Pavan Kumar Yara

Current

• Research Team Lead @ Innovation Group at Cognizant Technology Solutions
• MS Research Scholar @ CSE Department at IIT Madras

Past

• R&D Team Leader, Cognizant Academy at Cognizant
• Team Member, R&D Team, Cognizant Academy at Cognizant
• Programmer Analyst Trainee at Cognizant

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Education

• Indian Institute of Technology, Madras
• Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University

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Pavan Kumar Yara’s Summary

Principal Investigator for new technology concepts to build innovative software tools and technologies within Cognizant Innovation Group.

Led several efforts that produced interesting POCs for Cognizant Innovation Group; led the development, design, and implementation of training software infrastructure in Cognizant.

External research scholar in the Computer Science & Engg Department at IIT Madras.

Experience (50+ months) in a wide range of Open Source Software Skills.

Pavan Kumar Yara’s Specialties:

Expertise in
* Virtualization
* Cloud Computing
* Semantic Web
* Knowledge Management
* Distributed Computing.

Rich Experience with
* several OSS tools, frameworks and technologies
* Linux/Unix OS
* Web2.0 tools and methodologies
* Web3.0 Concepts and technologies

Working Knowledge of
* Data Mining Concepts
* Machine Learning Techniques (RL in specific)

Pavan Kumar Yara’s Experience

• Research Team Lead @ Innovation Group

  Cognizant Technology Solutions

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

  November 2007 — Present (2 years 1 month)

  On Virtualization and Cloud Computing
  Semantic Web and Faceted Browsing.
  
  Looking to Data Mining and Machine Learning

• MS Research Scholar @ CSE Department

  IIT Madras

  (Educational Institution; Higher Education industry)

  July 2007 — Present (2 years 5 months)

  Graduate student working on Virtualization and Cloud Computing under Dr.B.Ravindran, CSE Dept, IITM.

• R&D Team Leader, Cognizant Academy

  Cognizant

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

  May 2006 — June 2007 (1 year 2 months)

  *Led the architecture design, development, and implementation effort for Cognizant Academy Learning Infrastructure

• Team Member, R&D Team, Cognizant Academy

  Cognizant

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

  February 2005 — April 2006 (1 year 3 months)

  Designed and Implemented the first popular wiki based training mechanism in Cognizant Academy

• Programmer Analyst Trainee

  Cognizant

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

  August 2004 — February 2005 (7 months)

Pavan Kumar Yara’s Education

• Indian Institute of Technology, Madras

  MS , Computer Science , 2007 — 2010 (expected)

  Activities and Societies:

  RISE Lab

• Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University

  B.Tech , Computer Science and Systems , 2000 — 2004

  99.19 percentile in GATE- CS-2003

  Activities and Societies:

  4 years Quiz Champ, Debate Team, ISTE Executive Member, CETA Executive Member

Additional Information

Pavan Kumar Yara’s Groups:

CS@IITM,
MS@IITM,
ACM,
Cognizant.

•    Data & Text Analytics Professionals (1800+ members)
•    IIT Alumni
•    DataShaping Advanced Analytics
•    The Official Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Group
•    Open Source Universe
•    Open Source Cloud Computing & Virtualization
•    Business Intelligence & Analytics Group
•    USENIX Association
•    Lucene Interest Group
•    Cognizant Technology Solutions
•    Virtualization Enthusiasts
•    ACM Members
•    Startup Specialists
•    Cloud Computing
•    Business Analytics
•    Machine Learning Connection
•    CloudCamp - Unconventional Cloud Computing
•    ACM SIGKDD
•    Xen Masters
•    Cloud Computing Interoperability Forum (CCIF)
•    Sree Vidyanikethan Engineering College
•    ACM SIGIR
•    Hadoop Users
•    Clojure Users
•    Open Cloud Manifesto
•    Hadoop India
•    Sree Vidyanikethan Alumni

Pavan Kumar Yara’s Honors:

-1st Associate from CTS to enrol for MS program at IITM
-Taught Scientists(E) on Virtualization for CAIR
- 99.19 percentile in GATE-2003 CS( my engg third year)
-1st at quiz in Congregation-2006 in Cognizant
- College Quiz, debate Champ for full four years
- ISTE and CETA Executive Member

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