Scientist at Yahoo!
San Francisco Bay Area
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- Research Scientist at Yahoo!
- Past
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- Research Assistant at Ebiquity, UMBC
- Visiting Ph.D Fellow at IBM Toronto Labs
- Research Intern at IBM Watson Research
- Software Engineer at IBM Global Services
- Education
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- University of Maryland Baltimore County
- University of Maryland Baltimore County
- Bangalore University
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Pranam Kolari’s Summary
My research explores innovative applications of Machine Learning, Information Retrieval and Network Analysis to Social Media. My dissertation identified and addressed the problem of Spam Blogs with the approach, methodology and tools used extensively by academic, industrial and federal institutions.
Pranam Kolari’s Specialties:
Search, Social Media, Spam
Pranam Kolari’s Experience
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Research Scientist
Yahoo!
(Public Company; YHOO; Internet industry)
October 2007 — Present (1 year 10 months)
..within Yahoo! Labs, specializing in Search.
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Research Assistant
Ebiquity, UMBC
(Computer Software industry)
January 2003 — October 2007 (4 years 10 months)
Spam.
Social Media.
Semantic Web.
Prof. Tim Finin was my advisor. -
Visiting Ph.D Fellow
IBM Toronto Labs
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; IBM; Information Technology and Services industry)
July 2005 — January 2007 (1 year 7 months)
Blogging for the Enterprise.
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Research Intern
IBM Watson Research
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; IBM; Information Technology and Services industry)
May 2004 — August 2004 (4 months)
Business Process Execution Language (BPEL).
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Software Engineer
IBM Global Services
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; IBM; Computer Software industry)
September 2001 — July 2002 (11 months)
Web development projects for financial clients (GE, IBM Finance) using J2EE, IBM WebSphere, IBM DB2 and MQ Series Workflow
Pranam Kolari’s Education
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University of Maryland Baltimore County
Ph.D , Computer Science , 2004 — 2007
Characterizing content and link models on the blogosphere
- Activities and Societies:
- Upsilon Pi Epsilon
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University of Maryland Baltimore County
M.S , Computer Science , 2002 — 2004
Expressive Logic for Web Privacy Protection.
- Activities and Societies:
- Upsilon Pi Epsilon
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Bangalore University
Bachelor of Engineering , Computer Science and Engineering, UVCE , 1997 — 2001
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Pranam Kolari’s Interests:
Photography
Pranam Kolari’s Honors:
Work cited in Baltimore Sun, Wired, Red Herring, BBC, Information Week
Top ten finalist of the American Blogging Scholarship for University Students
One of top 3 entries at IBM HackDay
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