Data Scientist @ LinkedIn
San Francisco Bay Area
- Current
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- Senior Research Scientist - Analytics at LinkedIn
- Past
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- Doctoral Candidate at Carnegie Mellon University, Computer Science Department
- Owner & Consultant at Perplex SRL, Romania
- Research Intern at IBM TJ Watson Research Center
- Research Intern at IBM TJ Watson Research Center
- Research Intern at AT&T Research
- Undergraduate Teaching Assistant & Software Developer at University of New Mexico
- Logic Design Assistant at NASA Microelectronics Research Center @UNM
- Education
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- Carnegie Mellon University
- Carnegie Mellon University
- The University of New Mexico
- Tudor Vianu Computer Science High School / Liceul de Informatica
- Connections
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360
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- Industry
- Information Technology and Services
- Websites
Monica Rogati’s Summary
LinkedIn Analytics - Building data-driven products (recommender systems , job matching, fraud detection etc.)
Monica Rogati’s Specialties:
Large-scale applied text mining and data mining, including domain-specific applications, multi-lingual information access and organization, evaluation design, statistical methods for text processing, text classification, medical applications, applied machine learning, statistical natural language processing, information retrieval, event detection and tracking, machine translation, personal finance, tomatoes
Monica Rogati’s Experience
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Senior Research Scientist - Analytics
LinkedIn
(Privately Held; Internet industry)
May 2008 — Present (1 year 7 months)
LinkedIn Analytics - Building data-driven products (recommender systems , job matching, fraud detection etc.)
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Doctoral Candidate
Carnegie Mellon University, Computer Science Department
(Educational Institution; Research industry)
September 2000 — May 2008 (7 years 9 months)
Advisors: Yiming Yang and Jaime Carbonell. Examined feature selection for text classification and cross-lingual information retrieval using parallel corpora, including full system implementation. Participated in CLEF 2001 and 2003. Supervised two undergraduates working on web mining for CLIR resources. ♦ Supervised an MS student working on Named Entities for Topic-Conditioned Event Tracking. ♦ Thesis work on domain adaptation of translation models, as applied to Cross-Language Information Retrieval, Topic Conditioned Event Tracking and Machine Translation. ♦ Crucial role in the CMU GALE Distillation group: proposal writing with advisors, end-to-end system design and specification, multi-site coordinator (CMU, UPitt, IBM), user study coordination and design with UPitt, evaluation dataset design.
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Owner & Consultant
Perplex SRL, Romania
(Information Technology and Services industry)
2006 — 2007 (1 year )
Sub-contracted projects for CMU GALE Distillation group
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Research Intern
IBM TJ Watson Research Center
(Public Company; Information Technology and Services industry)
May 2005 — August 2005 (4 months)
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Research Intern
IBM TJ Watson Research Center
(Public Company; Information Technology and Services industry)
May 2003 — August 2003 (4 months)
Supervisor: Scott McCarley. Unsupervised learning for Arabic stemming. Work published: ACL'03.
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Research Intern
AT&T Research
(Public Company; Information Technology and Services industry)
May 2000 — August 2000 (4 months)
Supervisor: Marilyn Walker. Worked towards improving the DARPA Communicator by treating sentence planning as a stochastic learning problem. Work published : NAACL'01, ACL'01.
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Undergraduate Teaching Assistant & Software Developer
University of New Mexico
(Higher Education industry)
August 1997 — December 1999 (2 years 5 months)
Teaching Assistant, UNM CS Department (1998)
Supervisor: Barak Pearlmutter. Responsible for holding a weekly recitation section for a Non-Imperative programming (Scheme) class. Duties included grading, lecturing, holding office hours and assisting with exam questions. Developed an automatic grader program to evaluate student projects and e-mail students a progress report.
Software Developer, UNM CS Department (1998)
Leader of a two-person team in charge of developing a web-based grade database (SQL, C++) to be used for several courses in the Computer Science Department, later used by the three largest classes in the department.
Recitation Instructor, UNM CS Department (1997)
Held a weekly recitation section for a beginning C++ based Computer Science class. -
Logic Design Assistant
NASA Microelectronics Research Center @UNM
(Information Technology and Services industry)
1996 — 1999 (3 years )
Developed small logic design projects, including a packetizing chip software simulation and a multiplexer usage optimization for multiple outputs boolean functions; disassembled and redesigned a microcontroller test bench.
Responsible for student assignments evaluation for a logic design class.
Monica Rogati’s Education
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Carnegie Mellon University
Ph.D. , Computer Science , 2003 — 2008
Thesis:
Domain Adaptation of Translation Models for Multilingual Applications
Supervisors: Yiming Yang and Jaime Carbonell.
Examined feature selection for text classification and cross-lingual information retrieval using parallel corpora, including full system implementation. Participated in CLEF 2001 and 2003. Supervised two undergraduates working on web mining for CLIR resources. ♦ Supervised an MS student working on Named Entities for Topic-Conditioned Event Tracking. ♦ Thesis work on domain adaptation of translation models, as applied to Cross-Language Information Retrieval, Topic Conditioned Event Tracking and Machine Translation. ♦ Crucial role in the CMU GALE Distillation group: proposal writing with advisors, end-to-end system design and specification, multi-site coordinator (CMU, UPitt, IBM), user study coordination and design with UPitt, evaluation dataset design. -
Carnegie Mellon University
MS , Computer Science , 2000 — 2003
Teaching Assistant, CMU CS Department (2002)
Supervisors: Daniel Sleator and William Scherlis. Responsible for holding a weekly recitation section for a sophomore-level class in Data Structures and Algorithms (using Java). Duties included grading, lecturing (150+ class), designing exam questions, designing and testing assignments. -
The University of New Mexico
BS , Computer Science , 1996 — 2000
First in my graduating class.
Research Assistant, UNM CS Department (1999-2000)
Supervisor: George Luger. Designed a disambiguation program for natural language, using a context-sensitive deformable semantic network (in retrospect, a very naïve rediscovery of language modeling).
Supervisor: Barak Pearlmutter. Examined hidden unit modulation by attentional focus in neural networks.
Teaching Assistant, UNM CS Department (1998)
Supervisor: Barak Pearlmutter. Responsible for holding a weekly recitation section for a Non-Imperative programming (Scheme) class. Duties included grading, lecturing, holding office hours and assisting with exam questions. Developed an automatic grader program to evaluate student projects and e-mail students a progress report. -
Tudor Vianu Computer Science High School / Liceul de Informatica
Computer Science
Additional Information
Monica Rogati’s Websites:
Monica Rogati’s Interests:
Large-scale applied text mining and data mining, including domain-specific applications, multi-lingual information access and organization, evaluation design, statistical methods for text processing, text classification, finance and medical applications, applied machine learning, statistical natural language processing, information retrieval, event detection and tracking, machine translation.
Monica Rogati’s Groups:
CMU, SIGIR
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The Greater IBM Connection: IBM's alumni program for past and present IBM employees -
Carnegie Mellon Alumni -
AIESEC -
Data & Text Analytics Professionals (1800+ members) -
LinkedIn Groups Product Forum -
University of New Mexico Alumni Association -
Cloud Computing -
Machine Learning Connection -
The R Project for Statistical Computing -
Text Analytics -
Automated Language Translation Group -
IBM Research -
ACM SIGIR -
Hadoop Users -
Global Economic Crisis -
National College of Computer Science "Tudor Vianu" -
WWW2010 - Raleigh -
'09 Grads -
White House
Monica Rogati’s Honors:
Outstanding Junior of the Year 97-98
Outstanding Senior of the Year 98-99
CRA Outstanding Undergraduate 2000 Honorable Mention
UNM university-wide commencement speaker, Dec. '99
Regional ACM programming contest: 1st place in 1997, 2nd place in 1998
Microelectronics Research Center scholarship (all expenses, 4 years)
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