AWS Partner Network
Lead developer in a project involving migration of a financial settlements engine from a standalone application to J2EE Application (Spring Framework)
Worked on Automatic Text Summarization based on NLP and English Language Heuristics.
Lead a research team for the design & optimization of Automatic Text Summarization algorithm based on Natural Language Processing & English Language Heuristics
Analyzed the performance of prevailing Web/Mobile Text Summarization Applications
Fine tuned the existing Open Source API's to extract clean data from any Web Page
Devised the application deployment strategy on the cloud-based platform - Google App Engine
Keeping a particular target in mind, for e.g. Hillary Clinton, our group comprising of Linguists and PhD candidates came up with a system that can correctly predict the stance {Favor, Against or Neutral} of tweets aimed at the target.
Implemented an artificial neural network to predict the orientation of flickr images. Trained the classifier using stochastic gradient descent method on image data and achieved a maximum accuracy of 72.1%.
This project involved using BerkelyLM tool to generate a probabilistic language model from training data. The system then tries to predict correct spellings based on the model and a list of correct spelling candidates generated using Soundex algorithm.
Implemented an end-to-end pipeline to predict the Yelp Business categories based on user reviews using Labeled LDA. The data used for this project was from Yelp Dataset Challenge 2016. Our pipeline parsed the Yelp business and User review data files, trained the LDA classifier and eventually achieved a maximum accuracy of 66%.
Taking some time off-work rejuvenates my batteries, and keeps me productive and sharp. Running, Swimming and Gyming help me get my daily adrenaline fix. I enjoy playing cricket, but at the same time I try to learn different sports with my friends. Sachin Tendulkar and Roger Federer are two of my sports idols.
Music, is indeed the food for soul. Voices of Enrique and Atif never fail to cheer me up.
And yes, I'm a movie and TV Serial buff too!
Guess what! Soon after coming to the U.S., I have developed a new hobby -- Cooking :D Many people say that U.S. is a land of opportunities, but the way I see it, being in such a dynamic and fast-paced environment, you start exploring your hidden talents. So in my view this is a place where you discover and develope those latent skills within you. This place will test you each moment, making you push your limits and bring out the best in you! After this amazing transformation, no wonder many opportunities come knocking on your doorsteps!
When I was in India, I always shied away from the handful of cooking chances thrown my way. But here, I have no choice. You have to cook your own meal, period. I started out with the simple dishes that my mother taught me earlier, but soon I started experimenting and improvizing them, thanks to the resource limitations that we have in our kitchen :P And by the divine grace, most of them turned out to be pretty delicious! I can safely say at this point that I ENJOY cooking. It helps me take my mind away from the assignments and tons of other things.
© Manan Pancholi