Areas of Expertise: • Machine learning, data mining, predictive modeling, and graph theory with applications in information retrieval, recommender systems, natural language processing and topic modeling. • Software: Python, R, C++, Mongo DB, Gephi, Matlab Interested in solving, building, learning and teaching. Excited about math, art, society, media and politics.

Data Scientist @ From August 2014 to Present (1 year 3 months) San Francisco, CAPostdoctoral Scholar @ From October 2013 to July 2014 (10 months) Greater Los Angeles AreaAcademic Mentor @ From June 2013 to August 2013 (3 months) Greater Los Angeles AreaPhD Candidate @ From 2007 to 2013 (6 years) Los Angeles, CAAcademic Mentor @ From June 2012 to August 2012 (3 months) Greater Los Angeles AreaTeaching Assistant @ From September 2008 to June 2012 (3 years 10 months) Research Associate - Summer Internship @ From July 2011 to September 2011 (3 months) Palo Alto, CA

Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Electrical Engineering, Signals and Systems, 3.94 @ University of California, Los Angeles From 2007 to 2013 Masters, Electrical Engineering - Signals and Systems, 3.93 @ University of California, Los Angeles From 2005 to 2007 BS, Electrical Engineering @ University of California, Los Angeles From 2002 to 2005 Roja Bandari is skilled in: Python, Data Mining, Machine Learning, R, Mathematical Modeling, Information Retrieval, LaTeX, C++, Research, Linux, MongoDB, Teaching, Signal Processing, Data Analysis, Statistics, Matlab, Recommender Systems, Optimization