Program Manager at Microsoft
Greater Seattle Area
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- Program Manager at Microsoft
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- Chief Database Architect at Center for Computationally Advanced Statistical Techniques (c4cast.com, Inc.)
- Research Intern at Microsoft
- Engineering Intern at Google
- System Administrator at University of California, Riverside
- Database Developer at Findlay, Phillips & Associates
- Research Assistant at Findlay, Phillips & Associates
- Education
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- University of California, Riverside
- University of California
- University of California, Riverside
- Los Angeles City College
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Benjamin Arai’s Summary
Aside from the usual background, I have provided several selected course and research projects that I have either had a considerable role in or led during my undergraduate and graduate school experience. My research topics include peer-to-peer networks, distributed databases, aggregation techniques and top-k retrieval methods. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me.
Benjamin Arai’s Specialties:
data mining and knowledge discovery in databases, data bases, design and analysis of algorithms, efficient indexing techniques, approximating range queries, similarity searching in sequence databases, information retrieval in peer-to-peer systems, and analysis of sensor data.
Benjamin Arai’s Experience
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Program Manager
Microsoft
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; MSFT; Computer Software industry)
July 2008 — Present (1 year 5 months)
I do all kinds of data stuff - e.g., data mining research, data storage, data processing, etc.
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Chief Database Architect
Center for Computationally Advanced Statistical Techniques (c4cast.com, Inc.)
(Financial Services industry)
2003 — June 2008 (5 years )
- Proprietary database supporting patented and proprietary financial market tools supporting Wall Street fund managers and leading “independent market research”
- Designed 64-bit advanced data center including proprietary database and operating system modifications
- Managed technology budget and supervised computational platform development, generating million dollar savings -
Research Intern
Microsoft
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; msft; Research industry)
June 2007 — September 2007 (4 months)
- Researched the feasibility of “Clean Lists” generation for Microsoft Windows Defender
- Exploratory data analysis and data mining of very large datasets for reducing the number of unwanted software
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Engineering Intern
Google
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; GOOG; Internet industry)
June 2006 — October 2006 (5 months)
- Developed for the WINE Project (Open Source implementation of the Windows API)
- Designed and implemented several OLE Automation components
- Increased software quality by contributing numerous conformance/unit tests -
System Administrator
University of California, Riverside
(Educational Institution; 1001-5000 employees; Higher Education industry)
2004 — 2006 (2 years )
- Developed CS extranet/intranet web application & authentication system
- Adoption of Cisco's advanced network, purchase of lab generations, and Industry leading mail filtering
- Manage Virtuozzo's virtual system environment -
Database Developer
Findlay, Phillips & Associates
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Legal Services industry)
2001 — 2003 (2 years )
- Designed and implemented data security methodology for highly confidential data
- Developed company's data warehouse structure and assisted with several data-intensive research projects (including an
evaluation of the economic impact of downloaded music on record industry sales) -
Research Assistant
Findlay, Phillips & Associates
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Legal Services industry)
2000 — 2001 (1 year )
- Developed various data parsing and analysis applications for extracting statistical information
- Analyzed proprietary billing software for feasibility of migration from Microsoft FoxPro version 4.0 to 6.0
Benjamin Arai’s Education
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University of California, Riverside
Ph.D. , Computer Science , 2004 — 2008
Thesis: Approximate Query Processing for Distributed Data Systems
- Aggregation techniques on distributed and peer-to-peer databases focusing on online and distributed computation
- Methods for performing Top-k analysis on distributed and peer-to-peer databases
- Online processing of probabilistic techniques for Top-k queries on uncertain and fuzzy datasets
- Data storage and aggregation techniques in sensor networks -
University of California
Ph.D. , Computer Science , 2000 — 2008
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University of California, Riverside
BSc , Computer Science , 2000 — 2004
Graduated with Honors in Computer Science
- Activities and Societies:
- Program Director, Association for Computing Machinery
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Los Angeles City College
AA , 1998 — 2000
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Benjamin Arai’s Interests:
fishing, mountain biking, photography
Benjamin Arai’s Groups:
IEEE, ACM
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Microsoft - Alumni and FTEs (Official)
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