Manish Katyal

Current

• Machine Learning Scientist at OneSpot

Past

• Data Mining Specialist at Pluck
• Software Engineer at Sun Microsystems
• Architect at Verizon

• Senior Developer at Sprint PCS
• Architect at AVLabs Engineering
• Architect at Mall.com
• Software Engineer at Sprint

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Education

• The University of Texas at Austin
• The University of Texas at Austin
• Bowling Green State University

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Industry

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Manish Katyal’s Summary

I bring a unique combination of academic knowledge (in the PhD program @UT Austin) and industry software development skills (10 years+ at small and large companies).

I enjoy refining and applying ideas from the academic community to industry.

My focus has been on the design and development of large-scale web mining systems for content recommendation.

Manish Katyal’s Specialties:

Weblog Mining, Link-analysis, NLP, Information Retrieval, Text Mining, Hadoop (Map/Reduce), Recommendation Engines

Manish Katyal’s Experience

• Machine Learning Scientist

  OneSpot

  (Privately Held; Online Media industry)

  April 2008 — Present (1 year 4 months)

  Design and development of algorithms for web-scale content scoring. Algorithms implemented primarily using Hadoop (Map-Reduce).

• Data Mining Specialist

  Pluck

  (Privately Held; Internet industry)

  October 2006 — April 2008 (1 year 7 months)

  Constructed a Data-warehouse for recording user activities and user generated content. Performed analysis and reporting on captured data. Research projects involved Social Network Analysis & Visualization, Content Recommendation, User Ranking and Content Classification.

• Software Engineer

  Sun Microsystems

  (Public Company; JAVA; Information Technology and Services industry)

  July 2003 — August 2006 (3 years 2 months)

  Developed a Rules Engine for Patch Analysis. Developed a flexible and extensible Billing and Metering framework for Utility Computing. Developed a scalable, reliable and secure messaging system based on JMS for Sun services.

• Architect

  Verizon

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

  February 2003 — July 2003 (6 months)

  Architected a Webservices platform for large scale systems integration

• Senior Developer

  Sprint PCS

  (Public Company; S; Telecommunications industry)

  December 2001 — January 2003 (1 year 2 months)

  For the 3G project, constructed a scalable, fault tolerant and reliable network provisioning system that could handle a large number of transactions. Used asynchronous heterogeneous messaging protocols (XML-RPC, CORBA, JMS, SOAP/HTTP). Performed extensive performance tuning and testing.

• Architect

  AVLabs Engineering

  (Computer Software industry)

  October 2000 — December 2001 (1 year 3 months)

  Systems development based on Web services and on the Microsoft.NET platform for a start-up in the financial services arena.

• Architect

  Mall.com

  (Computer Software industry)

  August 1999 — September 2000 (1 year 2 months)

  Systems development for an e-Commerce web site

• Software Engineer

  Sprint

  (Public Company; S; Telecommunications industry)

  February 1997 — August 1999 (2 years 7 months)

  Systems development using Java and CORBA.

Manish Katyal’s Education

• The University of Texas at Austin

  PhD , Computer Engineering , 2006 — 2010 (expected)

  Focus on Machine Learning

• The University of Texas at Austin

  M.S.E , Software Engineering , 2004 — 2006

  Research areas: Machine Learning and Distributed Systems

• Bowling Green State University

  BS , Computer Science , January 1992 — September 1995

Additional Information

Manish Katyal’s Interests:

Machine Learning, Network Security, Cryptography

Manish Katyal’s Contact Settings

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