Udayan Khurana University of Maryland | Computer Science Publications | Patents | Courses | Contact

I am a third year PhD student in Computer Science. My advisor is Dr. Amol Deshpande. I work in the area of Large Scale Graph Data Management. I am also interested in several problems in the areas of Social Network Analysis, Graphical Models in Inference and Parallel Computing. Previously, I have worked at Microsoft India (2006-09), primarily in the area on Geospatial Search, and also on Crosslingual Search. During an internship at eBay (Summer 2010), I worked on Probabilistic Optimization of Related Search Suggestions. I completed B.E. in Computer Science and Engineering from Thapar University, Patiala.

• Historical Graph Data management; Udayan Khurana and Amol Deshpande; submitted to VLDB 2012
• Visual Analysis of Temporal Trends in Social Networks Using Edge Color Coding and Metric Timelines; Udayan Khurana, Viet-An Nguyen, Hsueh-Chien Cheng, Jae-wook Ahn, Xi Chen, Ben Shneiderman; 3rd IEEE Social Computing (Oct 2011)
• Optimizing Display Advertisements Based on Historic User Trails; Neha Gupta, Udayan Khurana, Tak Lee and Sandeep Nawathe; SIGIR 2011 Workshop: Internet Advertizing (July 2011)
• Speeding Up Network Layout and Centrality Measures for Social Computing Goals; Puneet Sharma, Udayan Khurana, Ben Shneiderman, Max Scharrenbroich and John Locke; 4th International Conference on Social Computing, Behavioral-Cultural Modeling and Prediction (March 2011)
• Crosslingual Location Search; Tanuja Joshi, Joseph Joy, Tobias Kellner, Udayan Khurana, A. Kumaran, Vibhuti S. Sengar; 31st Annual International ACM SIGIR conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (July 2008)
• Using Patterns to Generate Prime Numbers; Udayan Khurana and Anirudh Koul; 3rd International Conference on Advances in Pattern Recognition (August 2005)
• Text Compression and Superfast Searching; Udayan Khurana and Anirudh Koul; ArXiv.org (May 2005)
• Determination of Sequences in Prime Numbers; Anirudh Koul and Udayan Khurana; National Conference on Bioinformatics Computing (March 2005) [Best Paper Award]

• Generalized Location Coding (USPTO 11831939); (Microsoft Corp.)
• Crosslingual Location Search (USPTO 12145615); (Microsoft Corp.)
• Probabilistic Optimization of Related Searches; (eBay Inc.)
• Query Suggestions for E-Commerce Sites; (eBay Inc.)

• Program Committee Member:; 4th ASE/IEEE Social Computing 2012; Amsterdam, Sep 3-6 2012