ARNAB BHATTACHARYA


Assistant Professor, Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur.


Email: arnabb@iitk.ac.in, arnabb@cse.iitk.ac.in, arnabbhattacharya@gmail.com

Web Page: http://www.cse.iitk.ac.in/users/arnabb/

Address: Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, Kanpur - 208016, UP, India.

Phone: +91-512-259-7650, +91-512-679-7650, +91-512-392-7650.

Fax: +91-512-259-0725, +91-512-259-7586.


Area of Research: Databases, Data Mining, Bioinformatics, Wireless Sensor Networks.


Selected Publications:

  1. Minimally Infrequent Itemset Mining using Pattern-Growth Paradigm and Residual Trees. Ashish Gupta, Akshay Mittal, Arnab Bhattacharya. International Conference on Management of Data (COMAD), 2011, to appear, Bengalooru, India.
  2. Mining Statistically Significant Substrings Based on the Chi-Square Measure. Sourav Dutta, Arnab Bhattacharya. Book chapter in Pattern Discovery Using Sequence Data Mining: Applications and Studies edited by P. Kumar, P. R. Krishna and S. B. Raju. IGI Global, 2012.
  3. Caching Stars in the Sky: A Semantic Caching Approach to Accelerate Skyline Queries. Arnab Bhattacharya, B. Palvali Teja, Sourav Dutta. International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications (DEXA), 2011, pages 493-501, Toulouse, France.
  4. A Continuous Query System for Dynamic Route Planning. Nirmesh Malviya, Samuel Madden, Arnab Bhattacharya. International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), 2011, pages 792-803, Hannover, Germany.
  5. Finding the Bias and Prestige of Nodes in Networks based on Trust Scores. Abhinav Mishra, Arnab Bhattacharya. International World Wide Web Conference (WWW), 2011, pages 567-576, Hyderabad, India.
  6. Aggregate Skyline Join Queries: Skylines with Aggregate Operations over Multiple Relations. Arnab Bhattacharya, B. Palvali Teja. International Conference on Management of Data (COMAD), 2010, pages 15-26, Nagpur, India. (Best student paper)
  7. INSTRUCT: Space-Efficient Structure for Indexing and Complete Query Management of String Databases. Sourav Dutta, Arnab Bhattacharya. International Conference on Management of Data (COMAD), 2010, pages 27-38, Nagpur, India.
  8. Simulated Evolution and Learning, Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Simulated Evolution and Learning (SEAL). Co-edited by K. Deb, A. Bhattacharya, N. Chakraborti, P. Chakroborty, S. Das, J. Dutta, S. K. Gupta, A. Jain, V. Aggarwal, J. Branke, S. J. Louis, K. C. Tan, Springer, 2010.
  9. Minimum Spanning Tree on Spatio-Temporal Networks. Viswanath Gunturi, Shashi Shekhar, Arnab Bhattacharya. International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications (DEXA), 2010, pages 149-158, Bilbao, Spain.
  10. Finding Top-k Similar Pairs of Objects Annotated with Terms from an Ontology. Arnab Bhattacharya, Abhishek Bhowmick, Ambuj K. Singh. International Conference on Scientific and Statistical Database Management (SSDBM), 2010, pages 214-232, Heidelberg, Germany.
  11. Most Significant Substring Mining based on Chi-square Measure. Sourav Dutta, Arnab Bhattacharya. Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD), 2010, pages 319-327, Hyderabad, India.
  12. Querying Spatial Patterns. Vishwakarma Singh, Arnab Bhattacharya, Ambuj K. Singh. International Conference on Extending Database Technology (EDBT), 2010, pages 418-429, Lausanne, Switzerland.
  13. Image Management for Biological Data. Arnab Bhattacharya, Vebjorn Ljosa. Book chapter in Encyclopedia of Database Systems edited by M. T. Ozsu and L. Liu. Springer, 2009.
  14. On Low Distortion Embeddings of Statistical Distance Measures into Low Dimensional Spaces. Arnab Bhattacharya, Purushottam Kar, Manjish Pal. International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications (DEXA), 2009, pages 164-172, Linz, Austria.
  15. FTDP-17 Mutations in Tau Alter the Regulation of Microtubule Dynamics: An ''Alternative Core'' Model for Normal and Pathological Tau Action. Adria LeBoeuf, Sasha F. Levy, Michelle Gaylord, Arnab Bhattacharya, Ambuj K. Singh, Mary Ann Jordan, Leslie Wilson, Stuart C. Feinstein. Journal of Biological Chemistry, 2008, 283(52), pages 36406-36415.
  16. A General Modeling and Visualization Tool for Comparing Different Members of a Group: Application to Studying Tau-Mediated Regulation of Microtubule Dynamics. Arnab Bhattacharya, Sasha Levy, Adria LeBoeuf, Michelle Gaylord, Leslie Wilson, Ambuj K. Singh, Stuart C. Feinstein. BMC Bioinformatics, 2008, 9, page 339.
  17. Efficient Computation of Statistical Significance of Query Results in Databases. Vishwakarma Singh, Arnab Bhattacharya, Ambuj K. Singh. International Conference on Scientific and Statistical Database Management (SSDBM), 2008, pages 509-516, Hong Kong, China.
  18. MIST: Distributed Indexing and Querying in Sensor Networks using Statistical Models. Arnab Bhattacharya, Anand Meka, Ambuj K. Singh. International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB), 2007, pages 854-865, Vienna, Austria.
  19. Indexing Spatially Sensitive Distance Measures Using Multi-Resolution Lower Bounds. Vebjorn Ljosa, Arnab Bhattacharya, Ambuj K. Singh. International Conference on Extending Database Technology (EDBT), 2006, pages 865-883, Munich, Germany.
  20. LB-Index: A Multi-Resolution Index Structure for Images. Vebjorn Ljosa, Arnab Bhattacharya, Ambuj K. Singh. International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), 2006, pages 144-145, Atlanta, USA.
  21. ViVo: Visual Vocabulary Construction for Mining Biomedical Images. Arnab Bhattacharya, Vebjorn Ljosa, Jia-Yu Pan, Mark R. Verardo, Hyung-Jeong Yang, Christos Faloutsos, Ambuj K. Singh. International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM), 2005, pages 50-57, Houston, USA. (One of the top five student papers)
  22. ProGreSS: Simultaneous Searching of Protein Databases by Sequence and Structure. Arnab Bhattacharya, Tolga Can, Tamer Kahveci, Ambuj K. Singh, Yuan-Fang Wang. Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing (PSB), 2004, pages 264-275, Hawaii, USA.


Patents:

  1. Multiple Criteria Decision Analysis. US patent filed.


Experience:


Invited Talks:

  1. ''Earth Mover's Distance: An Adaptable and Universally Applicable Distance Measure'' at the Dept. of Computer Science, Andhra University, Vishakhapatnam, India 2010.
  2. ''Earth Mover's Distance: An Adaptable and Universally Applicable Distance Measure'' at Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), Gurgaon, India 2010.
  3. ''On Earth Mover's Distance: A Spatially Sensitive Distance Measure'' at the Dept. of Computer Science, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy, 2009.
  4. ''Distributed Indexing and Querying in Sensor Networks using Statistical Models'' at the Dept. of Computer Science, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium, 2008.
  5. Popular lecture on ''Game Theory'' at the Business Club meeting of the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, 2009.


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Education:


Awards, Scholarships and Certificates:

  1. One of the top-five student paper awards at the International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM), 2005 for the paper ''ViVo: Visual Vocabulary Construction for Mining Biomedical Images''.
  2. ICDM Student Travel Award sponsored by IBM at the International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM), 2005 awarded to the top five student papers.
  3. Certificate of Merit and Qualification for the Award of Scholarship at the National Talent Search Examination, 1995 awarded by National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT), India.
  4. Certificate of Participation in the Final Stage at the Annual Scholarship Competition of the JBNSTS, 1997 issued by Jagadish Bose National Science Talent Search, India.


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