Specialties: Ad Auctions, Algorithms, Online Advertising, Data Mining, Distributed Systems

Software Development Engineer Lead @ I mine extremely large datasets and develop features for the Bing Ads platform. I have worked on features related to Query-Keyword matching, click prediction, ad-pricing and Budget smoothing. My work has translated into significant increases in Bing Marketplace revenue. From 2010 to Present (5 years) Research Assistant @ RA with Prof. Michael Wellman's research group. I worked on the TAC-Ad Auctions Game 2010 hosted at the EC 2010 conference at Harvard. From January 2010 to December 2010 (1 year) Analyst @ I developed (in C#, ASP.Net& SQL) the trade logging, accounting and risk management systems currently being used by Constellation Capital for recording and analyzing high value trades in credit, equity and CDS. (Recommended by Mr. Varun Gosain, Principal, Constellation Capital, for these projects) From July 2008 to July 2009 (1 year 1 month)

Master of Science (MS), Computer Science and Engineering @ University of Michigan From 2009 to 2010 Delhi Institute of Technology From 2004 to 2008 Akshat Kaul is skilled in: Distributed Systems, Algorithms, C++, Machine Learning, C, C#, Software Engineering, Java, Data Structures, Software Development, Software Design, Visual Studio, MapReduce, Big Data, Data Mining, Online Auctions, Online Advertising