Operators for Similarity Search

Über den Autor

Deepak P is a researcher in the Information Management Group at IBM Research - India, Bangalore. He has been working in the area of similarity search since 2008, co-chaired the 2011 EDBT Workshop on New Trends in Similarity Search and presented a tutorial on similarity search operators at the WISE 2014 conference. His current research interests include similarity search, spatio-temporal data analytics, graph mining, information retrieval and machine learning. He has authored over 20 papers in reputed conferences and has filed several patent applications with the US PTO including four issued patents. He is a senior member of the ACM and IEEE.Prasad M Deshpande is a Senior Technical Staff Member at IBM Research - India and Manager of the Watson Foundations - Platforms and Infrastructure group. His areas of expertise are in data management, specifically data integration, OLAP, data mining and text analytics. His current focus is in the areas of data discovery and curation for big data platforms, data integration and machine data analytics. He has more than 40 publications in reputed conferences and journals and 14 patents issued. He has served on the Program Committee of many conferences and has been the Industry Chair for COMAD 2009 and COMAD 2013, PC Co-Chair for COMAD 2011, ACM Compute 2010, 2011 EDBT Workshop on New Trends in Similarity Search and 2014 KDD Workshop on Big Data Discovery and Curation. He is an ACM Distinguished Scientist and member of the IBM Academy of Technology.