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~ Alea Iacta Est ~

Parasaran Raman

Hello!

I spent 5+ wonderful years as a PhD student (Fall 2008 - Fall 2013)in Computing (Data Management& Analysis Track) at the School of Computing, University of Utah[Salt Lake is my all-time favorite

city to live in, if only it did not snow in the valley].

I am now at Yahoo! Inc., working on (real) large datasets. [The bay area can be expensive, but the

weather and food make up for everything!!]

I worked as a Research Assistant with my wonderful advisor, Dr. Suresh Venkatasubramanian. After

a slightly unsuccessful attempt at building a distance metric for clusterings by constructing a latticestructure on top of all possible partitions of data, I found other ways to navigate the landscape ofclusterings. I built a reproducing kernel Hilbert space based framework for representing partitions that

can be used to compare, combine, generate and evaluateclusterings towards a holistic meta-

clustering approach.

Here are some things you might be interested in:

My resume

My dissertationMy defense slides

My defense video

It turns out that I can always define any part of my life in 4 lines.

Grad Days

Ask (?) possible research questions and try answering them at the theory

lab.

Cook.

Eat.Sleep.

Work Days : hereand here

Keep chugging at COBOL Code.

Keep chugging at COBOL Code.Keep chugging at COBOL Code.

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All this between large mugs of coffee.

UndergradDays

Attending many technical conferences at various colleges in Mathematicsand Computer Science, winning many of them.

Leading and Organizing many technical symposiums at college.Designing Posters / Banners, Creating Softwares in Flash for various

contests held at college.Representing my college in Soccer at regional levels.

SchoolDays

Play Cricketon the streets.

Participate / Win Quiz and Essay Writing contests.

Break my head over Math Puzzles.

Pray Rain God to send incessant showers hoping that it could keep me athome.

I love reading quotations and here are few I like in particular.

"Quote...Unquote"

There is no easy way to prove a deep result - Law of conservation of difficulties.

Black holes result from God dividing the universe by zero. In the binary system we

count on our fists instead of on our fingers. The human mind has never invented a

labor-saving machine equal to algebra. Bad code isn't bad, its just misunderstood.

I hear and I forget; I see and I remember; I do and I understand. - Confucious

Home

InterestsResume

Gadgets

GalleryContact

Blogs I Read

GeomblogOn Topology

Machine Learning

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NLPersMy Biased Coin

Ice Cold Coffee

Some Links

Complexity Zoo

Theory Conferences : Accepted Papers

Clustering WikiRandomization Wiki

My Research Wiki

Books I Enjoy

Five Equations that changed the world

Fermats EnigmaWho is Fourier?Dr. Eulers Fabulous Formula

The Code Book

Prime Obsession

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