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Before joining CMU, I worked 4 years with Yahoo as a Research Engineer. I am here to gauge what new technologies can be build by combining NLP and Machine Learning.
 
Before joining CMU, I worked 4 years with Yahoo as a Research Engineer. I am here to gauge what new technologies can be build by combining NLP and Machine Learning.
  
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=== Superpowers ===
 
=== Superpowers ===

Revision as of 15:29, 5 September 2011

Anirudh Koul

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Who am I and Why I am here

Hello there, I am Koul (Pronounced 'Cool') from Canada. I am a Masters students in the Very Large Information Systems program (between LTI & ISR).


Before joining CMU, I worked 4 years with Yahoo as a Research Engineer. I am here to gauge what new technologies can be build by combining NLP and Machine Learning.

External Homepage

Superpowers

  • Can function sanely in -40 Degree weather, and still keep continuing experimentation.
  • Have crashed IBM Watson : Proof
  • Have developed 3 Question Answering systems, once personally, then under Dr Eric Nyberg and later under Dr Noah Smith.


Random Notes

  • Once ran a triathlon with a broken toe bone, just to look better than an MTV VJ right behind me, who was being captured on camera all along.
  • Have a photo site with over a million visitors, 2000 sites currently using my Creative Commons licensed photos, including New York Times, Wikipedia, Yahoo Homepages, ABC News, Lifehacker, Consumerist, The Economist, ReadWriteWeb, Ars Technica, etc. Photogallery