Vikas Sindhwani

Current

• Research Staff Member at IBM T.J. Watson Research Center

Past

• Postdoctoral Researcher at IBM Research
• Senior Researcher at Riya, Inc
• Summer Intern at Yahoo Research

• Summer Intern at TTI
• Summer Intern at Centre for AI and Robotics

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Education

• University of Chicago
• Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay
• air force bal bharti, lodi road, new delhi

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Connections

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Industry

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Websites

• My Website

Vikas Sindhwani’s Experience

• Research Staff Member

  IBM T.J. Watson Research Center

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; IBM; Information Technology and Services industry)

  September 2008 — Present (1 year 4 months)

  Business Analytics and Mathematical Sciences

• Postdoctoral Researcher

  IBM Research

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; IBM; Information Technology and Services industry)

  April 2008 — September 2008 (6 months)

• Senior Researcher

  Riya, Inc

  (Internet industry)

  July 2007 — March 2008 (9 months)

  Research in scalable machine learning algorithms for search engine advertising, e.g., automated keyword generation, analysis of click-thru data, bid optimization in sponsored search auctions. I also worked on merchandise classification from large amounts of image and textual data feeds.

• Summer Intern

  Yahoo Research

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

  July 2005 — October 2005 (4 months)

  Algorithms for Large-scale Machine Learning

• Summer Intern

  TTI

  (Information Technology and Services industry)

  June 2004 — September 2004 (4 months)

• Summer Intern

  Centre for AI and Robotics

  (Research industry)

  1999 — 2000 (1 year )

Vikas Sindhwani’s Education

• University of Chicago

  Ph.D. , Computer Science , 2001 — 2007

• Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay

  B.Tech , Engineering Physics , 1997 — 2001

• air force bal bharti, lodi road, new delhi

Additional Information

Vikas Sindhwani’s Websites:

• My Website

Vikas Sindhwani’s Groups:

•    IIT Bombay Alumni
•    Machine Learning Connection

Vikas Sindhwani’s Contact Settings

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