Academics
Areas of Interest
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Artificial Intelligence
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Natural Language Processing
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Knowledge and Data Mining
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Pattern Recognition
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Information Retrieval/Extraction
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Machine Learning
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Knowledge-Based Systems
Major Achievements:
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Received "Eklavya Gold Medal for Academic Excellence" in 1998.
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Gold Medal for standing first in all disciplines at the college.
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Represented the Indian Research Team at the United Nations University's
5th UNL Symposium at Geneva, Switzerland.
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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
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Operating Systems: A
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Computer Architechture: B
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Database Management Systems: S
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Pattern Recognition: S
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Graph Theory and Algorithms: B
Semester II: CGPA 7.6
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Topics in Database Systems: S
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Information Retrieval: S
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E-Commerce: S
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Compiler Design: A
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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.
Professional Activities:
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