1. Sunil DavangereShashidhara
sunil3590@gmail.com / 919-641-7724 https://github.com/sunil3590/
345 Main Street #5M, White Plains, NY 10601 http://www.linkedin.com/in/sunil3590/
Education
North Carolina State University,Raleigh,NC
Master of ComputerScience,DataScience
CGPA : 3.9 / 4
Aug’14 – May ‘16
PES Institute of Technology,Bangalore,India
Bachelorof Engineering,ComputerScience
CGPA : 8.09 / 10
Aug‘08 – April ‘12
Work Experience
IBM Research,Staff Software Engineer, WhitePlains,NY Jun ’16 – Now
 Researchingknowledge graphconstructionandevaluatingDeepDive and OpenIEfortriple extraction
 Researchingimplicitlearningapproachtoconversational systems
Niki.ai,NLP Intern, Bangalore Aug ’15 – Dec ’15 (4 months)
 Researchanddesignof natural language conversationalsystemstoenableecommerce
 Entityextraction fromusertextmessages.(CoreNLP,NER,POS)
 Informationretrieval fromOpenStreetMaps addresses data.(Elasticsearch)
IBM Watson, Software Intern, Raleigh,NC May ’15 – Aug ’15 (3 months)
 Designedanddevelopedatool thatdoes trade-off analysisof cancertreatmentsbasedonuserpreferences for
use in Watson Oncology (mathematical modeling,Node.js,Angular.js,IBMBluemix)
Laboratory forAnalytic Sciences,Software Intern, Raleigh,NC April ’15 – May ’15 (2 months)
 LaboratoryforAnalyticSciencesisacollaborativeresearchenterprisebetweenNSA andNC State University
withfocusonBig Data analyticsandsolvingchallengingdataanalysisproblems.(http://ncsu-las.org/)
Ittiam Systems,Software Developer, Bangalore Jan ‘12 – June ’14 (2.5 years)
 Independently designedand developedamultimediaframeworktobe deployedon cloud(www.farmott.com)
 Developedareal time videotranscoder(1080p, 30 FPS) system(H264to HEVC) capable of dynamicstreaming
(C,FFMPEG, DASH,Apache HTTP, Hyper-Threading).15% lessCPUusage by movingfrompolingmechanism to
eventdriven.Prime attractionatNAB2014 – Las Vegas
MeevaTech,Software Intern, Bangalore June ‘11 – July ’11 (2 months)
 Designedanalgorithmforplayercongestioncontrol inamultiplayergame (Huduku)
Academic Projects
 “Artificial Guy” – Natural language questionansweringsystemleveraging knowledge graph(CoreNLP,Neo4j)
 “Spiderz” –Distributedcrawling, invertedindex,textsearch andranking(Apache Storm, Node.js,Redis,Wiki API)
 “Real-time TweetProcessing”–full stackreal time webapplication fortweetanalysis (Node.js,TwitterAPI).
 “Anomaly Detection and Predictive Analysis on the Indian General Election 2014 using Twitter” – statistical
anomaly detectioninsentimentof crowd (Java,MySQL,R,TwitterAPI)
 “Quora QuestionTagger” – crawl Quorafor questions,dynamicallybuilda textclassifiermodel topredict tags of a
question (R,tmpackage).
 Simulated a “Virus Propagation model in a Social Network” and developed various Immunization policies to
control the spreadof the virus(R)
 “Car PoolingforOrganizations” – full stack webapplication.Designedanddevelopedanalgorithmwhichcouldfind
an optimal clusterof peopletopool.(Apache Server, MySQL,PHP,JavaScript,CSS, Google MapsAPI)
 “CommunityDetection” –implementedtechnicalpapertitled “Large-Scale Spectral ClusteringonGraphs”(R)
 Developedan “Artificial Sentence Generator” usingMarkovChains forMachine Learning(Python)
Graduate Coursework
Graph Data Mining,Machine Learning,ArtificialIntelligence,AdvancedAlgorithms,Internetof Things
Interests
Knowledge representation,Natural language processing,Informationretrieval, Machine learning,Real-timeanalytics
Technical Skills
ProgrammingLanguages Java, Python, JavaScript, R, C,C++
Technologies Node.js,Spark,Elasticsearch, Redis,AWS,TensorFlow,StanfordCoreNLP
Developertools Eclipse,Git,Maven,Visual Studio, RStudio