education

M.Sc(Tech) Information Systems and M.Sc(Hons) Biological Sciences
Birla Institute of Technology and Science

experience

Research Consultant
HP Labs, India (July 2009-June 2012)

Intern 
Oracle, Santa Clara (June-Aug 2013)

projects

GeoDeepDive
The goal is to help geo-scientists extract data that is buried in the text, tables, and figures of journal articles and web sites, sometimes called dark data. To bring dark data to light, we use the Hazy research group's machine reading system.

Columbus
Columbus is a framework for exploratory feature selection on large amounts of data

publications

[SHORT] Understanding Tables in Context using Standard NLP Toolkits 
Vidhya Govindaraju, Ce Zhang and Christopher Ré
ACL 2013 

[DEMO]  GeoDeepDive: Statistical Inference using Familiar Data-Processing Languages
Ce Zhang, Vidhya Govindaraju, Jackson Borchardt, Tim Foltz, Christopher Ré, and Shanan Peters
SIGMOD 2013

Similar Document Search and Recommendation
Vidhya Govindaraju and Krishnan Ramanathan
Journal for Emerging Technologies in Web Intelligence, 2012

Personalized video: Leanback online video consumption
Vidhya Govindaraju, Krishnan Ramanathan and Yogesh Sankarasubramaniam
SIGIR 2011

patents

Personalized video retrieval
Krishnan Ramanathan, Vidhya Govindaraju and Gali N. Prasad
United States 12754633, 2010

Topic Extraction and Video Association
Krishnan Ramanathan, Vidhya Govindaraju and Yogesh Sankarasubramaniam
United States WO/2013/080214, 2011

Method for automatically extending seed sets
Vidhya Govindaraju, Krishnan Ramanathan and Yogesh Sankarasubramaniam
United States US20130138643 A1, 2012

courses

CS 760: Machine Learning (Fall 2012)
CS 784: Advanced topics in Database Management Systems (Fall 2012)
CS 761: Advanced Machine Learning (Spring 2013) 
CS 776: Advanced Bioinformatics (Spring 2013)
CS 739: Distributed Systems (Fall 2013)
CS 764: Topics in Databases (Fall 2013)