About Me I am a Senior Research Engineer in the Data Science team at Lithium Technologies|Klout where I currently work on extracting rich information from noisy user generated text on social media. I finished my PhD in Computer Science from the Department of Computer Science, University of Maryland, College Park in December 2015 where I worked in Mobile and Ubiquitous Computing and Systems and User Behavior Modeling. My PhD dissertation was on Proactive context-aware computing and systems - describing a paradigm for determining information that is relevant to users, personalizing it based on the users’ context (location, preferences, behavioral history etc.), and delivering it to them in a timely manner
without an explicit request from them. At UMD, I was a member of the MIND Lab and my advisor was Prof. Ashok Agrawala. During my doctoral studies, I interned twice at Samsung Research America where I worked in Recommender Systems and Internet of Things. I was also a visiting researcher and intern at Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) where I worked in User interest modeling and Personalization. I am a proud recipient of the UMD Ann G Wylie Dissertation Fellowship, the UMD Dean’s Fellowship, the Palantir Scholarship for Women in Technology and several conference travel grants. I also served as the Grad Women co-chair under the umbrella of the Maryland Center for Women in Computing. From July 2007 to July 2010, I was a Senior Member Technical Staff at Oracle, in the development team for Oracle Web Services Manager. I graduated from Delhi College of Engineering (now known as Delhi Technological University) in 2007 with a Bachelor of Engineering in Information Technology. Research Interests
Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing, Context-aware Computing and Systems, Mobile Systems and Applications, User modeling, Personalization, Recommender systems, Internet of Things
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What's new?
I will be speaking at the upcoming CRA-W Virtual Undergraduate Town Hall! Here are the Slides. Our paper Analyzing users’ sentiment towards popular consumer industries and brands on Twitter was accepted to the 7th ICDM Workshop on Sentiment Elicitation from Natural Text for Information Retrieval and Extraction (SENTIRE) Check out my blogpost for Lithium Engineering blog - Natural Language Processing: Our take
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