Abhishek Gupta

Contact Apt #105A Email: abhig@cs.stanford.edu

Information 226, Ayrshire Farm Lane WWW: http://www.stanford.edu/∼abhig
Stanford,CA Phone: +1-650-384-9400
USA

Interests Information Retrieval, Search, Machine Learning, Data Mining, Distributed Systems

Education Stanford University 2008 - 2010 Expected

Masters in Computer Science (A.I.) CGPA : 3.86/4.0
• Relevant Courses at Stanford: Data Mining, Information Retrieval and Web Search, Machine
learning, AI, NLP, Convex Optimization, Social Network Analysis
• Teaching Assistant: Data Mining (CS345a) for Winter’09, Machine Learning (CS229) for
Fall’09 , Operating Systems and Systems Programming(CS140) for Fall’08 and Winter’09

Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, India 2004 - 2008

B.Tech in Computer Science CGPA : 9.02/10.0

Work Experience Internship at Apple Inc. June’09 - Sept’09

Supervisor: Gavin Thomson, Apple Inc.
• Worked on copy-on-write and Open Cache feature of Deep Sky.
• Deep Sky is a distributed middleware that supports collaborative and Offline workflows.

Independent Study: A Hybrid approach to Netflix Challenge Jan’09 - June’09

Supervisor: Prof. Jeffrey Ullman, Stanford University
• Employed a mix of Collaborative filtering, Content based approach and global average of
movies for predicting movie ratings.
• The trade-off between them was made keeping in mind: Number of Movies rated, Deviation
of user’s rating from global average rating and Rarity of movies

Internship at INRIA/Regal Research Lab, Paris May’07 - Jul’07

Supervisor: Prof. Marc Shapiro, Research Director, INRIA/Regal
• Designed and implemented data persistence of a distributed log storage, in Java, for a middle-
ware that provides consistency services for collaborative applications.

Internship at IIT Guwahati May’06 - Jul’06

Supervisor: Prof. Gautam Barua, Director, IIT Guwahati
• Developed Web based software for Academic Section (IITG), deployed the system for main-
taining all student related activities like student registration, grade transcript evaluation
• This software architecture is now used for developing modules for all other sections of IITG

Relevant Sentiment based Summarization of Restaurant Reviews March’09 - June’09

Coursework Supervisor: Prof. Chistopher D. Manning, Stanford University
• Summarization of a restaurant review into food, ambience and service. We use aggregate
statistics to infer the most common underlying attributes of restaurants. Moreover, we also
capture infrequent but niche attributes specific to each restaurant. Finally, we infer adjectives
connotation using Wordnet.

Video Montage - Automatic Video Summarization Sept’08 - Dec’08

Supervisor: Prof. Andrew Ng, Stanford University
• Summarization and compression of videos by preserving interesting content and presentation
using new rendering and transition effects.
 Spelling Correction Engine for Jakarta Lucene Sept’07 - Dec’08
Supervisor: Prof. Chistopher D. Manning, Stanford University
• Built a spelling correction engine in Java and integrated with Jakarta Lucene (a text search
engine library) to enable more robust search on a document collection.

Classifiers for Usenet Newsgroup Messages Sept’07 - Dec’08

Supervisor: Prof. Chistopher D. Manning, Stanford University
• Implemented the Multinomial and Multivariate Naive Bayes classifiers, feature selection using
Chi-Square and KL divergence based methods, k-fold cross validation and improvements to
the Naive Bayes classifier. Experimented on the 20 newsgroups dataset.

MIDS-Multimodal Information Dissemination System Dec’06 - May’07

Supervisor: Prof. Gautam Barua, Director, IIT Guwahati
• Design & development of an effective information dissemination system for rural educational
environments.
• Poster : A. Baid, A. Gupta, P. Gupta and S. Nangia, ”Multimodal Information Dissemination
System”, Microsoft Research India TechVista Symposium, New Delhi, October 13, 2007

Computer • Extensively coded in C++, Java, Objective C, C, MySql

Skills • Comfortable with Hadoop, Hive, Aster nCluster, Python, STL, OpenCV, Lucene, PThreads
and OpenMP (Parallel Programming), JUnit, Shell Scripting
• Web Tools: Javascript, JSP, PHP, Servelets, AJAX, XML, Html/HtmlDom, CSS
• Experience of test driven development, designing using object oriented concepts and design
patterns
• Comfortable with coding for distributed systems, parallelisation and performance

Awards • Secured 3rd place in Trinity of Neo’07, National Level Programming competition, IIT Guwa-
and hati.
Honours • Won 2nd place in System32, Techniche’07, National Level competition, IIT Guwahati.
• Represented IIT Guwahati at Microsoft Embedded Systems Design Competition, 2007.
• Awarded the INRIA/Regal Summer Research Scholarship’07, INRIA/Regal, LIP6.
• Secured All India Rank 83 and State Rank 4, in the National Science Olympiad, 2002.