Dr. Clint Pazhayidam George

Designation : Assistant Professor

Broad Area of Expertise : Computer Sciences and Engineering

Email : clint{at}iitgoa.ac.in

Contact Number : 0832-2490-117

Address : F-9 (Lab 2), Academic Block A

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Educational Qualifications

  • Ph.D. University of Florida (2015)
  • M. S. University of Florida (2010)
  • B. Tech. University of Kerala (2004)

Areas of Research

  • Machine learning
  • Applied statistics 

Courses Taught

  1. CS 344: Artificial Intelligence (Autumn 2018, Autumn 2019, Autumn 2020)
  2. CS 386: Artificial Intelligence Lab (Autumn 2018, Autumn 2019, Autumn 2020)
  3. CS 360/530: Machine learning (Spring 2019, 2020)
  4. CS 101: Introduction to Computing (Summer 2018, Spring 2021) 

Professional Appointments

  1. Assistant Professor, IIT Goa (2018-Present)
  2. Research Associate, Informatics Institute and Department of Statistics, University of Florida (2016-2018)
  3. Assistant Systems Engineer, TATA Consultancy Services, Chennai, India (2006-2008)
  4. Software Engineer, ENVESTNET, Trivandrum, India (2004-2006)

Recent Publications

  1. Analyses of Multi-collection Corpora via Compound Topic Modeling. P. George, C., Xia, W., and Michailidis, G. (2019). The Fifth International Conference on Machine Learning, Optimization, and Data Science, Siena – Tuscany, Italy.
  2. The Impact of an Online Tutoring Program for Algebra Readiness on Mathematics Achievements; Results of a Randomized Experiment. Akhavan Niaki, S., P. George, C., Xia, W., Michailidis, G., and Beal, C.R. (2019). Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Learning Analytics & Knowledge. Arizona, USA. p. 363-372. ACM.
  3. Principled Selection of Hyperparameters in the Latent Dirichlet Allocation Model. P. George, C., and Doss, H. (2018). Journal of Machine Learning Research.  
  4. A Topic-Based Search, Visualization, and Exploration System. Grant, C., P. George, C., Kanjilal, V., Nirkhiwale, S., Wang, D. Z., and Wilson, J. N. (2015). FLAIRS-28, Hollywood, Florida, USA.
  5. SMART Electronic Legal Discovery via Topic Modeling. P. George, C., Puri, S., Wang, D. Z., Wilson, J. N., and Hamilton, W. (2014). FLAIRS-27, Pensacola, Florida, USA.

Recognition and Awards

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