Software Engineer @ Places Search Ranking Team. Data and Machine Learning. From January 2015 to Present (10 months) New York, New YorkResearcher @ Working with PhD student Ashesh Jain [http://www.cs.cornell.edu/~ashesh/] under Professor Ashutosh Saxena [http://www.cs.cornell.edu/~asaxena/] on publishing a paper "Planning Trajectories for Humans via Object Affordances". We propose generative and discriminative models for learning user preferences for robot trajectories in environments with humans using user feedback. From January 2014 to January 2015 (1 year 1 month) Ithaca, NYSoftware Engineering Intern @ • 52 out of 2500 applicants chosen to be a KPCB Fellow 2014. • Led and shipped Yoda - the admin interface for the new Phoenix platform. • Full-stack developer - Wrote and reviewed code for JS using Backbone, Jade, Stylus and Require and Scala using Play From June 2014 to August 2014 (3 months) Mountain View, CAEngineering Fellow @ 52 out of 2500 applicants chosen to be a KPCB Engineering Fellow 2014 [http://kpcbfellows.com/meet-the-fellows]. Received guidance from numerous industry leaders in KPCB portfolio companies including Bing Gordon, Chief Creative Officer at EA and John Doerr, leading venture capitalist at KPCB. From June 2014 to August 2014 (3 months) Mountain View, CAHead Undergraduate Researcher @ Lead the development of the first ever breakthrough tongue-controlled game to aid in Linguistics research. Sped up the data processing by a factor of 27. From March 2012 to March 2014 (2 years 1 month) Ithaca, New York AreaSoftware Engineering Intern @ • Worked on the YouTube Captions team in primarily vanilla Javascript and Python to plan, design and develop the full stack implementation of a new framework to add and edit Automatic Speech Recognition captions. • Created a backbone.js-like framework for the Captions editor. • All code was reviewed, perfected, and pushed to production. From May 2013 to August 2013 (4 months) Mountain View, CAOpen Source Contributor @ Lead a team of 5 that contributed to this project as a part of the inter-college Open Source Software Engineering course. Colleges include Cornell, MIT, and Imperial College London. Phabricator is a suite of web applications that helps software companies communicate about software effectively. It was created at Facebook and is used by Dropbox, Quora, deviantART, Asana and more. http://phabricator.org/ From January 2013 to May 2013 (5 months) Ithaca, New YorkResearch Assistant @ Designed LabelStuff, an interactive crowdsourced material annotating web app, which has already registered over 6000 labels during beta testing. From May 2012 to December 2012 (8 months) Ithaca, New York AreaAttitude Control Subteam Member @ Worked on multiple projects including GUI construction, orbital trajectory and ground mapping calculation and visualization, and general software structuring. From August 2011 to December 2012 (1 year 5 months) Ithaca, New York AreaSoftware Engineering Intern @ Worked on customizing and developing a web video player, web development, and some backend C++ coding for a social entrepreneurial startup. From June 2012 to August 2012 (3 months) Ithaca, New York Area

Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Master of Engineering (M.Eng), Computer Science @ Cornell University From 2011 to 2014 La Martiniere for Boys, Kolkata From 2003 to 2011 Debarghya Das is skilled in: Java, Python, C, C++, MySQL, HTML, Matlab, PHP, JavaScript, Programming, CSS, Eclipse, Web Applications, Web Development, SQL, Computer Science, Software Development, Algorithms, Linux, Data Analysis