Hi, I am Prasanth Iyer - a graduate student in Computer Science at the University of Southern California. I am currently taking a course - Information Retrieval and Web Search Engines with Prof. Chris Mattmann where I hope to learn about some of the technologies and tools that power today's search engines.
Tika and Nutch are two of the technologies that we are learning about and I would love to contribute to it. I love creating software and I am passionate about open-source technology given that I have always been a huge benefactor from it. My prior experience with information retrieval was as part of a research project to find the centers of influence of a Twitter dataset where we tweaked Google's PageRank algorithm to find the most influential people in a Twitter dataset with 41.7 million users and 1.47 billion relationships. Besides this, I have also done an internship at eBay on a project which used data analytics to achieve automatic monitoring of eBay's services. I would love to contribute to both Tika and Nutch as part of the research I plan to do with Prof. Mattmann this semester. Thanks, Prasanth Iyer
