Ashwin Srinivasan

Dr. Ashwin Srinivasan

Research Staff Member, IBM India Research Laboratory
Co-founder, PharmDM

Address

IBM India Research Laboratory,
Block 1, Indian Institute of Technology,
Hauz Khas, New Delhi 110 016, India.

Telephone

Direct: +91 (0)11 2686 1100 (x 2248)
Fax Machine: +91 (0)11 2686 1555

EMail

ashwin@cse.iitd.ernet.in

Current Research Interests

Symbolic Machine Learning especially Inductive Logic Programming
Applications of Symbolic Machine Learning and ILP to real-world problems

In particular, to problems in bioinformatics and chemoinformatics

Implementation of ILP

In particular, the ILP systems Aleph and P-Progol
Incorporation of probabilistic optimisation techniques for scalability
Techniques for combination with other learning methods

Curriculum Vitae

Ashwin's curriculum vitae can be found here.

Publications

A selection of Ashwin's publications and papers under review can be found here.

Profile

Ashwin received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of New South Wales, Australia, in 1991. His dissertation examined the use of defeasible logic for the photo-interpretion of remotely sensed data and at the comparative advantage of this representation over methods like Multivariate Gaussian Analysis and Dempster Shafer Theory. During the latter half of 1990, he developed a non-monotonic logic-based system for interpreting chemical pathology data. This was awarded the Pacific Diagnostic's Prize and recommended for use in all hospitals in the state of New South Wales. In 1991, Ashwin joined the ILP group at the Turing Institute, Scotland and---with S. Muggleton (now at Imperial College, London)--- worked on the application of Algorithmic Information Theory to noise-detection and non-monotonic learning in ILP. From 1993, Ashwin was a member of the Oxford University Computing Laboratory, where he was involved in pioneering applications of ILP systems to difficult real-world problems in molecular biology and chemistry. From 1998-2000 he was the Nuffield Trust Research Fellow in Medical Mathematics and a Research Fellow of Green College , Oxford. In 2001, he was appointed to a University Lecturership in Computation at Oxford and a Fellowship in Computation at St Peter's College. Prior to this, he has also been a member of Wolfson College , Oxford. In 2003, he moved to the IBM India Research Laboratory as a Research Staff Member. He is the recipient of several awards and fellowships, and is regularly invited to present work on scientific knowledge discovery. He is a referee for a number of leading journals, and an author on several well-known papers on ILP. Ashwin enjoys travelling, playing squash, tennis and table-tennis.