Resume

Shubhra Kanti Karmaker Santu

SHUBHRA KANTI KARMAKER SANTU
Address: 305 E. Clark Street, Apt# 9, Champaign, Illinois 61820, United States
Contact no. +12179793244
Email # karmake2@illinois.edu
https://sites.google.com/site/kantishubhra006/

INTENDED POSITION
I am currently looking for a research intern position for summer, 2017 preferably in the field of Information Retrieval, Text
Analytics and Data Mining.

CURRENT POSITION
Graduate Research Assistant and PhD Candidate (3rd year)
Supervisor: ChengXiang Zhai
Department of Computer Science
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, US

EDUCATION
v PhD in Computer Science - (3rd year Ongoing)
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, US
CGPA: 4.00 (in a scale of 4.00) [Coursework completed]

v M. Sc in Computer Science and Engineering - (2014)

Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET), Dhaka -1000, Bangladesh
CGPA: 4.00 (in a scale of 4.00)

v B. Sc in Computer Science & Engineering - (2012)

Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET), Dhaka -1000, Bangladesh
CGPA: 3.98 (in a scale of 4.00) [Class Rank: 1 (out of 126 in the entire department) ]

RESEARCH INTEREST
v Information Retrieval
v Natural Language Processing
v Data Mining

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
v Research Assistant @UIUC CS Department [current position]
o Title: Generative Feature Language Models for Mining Implicit Features from Customer Reviews.
o Supervisor: ChengXiang Zhai
o Status: Published in CIKM 2016
v Summer Research Intern @Yahoo Research (San Francisco Bay Area) - search science group [Summer, 2016]
o Title: Modeling the Influence of Popular Trending Events on User Search Behavior.
o Mentor: Yi Chang
o Status: Submitted to WWW 2017
v Summer Research Intern @Walmart Labs (San Francisco Bay Area) - search relevance team [Summer, 2015]
o Title: Learning to rank for E-commerce search.
o Mentor: Parikshit Sondhi
o Status: Submitted to ECIR 2017
v NSF Research Project @UIUC CS Department [recently finished]
o Title: A Probabilistic Framework for Analysis of Re-identification Risks in Aggregated Data Sets
o Supervisor: Prof. ChengXiang Zhai and Prof. Carl A. Gunter
o Status: To be Submitted to SIGIR 2017
v Data Mining Consultant @Jump Trading LLC (Chicago) [current position]
o Title: Confidential and Restricted
o Supervisor: Qiaozhu Mei, Associate Professor, University of Michigan
o Status: Ongoing
v Master’s Thesis @BUET (Bangladesh) [April, 2014]
o Title: Handling Over-fitting and Class Imbalance in Learning Classifier Systems
o Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Md. Monirul Islam
o Status: Published in IEEE CEC 2014

For details of my research works, please visit: https://sites.google.com/site/kantishubhra006/ Page 1

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RESEARCH PUBLICATIONS

1. Shubhra Kanti Karmaker Santu, Parikshit Sondhi and ChengXiang Zhai. “Generative Feature Language Models for
Mining Implicit Features from Customer Reviews”. To appear in CIKM, 2016.
2. Shubhra Kanti Karmaker Santu, Md. Mustafizur Rahman, Md. Monirul Islam and Kazuyuki Murase. “Towards
better generalization in Pittsburgh Learning Classifier Systems”. In IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation
(CEC), 2014 (pp. 1666-1673).
3. Md. Mustafizur Rahman, Shubhra Kanti Karmaker Santu, Md. Monirul Islam and Kazuyuki Murase. Forecasting
Time Series - A Layered Ensemble Architecture. In International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN),
2014 (pp. 210-217). IEEE.
4. Shubhra Kanti Karmaker Santu, S. Rahman, Saikat Chakraborty , and M. Sohel Rahman, PIssGA: An ultra fast
meta-heuristic approach to solve protein inference problem. Accepted for the Proceedings of 16th International
Conference on Computer and Information Technology (ICCIT), 2013

PREVIOUS PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

v Lecturer, Department of Computer Science & Engineering, BUET, Bangladesh. May 2012 – August, 2014
v Research Assistant and Quantitative Software Developer, Stochastic logic, Dhaka, Bangladesh. April, 2012 – August,
2014

ACADEMIC AWARDS
• Crest of honor (highest CGPA in the department, presented by BUET alumni association)
• Dean’s list award (For brilliant result in each year during undergraduate program at BUET)
• University Merit Scholarship (For brilliant result in each semester of undergraduate program at BUET)
• Talent pool Board scholarship (For brilliant result in H.S.C. in Barisal Board, Bangladesh)
• General Board scholarship (For brilliant result in S.S.C. in Barisal Board, Bangladesh)

SKILLS
• Languages: C, C++, Java, Python, MATLAB, ASP, JSO, Assembly, OPENGL, Prolog
• Strong problem solving skill
• Excellent presentation skill
• Proficient in technical writing: Latex
• Self-motivated and ability to think critically
• Strong interpersonal and leadership qualities
• Ability to work both independently or in a team

EXTRA-CURRICULAR ACTIVITIES
• Several National Award winner in music, acting and recitation
• Awarded the best cricketer in junior group of inter house cricket competition (2003), Barisal cadet college
• Awarded gold medal in classical song in inter cadet college literature and music meet(ICCLMM), 2001held at Pabna
Cadet College, Rajshahi, Bangladesh

REFERENCE

Available on request

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Shubhra Kanti Karmaker Santu

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