Experience

Research Scientist

Knowledge Graph Science Team

Yahoo Research

Mountain View, CA
Working on developing state-of-the-art deep learning approaches to entity matching and entity reconciliation for the Yahoo Knowledge Graph.
Supervisors: Nicolas Torzec, Director of Research Engineering

Research Scientist

Ad Targeting Team

Yahoo Research

Mountain View, CA
Designed, developed and deployed low-latency algorithms for extreme multi-label classification (XMLC), enabling large-scale interest-based / conversion-based audience targeting in a real-time setting.
Supervisors:
• Jimmy Yang, Senior Director of Research
• Yifan Hu, Senior Director of Research
• Narayan Bhamidipati, Senior Director of Research

Research Assistant

Department of Computer & Information Sciences

Temple University

Philadelphia, PA
Developed cascades of convolutional neural networks and applied them to categorizing abnormal (anomalious) events in power systems based on synchrophasor measurements.
Supervisors: Zoran Obradovic, Laura H. Carnell Professor of Data Analytics at Temple University

Intern Scientist

Targeting, Insights and Measurement Team

Yahoo Research, Verizon Media

Remote (Philadelphia, PA)
Developed a multi-scale graph embedding approach for extreme multi-label classification (XMLC), aimed at selecting relevant items from a large number of possible outputs, while automatically categorizing the outputs into hierarchically nested groups. Apart from demonstrating superior performance compared to other factorization machine-based models on public benchmark datasets, the approach was also leveraged for joint conversion prediction across hundreds of predictive audiences.
Supervisors: Narayan Bhamidipati, Senior Director of Research

Research Assistant

Department of Computer & Information Sciences

Temple University

Philadelphia, PA
Worked on (1) spatiotemporal graph modeling for autonomous navigation of drone swarms in GPS-denied environments as a part of a project with the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL); and (2) Big Data Synchrophasor Monitoring and Analytics for Resiliency Tracking (BDSMART), a project funded by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE).
Supervisors: Zoran Obradovic, Laura H. Carnell Professor of Data Analytics at Temple University

Intern Scientist

Targeting, Insights and Measurement Team

Yahoo Research, Verizon Media

Sunnyvale, CA
Developed a Time-Aware Sequential Autoencoder (TASA) to generate time-preserving user embeddings from sequences of user activities, irrespective of the downstream task. The generated embeddings were intended to be seamlessly applicable across different user-related prediction tasks, thus saving redundant efforts that some of the company teams put into task-driven feature engineering. TASA has been integrated into a pipeline designed to provide time-aware user embeddings as a service, and the use of its embeddings obtained lifts in conversion prediction performance on four different user audiences.
Supervisors: Narayan Bhamidipati, Senior Director of Research

Research Assistant

Department of Computer & Information Sciences

Temple University

Philadelphia, PA
Worked on two projects: Disease Detection and Disease Progression Modeling (funded by IQVIA) and Clinical Decision Support System (CDSS) for Multiple Choice Ranking in Cancer Comorbidity (funded by KAUST).
Supervisors: Zoran Obradovic, Laura H. Carnell Professor of Data Analytics at Temple University

Visiting Scholar

Department of Computer & Information Sciences

Temple University

Philadelphia, PA
Worked on structured machine learning on attributed graphs, with a particular focus on designing graphical models based on Conditional Random Fields (CRFs), applicable to static as well as temporal graphs.
Supervisors: Zoran Obradovic, Laura H. Carnell Professor of Data Analytics at Temple University

Machine Learning Researcher

Research Center for Computer Science and Information Technologies

Macedonian Academy of Sciences and Arts

Skopje, Macedonia
  • Design of a novel collaborative ensemble framework that integrates Bagging and Boosting ensembles, while facilitating data exchange between their base classifiers to improve the predictive stability and accuracy of the combined ensemble.
  • Multiplex/multilayer graph analysis of power grid networks and development of graphlet-based embedding methods for efficient semi-structured graph learning.
Supervisors: Acad. Dr. Ljupco Kocarev, Director of the Research Center for Computer Science and Information Technologies at the Macedonian Academy of Sciences and Arts, and Professor Emeritus at FCSE – Skopje

Researcher-Developer

NI TEKNA - Intelligent Technologies

Skopje, Macedonia
Worked on two computer vision projects: 1) Design and implementation of a face recognition system based on a multinomial classification ensemble of neural networks; and 2) Real-time 3D object segmentation using Microsoft Kinect.
Supervisors: Andrea Kulakov, Professor at FCSE – Skopje and Founder of NI TEKNA – Intelligent Technologies