Sanjay Purushotham received his B.Tech Degree in Electronics and Communications Engineering from National Institute of Technology Karnataka, India in 2007. He completed his M.S. coursework in Electrical Engineering from Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical Engineering at Viterbi School of Engineering, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA in 2008. Since 2009 he has been a PhD student in Electrical Engineering at USC. Currently, he is a Research Assistant at Media Communications Lab (MCL) advised by Prof. C.-C. Jay Kuo and belongs to the Video subgroup. His research interests are in the areas of multimedia data mining, machine learning, optimization theory and graph theory.
Recent Publications:
Sanjay Purushotham, Yan Liu, C.-C. Jay Kuo, "Collaborative Topic Regression with Social Matrix Factorization for Recommendation Systems", To Appear in the 29th International Conference on Machine Learning, Edinburgh, Scotland, 2012. (ICML 2012)
Sanjay Purushotham, Qi Tian, C.-C. Jay Kuo, "Picture-in-Picture Copy Detection Using Spatial Coding Techniques", ACM Multimedia, AIEMPro Workshop, Scottsdale, Arizona, USA, 2011 (Oral)
Ping-Hao Wu, Sanjay Purushotham, C.-C. Jay Kuo, "Video Genre Inference based on Camera Capturing Models", (Book Chapter) Chapter 7 in Video Search and Mining, Studies in Computational Intelligence, Vol. 287/2010
Ping-Hao Wu, Tanaphol Thaipanich, Sanjay Purushotham, C.-C. Jay Kuo, "Separation of Professional and Amateur Video in Large Video Collections", in IEEE Pacific-Rim Conf. on Multimedia, Bangkok, Thailand, Dec. 2009.
(Invited Paper, Oral)
Contact:
Media Communications Lab
USC Viterbi School of Engineering
3740 McClintock Ave. EEB 435
Los Angeles, CA 90089-2564, USA
Phone (Office:EEB 435): (213) 740-4821
Phone (Lab: EEB B-10): (213) 740-9136
Email: spurusho at usc dot edu
Last Updated:05/01/2012
