Aditya Somani's Email Addresses & Phone Numbers

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Software Engineer @ Working on an exciting project to change Google search as we know it! From September 2014 to Present (1 year 2 months) San Francisco Bay AreaProduct Manager @ Product listing ads (PLAs) are the sponsored product ads for queries like "canon eos". Along with a team of 25+ engineers, I was responsible for PLA and shopping.google.com search quality. This involved everything from understanding the user query to ad retrieval, prediction models, auction and triggering. My goal was to provide the best product shopping search experience in the world for our users, create value for merchants and generate revenue for Google. I also focused on our international growth strategy for tablet and mobile working closely with engineering and local sales. I was on this role for a within Google rotation program and during the time I was there, my key achievements were: * Came up with projects that led to significant (double digit) growth in PLAs on mobile and tablet. * Came up with a roadmap for our strategy in APAC where we had some issues. * Came with the proposal for Google shopping's next generation query and product understanding system - a system which would deeply understand what a user wants from a query and what a product offers. This wasn't finished while I was there, but we were able to form a new team and start working on it. * Help eng team set milestones and execute on them. Eventually, decided to come back to engineering. From January 2014 to September 2014 (9 months) San Francisco Bay AreaSoftware Engineer @ I work in the web search ranking team, where we try to understand the web and help our users get to what they need. From March 2012 to January 2014 (1 year 11 months) San Francisco Bay AreaQuantitative Analyst @ Worked as a Quant for the Strats and Modelling Division. Skills involved: Derivative pricing, Market Simulation and risk analysis, Interest rate modelling using monte carlo methods, unified product description language designing, Stochastic calculus. From July 2010 to March 2012 (1 year 9 months) Mumbai Area, IndiaCo-founder @ VocabMax was an e-learning tool to help students / professionals improve their english vocabulary and help them prepare for exams like GRE / CAT / GMAT. From August 2010 to December 2011 (1 year 5 months) MumbaiIntern at Social Networking Lab @ Devised a new framework for recommender systems that is much more exploration friendly than the existing recommender systems like Yahoo! Movies, Amazon etc. Presented the work at MITACS Globalink Research Symposium 2009 held at University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada From May 2009 to July 2009 (3 months) Vancouver, Canada AreaIntern @ Designed and implemented algorithms for efficient data storage and retrieval in a peer to peer network. Project was among the 30 selected (out of 109 proposals submitted worldwide) for demonstration in Very Large Data Bases (VLDB) Conference 2008, held in Auckland, New Zealand From May 2008 to July 2008 (3 months) Paris Area, FranceCS 229: Machine Learning @ Stanford University From 2013 to 2013 BTech, Computer Science and Engineering @ Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay From 2006 to 2010 12th @ Aklank Public School, Kota From 2004 to 2006 10th @ Kendriya Vidyalaya, Bikaner1st -9th @ Kendriya Vidyalaya, Bhilwara Aditya Somani is skilled in: Data Mining, Quantitative Modeling, Quantitative Finance, Monte Carlo Simulation, Stochastic Calculus, Equity Derivatives, Derivatives, Fixed Income, Machine Learning, Options, Swaps, Algorithms, Mathematics, Quant, Econometrics, C++, Optimization, Interest Rate..., Programming, Web Development, Java, SQL, PHP, HTML, Android, Bash, Information Retrieval, Distributed Systems, Databases, R, C, Python