Pankaj Rajan has over 10 years of experience in software engineering and machine learning. He currently works as a Senior Software Engineer at eBay, where he has contributed to refactoring machine translation services and developing new databases and APIs. Previously, he worked at Microsoft and AMD in various roles involving product development, mentoring, and technical leadership. Rajan holds an MS in Computer Science from Texas A&M University and a BTech from NIT Rourkela. He has published over 10 papers in conferences and journals on topics related to sketch recognition, image processing, and cultural heritage preservation.

1. PANKAJ RAJAN
910 Camellia Way, San Jose, CA 95117  9795712463  sachuin23@gmail.com
EDUCATION
Master of Computer Science, Texas A&M University, College Station
Bachelor of Technology, NIT Rourkela
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SKILLS
JAVA, C, C++, C#, Objective C, MATLAB, Python, Selenium, NUnit, JUnit, JMock, NoSQL, REST, Hadoop
Machine Learning, Data Science, Image Processing, Color Science, Computer Vision, Pattern Recognition, NUI, NLP
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Senior Software Engineer, Machine Translation (NLP)
May 2013 – present
Working on eBay Machine Translation service. Key Contributions include:
 Refactored major components of high traffic machine translation service to reduce memory foot prints and improve
service response time.
 Wrote several custom clients for internal customers to enable interaction of other services in eBay with in house
machine translation service.
 Designed and implemented new Database Access Layer (DAL) to enable easy integration of existing service with
Mongo DB.
 Involved as a key contributing member in design and development of in house next generation machine translation
engine for eBay.
 Working with scientists and researchers in prototyping, implementing and deploying various NLP components as a
service.
Software Engineer II, Microsoft Corporation,
Jan 2011 – May 2013
Product Development Engineer II, Advanced Micro Device
June 2008 – Jan 2011
Worked on Dynamics Ax and Outlook for Mac. Key contributions included:
 Refactored existing infrastructure code base into smaller manageable units to enable ease of deployment, debugging
and adherence to core object oriented principles.
 Designed and developed libraries to enable automation of excel and Dynamics Ax integration scenarios and Ax on
web.
 Mentored junior engineers in team to get to speed with the code base and help deliver team goal.
 Contributed to design and development of backend code for supporting Apple Script and automation for Mac
Outlook.
Worked as Software engineer and technical lead for small team of 5 engineers responsible
Key contributions included:
 Designed and developed post silicon production code in C++ for AMD desktop, laptop and server microprocessors.
 Developed manufacturing validation service to validate operator inputs based on supply chain needs and
requirements.
 Worked with internal and external customers to gather requirements and delivered customized software solutions
from product inception to production phase.
 Evangelized and participated in scrum based agile development model.

2. ACADEMIC RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
Sketch Recognition Lab, Texas A&M University College Station
Feb 2007 – Dec 2008
Research Assistant
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Developed computer vision based gesture recognition system using MATLAB
Conducted research on extraction of meaningful stroke data from scanned in drawings images that can be
recognized on state of art sketch recognition systems. Participate in different research activities like proposal
review, paper review, ethnographic studies, user studies, etc.
Programming Language used: JAVA , MATLAB
Department of Architecture, Texas A&M University College Station
Feb 2007 – May 2008
Graduate Assistant Research
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Helped PI write proposal which was selected for $30,000 startup grant by National Endowment for Humanities.
Worked on High Dynamic Range Imaging Applications in monitoring color information using digital
images. Researched and implemented algorithms for shadow removal from digital images and color retrieval.
Developed and implemented algorithms for image segmentation, dynamic ranging and tone mapping.
Programming Language used: C++, C and MATLAB.
Image Processing and Computer Vision Lab, NIT Rourkela, India
Undergraduate Research associate
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Worked on supervised stochastic Image Segmentation.
Assisted in development of Markov Random Fields based image segmentation models
Programming Language used: C++, C
Computer Vision Lab, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich
Undergraduate Research Intern
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Sep 2003 – Mar 2006
May 2005 – Aug 2005
Worked on detection of Dissection membrane in Aorta using DICOM images.
Developed Nonlinear Line Detection Filter in MATLAB.
Implemented Modeling of Aorta for detecting dissection membrane using C++ image processing library
(MeVisLab) and MATLAB.
CONFERENCE PUBLICATIONS
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"Neural Network Based Learning Technique: Application in Intelligent Driving." International Conference on
Systemic, Cybernetics and Informatics-2004 India. Pankaj Rajan, Inderjeet Singh,Vasu Gulati.
"Free-Sketch Recognition: Putting the CHI in Sketching." CHI-2008. Tracy Hammond, Brian Eoff, Brandon
Paulson, Aaron Wolin, Katie Dahemen, Joshua Johnston, Pankaj Rajan.
"Neural Network based Approach For: Text Recognition in 3D." International Conference on Neural Information
Processing of the Asia-Pacific Neural Network Assembly-2008. Pankaj Rajan, Shivani Mittal.
"What!?! No Rubine Features? Using Geometric-based Features to Produce Normalized Confidence Values for
Sketch Recognition." IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric -2008. Brandon Paulson, Pankaj
Rajan, Pedro Devalos, Ricardo Gutierrez-Osuna, Tracy Hammond.
"From pen to machine: Extracting strokes from images for sketch recognition." Fifth Eurographics Workshop on
Sketch-Based Interfaces and Modeling-2008. Pankaj Rajan, Tracy Hammond.
"Digital Imaging and HDRI Based Approach For Preserving Cultural Heritage." The 14th International Conference
on Virtual Systems and Multimedia VSMM, dedicated to Digital Heritage- 2008. Wei Yan, Pankaj Rajan.

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"Cast Shadow Removal Using Augmented Region Enhancement and Reconstruction." International Conference on
Advances in Pattern Recognition-2008. Pankaj Rajan, Wei Yan.
"Applying Online Sketch Recognition to a Scanned in Document." IUI Workshop on Sketch Recognition- 2009.
Pankaj Rajan, Tracy Hammond.
“Evaluation of Paper Pen based interface”, The 16th International Conference on Distributed Multimedia
Systems- 2010. Pankaj Rajan, Paul Taele, Tracy Hammond.
JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS
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"Recording and Documenting Chromatic Information of Architectural Heritage." Journal of Cultural Heritage2010. Wei Yan, Ajit Behera, Pankaj Rajan.
HIGHLIGHTED CAREER ACHIEVEMENTS
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Startup Grant, National Endowment for Humanities, 2007 to 2009 - Assisted Dr. Wei Yan, Asst. Professor
TAMU for writing a grant proposal which was selected for $30,000 NEH grant.
One of the seven students selected from all over India for Bharat Petroleum Scholarship, 2007-2008 worth $8000.
Ranked among top 3 students in district level mathematics and science competition.
Two times winner of State Talent search fellowship , awarded to top 20 students in the state on basis of written test
and interview, by Department of Science and Technology, Jammu and Kashmir.
Secured 21st rank among more than 50,000 students that appeared in Jammu and Kashmir State Secondary School
Examination. 1997
Secured 44th rank in the State of Jammu and Kashmir in Common Engineering Entrance Examination.