M. S. Desarkar received M.Tech. degree in CSE from IIT Kanpur in 2006. He worked in Sybase India Pvt. Ltd. as a Software Developer from 2006 to 2008. Since 2008 he has been a research scholar in CSE Dept, IIT Kharagpur. He was awarded MSR India PhD Fellowship in 2009. His research interests are in the areas of Data Mining and Information Retrieval.