Ashok Venkatesan

San Francisco Bay Area United States

Research Engineer

Technology / Software / Internet

I am a Software Research Engineer working with the recommendations team at StumbleUpon Inc. I enjoy working on providing data driven solutions to real world problems. My broad areas of interests include Pattern Recognition, Topic Modeling, Recommender Systems, Distributed Systems, Graphs and Data Visualization. I have a working knowledge in the following: - Data Mining: Collaborative Filtering, Topic Modeling, Text Mining - Machine Learning: Ensemble Classifiers, Graphical Models, Clustering, Dimensionality Reduction, Regression, Linear classifiers - Large Scale Systems/Data Stores: Hadoop Ecosystem (Hive, HBase), Storm, Elasticsearch, Neo4J - Programming Tools/Environment: Scala/Java, P...