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Vasudeva Varma Kalidindi Associate Professor International Institute of Information Technology Gachibowli, Hyderabad – 500 032 vv @ iiit.ac.in
Over Seventeen years of software development and research and teaching experience in Natural Language Processing (NLP), Information Extraction (IE), Search Engines technologies as well as knowledge management, software engineering. Architected, designed and developed systems using Client/Server and Object-Oriented technologies in broad range of platforms, environments and applications.
EDUCATION
Ph.D. in Artificial Intelligence - NLP, Dept. of Computer and Information Sciences, Central University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad, India. 1996.
Masters in Computer Applications, Goa University, Goa, India. 1991, First Rank.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
July 2005 – Current Associate Professor November 2002 – June 2005 Assistant Professor International Institute of Information Technology (IIIT), Hyderabad
Besides teaching courses in the broad areas of software engineering, Information extraction, content and knowledge management and conducting research in the areas of search, knowledge management and information extraction. The following are some of the highlights of my academic career:
· Heading the Search and information extraction Lab in Language Technologies Research Centre · Heading Software Engineering Research lab · Chairman of the industry relations committee (2003-2006) · Member, Board of Governors of two engineering colleges · Obtained Young Scientist award and grant from Department of Science and Technology, Government of India, for my proposal on personalized search engines. · Received Research Faculty Award grant from AOL Labs · Various conference organizations including IJCAI-2007, IJCNLP-2008, ISEC-2008, ICON series, CSEET · Brought-in some innovative and non-conventional teaching methodologies to the class room like teaching software engineering through case studies, role playing etc. · Developed new courses on content and knowledge management and advanced topics in software engineering · Working on a book of case studies in software engineering working with some of the major software companies. · Technology and technology management consultant and corporate trainer in the areas of knowledge management, information retrieval and software engineering. Some of the past and present clientele include: Citicorp, Muze Inc, MediaCognition, Satyam, STQC, and Road Transport Authority, Government of Andhra Pradesh.
Oct 2001 – October 2002 President, MediaCognition India Private Limited, Hyderabad, India Chief Architect, MediaCognition Inc., Cupertino, CA, USA
MediaCognition, Inc.’s mission is to be the market leader in building intelligent engines for rich media business applications such as customer self-help, customer self-service, and customer self-learning – where a large volume of streaming media is created and needs to be managed to be made available worldwide. MediaCognition aims to build the next generation of automated multimedia categorization and indexing technologies that can support highly efficient and intuitive conversational searches that produce results with high relevancy
Some of my primary responsibilities at MediaCognition were: · Setting up and running the development center in Hyderabad · Architect and monitor the development of technology · Assist in the funding process · Coordinate the company funded research work being done at various universities · Identify and license key technologies from academic and industry environments to develop cutting edge technologies in rich media asset management area.
Oct 1997 – Oct 2001 Director, Engineering and Research InfoDream Corporation, Santa Clara, CA, USA.
· Responsible for proving vision and directing the development of InfoDream’s products. · Managed four teams (three in the USA and one in India) · Lead the teams that delivered high quality products within budgets and deadlines. · Played a key role in defining strategy and identifying product features and in repositioning the company’s technology development for human capital and knowledge management areas. · Co-invented five patents in extraction technologies and content/knowledge management. · Responsible for customer care, coordination with sales and marketing teams, studying the competition, assisting in the funding activity, guiding the development teams. · Conceptualized, architected, designed and developed major portion of the extraction software called XtractionXpert.
Aug 1996 - Sept 1997, Senior Consultant. Ascent Computing Group - White Plains, NY, USA.
I was consulting at Citicorp, NYC (May 1997 - Oct 1997) and at Muze Inc., NYC (Sept 1996 - April 1997)
At Citicorp I maintained and enhanced a very important private banking application. Major part of the work is Re-engineering the existing application by obtaining the data and the object models from the source code using software re-engineering techniques and tools. An enhanced object model for the current application is designed. Continuous support for running the old application is provided.
At Muze Inc., I designed and developed a multimedia system for managing music, video, and books related information. The system provides information about phonolog and videolog, a huge data repository of music and video respectively.
Aug 1993 - Aug 1996 CSIR, Govt. of India, Senior Research Fellow.
I conducted research at University of Hyderabad with funding from CSIR (Council for Scientific and Industrial Research) for an advanced degree on a metaphor interpretation model that can process major non-literal sentences. This model, which is applicable to all human languages, parses the sentence using a semantic processor that makes use of linguistic and extra-linguistic knowledge. This model involves schema for representing knowledge at morphological, lexical, syntactic, semantic and pragmatic levels.
June 1991 - Aug 1993 Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering, IIT Kanpur, India Project Engineer
Real world Machine Translation System: Key member of the development team that built first ever real world machine translation system that works between any two relatively free word order languages. This system was tested for all major languages in India. My work includes development of morphological analyzer, parser, lexicon, and customization of the natural language generator.
Jan 1991 - May 1991 National Center for Software Technology, India
I was a team member of a project on “Machine Translation System for news stories from English to Hindi”. I participated in the development of prototype machine translation system that first pre-processes incoming news stories from a leading Indian news agency, parses and stores it in an intermediate representation, which is then translated into the target language. I was involved in the development of pre-processor, morphological analyzer and lexicon maintenance modules. |
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