About Me

Submitted by sameersingh on December 4, 2007 - 15:11.

I'm a second year PhD student in Computer Science at UMass Amherst. I'm interested in Reinforcement Learning and scalability aspects of Machine Learning.

I'm working with Andy Barto, as part of the Autonomous Learning Lab, and with Andrew McCallum, as part of the Information Extraction and Synthesis Lab, on using various reinforcement learning techniques for inference on large factor graphs. I've also been working on FACTORIE. Over summer, I worked on some interesting machine learning problems within Rexa.

Before I started my PhD, I interned for two semesters at Google Pittsburgh, where I got a chance to play around with some of the biggest data sets available. Before Google, I finished my MS in Computer Science from Vanderbilt in May 2007, where I worked with Doug Fisher and got my Bachelors in Electrical Engineering from NSIT in 2004.

I grew up in New Delhi, India, and graduated from Sardar Patel Vidyalaya in 2000.

You can contact me here.

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Submitted by sameeer on November 14, 2007 - 02:14.

I'm Sameer Singh, if it's not obvious from the URL of the site. Actually I could be Sameers Ingh (a butcher in the 1880s?), or Same Ersingh, etc. So I apologize, since it's not obvious from the URL, I am Sameer Singh, but I suppose you would know that, otherwise you wouldn't be on this site.

I'm trying out Drupal as my content management system, and this is the first post. Currently this website has nothing on it, aptly summarizing most of my life, but soon stuff shall be added!