My name is Pradeep Kumar Ravikumar. Inspite of the innocent sounding name, yes it does have many Kumars. And inspite of the grey text foreground, yes I do love non-sequiturs.
I obtained my PhD from the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University.
My advisor there was John Lafferty.
While at CMU, I also worked with
William Cohen,
Stephen Fienberg and
Larry Wasserman.
PhD Thesis: Approximate Inference, Structure Learning and Feature Estimation in Markov Random Fields.
Honorable Mention, ACM SIGKDD Dissertation Award. Honorable Mention,
CMU School of Computer Science Distinguished Dissertation Award.
I'm a postdoc with Martin Wainwright and Bin Yu.
I will be joining the Department of Computer Science at UT Austin as an assistant professor in Fall 2009.