Senior Performance Engineer at Akamai Technologies
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Computer scientist with a strong background in algorithm design, machine learning and optimization.
During my graduate years, I have worked on designing and implementing algorithms for hard, graph based problems and studied efficiency and stability of large decentralized systems in a game theoretic framework.
I am passionate about applying mathematical and analytical skills to real world problems.
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Lead Senior Perfomance Engineer
Akamai Technologies
Nov 2015 - Current(10 years 11 months)
Research Programmer
National Bureau of Economic Research Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Jun 2012 - Jul 2015(3 years 2 months)
– Executed a combined Computer Science-Economics project to study effects of social capital and research history on academic and technology output of researchers. Goals of the project include studying the evolution of science and technology networks in the US. – Designed, implemented and administered PostgreSQL database for 31 year Web of Science publication records containing approximately 35 million papers and more than a 100 million author names. – Identified affiliations of these papers to top US universities and firms. – Designed, implemented and tested unsupervised graph clustering algorithm to identify individual authors in Web of Science database. – Designed and implemented heuristic algorithm to identify af
Research Assistant
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Aug 2009 - May 2012(2 years 10 months)
– Designed and analyzed algorithms for diffusion processes on social networks. – Carried out experimental simulations to study spread of critical information on networks generated from demographic data. – Modeled selfish behavior of Internet Service Providers using game theory to assess its impact on efficiency of the Internet. – Analyzed existence and efficiency of games on networks using flow techniques.
Teaching Assistant
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Oct 2007 - Jul 2009(1 year 10 months)
– Taught ‘Calculus for Architecture and H&SS’, ‘Data Structures and Algorithms’, and ‘Computer Algorithms’. – Conducted office hours to help students understand subject material and solve difficulties regarding homework problems. – Prepared and graded homework solutions. – Supervised programming labs for Data Structures and Algorithms.
Summer Intern
Cisco Systems
Jun 2007 - Aug 2007(3 months)
Acted as coordinator between managers in various geographical locations in order to design and build team website according to internal standards.
Education
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Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D, Computer Science
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Jan 2006 - Jan 2012(6 years 1 month)
Advisor: Dr. Elliot Anshelevich Thesis title: "Optimizing Diffusion and Pricing in Networks of Independent Agents"
Bachelor's Degree, Information Technology
University of Mumbai
Jan 2002 - Jan 2006(4 years 1 month)
Final year project: developed Honeypot combined with Intrusion Detection System using jpcap library and Snort toolkit.
Bhavans College
Bhavans College
Bhavans College
Bhavans College
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Strategic Multiway Cut and Multicut Games
Theory of Computing Systems Volume Issue Jan
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Strategic Pricing in Next-hop Routing with Elastic Demands
Theory of Computing Systems Volume Issue Jan
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Seeding Influential Nodes in Non-Submodular Models of Information Diffusion
Journal of Autonomous Agents and MultiAgent Systems accepted for publication
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Approximability of the Firefighter Problem: Computing Cuts over Time
Algorithmica Volume Issue Jan
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Partition Equilibrium Always Exists in Resource Selection Games