Madhur Khandelwal

Current

• Technology Enthusiast at TheFind

Past

• Software Design Engineer at Microsoft
• Software Engineer Intern at Motorola Inc

Education

• Texas A&M University
• Birla Institute of Technology and Science

Connections

140 connections

Industry

Computer Software

Websites

• My Blog
• My Company
• Masters Thesis

Madhur Khandelwal’s Summary

Overall experience in designing and building Internet software from ground up. Focus on search engine and information retrieval related areas. Startup attitude. Passion for driving product through all stages of its life-cycle. Enthusiastic about exploring and learning new technologies. Understanding of business aspects of Internet products. Always eager to learn new stuff related to both - tech and business areas.

Very interested in the Indian tech startup scene. Founder of a blogging community of individuals with similar interests for analysis/discussions on the Internet Industry in India. http://ileher.com.

Always looking to connect with individuals passionate about Internet industry. Love to have technical as well as business discussions on various topics related to Internet industry.

Madhur Khandelwal’s Specialties:

information retrieval, search engines, software design and implementation, Indian Internet industry

Madhur Khandelwal’s Experience

• Technology Enthusiast

  TheFind

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)

  February 2006 — Present (3 years 6 months)

  One of the early members of the core engineering team at thefind.com working since pre-launch.
  -Helped build the first version of the generic information extraction technology which is used for extracting product information from hundreds of thousands of shopping websites
  -Worked on various components of query processing engine including query parsing, query normalization and query expansion
  -Helped drive the SEO initiative by working on unique keyword generation and optimization of site structure
  -Initiated the idea of and driving the design and implementation of a blog aggregation site thefindbuzz.com

• Software Design Engineer

  Microsoft

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; msft; Computer Software industry)

  August 2004 — February 2006 (1 year 7 months)

  Worked on developing security protocol technologies for Windows Operating System

• Software Engineer Intern

  Motorola Inc

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; mot; Computer Software industry)

  January 2002 — June 2002 (6 months)

  Worked on design and implementation of a prototype for a scheduling and calendering application and its UI on mobile platform.

Madhur Khandelwal’s Education

• Texas A&M University

  MS , Computer Science , 2002 — 2004

  Masters thesis was work on project “combinFormation”. It is a creative web visualization tool that learns from the user's surfing. Instead of waiting for the user to navigate by clicking hyperlinks, the program proactively crawls the web, retrieves websites catering to user's interests. It then breaks down the retrieved web documents into chunks of text and images and chooses the most relevant information based on the user's browsing history and presents them in the form of a streaming collage. Concepts in Information Retrieval like tf/idf, relevance feedback, feature extraction and clustering are applied in the system to rank and classify the documents.
  
  Focus of Masters thesis was semantics of traversing the timeline of the generative information space. Developed data structures and algorithms for browsing the history of the information space with the help of an interactive timeline. More details at http://ecologylab.cs.tamu.edu/people/madhur.html

  Activities and Societies:

  - Teaching assistant for an undergrad course on C++ course with Dr. Stroustrup
  
  - Papers in ACM Hypertext, ACM Mutimedia conferences

• Birla Institute of Technology and Science

  BE , Computer Science , 1998 — 2002

Additional Information

Madhur Khandelwal’s Websites:

• My Blog
• My Company
• Masters Thesis

Madhur Khandelwal’s Interests:

Internet technologies, entrepreneurship, blogging, music, outdoors, information retrieval

Madhur Khandelwal’s Groups:

Founder: iLeher (A community tracking the Indian Internet scene) http://ileher.com

Co-founder: BITS Embryo (An alumni project providing a platform for enriching on-campus education) http://bitsembryo.org/

Core member: BITSAA-SVC (Alumni association local chapter) http://svc.bitsaa.org/

•    BITS Pilani Alumni
•    Indian Startups
•    Stanford Entrepreneurial Finance Group

Madhur Khandelwal’s Contact Settings

Interested In:

• career opportunities
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• job inquiries
• expertise requests
• business deals
• reference requests
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