik, Srivatsan Laxman, and Naren Ramakrishnan, Discovering Excitatory Networks from Discrete Event Streams with Applications to Neuronal Spike Train Analysis, in Proceedings of The 2009 IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM 2009), IEEE, December 2009
Srivatsan Laxman, Vikram Tankasali, and Ryen W. White, Stream prediction using a generative model based on frequent episodes in event sequences, in Proceedings of the 14th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD'08), Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., Las Vegas, USA, August 2008
Srivatsan Laxman, Prasad Naldurg, Raja Sripada, and Ramarathnam Venkatesan, Connections between mining frequent itemsets and learning generative models, in Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM 2007), Omaha, NE, USA, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc., October 2007
Srivatsan Laxman, P. S. Sastry, and K. P. Unnikrishnan, Discovering frequent generalized episodes when events persist for different durations, in IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, vol. 19, no. 9, pp. 1188–1201, IEEE Computer Society, September 2007
Srivatsan Laxman, P. S. Sastry, and K. P. Unnikrishnan, A fast algorithm for finding frequent episodes in event streams, in Proceedings of the 13th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD'07), Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., San Jose, CA, August 2007

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Personal stuff

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If you are interested in an internship at Microsoft Research India, in the general areas of data mining and machine learning, please send your application materials directly by email to <slaxman AT microsoft DOT com>.