Staff Research Engineer at DeepMind, Google
Mountain View, California
Teaching Assistant @ UC San Diego From September 2011 to August 2012 (1 year) Staff Research Engineer @ DeepMind Staff Research Engineer, Tech Lead/Manager, using ML to make things better. Mountain ViewSr. Software Engineer @ Google Inc Senior engineer on a large-scale machine learning platform, applying semi-supervised learning and deep learning to various products (conversation understanding, image...
Teaching Assistant @ UC San Diego From September 2011 to August 2012 (1 year) Staff Research Engineer @ DeepMind Staff Research Engineer, Tech Lead/Manager, using ML to make things better. Mountain ViewSr. Software Engineer @ Google Inc Senior engineer on a large-scale machine learning platform, applying semi-supervised learning and deep learning to various products (conversation understanding, image understanding, search). Exploring ways of training deep networks with sparse training data, and compressing models for on-device computation.Previously built large-scale test infrastructure to run integration tests of Google's Display Ads serving stack. Mountain ViewSoftware Engineer in Test, Intern @ Google Programmatic Log Verification:*Designed and implemented a log verification module that lets test writers programmatically check test outputs*Augmented the existing log-diffing module to provide a cleaner HTML output for comparing generated logs with golden logs*The new verification and diffing modules reduce the effort necessary to debug output From June 2011 to August 2011 (3 months) Greater New York City AreaSenior Analytics Specialist @ Opera Solutions Promotions Optimization (Frozen Food Retail Firm)*Analyzed and determined efficiency of product promotions for a frozen food retailer through linear regressions*Developed a mixed integer programming engine in C and Python which creates an optimal schedule of product promotions while satisfying constraints of budget, time, product availability etc.*Deployed a Tomcat webapp on an Apache server as a frontend, with a SOAP service connecting the webapp to the Python/C linear programming backend*Optimized promotion schedule is expected to deliver savings of 15% by improving overall ROI on trade spendRecommendation Engine (Retail Firm)*Built a recommendation engine in C, MySQL and Python that uses nearest-neighbor and neural network models to make product suggestions to 3 million customers each week*Automated the system to run without any human intervention, coupled with a monitoring system to send alerts, current status mails and system logs; automation was essential as the engine was signed for a 3-year contract*Deployed BIRT and Flex-based reports that generated performance reports for salesmen, depots and regions*Weekly product suggestions have generated an approximate 5% ($70 Mn) increase in revenue in the first yearNetflix Challenge*Developed a proof-of-concept SOAP web service powered by a combination of SVD and neural networks that recommend movie titles for a user based on his viewing history*The system analyzes in real-time a database of over 25,000 movies and suggests top `N' movies that satisfy user-specified filters (genre, cast, censor rating) From July 2008 to July 2010 (2 years 1 month) Summer Intern @ Yahoo! Object Tracking – R&D*Developed a video player aimed at “video advertising”, which would allow a user to select and hyperlink objects in videos to product URLs*Selected object was tracked in the video and the hyperlink mapped to the area covered by the object in each frame *Object tracking was implemented using a variation of the Conditional Density Propagation algorithm *Increased robustness of the tracking system by accounting for duplicate objects, partial occlusions, changes in shape From May 2007 to July 2007 (3 months) Research Assistant @ UC San Diego From October 2010 to June 2011 (9 months) La Jolla
UC San Diego
Teaching Assistant
September 2011 to August 2012
DeepMind
Staff Research Engineer
Mountain View
Google Inc
Sr. Software Engineer
Mountain View
Software Engineer in Test, Intern
June 2011 to August 2011
Greater New York City Area
Opera Solutions
Senior Analytics Specialist
July 2008 to July 2010
Yahoo!
Summer Intern
May 2007 to July 2007
UC San Diego
Research Assistant
October 2010 to June 2011
La Jolla
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