Gaurav Chandalia

Current

Engineer, Data Analytics at Adknowledge

Past

Technical Intern at Yahoo!
Research Assistant, IESL Lab at University of Massachusetts Amherst
Software Engineer Intern at Google

Research Intern at IBM T. J. Watson Research Center
Research Intern at IBM T. J. Watson Research Center
Software Engineer at Larsen & Toubro Infotech

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Education

State University of New York at Buffalo
University of Mumbai

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Gaurav Chandalia’s Summary

Research Interests - Information Extraction and NLP, Information Retrieval and Machine Learning, Advertising.

Gaurav Chandalia’s Specialties:

Programming - Java, C++/C, Python, Matlab

Gaurav Chandalia’s Experience

Engineer, Data Analytics

Adknowledge

(Privately Held; Internet industry)

January 2009 — Present (1 year )

Large scale recommendation algorithms, statistical modeling for advertising.
Technical Intern

Yahoo!

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; YHOO; Internet industry)

September 2008 — October 2008 (2 months)

Analysis of the web graph to identify static and dynamic trends.
Research Assistant, IESL Lab

University of Massachusetts Amherst

(Educational Institution; Higher Education industry)

September 2007 — August 2008 (1 year )

Advisor: Prof. Andrew McCallum

-- Worked on regular expression based semi-supervised Named Entity Recognition.
-- Implemented an end-to-end system to find a person's web presence and extract all contact information from the webpage(s).
Software Engineer Intern

Google

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; GOOG; Internet industry)

May 2007 — August 2007 (4 months)

Worked in the Ad Spam group, developed graph mining techniques for click fraud and anomaly detection.
Research Intern

IBM T. J. Watson Research Center

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; IBM; Information Technology and Services industry)

February 2007 — May 2007 (4 months)

Proposed and implemented machine learning techniques to topology inference and fault detection in wired/wireless network systems. Resulted in a paper at IMC 2007.
Research Intern

IBM T. J. Watson Research Center

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; IBM; Information Technology and Services industry)

May 2006 — August 2006 (4 months)

Developed a system that integrates with a customer self-service portal and automatically determines the top relevant issues from problem tickets. The system also incorporates external knowledge from the technical solution documents. Resulted in a workshop paper at IJCAI 2006.
Software Engineer

Larsen & Toubro Infotech

(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

August 2003 — July 2004 (1 year )

Implemented Business Workflows in SAP ABAP for Motorola's Materials Management SAP module.

Gaurav Chandalia’s Education

State University of New York at Buffalo

M.S. , Computer Science , 2004 — 2006

-- Investigated the use of generative language model for dimensionality reduction. Resulted in a workshop paper at NIPS 2006.
-- Developed a technique to re-rank search results based on entity-relationship graphs. Resulted in a paper at NESCAI 2006.
-- Teaching Assistant for Information Retrieval course (graduate level).

Activities and Societies:

Initiated and organized the machine learning reading group for a year (http://www.cse.buffalo.edu/~gsc4/ubmljc.html).
University of Mumbai

B.S. , Electrical Engineering , 1999 — 2003