Research Interests

I am interested in learning from data. My work is primarily inspired by the fields of statistics, machine learning, data mining, and artificial intelligence. My recent work has focused on spatial statistics, query suggestion for search, online advertising, spam filtering, time-series analysis, scalable learning algorithms, boosting, personalization for handwriting recognition, clustering and mixture modeling, video-tooning, and smart text input methods. I have a long standing interest in model selection, Bayesian networks, as well as graphical models in general.