ResumeKapilDalwani-JohnsHopkinsUniversity.pdfVIP

KAPIL DALWANI Email: kapildalwani@ 3332 22nd Street, Apt B, S.F., CA: 94110 Web Page: /~kapild EDUCATION ? Johns Hopkins University (M.S) Master of Science in Engineering (Computer Science) GPA – 3.54 ? Panjab University, Punjab Engineering College (B.E.) Bachelor in Electrical Engineering, First class with Honors - 71.71%. CURRENT STATUS: ? Working as a Senior Software Engineer with Data Insight group at YellowP. ? Software engineer for Search at Pipio Inc, San Francisco. (http://pip.io) ? Graduated from Johns Hopkins University in MSE program of Computer Science. ? 2 years experience working on Solr/Lucene and Hadoop/Hive stack. Baltimore, MD 1/08 to 08/09 Chandigarh, India 2004 02/11 – Till date 12/09 – 10/10 1/08 – 08/09 MS COURSES: Information Retrieval, Natural Language Processing, Data Mining, Machine Learning, Statistical Learning with Applications, Information Extraction from Speech and Text, Algorithms, Randomized Algorithm, Computer Vision. PUBLICATIONS: ? N-gram Search Engine with Patterns Combining Token, POS, Chunk and NE Information, Proceedings of LREC, 2010 by Satoshi Sekine, Kapil Dalwani ? New Tools for Web-Scale N-grams. Dekang Lin, Ken Church, Heng Ji, Satoshi Sekine, David Yarowsky, Shane Bergsma, z Fun Projects: a) Implemented a 3 legged OAUTH google chrome extension using Rdio API. http://bit.ly/mh9Q88 b) ToBikeToBart android App: /kapild/ToBikeToBart PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE ? YellowP (ATT Interactive), San Francisco Senior Software Engineer for Search/Data Insight 02/11 to till date o Currenly, working with the Data Insight group to mine user query logs. o Implemented Related Search, Spell correction and Query Synonyms using Hadoop piplelines. o Implemented a data library to read data from hive tables and use it in map-reduce jobs for further processing. o Currently, buillding an offline simmulator for search by mining user query logs, helping predict the usuabilty of a new launch of search version hence minimizing the manual efforts require