Denys Katerenchuk Ph.D. Student in Computer Science denys.katerenchuk@gmail.com +1 (201) 463-9063 www.dk-lab.com Work-Research Interests Natural Language Processing, Machine Learning, Data Science, Algorithms Work Experience • Research Assistant - Natural Language Processing (adviser A. Rosenberg) Speech Lab @ Queens College, CUNY - New York, NY, USA speech.cs.qc.cuny.edu Sept 2012 – Current – – – – Deliver software for DEFT, one of the most prominent projects at CUNY, funded by DARPA Invented a new measure RankDCG for evaluation and comparison of rank-ordering algorithms Created algorithms for user hierarchy detection in text communications Developed stock market system to forecast price based on social media analysis and ensemble learning that produces an over 85% prediction rate – Designed new algorithms to improve named entity recognition in speech with 6% absolute improvement over state-of-the-art algorithms performance – Created algorithms for interpersonal relationship prediction in speech that achieve over 75% accuracy – Developed soft tree based machine learning algorithms for emotion detection in speech • Research Assistant (adviser E. Borodin) Artificial Intelligence Lab at Stony Brook University, SUNY – Stony Brook, NY, USA Jan 2012- Aug 2012 – Implemented multi-touch control algorithms for Hearsay project • Financial Web Portal - Software Developer EPAM Systems – Kiev, Ukraine www.epam.com Jul 2008 – May 2009 – Optimized legacy code and algorithms to increase productivity and decrease execution time – Designed and implemented unit tests that provide full check for stock trading operations • Research Team - Software Developer EPAM Systems – Kiev, Ukraine www.epam.com Nov 2007 – Jul 2008 – Conducted research on prospective technologies – Led educational conferences for EPAM’s employees – Consulted for EPAM’s projects on implementation of new technologies Publications • Denys Katerenchuk, Andrew Rosenberg, “Improving Named Entity Recognition with Prosodic Features”, Interspeech, 2014, Singapore • Denys Katerenchuk, David Guy Brizan, Andrew Rosenberg, “Was that your mother on the phone?”: Classifying Interpersonal Relationships between Dialog Participants with Lexical and Acoustic Properties”, Interspeech, 2014, Singapore Teaching Experience • The Graduate Center - CUNY (www.gc.cuny.edu) – TA, CSC 84010, Advanced Natural Language Processing (PhD level course) • Hunter College - CUNY (www.hunter.cuny.edu) – Adjunct Lecturer, CSCI121 Money and Computers – Adjunct Lecturer, CSCI127 Introduction to Computer Science – Adjunct Lecturer, CSCI120 Introduction to Computers • Stony Brook University - SUNY (www.stonybrook.edu) – TA, CSE114 Introduction to Java programming Education • The Graduate Center - CUNY New York, NY, USA www.gc.cuny.edu Sept 2012 – current – Ph.D., Computer Science • Stony Brook University - SUNY Stony Brook, NY, USA www.stonybrook.edu Jan 2012 - Aug 2012 – M.S., Computer Science – Transferred to a PhD program at CUNY • Khmelnitsky National University of Ukraine Khmelnitsky, Ukraine www.khnu.km.ua Sept 2006 – Jul 2007 – M.S., Computer Science • Khmelnitsky National University of Ukraine Khmelnitsky, Ukraine – B.S., Computer Science Committees • Member of the scientific committee for LREC2016 conference (reviewer) Technical Skills • Programming Languages – Python, Java, C#, C/C++, R, SQL, HTML, XML • Software & Technologies – Database: MySQL, Microsoft SQL Server, MongoDB – Platforms: Linux, Unix, Mac OS, Microsoft Windows, Android, IOS – Tools: WEKA, scikit-learn, openSMILE, KALDI, NLTK, Sun Grid Engine www.khnu.km.ua Sept 2002 – Jul 2006