More than 7 years of working experience in Machine Learning research and development in various domains - long-short equity hedge fund, social networks, search engine.

Data Scientist @ From August 2015 to Present (5 months) SingaporeHead of Machine Learning @ Aidyia Ltd is a hedge-fund that uses artificial intelligence techniques to forecast price movements in capital markets. • Designed three proprietary machine learning based trading strategies; these form the core of the current trading system. I was solely responsible for their conceptualization, development and evaluation, while closely working with the CTO. • Designed a proprietary engine to combine trading signals from multiple strategies using market conditions as a key input. • Improvised upon a key existing proprietary machine learning trading algorithm. From March 2013 to June 2015 (2 years 4 months) Research Engineer @ • Part of Yahoo! Web Search Content Classification team. • Developed five high performance text page classifiers to improve the search results for shopping related user queries. • Developed efficient algorithms for learning from positive and unlabeled examples to reduce the human annotation efforts required in building a training dataset. From June 2007 to April 2010 (2 years 11 months) Technical Associate @ • Part of the transition team, which took over the development work for BRMS (Business Rule Management System) from Versata Inc. after it is acquired by Trilogy. • Owned one of the core components Workbench of BRMS. The Workbench provides an authoring environment for creating business objects and defining transaction and data rules on them. • Designed and implemented new features to let users of workbench create new data types and inherit one business object from other. From August 2005 to May 2007 (1 year 10 months)

Master of Philosophy (MPhil), Computer Science and Engineering, 3.5 @ The Chinese University of Hong Kong From 2010 to 2012 Masters + Bachelors, Computer Science and Engineering, 3.6 @ Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay From 2000 to 2005