Jaya Kawale

Research Interests

I recently completed my PhD from the department of Computer Science and Engineering at University of Minnesota, Twin Cities in Jan 2013. My advisor was Prof. Vipin Kumar. My primary area of interest is in the field of Complex Network analysis and Data Mining and its application to climate data and social networks. I was working on the project Understanding Climate Change: A Data Driven Approach. Recently, my work was awarded the Explorations in Science through Computation award presented at SC'11. The Minnesota Daily had an article about it here.

I am now an Analytics Research Scientist at Adobe Research.

Recent Awards

• Best poster at the ACM student research competition, GHC 2012.
• Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship, UMN 2012.
• Best poster award, MinneWIC 2012.
• Best student paper, CIDU 2011.
• Explorations in Science through computation award, SC 2011.

Experience

• Analytics Research Scientist at Adobe Research, Feb 2013 - Present
• Research Intern at Microsoft Research, Redmond, Summer 2011.
• Research Assistant at Univessity of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Aug 2008 - Jan 2013.
• Research Engineer at Yahoo! Research, Bangalore, Jun 2007 - Jul 2008.
• Senior Software Engineer at Yahoo! Inc, Bangalore, Jul 2005 - Jun 2007.

Publications

Journal/Book Chapter

1. A Graph Based Approach to find Teleconnections in Climate Data
   Jaya Kawale, Stefan Liess, Arjun Kumar, Auroop Ganguly, Michael Steinbach, Nagiza Samatova, Fred Semazzi, Peter Snyder, Vipin Kumar
   Invited paper, Statistical Analysis and Data Mining Journal, 2013.

2. Earth Science Applications of sensor Data
   Anuj Karpante, James Faghmous, Jaya Kawale, Luke Styles, M Blank, Varun Mithal, Xi Chen, Ankush Khandelwal, Shyam Boriah, Karsten Steinhaeuser, Michael Steinbach and Vipin Kumar
   Book title: Managing and mining sensor data, Editor Charu Aggarwal.

Papers

3. Constrained Spectral Clustering using L1 Regularization
   Jaya Kawale and Daniel Boley
   SIAM International Conference of Data Mining (SDM), 2013, Austin, Texas

4. Mining Time-lagged Relationships in Spatio-temporal Climate Data
   Jaya Kawale, Stefan Liess, Auroop Ganguly, Upmanu Lall, Vipin Kumar
   IEEE Conference on Intelligent Data Understanding (CIDU), Oct 2012, Boulder, Colorado, US.

5. Testing the Significance of Spatio-temporal Teleconnection Patterns
   Jaya Kawale, Snigdhansu Chatterjee, Dominick Ormsby, Karsten Steinhaeuser, Stefan Liess, Vipin Kumar
   ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD), Aug 2012, Beijing, China.

6. Tracking Spatio-temporal Diffusion in climate data
   Jaya Kawale*, Aditya Pal*, Rob Fatland
   SIAM International Conference of Data Mining (SDM), 2012, Anaheim, California. (* equal contribution)

7. Data Guided Discovery of Dynamic Climate Dipoles Best Student Paper Award Video
   Jaya Kawale, Stefan Liess, Arjun Kumar, Auroop Ganguly, Michael Steinbach, Nagiza Samatova, Fred Semazzi, Peter Snyder, Vipin Kumar
   NASA Conference on Intelligent Data Understanding (CIDU), 2011, Sunnyvale, California.

8. Anomaly Construction in Climate data: Issues and Challenges
   Jaya Kawale, Snighansu Chatterjee, Arjun Kumar, Stefan Liess, Michael Steinbach, Vipin Kumar
   NASA Conference on Intelligent Data Understanding (CIDU), 2011, Sunnyvale, California.

9. Discovering Dynamic Dipoles in Climate Data
   Jaya Kawale, Michael Steinbach, Vipin Kumar
   SIAM International Conference of Data Mining (SDM), 2011, Phoenix, Arizona.

10. Finding Mutually Influencing Bloggers
    Aditya Pal, Jaya Kawale
    5th AAAI International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM), 2011, Barcelona, Spain.

11. Churn Prediction in MMORPGs: A Social Influence Based Approach
    Jaya Kawale, Aditya Pal, Jaideep Srivastava
    IEEE 12th International Conference on Computational Science and Engineering (CSE), 2009, Vancouver, Canada.

12. Leveraging Query Associations in Federated Search
    Aditya Pal, Jaya Kawale
    Workshop on Aggregated Search, ACM International Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR), 2008, Singapore.

Posters/Extended Abstracts

13. A Graph based approach to find Teleconnections in Climate Data Best Poster Award
    Jaya Kawale
    ACM Student Research Competition (GHC), 2012, Baltimore, Maryland.

14. Testing the Significance of Spatio-temporal Teleconnection Patterns
    Jaya Kawale, Snighansu Chatterjee, Dominick Ormsby, Karsten Steinhaeuser, Stefan Liess Vipin Kumar
    Joint Statistical Meetings (JSM), 2012, San Diego, California.

15. A Graph based approach to find Teleconnections in Climate Data Best Poster Award
    Jaya Kawale, Stefan Liess, Michael Steinbach, Vipin Kumar
    Midwest Women in Computing (MinneWIC), 2012, Minneapolis, Minnesota.

16. Graph Based Analysis of Dynamic Teleconnections
    Jaya Kawale, Stefan Liess, Arjun Kumar, Auroop Ganguly, Michael Steinbach, Nagiza Samatova, Fred Semazzi, Peter Snyder, Vipin Kumar
    Proceedings of the 92nd American Meteorological Society (AMS) Annual Meeting, 2012, New Orleans.

17. A Graph Based Approach to Find Teleconnections in Climate Data
    Jaya Kawale, Stefan Liess, Arjun Kumar, Auroop Ganguly, Michael Steinbach, Nagiza Samatova, Fred Semazzi, Peter Snyder, Vipin Kumar
    Proceedings of the American Geophysical Union (AGU), 2011, San Francisco.

18. Interactions between Teleconnections
    Jaya Kawale, Stefan Liess, Michael Steinbach, Peter Snyder Vipin Kumar
    NASA Conference on Intelligent Data Understanding (CIDU), 2011, Sunnyvale, California.