Jayaprakash Sundararaj

INTRODUCTION

My name is Jayaprakash Sundararaj (JP). I have 12 years of expertise in the software industry. I have almost ten years of experience at Google Inc, where I worked on ‘Search Ranking’, ‘Recommendation Systems’, ‘On Device Search’. I’ve managed and mentored a lot of engineers on the team that have a track record of launching successful projects and improving metrics. You’re welcome to send an email. I may be reached at os[my-first-name]@gmail.com.

EXPERTISE

Areas: Natural Language Processing, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Information retrieval
Programming: C++, Kotlin, Python
Frameworks: Tensorflow, MapReduce (~Spark), BigTable/SSTable (~HBase/Cassandra), Protobuf (Data Serialization)

MASTERS at IIT BOMBAY

I studied M.Tech (Computer Science and Engineering) at IIT Bombay from 2012 to 2014. Following graduation, my studies concentrated mostly on NLP, ML, and information retrieval. In addition, I was given the opportunity to intern with the Yahoo! Multimedia Team, where I worked on enhancing ‘Image Search Relevance’.

I took the following courses from IITB:

Machine Learning
Advanced Machine Learning (focused on Probabilistic Graphical Models)
Natural Language Processing
Topics in Natural Language Processing (focused on Statistical Machine Translation)
Artificial Intelligence
Web Mining
R&D - Semantic Web
R&D - Sub-modular functions in Text Summarization
Probabilistic Models
Innovation and Entrepreneurship

I also served as a Teaching Assistant for following courses,

Machine Learning
Natural Language Processing
Artificial Intelligence
Distributed Systems

ONLINE PRESENCE

SPOJ (retired currently; I got a peak ranking of <1000 among all worldwide participants.)
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