Robin Anil Resume

Robin A nil CAREER OBJECTIVE

TECHNICAL SKILLS Languages Platforms Databases Operating Systems PROJECT SKILLS Education 2009 2004 2002 Achievements WORK EXPERIENCE Team Lead Discovery Services Minekey Inc Feb 2006 – Till Date PROJECTS Google Summer of Code May-September 2008 Microsoft Research Lab Bangalore (Twice)Summer 2007 Winter 2007 Graduate Thesis Identifying Complex Features for Opinion Analysis Undergraduate Thesis Opinion Mining in the Blogosphere

D 307 Nehru Hall of Residence Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur West Bengal, India - 721302 Email: [email protected] Mobile: +91 99325 74051

To work in a challenging research environment and help create innovative systems. Java, PHP, C++, C, XML, XSL, Antlr, SQL, JavaScript, VB, C#, ASP.NET LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP), Eclipse, .NET, MONO, MySQL, MS SQL Server using ADO and LINQ Microsoft Windows(Adminstration, Security), Debian/Ubuntu Linux(Administration/Security), Solaris(Usage) Development of complex GUI applications using WPF and Silverlight. Web applications using AJAX on the ASP.NET and LAMP architectures. Project management and technical project leadership. Database schema design, programming, and administration and performance tuning. Security infrastructure including authentication, access, relying party authentication. Dual Degree in Computer Science and Engineering All India Senior Secondary Certificate Examination All India Senior Secondary Examination

IIT Kharagpur SN Vidya Bhavan SN Vidya Bhavan

7.87 GPA (9 semesters) 93.0% 87.8%

99.76 percentile in GATE 2008 in Computer Science Placed 8th among 100 teams from 12 countries, Asian Regional’s of ACM Championships 2006. 1st Rank in Kerala State Engineering Entrance Examination 2004. 2nd(State)/23rd(National) Rank in All India Engineering Entrance Examination 2004. 2nd Rank in Engineering Entrance Examination of Cochin University of Science and Technology 2004. Winner, Overnite - Intercollegiate Programming Competition, Kshitij 2006, the annual Techno-management Symposium of IIT Kharagpur. Minekey Inc is a Web 2.0 startup developed and incubated at IIT Kharagpur. Developed algorithms for content recommendation based on user interaction and behavior. Worked in key areas of product vision, planning, development, testing and launch cycle. Developed web applications on LAMP Stack with Java backend. Implemented Javascript based user tracking. Worked on various scalability techniques. Worked with Apache Software Foundation on the Mahout Project Mentors: Ian Holsman(Product Manager, AOL), Grant Ingersoll(Apache Lucene PMC) Designed Complementary Naive Bayes Algorithm as a Map/Reduce Formulation and developed it on top of the Apache Hadoop Distributed System. The implementation when tested on the 17Gigabyte English Wikipedia Data built the whole model in under 20 minutes on a 6 server cluster. Group: Advanced Development and Prototyping Mentor: Joseph M Joy(Architect), Gopal Srinivasa(Research SDE) Conceptualized & developed the “Microtasks” Toolkit. “Microtasks” is a SDK for rapid development of applications which exploit the concept of Human Computation. The libary captures user generated data for the use of the machine learning research. I was granted a joint patent with Microsoft for the same Thesis Advisor(Both): Dr. Sudeshna Sarkar (Professor, IIT Kharagpur) Abstract: Topic identification has been dealth with in many ways. Lexical features are key to many approaches, and a variety of representations have been used, like N-grams, phrases, and lexicosyntactic patterns. We are developing techniques to fix overlapping features, understand context across multiple domains, fix multiple negations found in opinionated sentences and to use them to identify the topic with the degree and polarity of sentiment towards it. Abstract: Blog posts are informally written, poorly structured, and filled with spelling and grammatical errors, and features non-traditional content. Performing linguistic analysis on blogs is plagued by the presence of spam posts and comments. Our system achieves state of the art in opinion filtering with a high degree of precision and recall. We have engineered ways of unsupervised extraction of content from HTML and removal of SPAM. This system achieved one of the best values of precision at the recently conducted Blog Track of Text Retrieval Conference(TREC) conduct by the NIST(trec.nist.gov).

Extr a Academics Positions of Responsibility



Executive Editor Scholars’ Avenue 2006-Till Date

Editor of IIT Kharagpur’s fortnightly publication. A completely student run endeavor. Implemented various methods for improving readability and readership of our print publication. Improved online readership 20 fold by using social networks and discussion forums like Orkut and Minekey.com

Team Leader Website & Problems Bitwise 2008

Bitwise is an annual programming contest of conducted by the Computer Science and Engineering Dept. of IIT Kharagpur. Drew participation from over 35 countries (compared to ~19 in 2007) through strategic online advertisement. Worked on both Developing the portal and Designing problems for the contest.

Captain English Dramatics January 2008

Led a 50 member team to 1st position in InterHall event. My main work was to motivate and train the team and ensuring that the long tiresome practice sessions become enjoyable and high in energy. This play went on to bag the first position and I was adjudged the Best Director for the same. Watch Here

Elected General Secretary Technology 2007 - 2008

As a General Secretary, I was responsible for the planning, preparation and management of teams representing my hall for various events under the Technology General Championship of IIT Kharagpur. Won Technology General Championship with the highest margin and maximum number of event wins ever.

Head Web Team Kshitij 2007

Designed a framework for Fest Management. I was responsible for creating and maintaining the Website of Kshitij the Annual Techno-management Festival of IIT Kharagpur. Developed a fully AJAX website www.ktj.in. Achieved a 10 fold increase in hits (from 2 to 20 Million) and 3 fold increase in average time spent on the portal.

Secretary Technology Students Gymkhana 2005-2006

Elected Secretary, Web subcommittee of Technology Students Gymkhana. Improved notification of Gymkhana activities by introducing an online notice board on the portal.

EXTRA CURRICULAR Achievements -

Runner’s Up, Trilogy Pirates of the Corporate, International Business Plan Competition 2008 1st Position in the InterHall English Dramatics for three years running (2006, 2007 and 2008) Adjudged the Best Director for the adaptation of Vijay Tendulkar’s play “Gashiram Kotwal” for the year 2008 1st Position in the InterHall Hindi Dramatics 2006 1st Position in the InterHall Choreography for the years 2006 and 2007 1st Position in InterHall Advertisement Design 2007 1st Position in InterHall Chemical Innovation Competition 2006 2nd Position in InterHall Tech-Quiz 2006 and 3rd in InterHall Tech-Quiz 2007 Awarded Gold Merit Certificate for being in the top 1% in the country in National Cyber Olympiad 2003-2004 Awarded Certificate of Merit for being in the top 1% in the country in National Standard Examinations in Physics 2003-2004

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