Ravali Pochampally

Department of Computer Science University of Massachusetts, Amherst 140 Governors Drive, Amherst, MA 01003 Email: ravali@cs.umass.edu

I am a first year graduate student in Computer Science at UMass-Amherst. I work with Prof. Hanna Wallach in the area of machine learning and statistical text analysis. Prior to joining UMass, I graduated from IIIT Hyderabad in 2010 with a B.Tech and Masters in Computer Science, the latter under the guidance of Prof. Kamal Karlapalem.

Research

• UMass-Amherst (2011-Present) : Working on developing probabilistic models which can assess the diversity and emergence of topics in scientific literature.

• IIIT Hyderabad (2009-2010) : Developed a system which extracted multiple view-points from text using the synset ontology from WordNet.

• Rediff.com (2010-2011) : Involved in search log mining. Worked on filtering search results which were not helpful to users using implicit feedback in form of clicks, time-spent on urls etc.

Publications

• Ravali Pochampally, Kamalakar Karlapalem. Mining Diverse Views from Related Articles. In WWW 2011, workshop on Knowledge Diversity on Web.

• Ravali Pochampally, Vasudeva Varma. User context as a source of topic retrieval in Twitter. In ACM SIGIR 2011, workshop on Enriching Information Retrieval.

Graduate Courses

1. Graphical Models (Spring 2012)

2. Mathematical Statistics II (Spring 2012)

3. Artificial Intelligence (Fall 2011)

4. Mathematical Statistics I (Fall 2011)

Awards

Robert W. Graham Fellowship by Pennsylvania State University (declined), 2011
National Talent Search Scholar, India, 2002
Dean's Merit List, IIIT Hyderabad, 2004
Pratibha Scholarship, Govt. of Andhra Pradesh (India), High School, 1999
Pratibha Scholarship, Govt. of Andhra Pradesh (India), AIEEE Exam, 2004
State Merit Scholarship, 2004