NITESH KEDIA

#219 625 West 1st Street, Tempe 85281, Arizona, United States | 4802525937 | nkedia1@asu.edu

EMPLOYEMENT


Graduate Research Assistant Arizona State University- CIPS Lab Summer14-present

Web Crawling (RSS Feeds, Tweets and HTML content), Data Cleaning using JAVA, MATLAB and PostgreSQL.
Research and development of various Data Mining and Machine Learning algorithms on crawled dataset.
Developing visualisation tools for the domain experts using JavaScript, HTML and CSS.

System Engineer TATA Consultancy Services Aug09 Jul13

Discussed Use-Cases and created test case based design.
Designed, developed and tested batch-jobs, messaging and user-Interface using JAVA, C++, UNIX tuxedo-8.1 APIs
and oracle SQL on Solaris-10 system.
Created Automation scripts, Productivity tools and Supported database migration.

EDUCATION



Master of Science (Computer Science: CGPA 4/4) Arizona State University (Expected) May15
Graduate Coursework: Social Media Mining, Pattern Recognition, Information Retrieval, Data Mining, Image
Processing, Distributed Software Development, Distributed Multiprocessor Operating System, Algorithms

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Bachelor of Engineering (Computer Science CGPA 8.21/10) Manipal Institute of Technology 2005- 2009

ACADEMIC PROJECTS


Search Engine: Information Retrieval, Mining and Integration (Servlets, JSP, CSS, Javascript, JQuery, Lucene)
Implemented PageRank, Authorities/Hubs, TF/IDF, K-Means, Query completion using Scalar Clustering.

Web Crawling and Network Measures: Social Media Mining (MATLAB, Twitter Rest API, C++)
Crawled Twitter network to get the user network. Applied network measures using Stanfords SNAP library.

Sentiment Analysis on Twitter Events: Social Media Mining (Python)
Gathered real time tweets based on keywords, location and hashtags and Built Nave Bayes Classifier for sentiment
analysis using Pythons NLTK library for NLP. (Accuracy 72 %)

Combining Multiple Features in Classification: Machine Learning (MATLAB)
Trained multi-class linear SVM classifier using open source library libSVM in MATLAB.
Implemented individual feature classification and fusion of classifiers, linear cascade and non-linear kernels.

RESEARCH PROJECTS


MINERVA Initiative: Topic Modeling (Javascript, HTML, JQuery, Bootstrap, MATLAB, Solr, Servlets, PostgreSQL)
Applied Text mining and machine learning algorithms to discover topics related to radical and liberal Islamic
activities on the collected data. Built visualization tool for the domain experts

Concept Discovery in database (JAVA, MATLAB, PostgreSQL)
Applied Natural Language Processing to get Triplets (Subject, Verb, and Object) on text data. Used Tensor based
matrix factorization on triplets for dimensionality reduction and clustering to discover generalized concepts.

Foresight Initiative: Discovering Chain reaction (Java, web crawling, PostgreSQL, UNIX scripting)
Discovering chain reaction due to natural phenomena causing socio-economic disruptions. Built web crawler to
collect RSS Feeds and Tweets based on Keyword and location.

LANGUAGES AND TECHNOLOGIES

Programming: Java, Python, C++, Matlab, Javascript, JSP, HTML, CSS, Servlets
Tools: Microsoft Office Suite, Eclipse, Visual Studio, iPython
Database: Oracle SQL, PL-SQL, PostgreSQL, Apache Solr
Concepts: Object oriented design, JSON, SDLC, Data structures and Algorithms, Data Mining,
Machine Learning, Information retrieval, Cross platform coding,

ADDITIONAL EXPERIENCE AND AWARDS


Graduate Service Assistant (Grader) for OOP in JAVA, Operating Systems and Computer Networks.
Awarded funding towards thesis research work in fall 2014.
Conducted training and workshops for new associates @TCS in technical and Investment Banking domain