Ramanand Janardhanan (Resume) Updated: 11 November 2008
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                                Personal
* Resident: Pune, India
* Email : ramanand@gmail.com, ramanand@it.iitb.ac.in, ramanand@iitb.ac.in
* URL: http://www.it.iitb.ac.in/~ramanand

                                Education
* M.Tech. (IT), IIT Bombay, 2005-07 (CPI: 9.5/10)
* B.E. (Computers), Govt. College of Engg, Pune (COEP), 1997-2001 (avg. %age: 68%)

                             Work Experience
* Total Industry Experience: 6 years
* Senior Associate/Technology Specialist at Cognizant Technology Systems, Pune, August 2007-till date
  Roles: Researcher in Text Analytics, Innovation Engineer, Mentoring

* Senior Member of Technical Staff at Persistent Systems Ltd., Pune,  July 2001 to July 2005 
  Roles: Software Development and Support Engineer, Team Lead

                           Technical Background
* Research Interests: Natural Language Processing, Information Retrieval and Extraction, Data Visualisation
* Professional Areas worked: (current) Text Analytics, Knowledge Management, Sentiment Analysis,
                             (previous) Telecom, Meta-Directories, Content Servers
* Operating Systems: Linux, Windows XP
* Programming: C, C++, Perl, Java
* Tools: gcc & gdb, Unix shell scripting, Test suites, Version control systems
* NLP Tools: Rapidminer, GATE, NLTK
* Exposure: .NET, Python, C#, Scilab

                           M.Tech. Thesis
* 'Towards Evaluating WordNets Using Structural Properties and Synonymy Validation'
* Advisor: Prof. Pushpak Bhattacharyya, CSE, IIT Bombay, http://www.cse.iitb.ac.in/~pb
* Area: Natural Language Processing

                               Publications
* Raghuvar Nadig, J. Ramanand, and Pushpak Bhattacharyya, Automatic Evaluation of Wordnet Synonyms and Hypernyms, 6th International Conference on Natural Language Processing (ICON 08), Pune, India, December 20-22, 2008
* J.Ramanand and Pushpak Bhattacharyya, Towards Automatic Evaluation of Wordnet Synsets, 4th Global Wordnet Conference (GWC08), Szeged, Hungary, January 22-25, 2008
* J.Ramanand, Akshay Ukey, Brahm Kiran Singh and Pushpak Bhattacharyya, Structure and Linkages of Multi-lingual Wordnets, Bulletin of the IEEE Technical Committee on Data Engineering, Vol. 30(1), March 2007

                                 Honours
* 5th in the University out of 779 candidates, Final Year B.E. examinations, 2001
* 2nd in Pune Division in the HSC (12th) Board Examinations, 1997
* Winner of BBC's Mastermind India (televised) quiz contest, 2002
* Awarded Citation for Quizzing, IIT Bombay
* Member of Mensa, India

                               Strengths
* Self-motivated, Independent execution
* Analytical
* Team-oriented
* Excellent communication skills
* Creative

				Other Interests
* Quizzing
* Reading
* Writing (published several stories and articles)
* Blogging
* Music and Movies