Vishnu Vyas' Homepage

Graduate Student
Department of Computer Science, University of Southern California

Research Assistant
Information Sciences Institute, University of Southern California

Previously :
2002-2006 B.E Computer Science and Engineering
School of Computing, SRM University.

About Me

I did my Bachelors in Engineering, in Computer Science at SRM Engineering College, Chennai, India. Then I worked for sometime at the Center for Artificial Intelligence and Robotics, DRDO, Bangalore. Right now, I am working towards my masters in computer science and probably a PhD. If you are a prospective employer, then you can check out my resume in pdf format here.

You can email me at me@vishnuvyas.com

Publications

• A Joint Information Model for n-best Ranking (to be published at COLING-08) - Patrick Pantel, Vishnu Vyas
• Explaining the Similarity of Terms (to be published at COLING-08)- Vishnu Vyas, Patrick Pantel

Courses Taken at USC

• Spring 2007
  
  1. CSCI 585 - Database Systems
  2. CSCI 544 - Natural Language Processing
• Fall 2007
  
  1. CSCI 562 - Emperical Methods in Natural Language Processing
  2. CSCI 599 - Theory of Computation
• Spring 2008
  
  1. CSCI 599 - Advanced Search and Planning.
  2. CSCI 581 - Logic and Its Applications.

I work with Patrick Pantel (my advisor) on Computational Lexical Semantics, Large Scale Data Processing and Statistical Methods as applied to Natural Language Processing. Currently, we are focussing on applying statistical methods to explain similarity.

I have also worked with Jafar Adibi and Professor Eduard Hovy on Social Networking and Link Analysis using the Enron Dataset. You can see someof my work on the Enron Email Dataset here (under construction)

Projects

• The Cactus Virtual Machine
• Link analysis on the Enron email dataset

Research Interests

My primary area of interest lies in the intersection of statistical natural language processing and information retrieval. More specifically, I am interested in exploiting natural language technologies to improve information retrieval.

Writing

More sophisticated and technical writing goes here. If you are more interested in my random rabmlings on Life,the universe and everything else, take a look at my blog