PhD in CS, LTI @ Carnegie Mellon University. Advised by Jamie Callan.

Formerly, I was an undergrad in CS at Purdue. At Purdue, I worked with Mike Atallah, Daisuke Kihara and David Ebert.

In the middle I spent a summer at Microsoft Sharepoint (Enterprise Search) and another at Yelp.

CV available upon request.

Research Projects:

• Currently I am building the ClueWeb12++ dataset. It is a large social dataset of blogs and discussion forums.
• I worked on tamper-proofing printed documents.

Links:

• Publications - Self Explanatory
• Gists - One-off scripts
• Github - For larger projects
• Blog - A newer more serious blog
• Old Blog - Old Blog
• Family's Charitable Foundation

Contact:

• Email: spalakod at cs dot cmu dot edu
• Office:
  
  #6609 Gates Hillman Center,
  5000 Forbes Ave, Pittsburgh-PA, 15213

News:

• 25-Dec-2013: Robust PCP in Python and background detection.
• 15-Dec-2013: Here is an implementation and an explanation of probabilistic counting using the LogLog algorithm.
• 13-Oct-2013: I wrote the racket module for Zephyros
• 21-Jul-2013: Kindle Highlights scraper: http://blog.shriphani.com/2013/07/21/accessing-your-kindle-highlights/.
• 21-Jul-2013: Pictures of gorgeous italian cars from the PVGP.

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Soli Deo Gloria

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