Dhruv Khattar

Software Engineer

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada8 yrs 3 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Gold Medallist in Computer Science from IIIT Hyderabad
Experience in Computational Journalism and Information Retrieval
Mentored students in Google Summer of Code

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Software Engineer with expertise in Machine Learning and Information Retrieval.

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BashCC++Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)Deep LearningDjangoGNU/LinuxHTMLInformation RetrievalMachine LearningMySQLNatural Language Processing (NLP)OpenGLPythonWeb2py

About

Currently working with Microsoft as a Software Development Engineer. B.Tech and MS by Research in Computer Science from International Institute of Information Technology Hyderabad (Gold Medallist). Worked under Prof. Vasudeva Varma and Dr Manish Gupta in Information Retrieval and Extraction Laboratory on aspects of Computational Journalism like News Recommendation, Clickbait Detection, Fact Checking, and Fake News Detection. Former SDE at Amazon Web Services. Former Intern at NCS CorpLabs. Former Adobe Product Development Intern. Former GSoC mentor and developer for Scilab. My interests include information retrieval, natural language processing, machine learning, and deep learning.

Experience

Microsoft

Software Engineer II

Nov 2022 – Present · 3 yrs 4 mos · Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Amazon web services (aws)

2 roles

Software Development Engineer II

Promoted

Apr 2022 – Nov 2022 · 7 mos

Software Development Engineer

Feb 2020 – Apr 2022 · 2 yrs 2 mos

Ncs group

Intern

Mar 2019 – Jun 2019 · 3 mos · Singapore

Worked in CorpLabs under Product R&D department of NCS. My work was mainly on the Natural Language Understanding part of Conversational AI.

Iiit hyderabad

4 roles

Research Assistant

Jan 2019 – Jun 2019 · 5 mos

Worked under Prof. Vasudeva Varma and Dr. Manish Gupta in Information Retrieval and Extraction Laboratory on Computational Journalism.

Teaching Assistant

Aug 2018 – Dec 2018 · 4 mos

Teaching Assistant for Information Retrieval and Extraction course. Responsibilities include holding tutorial session, setting assignment problems and mentoring students on their IRE projects.

Teaching Assistant

Jan 2018 – May 2018 · 4 mos

Teaching Assistant for Database Systems course. Responsibilities included holding tutorial sessions, setting assignment problems and checking their assignments and exams.

Teaching Assistant

Aug 2017 – Dec 2017 · 4 mos

Teaching Assistant for Algorithms course. Responsibilities include holding tutorial sessions and setting assignment problems.

Scilab enterprises

Google Summer of Code Mentor

May 2018 – Aug 2018 · 3 mos

Mentored three students in the Google Summer of Code program. The projects included:
Improving the code quality of Scilab codebase by reducing memory issues.
Create a MacOS signed app(DMG).
Write a working Demo for the Matlab Mex modules present in Scilab. The Matlab MEX-Files is an API which is a wrapper on the current API Scilab.

Adobe

Product Development Intern

May 2018 – Aug 2018 · 3 mos · Noida Area, India

Worked on a machine learning project ”Unboxing Neural Networks through Adversarial Perturbations”.
Analyzed why adversarial examples exist and how we could detect such examples to make a more robust system.
Proposed a novel training routine to increase the robustness of Machine Learning systems, filed a patent for the same.

Scilab enterprises

2 roles

Google Summer of Code Mentor

May 2017 – Aug 2017 · 3 mos

Mentored two projects which included developing Machine Learning features in Scilab and to provide a wrapper of Matlab MEX files on the Scilab API.

Google Summer of Code Intern

May 2016 – Aug 2016 · 3 mos

I worked on a project project which dealt with solving memory issues faced by the
Scilab codebase. The aim of the project was to make Scilab memory safe.