shumeet baluja

phd

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

current affiliation

senior staff research scientist, google

 

 

previous endeavors

chief technology officer, jamdat mobile

senior vice president of research and development, ecompanies incubator

chief scientist, lycos, inc.

adjunct faculty, robotics institute & school of computer science, carnegie mellon university

 

 

professional interests     

whether getting to play with new technologies or leading an entrepreneurial team, my interest is in shepherding ideas from concepts to the products that people need and enjoy.

 

in the past year, i’ve had the opportunity to initiate and participate in a number of

exciting projects at google:

Data Mining: a system for video discovery and recommendations on youtube

Mobile: understanding wireless users and wireless needs

Algorithms:  fast approximate matching – through machine learning

Pattern Analysis: fingerprinting copyrighted content

Image Processing on the Web: VisualRank for images

 

A full list of research papers.

 

 

technology for good

I am honored to have led a project that involved the creation and transfer of technology from Google’s Research Group to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.

Official Google Blog Entry  

 

                                                 

personal

curriculum vitae / resume (pdf)

esprockets: photography for a good cause