OFFICE LOCATION
440 Huntington Avenue
472 West Village H
Boston, MA 02115
MAILING ADDRESS
Northeastern University
ATTN: Virgil Pavlu, 202 WVH
360 Huntington Avenue
Boston, MA 02115
Experience:
RESEARCH INTERESTS
- Information Retrieval
- Machine Learning
- Algorithms
EDUCATION
PhD, Northeastern University
BIOGRAPHY
Dr. Virgil Pavlu obtained his PhD in 2008 on Information Retrieval Measures and Evaluation. Dr. Pavlu has several research interests in information retrieval: diversity, learning to rank, metasearch, score distribution models, relevance feedback, etc. Since 2007, he is involved with the SIGIR conference either as a reviewer or an organizer; he was a coordinator of several TREC and NTCIR tracks.
Dr. Pavlu’s current research centers around machine learning algorithms for certain data types, and, in particular, applications to text data: on long text, the extraction and selection of n-grams features; on short text, the discovery, indexing and matching of nuggets for tasks like relevance and novelty. One of his projects addresses the representability of text documents in high dimensional spaces, the study of similarity and distance notions, and the active learning application to crowdsourcing methodologies for obtaining such representation.
HOMETOWN
Bucharest, Romania
FIELD OF RESEARCH/TEACHING
Data Science
EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND
Mathematics was my only field of study until I decided I wanted something more applied.
RESEARCH FOCUS
The research we do evolves with both data collected by different organizations, and with the computational infrastructure available. Sometimes we are problem solvers in a practical sense.
COURSES/SUBJECTS TAUGHT
- Machine Learning
- Information Retrieval
- Algorithms
