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Name : Arun Iyer
Current Position :
- PhD Candidate at IIT Bombay, 2011 - Present
  - Autumn 2011-2012 Courses : Web Search and Mining (C), Convex Optimization (C), Foundations of Machine Learning (C), Linear Optimization (A), Applied Linear Algebra (A)
  - Spring 2011-2012 Courses : Communication Skills and Presentation (NC), Advanced Machine Learning (C), Topics in Machine Learning (A)
- Research Scholar at Yahoo! Labs, Bangalore, 2011 - Present
In the Past :
- Research Engineer at Yahoo! Labs, Bangalore, 2007 - 2011
  - Worked in areas involving : Extraction Management System, Deep Web Crawling Effort, Attribute Extraction and a specific class of Matching Problem
- Finished M.Tech from IIT Kanpur, 2005 - 2007
  - Courses Taken : Machine Learning & Knowledge Discovery (C), Category Theory (C), Computational Number Theory and Algebra (C), Data Streaming (C), Randomized Algorithms (C), Learning with Kernels (C), Topics in Bio-computing (C)
  - Thesis : Temporal Difference Learning using Online Support Vector Regression
  - Advisor : Prof. Harish Karnick
- Finished B.E from University of Mumbai, 2001 - 2005
  - Final Year Project : Neural Network Simulator
Areas of Interest : Machine Learning, Information Extraction and Information Retrieval