Purushottam Kar
Associate Professor
Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, India
Summary
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Top SchoolPurushottam Kar is an Associate Professor at IIT Kanpur with over a decade of experience in optimization and machine learning, specializing in online, stochastic and non-convex optimization, high-dimensional statistics, and statistical learning theory. His research bridges theory and practice, with applications ranging from extreme multi-label learning and automated program repair to air-quality monitoring. He completed a PhD and has held research positions at Microsoft Research India, where he collaborated on large-scale ML and optimization problems. In addition to supervising students and teaching core ML courses (contributing code and materials for IITK's CS 771A), he has a track record of building automation systems and departmental technical infrastructure. Colleagues know him for combining rigorous theoretical insight with hands-on engineering—often turning abstract optimization ideas into practical systems and courseware.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur
Bengali, Hindi, English, indian sign language, French
Github Skills (9)
data-visualizations10
decision-tree10
machine-learning10
data-visualization10
data-visualisation10
python10
scikit-learn9
scikit9
kernel9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
purushottamkar/ml19-20w
Nov 2019 - May 2020
CS 771A: Introduction to Machine Learning, IIT Kanpur, 2019-20-winter offering
Role in this project:
ML Engineer
ML EngineerContributions:85 commits, 2 PRs, 84 pushes in 6 months
Contributions summary:Purushottam contributed code for the implementation of an Introduction to Machine Learning course at IIT Kanpur, as indicated in the repository description. They uploaded and modified code related to Python and various Machine Learning topics. The user demonstrated skills in areas like data generation, plotting, decision trees, and kernel methods.
iitkdata-sciencewinteriitmachine-learning
purushottamkar/esc101-18-19-a
Dec 2019 - Aug 2022
Contributions:17 commits, 17 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 9 months
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