Giridhar Kumaran

Current

• Scientist at Microsoft Live Labs

Past

• Research Assistant at University of Massachusetts Amherst
• Co-founder at GetGo Media
• Research Intern at Microsoft Research

• Research Intern at Yahoo! Research

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Education

• University of Massachusetts at Amherst
• University of Massachusetts at Amherst
• University of Madras

• P S Senior Secondary School

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Connections

108 connections

Industry

Computer Software

Websites

• My Website

Giridhar Kumaran’s Experience

• Scientist

  Microsoft Live Labs

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; MSFT; Computer Software industry)

  April 2008 — Present (9 months)

  Information Retrieval, Natural Language Processing, Web Search, Applications of Machine Learning

• Research Assistant

  University of Massachusetts Amherst

  (Educational Institution; 1001-5000 employees; Higher Education industry)

  June 2002 — April 2008 (5 years 11 months)

  Information Retrieval, Natural Language Processing, Web Search, User Interaction, Applications of Machine Learning

• Co-founder

  GetGo Media

  (Computer Software industry)

  2005 — 2008 (3 years)

• Research Intern

  Microsoft Research

  (Public Company; Computer Software industry)

  June 2007 — August 2007 (3 months)

  Research related to the Live Search Engine

• Research Intern

  Yahoo! Research

  (Public Company; Research industry)

  June 2004 — August 2004 (3 months)

  Developed an advanced search feature

Giridhar Kumaran’s Education

• University of Massachusetts at Amherst

  PhD, Computer Science, 2001 — 2008

• University of Massachusetts at Amherst

  MS, Computer Science, 2001 — 2005

• University of Madras

  BE, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, 1997 — 2001

• P S Senior Secondary School

Additional Information

Giridhar Kumaran’s Websites:

• My Website

Giridhar Kumaran’s Groups:

ACM

•    Machine Learning Connection
•    Text Analytics
•    UMass Amherst Dept. of Computer Science

Giridhar Kumaran’s Contact Settings

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