Office: EEB 435
Office Phone: 2137404821
E-mail: spurusho@usc.edu

Sanjay Purushotham received his B.Tech degree in Electronics and Communications Engineering from National Institute of Technology Karnataka, India in 2007. He completed his M.S. coursework in Electrical Engineering from Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical Engineering at University of Southern California (USC), Los Angeles in 2008. Since 2009 he has been a PhD student in Electrical Engineering at USC. Currently, he is a Research Assistant at Media Communications Lab advised by Prof. C.-C. Jay Kuo. His research interests include multimedia data mining, machine learning, optimization theory and graph theory.

Recent Publications:
Sanjay Purushotham, Yan Liu, C.-C. Jay Kuo, "Collaborative Topic Regression with Social Matrix Factorization for Recommendation Systems", To Appear in the 29th International Conference on Machine Learning, Edinburgh, Scotland, 2012 (ICML 2012)

Sanjay Purushotham, Qi Tian, C.-C. Jay Kuo,"Picture-in-Picture Copy Detection Using Spatial Coding Techniques", ACM Multimedia, AIEMPro Workshop, Scottsdale, Arizona, USA, 2011

Ping-Hao Wu, Sanjay Purushotham , C.-C. Jay Kuo, "Video Genre Inference based on Camera Capturing Models", (Book Chapter) Chapter 7 in Video Search and Mining, Studies in Computational Intelligence, Vol. 287/2010

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