Biographical sketches of authors

Neeraj Agrawal IBM Research Division, IBM India Research Laboratory, Block I, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Hauz Khas, New Delhi 110016 (nagrawal@in.ibm.com). Mr. Agrawal received his bachelor's degree in computer science and engineering in 2002, joining the IBM India Research Laboratory that same year. He is currently pursuing a master's degree in computer science and engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi. His interests are in information extraction, text mining, content monitoring, and Web mining.

Rema Ananthanarayanan IBM Research Division, IBM India Research Laboratory, Block I, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Hauz Khas, New Delhi 110016 (arema@in.ibm.com). Ms. Ananthanarayanan joined the IBM India Research Laboratory as a Research Staff Member in 1998 and became a member of the Knowledge Management group in 2002. She is currently working in the areas of automated information extraction and Web mining. Before assuming her current responsibilities, she worked in the areas of auctions, negotiations, and machine learning. Ms. Ananthanarayanan received a master's degree in computer science and engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Chennai, in 1994.

Rahul Gupta IBM Research Division, IBM India Research Laboratory, Block I, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Hauz Khas, New Delhi 110016 (rahulgupta@in.ibm.com). Mr. Gupta received a bachelor's degree in computer science and engineering in 2001, joining the IBM India Research Laboratory that same year. He is currently a member of the Knowledge Management group and is pursuing a Ph.D. degree in computer science and engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi. His prior work involved media mining, similarity search, and relevance feedback. Mr. Gupta's current interests include Web mining, information extraction, site analysis, Web modeling, random graphs, and machine learning.

Sachindra Joshi IBM Research Division, IBM India Research Laboratory, Block I, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Hauz Khas, New Delhi 110016 (jsachind@in.ibm.com). Mr. Joshi is a Research Staff Member in the Knowledge Management group. He joined the IBM India Research Laboratory in 2000 after receiving a master's degree in computer science and engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay. Since 2000 he has been working in the areas of Web mining, machine learning, and text mining. Mr. Joshi's recent work involves automatic data extraction from semi-structured documents and Web site categorization.

Raghu Krishnapuram IBM Research Division, IBM India Research Laboratory, Block I, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Hauz Khas, New Delhi 110016 (kraghura@in.ibm.com). Dr. Krishnapuram received his Ph.D. degree in electrical and computer engineering from Carnegie Mellon University in 1987. From 1987 to 1997, he was on the faculty of the Department of Computer Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Missouri, Columbia. In 1997, Dr. Krishnapuram joined the Department of Mathematical and Computer Sciences at the Colorado School of Mines (CSM), Golden, Colorado, as a Full Professor. Since 2000 he has been with the IBM India Research Laboratory, where he currently manages the Knowledge Management group. Dr. Krishnapuram's past research encompasses many aspects of fuzzy set theory, neural networks, pattern recognition, computer vision, and image processing. He has published more than 150 papers in journals and conferences in these areas. He is an associate editor of the IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems and a coauthor (with J. Bezdek, J. Keller, and N. Pal) of the book Fuzzy Models and Algorithms for Pattern Recognition and Image Processing.

Sumit Negi IBM Global Services, IBM India Research Laboratory, Block I, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Hauz Khas, New Delhi 110016 (sumitneg@in.ibm.com). Mr. Negi received a bachelor's degree in electronics and communication engineering in 2001. He joined IBM that same year and became a member of the Knowledge Management group at IRL in 2002. His interests lie in Web mining, focused crawling, and information extraction.