- I specialize in solving problem related to search, machine learning and information retrieval/processing.- Distributed algorithms on Map/Reduce framework like log processing using CloudBase.- Text analysis using various computational linguistics algorithms.- High volume data processing and exposing them through webservices.Open Source Contributions:CloudBase is a high-performance data warehouse system built on top of Map-Reduce architecture. It enables business analysts using ANSI SQL to directly query large-scale log files arising in web site, telecommunications or IT operations.http://cloudbase.sourceforge.netPatents:Automated identification and assessment of keywords capable of driving traffic to particular sites.United States 8515937Publications:Performance analysis of a large-scale cosmology application on three cluster systems - Zhiling Lan, Prathibha Deshikachar - Int. J. of High Performance Computing and Networking 2004Specialties: Information Retrieval, Unstructured Data Management, Search, Java, Natural Language Processing, Machine Learning, Hadoop, Lucene, distributed architectures, computational linguistics, text extraction, information visualization, Map-Reduce Architecture