Academics

Areas of Interest

  1. Artificial Intelligence
  2. Natural Language Processing
  3. Knowledge and Data Mining
  4. Pattern Recognition
  5. Information Retrieval/Extraction
  6. Machine Learning
  7. Knowledge-Based Systems

Major Achievements:

  1. Received "Eklavya Gold Medal for Academic Excellence" in 1998.
  2. Gold Medal for standing first in all disciplines at the college.
  3. Represented the Indian Research Team at the United Nations University's 5th UNL Symposium at Geneva, Switzerland.
  4. Stood 6th in All India Ranking for GATE-2002 (out of approx. 6100). Percentile: 99.9

Post-graduadate Education: ME (Computer Science and Engineering)

Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore (on-going).

TGPA: 7.35

Courses Undertaken at IISc:

Semester I: CGPA 7.1
  1. Operating Systems: A
  2. Computer Architechture: B
  3. Database Management Systems: S
  4. Pattern Recognition: S
  5. Graph Theory and Algorithms: B
Semester II: CGPA 7.6
  1. Topics in Database Systems: S
  2. Information Retrieval: S
  3. E-Commerce: S
  4. Compiler Design: A
  5. Intelligent Agents: A

Work Experience: Dec. 99 - May 2001

I worked as a Research Scientist at the Laboratory for Intelligent Internets Research (LAIIR) in the Computer Science and Engineering Dept. at Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, Mumbai. There I worked on Knowledge extration from text documents using Natural Language Processing techniques. I was working on problems like converting unstructured data-English text to Universal Networking Language. Other problems that I dealt with are: Defining UNL-ML using XML, Word Sense Disambiguation using Machine learning and Automatic Hypertext Generation.

Undergraduate Education: BE (Computer Science): 82%

Dharamsinh Desai Institute of Technology, Nadiad, Gujarat.
Gujarat University.

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