Karthik Subbian
Karthik Subbian is a director at Amazon with more than 19 years of industry experience. He leads a team of scientists and engineers to improve search quality and trust. He was a research scientist and lead at Facebook, before coming to Amazon, where he had led a team of scientists and engineers to explore information propagation and user modeling problems using the social network structure and its interactions. Earlier to that, he was working at IBM T.J. Watson research center in the Business Analytics and Mathematical Sciences division. His areas of expertise include machine learning, information retrieval, and large-scale network analysis. More specifically, semi-supervised and supervised learning in networks, personalization and recommendation, information diffusion, and representation learning. He holds a masters degree from the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) and a Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota, both in computer science. Karthik has won numerous prestigious awards, including the IBM Ph.D. fellowship, best paper award at Siam Data Mining (SDM) conference 2013 and Informs Edelman laureate award 2013.
Education:
Doctor of Philosophy, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Minnesota.
Master of Science, Department of Computer Science and Automation, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India.
Bachelor of Technology, Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Pondicherry Engineering College, India.
Publications:
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Awards:
Best Paper Award SDM 2013
INFORMS Edelman Laureate 2013
IBM Fourth Plateau Invention Award
IBM Master Inventor Nominee
IBM PhD Fellowship Award
Best in Show for IBM Techconnect
IBM Chairman Environmental Award
IBM Special Invention Disclosure Award
Five time IBM Bravo award winner for various technical contributions
Professional Organizations:
Member, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Member, Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM)
Member, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
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“The scientific man does not aim at an immediate result. He does not expect that his advanced ideas will be readily taken up. His work is like that of a planter -- for the future." - Nikola Tesla.
My favorite scientist Richard Feynman
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Contact:
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