- Name : Arun Iyer
- Current Position :
- Principal Applied Scientist at Microsoft Research Lab India from Sep 2018 - Present
- Senior Applied Scientist at Microsoft Research Lab India from Oct 2016 - Aug 2018
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In the Past :
- PhD Candidate at IIT Bombay, 2011 - 2016
- 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)
- Coursera: Game Theory, Game Theory II: Advanced Applications, Model Thinking
- Udacity: Deep Learning
- Interned at Google, Mountain View from April 2015 - July 2015
- Interned at Yahoo! Labs, Barcelona from Oct 2014 - Jan 2015
- Research Scholar at Yahoo! Labs, Bangalore, 2011 - 2014
- 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
- PhD Candidate at IIT Bombay, 2011 - 2016
- 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