Dr. Sriraam Natarajan

Professor

Degrees:

• Ph.D., Machine Learning, Oregon State University, 2007
• M.S., Computer Science, Oregon State University, 2004
• B.E., Computer Science, University of Madras, 2001

Research Interests:

• Artificial Intelligence
• Machine Learning
• Statistical Relational AI
• Health Informatics/Precision Health

Major Honors and Awards:

• Young Investigator Award, Army Research Office, 2013
• XEROX PARC Faculty Award, 2014
• Indiana University Trustees Award for Teaching Excellence, 2015
• Amazon Faculty Research Award, 2017

Representative Publications:

• Sriraam Natarajan, Tushar Khot, Kristian Kersting, Bernd Gutmann and Jude Shavlik. Gradient-based Boosting for Statistical Relational Learning: The Relational Dependency Network Case, Special issue of Machine Learning Journal (MLJ), Volume 86, Number 1, 25-56, 2012.
• Shuo Yang, Tushar Khot, Kristian Kersting and Sriraam Natarajan, Learning Continuous-Time Bayesian Networks in Relational Domains: A Non-Parametric Approach, 30th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2016.
• Phillip Odom, Tushar Khot, Reid Porter, and Sriraam Natarajan, Knowledge-Based Probabilistic Logic Learning, Twenty-Ninth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2015.
• Kristian Kersting, Babak Ahmadi, Sriraam Natarajan. Counting Lifted Belief Propagation, International Conference on Uncertainty in AI (UAI), 2009.
• Alan Fern, Sriraam Natarajan, Kshitij Judah and Prasad Tadepalli, A Decision-Theoretic Model of Assistance, Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research (JAIR), 2014.

Notable Services:

• Electronics Publishing Editor, Journal of AI Research
• Chair, Statistical Relational Workshops, AAAI Student Organization Chairs for four consecutive years
• Senior Program Committee Members for AI/ML Conferences