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<TITLE>Nimar Arora, Curriculum Vitae</TITLE>
<HR>
<H2>Nimar Arora, Curriculum Vitae</H2>
<HR>
AI/ML Lead, DevRev Inc.<br>
co-Founder, Bayesian Logic Inc.<br>
<P>
<H3>Education</H3>
<P>
Ph.D., Computer Science, University of California, Berkeley, 2006 - 2012<br>
M.S., Computer Science, University of Texas, Austin, 1996 - 1998<br>
B.Tech., Computer Science, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, 1992 - 1996<br>
<P>
<H3>Employment history</H3>
2020-2023, Head of AI and Analytics, DevRev Inc.<br>
2018-2020, Research Scientist, Facebook<br>
2015-2017, Architect, Machine Zone (MZ)<br>
2012-present, co-Founder, Bayesian Logic Inc.<br>
1998-2014, Principal Member of Technical Staff, Oracle Inc.<br>
<P>
<H3>Honours and Awards</H3>
<P>
<UL>
<LI> Mitchell Prize, 2014 (American Statistical Association and the International Society for Bayesian Analysis)</LI>
<LI> Outstanding Student Paper Award, 2011 (American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting)</LI>
</UL>
<H3>Invited Speaker/Panelist</H3>
<UL>
<LI> Panelist, Science and Technology Conference, 2021 </LI>
<LI> <a href="https://probing-lab.github.io/posts/kickoff">Invited Speaker, Probabilistic Invariant Generation Group @ TU Wien, 2020.</a></LI>
<LI> <a href="https://probprog.cc/2020/schedule/">Panelist, PROBROG Conference, 2020.</a></LI>
<LI> Panelist, American Geophysical Union, 2017 </LI>
</UL>
<hr>
<h3> Key Projects </h3>
<ul>
<li> <a href="http://proceedings.mlr.press/v138/tehrani20a.html">Invented the Bean Machine Probabilistic Programming Language. </a> </li>
<li> <a href="https://pubs.geoscienceworld.org/ssa/bssa/article-abstract/103/2A/709/331647/NET-VISA-Network-Processing-Vertically-Integrated?redirectedFrom=fulltext">
Invented the NET-VISA probabilistic model and inference algorithm for detecting nuclear explosions.</a></li>
<li> <a href="https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/4812537">Architected Oracle Streams for database replication. </a> </li>
<li> <a href="https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00224-001-0004-z">
Invented multithreaded work stealing for thread scheduling (with over 600 citations).</a> </li>
</ul>
<HR>
<H3>Conference Reviewer </H3>
<li>NeurIPS (top-400 reviewer)</li>
<li>ICML</li>
<li>UAI</li>
<li>AAAI</li>
<li>AISTATS</li>
<li>ICLR</li>
<li>AABI</li>
<li>PROBPROG</li>
</ul>
<HR>
<H3>Selected Publications</H3>
<li>Geeta Arora, Nimar Arora, et al.<strong>Importance Sampling-Based Estimate of Origin Error in NET-VISA</strong>, Pure And Applied Geophysics 2022.</li>
<li>Viet-An Nguyen, Peibei Shi, Jagdish Ramakrishnan, Narjes Torabi, Nimar Arora, Udi Weinsberg, Michael Tingley. <strong> Crowdsourcing with Contextual Uncertainty </strong>, ACM SIGKDD 2022 </li>
<li>Feynman Liang, Nimar Arora, et al. <strong>Accelerating Metropolis-Hastings with Lightweight Inference Compilation</strong>, AISTATS 2021.</li>
<li>Narjes Torabi, Nimar Arora, et al. <strong>Uncertainty Estimation For Community Standards Violation In Online Social Networks</strong>, under review.</li>
<li>Nazanin Khosravani Tehrani, Nimar Arora, et al. <strong>Bean Machine: A Declarative Probabilistic Programming Language For Efficient Programmable Inference.</strong> The 10th International Conference on Probabilistic Graphical Models. 2020..</li>
<li>Ronan Le Bras, Nimar Arora, Noriyuki Kushida, et al. <strong>NET-VISA from Cradle to Adulthood. A Machine-Learning Tool for Seismo-Acoustic Automatic Association.</strong> Pure Appl. Geophys. (2020). </li>
<li><strong>PPLBench: Evaluation Framework For Probabilistic Programming Languages.</strong> PROBPROG 2020.</</li>
<li>Nimar Arora, Nazanin Khosravani Tehrani, Kinjal Divesh Shah, Michael Tingley, Yucen Lily Li, Narjes Torabi, David Noursi, Sepehr Akhavan Masouleh, Eric Lippert, and Erik Meijer. <strong>Newtonian Monte Carlo: a second-order gradient method for speeding up MCMC.</strong> Advances in Approximate Bayesian Inference 2019 (also in StarAI 2020).</li>
<li>Pierrick Mialle, David Brown, and Nimar Arora. <strong>Advances in operational processing at the international data centre.</strong> In Infrasound Monitoring for Atmospheric Studies, pp. 209-248. Springer, Cham, 2019.</li>
<li>Jessica Ai, Nimar S. Arora, Ning Dong, Beliz Gokkaya, Thomas Jiang, Anitha Kubendran, Arun Kumar, Michael Tingley, and Narjes Torabi. <strong>HackPPL: a universal probabilistic programming language.</strong> In Proceedings of the 3rd ACM SIGPLAN International Workshop on Machine Learning and Programming Languages, pp. 20-28. 2019.</li>
<li>Nimar Arora, Stuart Russell, and Erik Sudderth. <strong>NET‐VISA: Network processing vertically integrated seismic analysis.</strong> Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America 103, no. 2A (2013): 709-729. (Also in AAAI 2011 and NIPS 2010).</li>
<li>Nimar Arora, Rodrigo de Salvo Braz, Erik Sudderth, and Stuart Russell. <strong>Gibbs sampling in open-universe stochastic languages.</strong> In Proceedings of the Twenty-Sixth Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence, pp. 30-39. 2010.</li>
<li>Lik Wong, Nimar Arora, Lei Gao, Thuvan Hoang, and Jingwei Wu. <strong>Oracle streams: A high performance implementation for near real time asynchronous replication.</strong> In 2009 IEEE 25th International Conference on Data Engineering, pp. 1363-1374. IEEE, 2009.</li>
<li>Nimar Arora, Robert D. Blumofe, and C. Greg Plaxton. <strong>Thread scheduling for multiprogrammed multiprocessors.</strong> Theory of computing systems 34, no. 2 (2001): 115-144.</li>
<hr>
<h3>Selected Patents</h3>
<li>Sean Lehouillier, Hung V. Tran, Vasanth Rajamani, Nimar S. Arora, and Lik Wong. <strong>Dependency-aware transaction batching for data replication.</strong> U.S. Patent 10,191,932, issued January 29, 2019.</li>
<li>Edwina M. Lu, James W. Stamos, Nimar S. Arora, Lik Wong, Haobo Xu, Thuvan Hoang, Byron Wang, and Lakshminarayanan Chidambaran. <strong>Statement-level and procedural-level replication.</strong> U.S. Patent 9,569,514, issued February 14, 2017.</li>
<li>Lik Wong, Nimar Arora, Lei Gao, Thuvan Hoang, and Haobo Xu. <strong>High performant information sharing and replication for single-publisher and multiple-subscriber configuration.</strong> U.S. Patent 9,230,002, issued January 5, 2016.</li>
<li>Lik Wong, Nimar S. Arora, Anand Lakshminath, Jingwei Wu, Lei Gao, and Thuvan Hoang. <strong>Combining capture and apply in a distributed information sharing system.</strong> U.S. Patent 8,799,213, issued August 5, 2014.</li>
<li>Nimar S. Arora <strong>Estimating performance of application based on automatic resizing of shared memory for messaging.</strong> U.S. Patent 7,937,257, issued May 3, 2011.</li>
<li>Lik Wong, Thuvan Hoang, Nimar Singh Arora, and Jun Yuan. <strong>Replicating and sharing data between heterogeneous data systems.</strong> U.S. Patent 7,783,601, issued August 24, 2010.</li>
<li>James W. Warner, Zhen Hua Liu, Sundeep Abraham, Muralidhar Krishnaprasad, Geeta Arora, Ravi Murthy, Sivasankaran Chandrasekar, Lik Wong, and Nimar S. Arora. <strong>Efficient replication of XML data in a relational database management system.</strong> U.S. Patent 7,853,573, issued December 14, 2010.</li>
<li>Lik Wong, Nimar S. Arora, Cristina Schmidt, Lei Gao, and Thuvan Hoang. <strong>Checkpoint-free in log mining for distributed information sharing.</strong> U.S. Patent 7,801,852, issued September 21, 2010.</li>
<li>Wong, Lik, James William Stamos, and Nimar Singh Arora. <strong>On-demand multi-version data dictionary to support distributed applications.</strong> U.S. Patent 7,287,034, issued October 23, 2007.</li>
<li>Alan Demers, James William Stamos, Lewis S. Kaplan, and Nimar Arora. <strong>Method of applying changes to a standby database system.</strong> U.S. Patent 6,980,988, issued December 27, 2005.</li>
<li>Nimar Arora, Nimar. <strong>Incremental refresh of materialized views for many-to-many relationships.</strong> U.S. Patent 6,708,179, issued March 16, 2004.</li>