Akshay Java

Current

• Scientist at MSN

Past

• Scientist at Microsoft Live Labs
• PhD Student at Ebiquity, UMBC
• Research Assistant at NEC Laboratories America

• Research Associate at University of Sheffield
• Research Assistant at NEC Laboratories America
• Summer Intern at Palo Alto Research Center

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Education

• University of Maryland Baltimore County
• University of Maryland Baltimore County
• University of Mumbai

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Connections

500+ connections

Industry

Computer Software

Akshay Java’s Summary

More at http://cs.umbc.edu/~aks1
http://socialmedia.typepad.com

Akshay Java’s Specialties:

Social Media Analysis, Information Retrieval, NLP and Semantic Web technologies.

Akshay Java’s Experience

• Scientist

  MSN

  (Public Company; MSFT; Online Media industry)

  April 2009 — Present (8 months)

• Scientist

  Microsoft Live Labs

  (Research industry)

  November 2008 — April 2009 (6 months)

• PhD Student

  Ebiquity, UMBC

  (Educational Institution; 11-50 employees; Higher Education industry)

  January 2005 — December 2008 (4 years )

  Semantic Web, Information Retrieval, NLP and Text Mining technologies enabled knowledge extraction from blogs and news.

• Research Assistant

  NEC Laboratories America

  (Public Company; Research industry)

  May 2007 — November 2007 (7 months)

  Working on new and exciting research frontiers in analysis of social media. Text and Social Network Analytics on the Blogosphere.

• Research Associate

  University of Sheffield

  (Educational Institution; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)

  March 2004 — October 2004 (8 months)

  Developer for the GATE project.

• Research Assistant

  NEC Laboratories America

  (Public Company; Internet industry)

  June 2003 — December 2003 (7 months)

  Meta-search and data mining for improved result ranking. Master's thesis on techniques for identifying document generality.

• Summer Intern

  Palo Alto Research Center

  (Public Company; Computer Software industry)

  May 2002 — August 2002 (4 months)

  JavaScript emulation based web crawling for website usability analysis tools.

Akshay Java’s Education

• University of Maryland Baltimore County

  Ph.D , Computer Science , 2008

• University of Maryland Baltimore County

  M.S , Computer Science , 2001 — 2003

  Masters thesis on statistical techniques for identifying document generality. This work was completed in collaboration with NEC Laboratories America.

• University of Mumbai

  B.E , Computer Engineering , 1997 — 2001

  Thadomal Shahani Engineering College (TSEC)

Additional Information

Akshay Java’s Groups:

AAAI

•    Friends of CSEE@UMBC
•    UMBC Alumni Network
•    TSEC
•    Lucene Users
•    SocialDevCamp East
•    Text Analytics

Akshay Java’s Contact Settings

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