Dr. Vasudeva Varma of IIIT Hyderabad

In this talk I present some of the major and inherent issues and challenges of enterprise search and how different this is from a web search problem. The confluence of structured and unstructured data in an enterprise is the key to the success of any enterprise search solutions. I will also talk about the key Information Retrieval (IR) research areas that help in solving Enterprise Search problems and talk about my own research in this area. We re-interpret the enterprise search problem in terms of core IR elements including interpreting the information need using query expansion, query enhancement, sophisticated indexing, retrieval and ranking problems. We propose a multi-pronged approach that enhances the quality in the entire search life cycle.

Biography: Dr. Vasudeva Varma is a faculty member at International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad Since 2002. His research interests include search (information retrieval), information extraction, information access, knowledge management, cloud computing and software engineering. He is heading Search and Information Extraction Lab and Software Engineering Research Lab at IIIT Hyderabad. He is also the chair of Post Graduate Programs since 2009.

He published a book on Software Architecture (Pearson Education) and over seventy technical papers in journals and conferences. In 2004, he obtained young scientist award and grant from Department of Science and Technology, Government of India, for his proposal on personalized search engines. In 2007, he was given Research Faculty Award by AOL Labs. He was visiting professor at UPV, Valencia, Spain (Summer 2007), UBO, Bretagne, France (Summer 2009) and Language Technologies Institute, CMU, Pittsburgh, USA (Summer 2010)

He obtained his Ph.D. from the Department of Computer and Information Sciences, University of Hyderabad in 1996. Prior to joining IIIT Hyderabad, he was the president of MediaCognition India Pvt. Ltd and Chief Architect at MediaCognition Inc. (Cupertino, CA). Earlier he was the director of Engineering and research at InfoDream Corporation, Santa Clara, CA. He also worked for Citicorp and Muze Inc. in New York as senior consultant..

Address:IIIT Hyderabad, , Andhra Pradesh, India

Dr. Vasudeva Varma of IIIT Hyderabad

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Address:Andhra Pradesh, India