Stanford: Courses taken at Stanford

BITS:

• Data Structures and Algorithms
• Operating Systems
• Theory of Computation
• Digital Electronics & Computer Organization
• Programming languages and Compiler Construction
• Computer Networks
• Database Systems
• Advanced Computer Organization
• Microprocessors Interfacing and Programming
• Discrete Structures for Computer Science
• Computer Programming I&II
• Object Oriented Programming (OOP)
• Fuzzy Logic and Applications
• Network Programming

Languages: Scala, JAVA, Python, C/C++, Perl, SQL.
Operating Systems: Linux, Mac, Windows.
Others: Scalding, Lucene, Pig, Hive, Matlab, LATEX!
Worked on Hadoop, Amazon's EC2, S3, Elastic MapReduce and Google's App Engine

Detection of time-pressure induced stress in speech via acoustic indicators.
Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue - SIGDIAL ’10 (PDF)
Matthew Frampton, Sandeep Sripada, Ricardo Bion and Stanley Peters.

Summarization based on document probability distributions.
23rd Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation - PACLIC ’09 (PDF)
Sandeep Sripada and Jagadeesh Jagarlamudi.

Frec
Founding Engineer (Sep 21 - Present)
Working on all aspects of building Frec!

Twitter
Software Engineer (Oct 13 - Sep 21)
@Ads: Worked on building tweet models for detecting policy violation, risk prediction.
@Ads: Worked on Brand Syndication building targeting products for our brand advertisers to reach audiences on-twitter & off-twitter by leveraging Mopub.
@Ads: Tech lead building of Video and App install ad products.
@Content: Worked briefly to formulate plan to unify various projects aimed at increasing content generated on Twitter.

Apple Inc., Cupertino
Software Engineer (Jul 11 - Oct 13)
@Maps Data Insights: Worked on analyzing location data to improve maps.
@Internet Services Advanced Data Analytics: As part of the Internet Services Advanced Analytics team, I was involved in designing a solution for fraud detection in user reviews. I also worked on building a system to automatically check content quality in iBooks.

Stanford University
Teaching Assistant (Apr 11 - Jun 11)
Worked with Pandu Nayak and Prabhakar Raghavan on a graduate level course (CS 276 - Information Retrieval & Web Search).

BMIR, Stanford
Research Assistant (Sep 10 - Mar 11)
Involved in the 'Data Driven Medicine' project at Shah lab (Biomedical Informatics Research). Worked on large datasets to apply Machine Learning and Data Mining techniques to predict outcomes, related drugs and diseases, off-label usage.

Apple Inc., Cupertino
Research Intern (Jun 10 - Dec 10)
I was involved in designing a prototype solution for fraud detection in user reviews. I also worked on improving components in the system that detects signup fraud. (Intern work was also selected for VP presentations)

CSLI, Stanford
Research Assistant (Oct 09 - Jun 10)
Involved in the 'Dialogue Systems' project at the Center for the Study of Language and Information (CSLI). Currently looking at how audio analysis can help in identifying stress. Also, the application of these stress measures to unit segmentation is being analyzed along with appropriate actions that need to be taken once stress is detected. (Paper accepted at SIGDIAL 2010.)

Adobe Systems Inc., India
Member Technical Staff (Jul 07 - Aug 09)
Worked with the Adobe Acrobat Connect Pro team on both back-end and client-side implementation. 7.0 Release: Contributions include server XML APIs, Integration module with BlackBoard(Won the SPOT Award), 7.5 Release: Contributions include design of new DB schema, re-architecture of old schema, implementation (JAVA), web application UI (Flex) for 3rd party Telephony Adapter integration with Adobe Connect Pro.

Microsoft Research Lab, India
Research Intern (Jan 07 - Jun 07)
The project generated extraction summaries based on the hypothesis that a summary would be able to replace or act as a substitute for the document if its probability distribution is similar to that of the original document. Two new summary generation approaches were designed (a) Summary generation by extraction of sentences based on its coverage, (b) Minimum KLD Summary Generation Method and analyzed on the DUC datasets. (Paper accepted at PACLIC 2009)

• Recipient of SPOT Award for outstanding contribution to Adobe Connect product.
• Recipient of Merit Scholarship awarded by Birla Institute of Technology & Science (BITS), Pilani.
• Recipient of the prestigious Young Science Fellowship (YSFP), 2003-04. The Honours fellowship was awarded by Indian Institute of Science (IISc.), Bangalore, INDIA to a total of 25 students over the country.
• Received Prathiba Award for excellence in education awarded by the State Government of Andhra Pradesh.
• Secured state 15th rank (out of around 500,000 students) in Science Stream in 12th Board Examination.
• Secured overall 520th rank (out of 420,000 students) in All India Engineering Entrance Examination and 205th in the state wise rankings.
• Secured 88th rank (out of 130,324 students) in State Engineering Entrance Examination.
• Awarded a transfer to the Computer Science degree for Finishing in the top 1.6% at the end of the First year in BITS, Pilani.

• Coordinator of Project Forum, APOGEE-2006 for Computer Science Association.
• Treasurer of the BITS Alumni Association (BITSAA).
• Captain of the BITS football team.
• Secretary of sports for Gandhi Bhawan (04-05).
• Won 3rd prize in an All-India level quiz competition (OASIS QUIZ-2004).
• Recipient of Gold medal for football in BOSM-2004.
• Quiz-master for BYTE4THOUGHT, a national level quiz competition for computer science engineering conducted during APOGEE-2006.
• Senior core member of the PUBLICATION AND CORRESPONDENCE club in BITS, Pilani.

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