Aditi Muralidharan
Education
Education
| UC Berkeley
2008 - (2013) Ph.D. |
Ph.D. in Computer Science, concentrating in Artificial Intelligence and Human-Computer Interaction,
Ph.D. Advisor: Marti Hearst. Areas of focus: user interface design and development, natural language processing, visualization, search user interfaces, information retrieval |
| MIT
2004 - 2008 B.S. |
B.S. Physics, B.S. Electrical Engineering and Computer Science,
Undergraduate GPA 4.9 |
Employment
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Google, Inc.
(Summer 2012) |
Researched, designed, and developed tools for exploring personal data. |
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Google, Inc.
Summer 2011 |
Conducted research on social search investigating how people use information from their social networks during web search. Helped influence concrete changes in the presentation and content of social annotations. Research findings to appear at CHI 2012. |
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Fuji Xerox Palo Alto Labs
Summer 2010 |
Designed and implemented a sentiment analysis pipeline for
DiG: A Task-based Approach to Product Search published at IUI. |
Research
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2010 - Visual interfaces for analyzing text |
A text analysis system to explore and analyze literature in collaboration with the English department at UC Berkeley. Supported by NEH Digital Humanities Grants HD-51244-11 and HK-50011. |
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2010 - Exploring linked data |
Ways to explore the New York Times
linked open dataset (data.nytimes.com, developer.nytimes.com), for which I have built a visual explorer prototype. |
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2009 - 2010 Word sense disambiguation |
I applied graph smoothing algorithms to the problem of calculating the semantic similarity between words, but my method did not produce improvement when applied to the problem of word sense disambiguation. |
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Summer 2009 Faceted browsing |
Integrating word sense disambiguation into an algorithm for generating faceted hierarchical browsing interfaces. No tangible improvements were produced. Demos of automatically generated browsing interfaces are at flamenco.berkeley.edu. |
Publications
| HCIR 2012 | Finding Literary Themes with Relevance Feedback
Aditi Muralidharan, Marti A. Hearst |
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Literary and Linguistic Computing
December 2012 |
Supporting Exploratory Text Analysis in Literature Study
Aditi Muralidharan, Marti A. Hearst |
| CHI 2012 | Social Annotations in Web Search.
Aditi Muralidharan, Zoltan Gyongyi, Ed H. Chi |
| HCIR 2011 | WordSeer: Exploring Language Use in Literary Text
Aditi Muralidharan, Marti A. Hearst |
| 2011 Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces | DiG: A task-based approach to product search.
Scott Carter, Francine Chen, Aditi Muralidharan, Jeremy Pickens |
| 2011 Conference on Digital Humanities |
A Visual Interface for Exploring Language Use in Slave Narratives Aditi Muralidharan PDF, Poster |
Talks and Demos
| MLA 2012 January 2012 |
Using Digital Tools to Explore Narrative Conventions in the North American Antebellum Slave Narratives Slides |
| Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities September 2011 |
Digital Dialogue
Text Analysis for the Humanities: Methods and Challenges Podcast and Slides at umd.edu |
| BigThink Future of Search February 2011 |
WordSeer: An Interface for Exploring Language Use in Slave Narratives Video |
| THATCamp (Bay Area) October 2010 |
BootCamp on Text Mining (link).
Slides: PPT, PDF |
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Visual Interpretations Conference May 2010 MIT Hyperstudio |
Demo: "The New York Times Visual Explorer" (link) |
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THATCamp (Great Lakes) March 2010 |
Session: Text mining and the digital humanities (link) |
Teaching Experience
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CS 61A: Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs
UC Berkeley |
Co-Lecturer, Course Developer
Fall 2011 Graduate Student Instructor Spring 2011 |
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CS 188: Introduction to Artificial Intelligence
UC Berkeley |
Graduate Student Instructor
Fall 2009 |
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CS 3: Introduction to Symbolic Programming.
UC Berkeley |
Graduate Student Instructor Fall 2010 Spring 2010 Spring 2009 |
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Physics 8.02 Electromagnetism
MIT |
Undergraduate Teaching Assistant Spring 2008 Spring 2007 |