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Boulder, Colorado, Us

Leading at HL.ai by TIFIN, working on NLP, LLM to power private equity

Lehi, Ut, Us

Working on NER, relation extraction, Language Models, OCR and NLP related tasks

Chicago, Il, Us

Lead team in extracting key oncology related entities from doctor's notes and lab reports.Delivered NLP extraction for patient selection for lung, breast cohort to major pharmaceutical client – using snippet extraction and text classification. Build and manage a team of data scientists to perform NLP entity and relation extractions from clinical notes to facilitate patient clinical trial matching and patient cohort building for pharmaceutical companies.Work with internal and external stakeholders and provide visibility on data completeness, integrity on a variety of data sources to facilitate prioritization of patients for abstraction.Team built multiple models to extract key oncology entities: diagnosis, date, biomarkers with variant and mutation types, medications, stage and metastatic state.Developed document classifiers to identify and ignore irrelevant documents and retrieve ngsd lab reports for semi-structured parsing. Clinical notes are handled by named entity recognition extraction followed by relation extractor.Accepted abstract and poster presentation at ASCO: NLP-optimized case selection for RWE studies. Abstract #376762.

San Francisco, California, Us

Led team of data analyst and data scientist to harness time series bookings, hotel site, air traffic data to predict future bookings and revenues and find optimal pricing.

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Use NLP to perform NER and relation extraction on patient records and pathology reports to extract patient profile: age, gender, cancer type, stage, medication, diagnosis, assays, test panels and identified biomarkers. Collaborated with clinical informatics subject experts and oncologists to provide real world data insights to patient journey, outcome, drug effectiveness.

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Implemented de identification of PHI data and validation workflow (machine and human), attained human grade accuracy on biomarkers extraction related to lung, colon and breast cancer.Created workflow to include human in loop input and validation along with machine assisted validation that feedback truth data to retrain model.

Santa Clara, Ca, Us

Bentonville, Arkansas, Us

Part of world class data team that scaled high volume data pipeline that serves 65+ million products with wide assortment of offerings at competitive prices with high quality content. Loved the startup culture and a penchant for customer relationship and satisfaction.Worked in product categorization, built out micro services that characterizes, classifies and annotate product data at scale. Since then have been working on a number of business critical projects around data consolidation, validation, analytics on product SKU productivity, trends and configurable ways to visualize data for different stakeholders for business and engineering.Recently working on competitive intelligence, product matching, product classification and categorization, sub-image badge detection, content quality and data integrity.Technical thought leadership in image processing, recognition and data validation at scale.

Build out scalable architecture, ecosystem to represent product and advertiser centric intelligence to enable keyword and PLA advertisement generation, deliver relevant assets to search engines to connect relevant products to consumers. Automation, data cleansing, web services, data analytics, modeling, system design, graphs.Adchemy was acquired by Walmart eCommerce.

San Francisco, California, Us

Mobile Advertisement attribution. Associate conversions (installs) with mobile advertisement by programmatically analyzing streaming events in Kafka, Storm, Hbase. Configurable campaign settings.

New York, Us

Building out of the box experience and customizable contents to target different audiences in Nook HD, HD+ tablets. Categorization and digitization of E-content in cloud catalog. Personalization based on profile, usage and purchase behavior. Deep understanding of digital catalog. Characterization of book genre based on text.

San Jose, Ca, Us

Customer portal providing data visualization and analytics on large data sets. Integration of malware detection platform. Fraud detection and device identification using fuzzy logic and similarity search. Employed random forest, anomaly detection algorithms to detect fraudulant financial transactions and account take over activities.

Architected scalable Web 2.0 SOA Applications based on LAMP stack with Suse10.2, Apache, PHP5, MySQL 5, YUI and flex3 using JSON Web Services.Packeteer integration - unified, improved and automate release management process and present release download in easy-to-use fashion. (hypersonic.bluecoat.com)Implemented monitoring capability on servers to ensure high availability.Significantly improved usability, look-and-feel and efficiency of the release management workflow.Linux server configuration and system administration, Apache 2.2.3 server configuration. Built scalable and high available systems. Designed and setup automatic database, server backups and replications.Build application that analyses release download statistics.Generate dynamic pages based on authenticated credentials.

I took some time off to work on algorithmic stock trading

Palo Alto, Ca, Us

• Laid foundation in developing process for robust software development.• Developed timing driven placement using weight driven min-cost algorithm • Release planning

Employee #7 at Moscape. Project and technical lead for gate-level signal integrity cross talk solution for Moscape. The product (Gatescope) was deployed at multiple design centers at LSI Logic and became part of the sign-off flow for LSI Logic. Moscape was acquired by Magma Design Automation. Magma Design Automation IPO in 2001 and eventually acquired by Synopsys.

During this period, Cadence transformed itself from a point tools company into an integrated solutions company; stock price leaped 1500%. I was partof the task force to design efficient flow and solved challenging optimization , connectivity and cross-talk problems with various constraints. Involved with building distributed algorithms and monitoring systems to make use of cheap hardware on Linux farms, before the advent of Hadoop. Special Achievement Award received Feb 1997

Software engineer for Automatic Test Pattern Generation, HDL Compilers and netlisters. Written and maintain compilers using bison/flex; abstract syntax tree, symbol tables. Algorithms that analyze circuit topology to generate test patterns to excite circuit nodes with different transitions and timings. Written many translators between interchange formats.

Masters In Computer Science, Computer Science

M.B.A., Enterpreneurship

Bachelor'S Degree In Electrical Engineering, Computer Science (Artificial Intelligence, Programming Languages/Compilers, Computer Networking)

Bachelor Of Science, Electrical Engineering

High School, Science