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; Internet industry)
December 2007 — Present (2 years )
(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)