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max planck institut
informatik

Avishek Anand

Avishek Anand

Max-Planck-Institut für Informatik
D5: Databases and Information Systems
Building 46.1, Room 414
Campus E1 4
66123 Saarbrücken
Germany

Email: aanand (at) mpi-inf (dot) mpg (dot) de
Get my email address via email
Phone: +49 681 9325 524
Fax: +49 681 9325 524

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Research Interests

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• Distributed information retrieval
• Web Archives
• Replication in p2p networks

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Publications

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• Index Maintenance for Time-Travel Text Search
  Avishek Anand, Srikanta Bedathur, Klaus Berberich, Ralf Schenkel
  in SIGIR 2012 (to appear).
• Temporal Index Sharding for Space-Time Efficiency in Archive Search
  Avishek Anand, Srikanta Bedathur, Klaus Berberich, Ralf Schenkel
  in SIGIR 2011, Beijing.(pdf) , techreport version
• Efficient Temporal Keyword Queries over Versioned Text
  Avishek Anand, Srikanta Bedathur, Klaus Berberich, Ralf Schenkel
  in CIKM 2010, Toronto. (pdf ), techreport version
• EverLast: A Distributed Architecture for Preserving the Web
  Avishek Anand, Srikanta Bedathur, Klaus Berberich, Ralf Schenkel, Christos Tryfonopoulos
  in ACM-JCDL 2009. (pdf )
• Indexing Strategies for Peer-to-Peer Web Archival
  Avishek Anand
  Master's Thesis, Universitat des Saarlandes and Max-Planck Institut fuer Informatik, Jan 2009. (pdf )

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Presentations

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• Index Partitioning Strategies for Efficient Time-Travel Search
  Poster prepared for poster exhibition in Max-Planck Institut fuer Informatik, June 2009, Germany. (pdf )

• Talk on my Master's thesis: "Peer-to-Peer Infrastructure for Web Archival and Time-Travel Search" (pdf )

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Recent Positions

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• Software Design Engineer in Microsoft India Research and Development Centre, India.
• Research Intern in Lucent Technologies, Bangalore, India.
• Research Intern in Defense research and development laboratories, DRDO, India.

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Education

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• Feb 2009 - present:
  Ph. D. student at the the Max-Planck-Institut für Informatik and the Universität des Saarlandes, Saarbrücken, Germany
  
• April 2007 - January 2009:
  Masters student in Computer Science at the Universität des Saarlandes, Saarbrücken, Germany and the Max-Planck-Institut für Informatik
  Title of Master's Thesis (Diplomarbeit): Indexing Strategies for Peer-to-Peer Web Archival(supervisor: Prof. Dr. Gerhard Weikum)
• July 2001 - April 2005:
  Bachelor's in Information Technology in Indian Institute of Information Technology, Allahabad, India

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Links

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Information Retrieval and Data Mining (WS09-10) by Prof. Gerhard Weikum: course page

Some links on algorithm design and courses:

• Karp's 21 NP-complete problems ,Reductions,NP-Hard problems.
• some book (by S. Dasgupta, C.H. Papadimitriou, and U.V. Vazirani)

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Private

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Hobbies

• Sports : Cricket, Lawn Tennis, Table Tennis
• Travelling, wandering, loitering, getting lost
• Creative dancing and writing
• Trivia junkie (specialities: Movies and cricket)
• Cosmology and Astrophysics

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Weather today: Saarbruecken, Germany

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