Nikhil Garg

Biography

Education, in reverse chronological order:

	University of Geneva	PhD in Computer Science	2009 - Present
	Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL)	MS in Computer Science	2007 - 2009
	Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Delhi	Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science	2002 - 2006

You can have a look at my resume here in [HTML] or [PDF] format.

Research Interests

Broadly speaking, I am interested in the fields of Computational Linguistics, Information Retrieval, Data Mining and Machine Learning. My advisor is Prof. James Henderson.

Publications

• Nikhil Garg and James Henderson, Temporal Restricted Boltzmann Machines for Dependency Parsing, ACL 2011 short papers, Portland, USA [pdf] [slides] [code]
• Nikhil Garg and Daniel Gatica-Perez, Tagging and Retrieving Images with Co-Occurrence Models: from Corel to Flickr, Workshop on Large-Scale Multimedia Retrieval and Mining in conjunction with ACM Multimedia 2009, Beijing, China [pdf]
• Nikhil Garg, Benoit Favre, Korbinian Riedhammer, and Dilek Hakkani-Tur, ClusterRank: A graph based method for meeting summarization, Interspeech 2009, Brighton, UK [pdf]
• Nikhil Garg and Ingmar Weber, Personalized, interactive tag recommendation for Flickr, ACM International Conference on Recommender Systems, 2008, Lausanne, Switzerland [pdf]
• Nikhil Garg and Ingmar Weber, Personalized tag suggestion for Flickr, World Wide Web Conference, 2008, Beijing, China [pdf]
• Nikhil Garg and Bipin Suresh, Predicting and ranking search query results based on click logs, US Patent filed in December 2007

Software

• Temporal Restricted Boltzmann Machines for Dependency Parsing

Other Activities

• TA for Systèmes Informatiques (Fall 2011)
• TA for Structures de Données (Spring 2011)
• TA for Méthodes empiriques et langages de script (Fall 2010)
• TA for Systèmes Informatiques (Fall 2009)
• CUI Graduate Student Seminar
• PicGuess - Guess the location!