Dear Mahouts, Thanks for this wonderful opportunity. This by far has been the most interesting work I have done. Every millisecond saved, every small perf gains achieved was a joy in itself. To give a brief bio about me.
I graduated from IIT Kharagpur couple of months ago in its Dual Degree(5yr Undergrad+PostGrad) program in Computer Science and Engineering. I now work for Yahoo! at the Bangalore office on its Display Advertisement platform. ML and IR systems are my passion. Throughout college, I worked with a startup company called Minekey Inc and worked on some cool stuff in the above fields(reco.minekey.com). Minekey has a facebook application where people opine and discuss the opinions.( www.minekey.com apps.facebook.com/minekey). My thesis advisor Dr. Sudeshna Sarkar ( http://www.facweb.iitkgp.ernet.in/~sudeshna/) was the one who inspired me and got me working in this field and is also the chief scientist of Minekey. So far it has been an amazing ride. And I hope to continue the same way. Funnily, I hail from the land of Mahouts ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahout), a small coastal state called Kerala in India (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerala). And when it comes to scale, oh boy, we lead herds of elephants(read hadoop) . You can catch a preview here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Thrippunithura-Elephants8_crop.jpg and here http://www.thrissurkerala.com/thrissur-pooram-2009.html In case someone is visiting India, do ring me up. My contact is on my fb profile. http://www.facebook.com/robin.anil Regards Robin
