Purnamrita Sarkar

psarkar@cs.cmu.edu

Graduate Student

Biography

I received my bachelors degree in computer science and engineering at Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur in 2004. Now I am a third year graduate student in the Machine Learning Department at CMU.

Research Interests

I am interested in fast mining of large and sparse networks. Currently we are trying to model the evolution of social networks over time.

Papers

• A Latent Space Approach to Dynamic Embedding of Co-occurrence Data (2007)
  
• A Tractable Approach to Finding Closest Truncated-commute-time Neighbors in Large Graphs (2007)
  
• Dynamic Social Network Analysis using Latent Space Models (2005)