Applied NLP & Data mining consulting
Example engagements:
2013-2014
Pinterest: worked on the first version of Pinterest's new Explore Interests experience (launched early 2014).
Worked on interest (topic) dictionary generation, related topic recommendation and category refinement algorithms.
2013
Research collaboration with Texas A & M research group (Krishna Kamath, prof. James Caverlee).
Worked on mining domain-specific Pinterest experts and recommending quality content to Pinterest users.
2012
Piqora: analyzed and improved analytics algorithms
Previously
Yahoo! Labs Applied Research: LinkedIn
Main projects:
1. Entity linking: 2011-2012 Yahoo! Labs Faculty Engagement Grant for proposal co-authored with prof. Alex Yates (Temple University).
2. Twitter analytics for Yahoo! News Election 2012 coverage.
Example: http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/signal/twitter-unhappy-over-justice-kennedy-outsized-influence-health-175725246.html
3. Real-time, entity-driven content consumption
Alpha version of Yahoo! Labs product which aggregated social and news data for automatically discovered events involving open-domain
entities. Focused on selection and ranking for entities, events and content.
4. Semantic lexicon adaptation for search query understanding. Outcome: integration in Y! search engine.