Danish
Contact
Information
300 South Craig Street
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
Phone: +1 (412) 819-8046
E-mail: danish@cmu.edu
Links: Webpage, Github
Education
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh
Masters in Language Technologies (MLT) at LTI, School of Computer Science
2016 - present
Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS), Pilani; Pilani, India
2011 - 2015
Bachelor of Engineering (Hons.), Computer Science
Thesis on “Auto-suggesting Search Queries over Emails” at Microsoft Research India
Research
Experience
Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India
Research Assistant (Advisor: Dr. Partha Pratim Talukdar)
June, 2015 - June, 2016
I worked broadly on representation learning, question answering and user-generated content analysis
Question Answering : Helped build a framework that attempted 8th grade multiple choice science
questions using various retrieval, inference, statistical and deep learning models.
[Demo]
Content Analysis : Studied Reddit forums and Yahoo! Answers to understand factors that constitute
a good question that is more likely to elicit a response
[Blog, Paper]
Microsoft Research, Bangalore, India
Research Intern (With Applied Science and Engineering Group)
Jan, 2015 - June, 2015
Built the auto-complete module for “InLook”, that suggests quick, personalized and ranked completions for possible search queries over emails. It also precomputed and pruned the search space.
Gymneus, Vienna, Austria
Research Developer and Freelancer
Jan, 2014 - Nov, 2014
Designed Maxxyt - a wearable device that counts repetitive movements. The device successfully
counts repetitions within ±2 range 98% of the time, with a miss count rate of 4.3%. [Demo, Paper]
Industry
Experience
Google, Hyderabad, India
Software Engineering Intern
May, 2014 - July, 2014
Developed a cloud based tool to migrate calendar events from MS Exchange to Google Calendar
Global Logic, India
Software Engineering Intern
May, 2013 - July, 2013
Developed a Kinect App. that helps users interact with physical surfaces using hand gestures
Publications
Danish, Yogesh Dahiya and Partha Talukdar. “Discovering Response-Eliciting Factors in
Social Question Answering” Proceedings of 10th International AAAI Conference on Web and
Social Medial (ICWSM-16, Cologne (Germany)) [Acceptance Rate : 17%]
[Blog, Paper]
Danish Pruthi, Ayush Jain, KrishnaMurthy Jatavallabhula, Ruppesh Nalwaya, and Puneet Teja.
“Maxxyt: An Autonomous Wearable Device for Real-time Tracking of a Wide Range
of Exercises.” Proceedings of 17th UKSIM-AMSS, International Conference on Modelling and
Simulation. (UKSim 2015, Cambridge)
[Demo, Paper]
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Comparing Active and Passive Learning Models
[Results]
Compared Active and Passive learning models for a binary text classification problem that classifies
Course Projects
the content as appropriate or inappropriate for children. Achieved up to 90% accuracy on test data
Parallel Implementation of Branch and Bound Algorithms
[Source]
Implemented Branch and Bound Algorithms to solve NP hard problems on a cluster of workstations.
Compared Shared Memory Model, Message Passing Interface and Hybrid Model
LCS using Map Reduce
[Source]
For a given collection of text documents, computed an intersection of content by taking pair-wise
LCS of documents, using Map-Reduce paradigm.
Similar Profile Extraction
The tool scrapes various programming websites and extracts problems solved by high rated programmers who previously had a similar background, with an intent to boost users' learning curve
Teaching
• Organized Competitive Programming Special Interest Group lectures, at BITS Pilani. Personally
delivered lectures spanning advanced data structures, and algorithms from graph and game theory
• Conducted similar workshops in sister campuses of BITS Goa and BITS Hyderabad
Honors and
Awards
• Awarded the KVPY Scholarship in 2011. (Fellowship awarded by Dept. of Science and Technology, Government of India to around 500 students all over India, each year)
• Stood 1st in International Coding League, and 1st in Anti Coding a code obfuscation challenge
at Apogee, technical fest of BITS Pilani
• Secured 4th rank in ACM-ICPC Overnite Programming Contest at IIT Kharagpur, 2014 (Asia
Region)
• Secured 32nd Rank among 1600 teams in ACM-ICPC Amritapuri Online Contest 2014 and 40th
Rank among 410 teams in ACM-ICPC Amritapuri Regionals 2013
• Certified as among Top 1% (300 students) in India, to appear for Indian National Physics
Olympiad (INPhO), 2011.
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