Arun Ahuja

Biography

Currently, I am pursuing a B.S./M.S. at Northwestern University with majors in Computer Science and Math. In the summer of 2009 I worked at Morgan Stanley in New York, NY as a Summer Technology Analyst. This Fall, I began work on my Master's thesis with Professor Doug Downey at Northwestern University.

Education

• Master of Science Computer Science, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL (expected June 2010)
• Bachelor of Science Computer Science and Mathematics, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL (expected June 2010)

Work Experience

• Technology Summer Analyst

  Morgan Stanley

  New York, NY (June 2009 - August 2009)

• Undergraduate Research Assistant

  Prof. Ken Forbus, Qualitative Reasoning Group, Northwestern University

  Evanston, IL (June 2008 - September 2008)

Publications

1. Improved Extraction Assessment through Better Language Models Arun Ahuja and Doug Downey. (NAACL-HLT 2010).
2. Learning to Integrate Relational Databases with Wikipedia Doug Downey, Arun Ahuja, and Mike Anderson. (WIKIAI 2009).

Software

• Unsupervised Parallel Hidden Markov Model for Language Modeling (C++)