Monday, July 8, 2013

Research Life...

It's been a while.. :) A lot of things changed during past few months and I started a new page in my life as a researcher. I'm now a full-time research student working on my Msc by Research degree at Computer Science Department, UOM. I felt I need to have a solid research background, hence started this and hope for the best :)

My research topic is "Collaborative Reputation Management in Email Networks". The initial email architecture didn't account for reputation of the users. Maybe the inventors never thought more than 60% of email exchanged today would be spam! With time, so many research has been carried out in the  field of reputation management in email networks and associated social networks. My aim is to study such relevant projects and develop a sustainable, user-friendly and effective model for reputation management in emails. The benefits of such project will be enormous. Spam filtering, social profiles, email categorizing are few good examples. I will be writing more in coming days about the progress of my research project... Stay tuned..

By the way..
I'm also doing a Google Summer of Code project for Apache Stanbol this year. Apache Stanbol is a semantic enhancement engine for content management. It integrates so many opensource projects such as Apache Solr, Gena, Clerezza, OpenNLP under one umbrella in a component-based architecture. I find the project amazing and there are so many application areas of it. My project is about developing a "Entity Disambiguation Engine using FOAF Co-reference".  You can find my project propsal here.I will write about my adventures in this project too :)