Kunal  Punera
5200, North Lamar Blvd, Apt # C302,
Austin, TX 78751, USA
1-512-659-4925
kunal @ lans.ece.utexas.edu
http://www.lans.ece.utexas.edu/~kunal/

Research Interests

Web Mining, Data Mining, Machine Learning, Information Retrieval

Education

 

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Texas at Austin.

  • Ph.D., Computer Engineering (Dec 2004 - present)
  • Master of Science, Computer Engineering (Aug 2002 - Dec 2004),

Major GPA:  4.0                                            Overall GPA: 3.88

Relevant Courses: Data Mining, Advanced Data Mining, Machine Learning, Web Mining, Introduction to Neural Networks, Probability and Stochastic Processes I, Information Theory, Bioinformatics, Engineering Programming Languages, Verification and Validation of Software Systems

 

Sardar Patel College of Engineering, University of Mumbai (Bombay).

  • Bachelor of Engineering, Computer Engineering, (Aug 1997 - May 2001)

Major GPA:  3.9                                            Overall GPA: 3.8

Relevant Courses: Artificial Intelligence, Database Systems, Computer Networks, Object Oriented Programming, Computer Methodology and Algorithms, Software Engineering, Structured Systems Analysis and Design

 

Research Experience

Summer 2005

 

Summer 2004

 

Summer 2003

 

 

Aug 2002 - to present

 

 

Aug 2003 – Jan 2004

 

 

July 2001 - June 2002

 

 

 

Jan 2001 - May 2002

 

 

 

Summer Internship, IBM Almaden Research Center

 

Summer Internship, IBM Almaden Research Center

 

Summer Internship, Verity Inc.

 

Research Assistant, IDEA Lab (with Dr. Joydeep Ghosh)

University of Texas-Austin http://www.lans.ece.utexas.edu/

 

Research Assistant, School of Information Science (with Dr. Don Turnbull)

University of Texas-Austin http://www.ischool.utexas.edu/~donturn/

 

Lab for Intelligent Internet Research (with Dr. Soumen Chakrabarti)

Indian Institute of Technology-Bombay http://www.cse.iitb.ac.in/laiir/

 

Research Assistant to Dr. R.K. Joshi

Indian Institute of Technology-Bombay http://www.cse.iitb.ac.in/~rkj/

 

Work Experience

Jan 2004 – to date

 

 

Aug 2002 – May 2003

 

 

Jan 2000 - June 2001

 

 

Teaching Assistant for Data Mining, ECE Department,

The University of Texas at Austin, http://www.ece.utexas.edu/

 

Teaching Assistant for Electronic Circuits I, ECE Department,

The University of Texas at Austin, http://www.ece.utexas.edu/

 

Acquisnet Software, Bombay, http://www.acquisi.com/

Project Designer

 

Publications

 

with Joydeep Ghosh, CLUMP: A Scalable and Robust Framework for Structure Discovery, 5th ICDM, to appear

 

with Suju Rajan and Joydeep Ghosh, A Maximum Likelihood Framework for Integrating Taxonomies, 25th AAAI Conference, July 2005

 

with David Gibson and Andrew Tomkins, The Volume and Evolution of Web Page Templates, 14th International World Wide Web, May 2005

 

with Suju Rajan and Joydeep Ghosh, Automatically Learning Document Taxonomies for Hierarchical Classification  , World Wide Web 2005

 

with Soumen Chakrabarti and M. Subramanyam, Accelerated focused crawling through online relevance feedback, 11th International World Wide Web Conference, May 2002

 

with Soumen Chakrabarti, Mukul Joshi, and David Pennock, The structure of broad topics on the Web, 11th International World Wide Web Conference, May 2002

 

with Soumen Chakrabarti, R. Jaju, and Mukul Joshi, Analyzing  fine-grained hypertext features for enhanced crawling and topic distillation, Data Engineering Vol. 25 No.1, pages 34-42, March 2002

 

Computer Skills

 

Programming Languages: C, C++, Java, Perl, Visual Basic, ASP, Javascript

DBMS:                                 IBM DB2, MS Access, Berkeley DB

Tools and Libraries:           WEKA, MATLAB, SNNS, UML

Operating Systems:            Linux /Unix, Windows (95-XP), and DOS

Markup Languages:           HTML, XML, Latex

Non-Technical Skills

 

Organizational and leadership skills: I was the ‘Head Boy’ of Naval Public School (high school) in (96’-97’). I captained the soccer team in both my high school and undergraduate institution. I also organized various technical events in SPACE, our inter-college festival. I honed my interpersonal skills and ability to work in a team at Acquisnet Software and later in Intelligent Internet research group at I.I.T.-Bombay.

Extra-Curricular: I captained my undergraduate college’s soccer team. I also represented my college in badminton and table tennis. I learnt to play the guitar for many years.

Accomplishments

 

Merit Scholarship Award, Ministry of Human Resources, Govt. of India, 1997

'Dhirubhai Ambani Foundation' scholarship (1997-2001) for being placed 9th in the All India Senior School Certificate Examination (AISSCE) in the state of Maharashtra.

Merit certificate awarded by CBSE for being placed in the top 0.1% of all scoring students (approx. 2,500,000) from all over India in the AISSCE.

'Indian Naval Benevolent Association' scholarship (1997,1998,1999,2000).

'Best Senior Student of the year 1995-1996 in Naval Public School. Also elected 'Head Boy' in the academic year 1996-1997.

Merit Certificate awarded by 'All Goa Mathematics Teachers Association' for being placed in the 4th in the state level Math Competitive Test in year 1993.

 

Employability Status: Student Visa (F1).

 

 

References: Available on request