RAVI  BHIMAVARAPU

1555, Scott Rd, # 224                                                                                                                                                                 Phone: (818)-237-7962

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Software Developer. Yahoo Search Marketing (YSM), Yahoo Inc.                                                                                   Nov 2005-Current

Worked on various contextual advertising projects/products. Primary work is in semantic analysis of web pages and web advertisements and finding a suitable match.

·         Designed/Applied various machine learning/statistical techniques in solving custom problems involving clustering, similarity analysis and editorial feedback modeling.

·         Gained experience in designing/implementing/code-reviewing production (C++) code.

Research Intern. AT&T Research - Shannon Labs, Florham Park, New Jersey.                                                                    Summer 2004

Worked with Dr. Srinivas Bangalore on the FERGUS project, which is a surface realization component (generates grammatically correct English sentences from the system’s internal syntax format) in the context of a dialogue system.

·         Implemented and compared various machine learning (Boosting based) models.

·         Improved Precision and Recall over the generative models – culminating in a conference publication.

Research Intern. Language Translation and Research Center (LTRC), IIIT Hyderabad, India                                             2002 & 2003

Worked on various research projects in the area of Natural Language Processing(NLP)/Machine Learning(ML) during my junior and senior years.

·         Researched on the application of categorization techniques on Hindi (Indian language) news articles.

·         Developed a machine learning toolkit based on the technique of Adaptive Boosting.

·         Designed/Implemented a framework for rule/tagging based information extraction culminating in a conference publication

EDUCATION

Graduate Certificate in Technology Commercialization.                                                                                                     Fall 2007 - Current

Course taken: Intro to New Ventures(Business School), IP Law for Engineers (Law School) at University of Southern California

Master of Science, Computer Science Engineering. (GPA: 3.88)                                                                                     Fall 2003 –Fall 2005

Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA.

Bachelor of Engineering, Computer Science Engineering. (GPA: 8.2/10.0)                                                          Fall 1999 - Spring 2003

International Institute of Information Technology (IIIT-Hyderabad), A.P, INDIA.

CAREER INTERESTS – NLP/ML, System Design/Programming, Entrepreneurship, Internet

COMPUTER SKILLS

·                       Programming:                                                 C, C++, Java, Perl.

·                       Operating Systems:                                       Unix variants, Windows.

·                       Other:                                                                 mySql, JavaScript, HTML, Internet technologies.

TECHNICAL PRESENTATIONS

·         Biolog : A browser based Collaboration and Resource Navigation Assistant for Biomedical Researchers.  DILS 2005  (Data Integration in the Life Sciences), UCSD, California.

·         Supertagging nodes of a dependency tree at ICON-2004 (International Conference on Natural Language Processing) which was based on my work at AT&T Research Labs.

·         Approximate Grammars for Information Extraction at ICUKL 2002 (International Conference on Universal Knowledge and Language) conducted by IIT Bombay and the UNDL Foundation, Geneva.

REFERENCES – Available upon request.