About Me
Summary
Hi there! My name is Pravin Paratey and I am a graduate from Indian Institute of Technology Bombay where I did my Bachelors in Computer Science. Following that, I worked in a number of startups building systems to extract information from structured as well as unstructured text. Some of the things I built are,
- Natural Language Processing - Custom parsers, custom rules engines and grammars.
- Parsers - Deterministic & Non-deterministic finite state automata based parsers for HTML & XML. Also built an elementary javascript parser for evaluating a very limited subset of javascript.
- Search Engines - both vertical and organic.
- Crawlers - both open and closed crawlers.
Currently
I am currently the CTO of Affectv, an advertising technology company that specialises in Social Targeting.
Research & Teaching
My research interests are in the domain of Natural Language Processing and Information Extraction. Lately, I have started working in Graph Theory.
I enjoy teaching and I have taken guest lectures on Linux, Natural Language Processing and Probability theory. I have also taught elementary math to school children.
Contact
Feel free to email me at pravinp@gmail.com
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Credits
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