Sonal Gupta
PhD Student
Department of Computer Sciences
Stanford University
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I am a first year PhD student at the Stanford University with School of Engineering (SoE) fellowship. I graduated from the University of Texas at Austin with a Master's (thesis option) in Computer Science. At UT, I worked with Dr. Ray Mooney on combining text and visual perception. Before that, I did my Bachelors at Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Roorkee in Computer Science and Engineering. I am interested in machine learning, text mining, NLP, and computer vision.
I am interested in the broad area of machine learning, text mining, NLP and computer vision. My short list of publications is here:
Catching the Drift: Learning Broad Matches from Clickthrough Data
Sonal Gupta, Mikhail Bilenko and Matthew Richardson. To appear in ACM SIGKDD international conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD) 2009, Paris, France pdf ppt-
Using Closed Captions to Train Activity Recognizers that Improve Video Retrieval
Sonal Gupta and Raymond Mooney. To appear in Visual and Contextual Learning (VCL) workshop at CVPR 2009 pdf ppt -
Watch, Listen & Learn: Co-training on Captioned Images and Videos
Sonal Gupta, Joohyun Kim, Kristen Grauman and Raymond Mooney Proceedings of the European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (ECML PKDD 2008) , Antwerp, Belgium, September 2008. pdf website
I spent the summer of 2008 at Microsoft Research, working with Misha Bilenko and Matthew Richardson.
I spent the summer of 2006 at Google R&D Center at Bangalore (now Bengarulu), working with Vineet Gupta.
Currently a first year PhD student at Stanford. Graduated with Master's with thesis option in CS at UT Austin (GPA is 4.0/4.0). I earned my B.Tech. degree at Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Roorkee, India in Computer Science and Engineering. IIT Roorkee (formerly University of Roorkee and Thomson College of Engineering) is oldest engineering college in India. My Cumulative GPA was 9.0/10. At IIT-R, I worked with Dr. Kumkum Garg and Dr. R. C. Joshi.
At UT, I have taken following relevant courses:
Machine Learning; Computer Vision; Visual Recognition and Search; Networks, Protocol and Security; Natural Language Processing; Numerical Linear Algebra; Modern Statistical Methods; Introduction to Math Logic
I was born and brought up in a beautiful and quiet city-Bhopal, India. Unfortunately, it is known for Bhopal Gas Tragedy. Bhopal is sometimes called 'City of Lakes' as it has many natural and man-made lakes. I did my schooling from Jawahar Lal Nehru School. In 2003, I moved to Roorkee to study Computer Science at IIT Roorkee . Roorkee is a small town near Haridwar, Dehradun and Hrishikesh. I enjoyed my four years at Roorkee to fullest with frequent trips to near-by hill stations at the foothill of Himalayas (Rishikesh, Shimla, Manali, Auli, Mussoorie, Dehradun, Haridwar etc.). IIT Roorkee is also a nice place to be to do white water rafting at Ganges, with the Institute bearing most of the cost :)
My favorite sport is sleeping, though I did try my hands on Squash at IITR. In free time I like to paint, some of the paintings can be seen here.
One of my main weaknesses is good spicy vegetarian food, with the favorites being: Indian, Mexican, Indian Chinese and Thai.
My undergrad college: IIT Roorkee
Some best moments of my life: Information Management Group
My Pics: Picasa Web Album
Indian English, which I find to be quite different from American English! Well, my favorite language is Hinglish :D
Email Address: see top of the page
Postal Address: Computer Science Department
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Office Location: Gates 270