| J.Ramanand |
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Micro-Bio I am an alumnus of the Kanwal Rekhi School of IT (which has now merged with the Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering) at IIT Bombay, completing my Masters in Technology here from 2005-2007. I currently work as a researcher in a Innovations and R&D group at Cognizant Technology Solutions, Pune in areas involving Text Analytics, Natural Language Processing, and Information Visualization.I worked with Prof. Pushpak Bhattacharyya of the Computer Science Department in the area of Natural Language Processing for my M.Tech Thesis (read more). A Curriculum Vitae is available here (Jan 2010 vintage). Email: ramanand==at==gmail.com, ramanand==at==it.iitb.ac.in Jump to: Work Experience, Academics, Research, Personal Work Experience Since August 2007, I have been working in an innovations group at Cognizant Technology Solutions in Pune, where I am an 'Architect'. I work on several business problems, where we attempt to provide fresh thinking to solve these problems and try to innovatively apply technology. Primarily, I work in text analytics and information visualization. I produce advanced prototypes of ideas, white papers & reports, and in some cases, fully developed solutions.Some of these have been in the area of sentiment analysis (analysing opinions in documents written in everyday language), intention detection (trying to identify 'wishes' & 'suggestions' expressed by people about entities such as products), complaint email analysis (finding common topics from customer service emails), anonymization (removing confidential information - such as names - from sensitive documents), etc. Earlier, I worked at Persistent Systems Ltd. from July 2001-July 2005 as a software engineer. I designed and wrote code for a web-based configuration and provisioning tool (C++ on Linux) for a Chicago startup, helped support a identity management product for a European vendor, maintained parts of a data-warehousing tool for a telecom systems vendor, and finally, developed a .NET based telecom QoS monitor for the same vendor. Academics I attended schools in Pune, Madras, and Bombay, and completed my HSC exams from Vidya Bhavan (Pune). I graduated in Computer Engineering in 2001 from the Government College of Engineering, Pune, (COEP). I now hold an M.Tech in IT from IIT Bombay.Here are some notes on on my M.Tech courses and my M.Tech thesis. Academic Honours:
Research During my M.Tech thesis, I worked on evaluating lexico-semantic networks such as WordNets. A synopsis of my work can be read here.Publications: (My Erdös number seems to be 5 :-))
Personal I live in Pune, dubbed The Oxford of the East for its large number of academic institutions, and now one of the leading IT centres of India. I have also lived in Bombay (now Mumbai) and Madras (now Chennai).
Quizzing
Writing I am an active blogger. My personal blog is at Clipboard Conversations. I also co-blog on quizzing, books, writing exercises, and Vishal Bhardwaj, one of my favourite filmmakers.
Teaching
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