About

Ankur is a second year Ph.D. student in the Theory of Computation group at MIT, where he and his advisor proved, and had published, a well-known conjecture in geometric graph theory. He is also interested in spectral graph theory and combinatorics. He completed his undergrad in Electrical and Computer Engineering at Cornell. He did research at Areceibo Observatory and designed software for visually impaired scientists to explore scientific data, which was featured in articles in BBC and Wired. He has researched information retrieval and proposed, designed, implemented, and tested a non-linear information retrieval system that used neural networks to improve the generalization capabilities of latent semantic indexing. He also worked at Google, Inc. on blog ranking algorithms and collaborative filtering. At Cornell, he analyzed existence and uniqueness for stable outcomes in network exchange theory.

Education

MIT

Computer Science

Class of 2009

Awards & Publications