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contact Interests
Education
languages
bilingual Hindi/English
citizenship
IIT Kharagpur
Achievements
2013, 2014
Indian
coding handles
2009, 2010
Projects
Improving YouTube personalization using clustering of videos
Internship Location: Google India, Bangalore
Duration: May 4 - July 10, 2015
Description: We explored new ways to improve YouTube user profiles, by trying to find ways of modelling interests that
are not well represented by Knowledge Graph entities (e.g. 70s music). Towards this goal, we used clusters of videos
as a user feature. The input data for the clustering was derived from video correlations due to user co-watches. We
tried various algorithms like HAC, k-means and LDA. We built a simple video recommendation system using clusters as
features. We had to deal with large amounts of input data, and thus, had to use compute clusters for distributing the tasks.
The project, hence, included heavy usage of distributed frameworks, like MapReduce. We also tried ways to generate
cluster descriptors using n-gram language models and video entities. The results looked promising and the team was
interested in carrying forward the approach.
Clustering of mixed data by integrating fuzzy, probabilistic and collaborative clustering framework
People Involved: Prof. Nikhil R. Pal (Project Guide)
Duration: May - June 2014
Description: A new algorithm for clustering data with both numerical and categorical attributes was developed. The
experimental results were competitive with the most famous existing algorithms. Were working towards a publication.
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Creations
InWordy (http://inwordy.com/)
Description: Entertainment website intended to act as a platform for sharing thoughts. Users can post their own thoughts
and like or rate existing content. Contains database of over 200 thousand quotations and 10 thousand authors. The data
was crawled using a custom built JAVA web parser using Jericho library. The website is built over the standard LAMP
stack.
QuoteAppend (http://inwordy.com/quoteappend)
Description: An application integrated with InWordy which suggests contextually similar quotations for a given text. The
app was built using standard IR and AI techniques to suggest semantically similar text.
SleekArchive (http://arkanath.github.io/SleekArchive/)
Description: PHP-MySQL based note taking application
JhonnyM
Description: A productivity tool extension for Google Chrome .
GuessWho15 (http://www.guesswho15.net)
Description: A web version of the famous game of guessing a person in 15 turns.
Skills
Programming Languages:
C, C++, Java, Python
Algorithms:
Clustering, and common algorithms involved in Competitive Programming.
Website Development:
HTML, CSS, JS, PHP, Bootstrap (by Twitter) Framework, MySQL database
Design Applications:
Adobe Photoshop, Cinema 4D and Final Cut Pro X
Online Courses:
Machine Learning (Coursera) (Score : 100%)
Algorithms: Design and Analysis, Part 1 (Coursera) (Score : 97%)