Founder, Dolores Labs
San Francisco Bay Area
Founder, Dolores Labs
San Francisco Bay Area
search relevance, machine learning, machine translation, natural language processing
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
December 2007 — Present (11 months)
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
January 2007 — December 2007 (1 year)
Built search engine relevance testing framework and methodology.
Led team in charge of the search engine ranking, selection and summarization algorithm.
(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; YHOO; Information Technology and Services industry)
January 2005 — December 2006 (2 years)
Worked on statistical machine learning approaches to improve the web search ranking function for international markets, including Japan, Germany, UK, Korea, France, and emerging markets.
(Computer Software industry)
September 2004 — January 2005 (5 months)
Machine Learning/NLP research. Published paper, Word Sense Disambiguation for Machine Translation (EMNLP '05).
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
June 1999 — September 2002 (3 years 4 months)
Built interactive front end for education software company. Designed and built a statistical system from tracking student understanding and evaluation.
MS, Computer Science, 2003 — 2004
Research assistant in Daphne Koller's group in the Stanford AI Lab. Worked on Word Sense Disambiguation and Machine Translation.
BS, Mathematics, 1999 — 2003
Won Caltech Turing Tournament 2003 (turing.ssel.caltech.edu)