About Me!

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Hi! I'm Nilesh Bansal, third year PhD candidate at the Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto. For my thesis, I am working on the BlogScope project with my advisor Prof. Nick Koudas. In my free time, I participate in the open source community. I also manage linux based environments as a part time system administrator which I am doing for six years now. Before coming to UofT, I did my bachelors at IIT Bombay.

You can say hello to me at nilesh@cs.toronto.edu


Research!

These days I am playing with large amounts of unstructured text. Take a look at my resume or visit my DBLP entry to know more. Below is the list of my research publications:


Manos Papagelis, Nilesh Bansal, Nick Koudas Information Cascades in the Blogosphere: A Look Behind the Curtain, To appear in Proceedings of the 3rd International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media, ICWSM 2009, San Jose, California USA, May 17-20 2009, Poster.

Yin Yang, Nilesh Bansal, Wisam Dakka, Panagiotis Ipeirotis, Nick Koudas, Dimitris Papadias Query by Document, In Proceedings of the 2nd ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining, WSDM 2009, Barcelona, Spain, Feb 9-12 2009.

Nilesh Bansal, Sudipto Guha, Nick Koudas, Ad-Hoc Aggregations of Ranked Lists in the Presence of Hierarchies, In Proceedings of the ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data, SIGMOD 2008, Vancouver, Canada, June 9-12 2008. (slides)

Nilesh Bansal, Fei Chiang, Nick Koudas, Frank Wm. Tompa, Seeking Stable Clusters in the Blogosphere, In Proceedings of the 33rd International Conference on Very Large Data Bases, VLDB 2007, Vienna, Austria, Sept 23-28 2007. (slides)

Nilesh Bansal, Nick Koudas, BlogScope: A System for Online Analysis of High Volume Text Streams, In Proceedings of the 33rd International Conference on Very Large Data Bases, VLDB 2007, Vienna, Austria, Sept 23-28 2007, Demonstration Proposal.

Nilesh Bansal, Nick Koudas, Searching the Blogosphere, In Proceedings of the 10th International Workshop on Web and Databases, WebDB 2007, (co-located with SIGMOD) Beijing, China, June 15 2007. (slides)

Nilesh Bansal, Nick Koudas, BlogScope: Spatio-temporal Analysis of the Blogosphere, In Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on World Wide Web, WWW 2007, Banff, Canada, May 8-12, 2007, Poster.



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My Blog!

As everyone else, I also have a blog nileshbansal.blogspot.com. Here are the last few entries: