Founder of Powerset, Entrepreneur & Search/Consumer Internet Expert
San Francisco Bay Area
Founder of Powerset, Entrepreneur & Search/Consumer Internet Expert
San Francisco Bay Area
Computational Linguisitics ( Discourse Processing, Parsing, Statistical Language Processing) ; Search & Information Retrieval ; Data Mining
(Privately Held; Internet industry)
2009 — Present (less than a year)
(Public Company; MSFT; Computer Software industry)
September 2008 — Present (11 months)
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Internet industry)
September 2006 — September 2008 (2 years 1 month)
I started Powerset with an exciting vision to change online search, based on a better understanding of documents and users' intent. In August 2008 Microsoft acquired Powerset with the vision of bringing its team and technologies together to help Microsoft Live Search become the world's best search engine.
(Non-Profit; 11-50 employees; Venture Capital & Private Equity industry)
March 2006 — September 2006 (7 months)
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)
January 2003 — March 2006 (3 years 3 months)
(Educational Institution; 10,001 or more employees; Computer Software industry)
September 2001 — December 2002 (1 year 4 months)
MSE , Computer Engineering , August 2001 — December 2002
BSE Equivalence , Computer Engineering , 1997 — 2001
Transferred to University of Texas for direct continuation on to a Master Degree in Engineering.
Association of Computational Linguistics, American Association for Artificial Intelligence, Linguistic Society of America