Work Experience
Watson Core Algorithms Summer Intern
IBM Watson, Littleton
Worked on the question answering system as a part of the IBM Watson Team. Used distributional semantics to improve question classification, synonym generation and query expansion.
Graduate Research Assistant
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh
Advisor: Jamie Callan
Worked on text mining of social media sites that discuss chronic kidney diseases. Aim was to build a text mining solution using a search engine (Indri and Lucene API). Sentiment analysis, expert identification, topic modelling and machine learning techniques were used to develop tools which helped to explore the data. Also created a website-independent solution to remove redundant information from web pages.
Assistant System Engineer Trainee
Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), Pune, India
Underwent training in C++ and Unix for the British Telecom project. Lead a team of 7 people in the projects at the training center which was highly appreciated by the training heads.
Intern
PuneTech, Pune, India
Advisor: Dr. Navin Kabra and Dr. VV Phansalkar
Created a recommender system for the Indian stock market shares by mining financial websites and Twitter. This expert identification system ranks markets analysts and generates recommendations for trading shares using structured and unstructured textual data. The system theoretically gave higher returns than the SENSEX average over 3 months.
