Ashwin Srinivasan - Curriculum
Vitae
Research Staff Member, IBM India Research Lab.
Co-founder and Non-Executive Research Director, PharmaDM
.
Personal
Details
Born:
16 April, 1964 in Madras, India.
Citizenship:
Australian/British.
Address:
IBM India Research Lab,
Block 1, Indian Institute of Technology,
New Delhi 110 016, India.
Telephone:
Direct: +91 11 2686 1100 (x 2248)
Fax Machine: +91 11 2686 1555
EMail:
ashwin dot srinivasan at in dot ibm dot com
Current
Research Interests
Educational
Background
PhD
Area: Non-monotonic logics
and their application. In particular, the use of defeasible logic for the
photo-interpretion of remotely sensed data. It also looked at the comparative
advantage of this representation over methods like Multivariate Gaussian
Analysis and Dempster Shafer Theory.
Dissertation: An Artificial
Intelligence Approach to the Analysis of Multiple Information Sources in
Remote Sensing.. University of New South Wales, Australia (1991).
Supervised by: Professor J.A. Richards and
Professor C.A. Sammut
BE (Hons.)
Electrical Engineering and Computer
Science.
University of New South Wales (1987).
Honours,
Fellowships, and Invited Talks
2005:
Invited speaker at the Fifteenth
International Conference on Inductive Logic Programming (ILP 2005); Invited Speaker at the Workshop on Data Mining and Business, ECML/PKDD-05.
1999:
Invited speaker at the Industrial
Day of the Sixteenth International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML'99).
1998:
(1) Nuffield Trust Research
Fellow in Medical Mathematics (up to 2001), and Research Fellow, Green College,
Oxford (up to 2001);
(2)
Invited speaker at the Eighth International Conference on Inductive
Logic Programming; (3) Invited speaker at EAIA'98, Portugal; and
(4)
Invited speaker at the Second Workshop on System Engineering and Applied
Mathematics, Kobe Institute, Japan.
1997:
(1) Invited speaker at
the Workshop on System Engineering and Applied Mathematics, Kobe Institute,
Kobe, Japan; and (2) Visited and delivered 2 invited lectures at
LIACC, University of Porto.
1996:
(1) Invited speaker at
the Workshop on The Verbalisation of Tacit Knowledge, Keio University,
Tokyo; and (2) Invited speaker at the Workshop on Inductive Logic
Programming, Hokkaido University.
1995:
(1) Visited and delivered
2 invited lectures at The Mizoguchi Laboratory, Science University of Tokyo;
and
(2) Membership of Congregation, University of Oxford.
1992:
Pacific Diagnostics Prize. Awarded
for developing a prioritised-logic system for the automatic interpretation
of chemical pathology data. This was later recommended for use in
all hospitals in the state of New South Wales.
1987-1991:
(1) Harold G. Conde Memorial
Fellow;
(2) Australian Post Graduate Research Award; (3)
Australian Government Higher Education Scholarship; (4) University
of New South Wales Dean's Scholarship; and (5) Honours Class 1 awarded
based on performance over 4 years of undergraduate study.
1983-1986:
Tyree-Westinghouse Scholar for
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.
1982:
Top 5% of New South Wales in the Higher School
Certificate.
1981:
Science Merit Award for Physics, University of
Delhi.
Employment:
History and Area
2003-date:
Research Staff Member,
IBM India Research Laboratory, New Delhi; (2006 onwards)
Adjunct Professor,
Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University
of New South Wales, Sydney.
Area:
Research into the development and application of machine learning;
establish and develop links with Universities and research organisations.
2001-2003:
University Lecturer in Computation,
University of Oxford. Co-founder and Non-Executive Research Director
of PharmaDM
.
2001-2002:
Fellow in Computation,
St Peter's College Oxford; Lecturer in Computation, Trinity College Oxford.
1992-2000:
Nuffield
Trust Fellow in Medical Mathematics(1998-2000);
Research Fellow, Green College Oxford (1998-2000);
Research Officer (1992-1997), Oxford University Computing Laboratory.
Area:
Development of ILP and application of ML and statistics to problems in
drug design, medicine, natural language processing, control engineering,
robotics, embryology, and architecture. I have successfully examined cutting-edge
knowledge-discovery task for companies like Smith-Kline Beecham, Pfizer
UK and Glaxo-Wellcome. My research evoked a great deal of interest
within the companies, and has played a key role in establishing Oxford
as an important centre for applied ML. My ILP systems P-Progol and
its successor Aleph are widely used in over 45 research laboratories around
the world, and specialised variants are currently being examined for commercial
development. This research benefitted from the guidance of Professor Donald
Michie and Professor Stephen Muggleton.
1991-1992:
Research Fellow, The Turing Institute,
Glasgow; and Research Associate Department of Statistics and Modelling
Science, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow. Area: Use of Algorithmic
Information Theory to guide the reliable and efficient construction of
rules in a non-monotonic logic. As far as I am aware, this remains
a rare attempt to address the important practical problem of distinguishing
between true exceptions and ``noisy'' data in non-monotonic reasoning.
This research was directed by Professor Stephen Muggleton.
1990-1991:
Research Fellow, Department of
Biochemistry, St. Vincent's Hospital, Sydney; and Visiting Fellow,
Department of Computer Science, University of New South Wales. Area:
Research and development of a method that acquired prioritised logic
rules for the analysis of chemical pathology data. Writing the complete
program required me to interact with hospital staff from various sections.
The program was recommended by the Government for state-wide use in hospitals.
At last check, it had acquired nearly 2400 rules, and formed the
basis of at least two dissertations: one in Medicine, and one in
Computer Science. Its success has also motivated the recent formation
of a company dedicated to developing pathology software along the
same lines. This research was directed by Professor Paul Compton,
and the work was awarded the Pacific Diagnostics Prize in 1992.
1987-1990:
Tutor at the University of New South
Wales. Area: Teaching topics that included logic programming,
procedural programming, digital logic, and electronics.
1983-1986:
Trainee at Tyree-Westinghouse
(1983-1984) and Computer Support at IBM Australia (1984-1986).
Area:
These were undergaduate training posts.
Professional
Activities
Teaching
2003:
``Logic
Programming and Learning.'' This is for post-graduate students at
Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi.
2001-2002:
Operating
Systems and
Introduction to Machine Learning
1994-1998:
Organised and lectured a course entitled ``Logic
Programming and Learning.'' This was taught to students enrolled for an
MSc in Computation at Oxford University.
1991-1993:
Taught several short courses (with S. Muggleton)
on Inductive Logic Programming, both to academia and industry.
1987-1990:
During my tenure as Visiting Fellow at the
University of New South Wales, I devised the schedule for and taught a
bridging course in procedural programming for Master's students.
During the course of my research degree, I was employed as a tutor in topics
that included logic programming, procedural programming, algorithms, digital
logic, and electronics.
Supervision
I
have formally supervised the research of 10 MSc students and 1 doctoral
student at Oxford. These
have been on a wide range of inter-disciplinary projects. I have
also acted as an informal supervisor of 2 doctoral students: one in Computer
Science and the other in Clinical medicine (in the latter case, by providing
advice on the use of machine learning methods in Embryology).
Grants
2006:
I am a co-applicant
to the Indian Department of Biotechnology on a grant in Systems Biology,
concerned with the
identification and verification of microRNA networks.
1998-2002:
I have been
a co-recipient of the following grant awards:
(1) a UK grant investigating bioinformatic system
identification; (2) a European grant investigating the development
of techniques for data mining and decision-support for industry; and
(3) a UK grant for developing an intelligent database for functional
genomics
Others
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I am on the Program Committee for the International
Inductive Logic Programming Workshop which has been held annualy since
1991. I regularly referee articles for the International Machine Learning
Conference, International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence,
European Conference on Machine Learning, Machine Learning Journal, New
Generation Computing Journal, and the Journal of Logic Programming.
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I am a referee for the Australian
Research Council and the European Commision.
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In May and June of 1999, I organised the Nuffield
Trust Lectures with Green College on ``Computation, Medicine and Mind.''
The lectures were delivered by Professor Denis Noble, CBE, FRS, Hon FRCP;
Professor Michael Brady, FRS, FEng; Sir Andrew Huxley, OM, FRS, Nobel Laureate;
Sir Roger Penrose, FRS; and Professor Donald Michie, FRSE, FBCS. Nearly
600 researchers drawn from a wide range of scientific and medical disciplines
attended these immensely thought-provoking talks that explored the use
of mathematics and computation in understanding various aspects of the
human condition.
Publications
A selection of my publications can be found
here.