Google's Top Indian Inventors

By siliconindia   |   Thursday, 15 September 2011, 01:48 IST   |    3 Comments
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Shumeet Baluja
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Shumeet Baluja boarded Google in 2003 and works as Senior Staff Research Scientist. He works on a broad set of topics ranging from image processing and machine learning to wireless application development and user interaction measurement. He penned books like The Silicon Jungle: A Novel of Deception, Power, and Internet Intrigue. He has filed numerous patents and has published scientific papers in fields including computer vision and facial image processing, advertisement display and optimization, automated vehicle control, statistical machine learning, and high-dimensional optimization. Graduated from the University of Virginia with a Bachelor of Science degree, he received his Ph.D. in computer science from Carnegie Mellon University in 1996. He owns 8 patents.