Neha Gupta

Foodie, Idea generator, Parent, Scientist, Social entrepreneur, Technologist, Web guru, World traveler

Neha Gupta graduated with her Ph.D in Computer Science from University of Maryland, College Park in May, 2012. Her Ph.d thesis was on "Learning Techniques in Multi-Armed Bandits". She has published several papers in the area of large scale machine learning, online learning and location determination technologies. In general, her interests lie in applying machine learning and data mining to build smarter products. Before joining graduate school, she worked for Samsung as a Software Engineer for two years in their Telecom and Networks division. She finished her undergraduate studies in Electronics Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Banaras Hindu University, India. She did internships and research in computational advertising at Tumri and Yahoo! Research. She is currently working as a Data Scientist at Adobe.

I m passionate about the use of information technology for building smarter products.

There are very large numbers of internet users who are well qualified to provide tutoring. A large number of them spend significant amount of time on social networking sites like facebook. Many of them maybe willing to provide free tutoring as a philanthropic contribution to the society provided some simple, easy-to-use and secure mechanism is available. My dream is to build such a platform.

Artifical Intelligence, Computer Science Education, Data Warehouse, Gamification, Machine Learning, Computational Economics/Psychology/Neuroscienc

I got involved with TED when I was looking for my PhD research topic.I wanted to do research in the use of Information Technology for Education and i was searching the internet for relevant research work.I came across Dr.Sugata Mitra's talk about his "Hole in the Wall" project.Dr. Sugata Mitra's talk was the first talk I saw and really loved it. I m now an avid follower and keep watching all the videos of the wonderful talks online.I m looking forward to attending this years conference in India.

teaching maths, cooking