The team of Gunjan Gupta won the runners up best paper award at the IEEE Data Mining Conference (ICDM) in December 2006.
According to him, his award is going to definitely help CS grads from IT-BHU applying at UT Austin, which is among the top 10 schools for computer science/engineering in US.
He received his PhD in Computer Engineering (Data Mining) from University of Texas at Austin in 2006. Currently he is working as Machine Learning Scientist at Amazon.com
We congratulate the following authors for their contributions, which have been selected as best papers for ICDM 2006.
Best research paper:
"Fast Random Walk with Restart and Its Applications"
by Hanghang Tong, Christos Faloutsos, and Jia-Yu Pan.
Honorable mention (runner-up for best research paper):
"Bregman Bubble Clustering: A Robust, Scalable Framework for Locating Multiple, Dense Regions in Data"
by Gunjan Gupta and Joydeep Ghosh.
Best application paper:
"Forecasting Skewed Biased Stochastic Ozone Days: Analyses and Solutions", by Kun Zhang, Wei Fan, Xiaojing Yuan, Ian Davidson, and Xiangshang Li.
Honorable mention (runner up for best application paper):
"Cluster Ranking with an Application to Mining Mailbox Networks"
by Ziv Bar-Yossef, Ido Guy, Ronny Lempel, Yoelle S. Maarek, and Vladimir Soroka.
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