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http://www.cs.utexas.edu/∼shobhit
Shobhit Chaurasia
E DUCATION
Aug 2015 - May 2017
The University of Texas at Austin, USA
MS in Computer Science (GPA: 3.72/4.0)
2011 - 2015
Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, India
B.Tech in Computer Science & Engineering (GPA: 9.22/10.0)
E XPERIENCE
Graduate Research Assistant, Department of Computer Science, UT Austin
Fall 2016
Natural Language to Code
(Supervisor: Dr. Raymond Mooney)
Developing a semantic parser for converting natural language descriptions of tasks into simple, executable
computer code, by engaging the user in a dialog to understand the intent.
Engineering Intern, BloomReach, Mountain View, California
Summer 2016
Built a web platform where e-commerce merchants can dynamically configure widgets (like Related Products) to be displayed on their websites. Designed a REST API to request and render these widgets.
Graduate Research Assistant, School of Information, UT Austin
Spring 2016
Active Classifier Evaluation
(Supervisor: Dr. Matthew Lease)
Explored Bayesian Hierarchical models in an Active Learning setting to model classifiers’ performance with
the aim of minimizing the set of labeled test examples to induce a ranking over the classifiers.
Research Intern, Adobe Systems, India
Summer 2014
Automatic detection & reinforcement of thin regions & joints in 3D models for improved 3D printability.
H ACKATHONS Convers - Multi-lingual chat application for Windows Phone (Runner-up)
Nov 2014
Microsoft Code.Fun.Do Hackathon
Devices were paired using QR Code or NFC. Paired users could converse in their respective languages.
Steer - Windows Phone as Gamepad (Winner)
Microsoft Code.Fun.Do Hackathon
Mobile device was used as a generic gamepad for playing racing games on Windows PC.
P ROJECTS
Nov 2013
Synonymy and Antonymy Detection in Distributional Models
Spring 2016
Proposed and tested the Distributional Sentiment Hypothesis that looks at broader tonal contexts to identify
synonyms and antonyms in a Distributional setting. [code]
Fault Tolerant Distributed Chat-room
Fall 2015
Developed a distributed chat-room to maintain a consistent chat-log among replicas of servers in an asynchronous environment in the presence of faults. The Paxos protocol was used. [code]
Detection and Tracking of Events using Twitter
Fall 2014, Spring 2015
Used Topic Models to cluster related tweets by topics for extracting instances of real-world events. [code]
DASH - Distributed Alignment of Sequences using Hash
Spring 2015
Alignment of millions of DNA sequences using a 90 GB genome index on a MapReduce platform. [code]
webGrep - Search Engine
Fall 2014
Built a search engine in Python on a 20 GB index of 1.6 million webpages for ranked retrieval. [code]
A CADEMIC
AWARDS
Top 8% in Santander Customer Satisfaction competition on Kaggle among 5100 teams.
Part of a 3 member team which qualified for ACM-ICPC Regionals twice (2013 & 2014).
T ECHNICAL
S KILLS
Generic: C++, Python, Java, Scala
Statistics/Analytics related: R, TensorFlow, NLTK, Probabilistic Programming (PyMC, Stan)
Web related: HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Django, AngularJS, Play Framework
C OURSES
NLP
Data Mining
Machine Learning
Reinforcement Learning
Information Retrieval
Artificial Intelligence
Algorithms
Distributed Systems
Probability
Optimization
E XTRA Won 1st prize in Overnight Astronomy Problem competition at IITG.
C URRICULARS Member of National Sports Organization (NSO), IIT Guwahati in Swimming team from 2011 - 2013.