Pranam Kolari

Current

• Research Engineer, Senior at Yahoo!

Past

• 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

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Education

• University of Maryland Baltimore County
• University of Maryland Baltimore County
• Bangalore University

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Recommended

13 people have recommended Pranam

Connections

292 connections

Industry

Computer Software

Websites

• My Blog

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

• Research Engineer, Senior

  Yahoo!

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; YHOO; Internet industry)

  October 2007 — Present (11 months)

  ..within Search and Advertising Sciences, specializing in web spam.

• 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.

• 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).

• 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

• 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

• University of Maryland Baltimore County

  M.S, Computer Science, 2002 — 2004

  Expressive Logic for Web Privacy Protection.

  Activities and Societies:

  Upsilon Pi Epsilon

• Bangalore University

  Bachelor of Engineering, Computer Science and Engineering, UVCE, 1997 — 2001

Additional Information

Pranam Kolari’s Websites:

• My Blog

Pranam Kolari’s Interests:

Photography

Pranam Kolari’s Groups:

IEEE, ACM, AAAI

•    Friends of CSEE@UMBC
•    UMBC Alumni Network
•    UVCE Alumni
•    Yahoo Employees
•    Machine Learning Connection
•    Text Analytics

Pranam Kolari’s Honors:

Work cited in Baltimore Sun, Wired, Red Herring
Top ten finalist of the American Blogging Scholarship for University Students
One of top 3 entries at IBM HackDay

Pranam Kolari’s Contact Settings

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