Nikhil Garg
Contact Information
- Homepage: http://cui.unige.ch/~garg
- Email: nikhil [DOT] garg [AT] unige [DOT] ch
- Phone: +41 (0)22 379 01 47
- Snail Mail:
Université de Genève
Département d'Informatique
Battelle bâtiment A
7 route de Drize
1227 Carouge
Switzerland
Research Interests
Machine Learning, Computational Linguistics, Information Retrieval, Data Mining
Education
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Université de Genève, Switzerland
Doctoral Student (2009 - Present)
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Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland (EPFL)
Master of Science in Computer Science (GPA: 5.7/6) (2007 - 09)
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Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India (IIT-Delhi)
Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science and Engineering (GPA: 8.5/10) (2002 - 06)
Work Experience
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Yahoo! Research & Development, Bangalore, India
Software Engineer in Image Search (Jun 06 - May 07)
- relevance ranking of search results based on metadata, click logs, etc.
- filtering adult content
Internships
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Idiap Research Institute, Switzerland
Research Assistant under Dr. Daniel Gatica-Perez and Prof. Hervé Bourlard (Feb 09 - Aug 09)
Worked on co-occurrence models for content-based automatic image annotation & retrieval, taking measures to address noisy and limited tagging problems in web image repositories such as Flickr.
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International Computer Science Institute, Berkeley, USA
Visiting student in Speech group (Aug 08 - Jan 09)
Worked on summarization of meeting transcripts.
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Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland
Research Assistant under Prof. Boi Faltings in AI Lab (Summer 2007)
Worked on an extension of a distributed constraint optimization algorithm, DPOP, using cryptography to preserve privacy of the participants.
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IBM India Software Labs, Pune, India
IBM Extreme Blue Internship (Summer 2005)
Worked on an efficient communication mechanism for IBM Workplace Client Technology.
Teaching Assistantship
- Structures de Données (Data Structures), Spring 2011
- Méthodes empiriques et langages de script (Empirical Methods & Scripting Languages), Fall 2010
- Systèmes Informatiques (Operating Systems), Fall 2009
Publications
- Nikhil Garg and James Henderson, Temporal Restricted Boltzmann Machines for Dependency Parsing, ACL 2011 (short papers), Portland, USA
- 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
- Nikhil Garg, Benoit Favre, Korbinian Riedhammer, and Dilek Hakkani-Tur, ClusterRank: A graph based method for meeting summarization, Interspeech 2009, Brighton, UK
- Nikhil Garg and Ingmar Weber, Personalized, interactive tag recommendation for Flickr, ACM International Conference on Recommender Systems, 2008, Lausanne, Switzerland
- Nikhil Garg and Ingmar Weber, Personalized tag suggestion for Flickr, World Wide Web Conference, 2008, Beijing, China
- Nikhil Garg and Bipin Suresh, Predicting and ranking search query results based on click logs, US Patent filed in December 2007
Personal Projects
- PicGuess
- A visual quiz asking users to guess the location of a photo. Uses geo-tagged photos from Flickr.
- implemented using python, django, java, mysql, Flickr API, Android SDK.
- source code
Programming Skills
Python, C++, Matlab, SML, Linux shell scripting