Shashank Sonkar

CEO

Orlando, Florida, United States4 yrs 7 mos experience

Highly Stable

Key Highlights

Expert in AI reasoning and computational modeling.
Developed scalable ad targeting technologies.
Experienced in data mining and NLP applications.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Backend-focused AI Researcher in Ad Tech.

Contact

shashanksonkar29@gmail.com LinkedIn

Skills

Core Skills

Data MiningNlp

Other Skills

AlgorithmsC++Data StructuresHBaseJavaLaTeXLinuxNettyProgrammingVim

About

Shashank Sonkar is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Central Florida and a faculty member at the UCF Institute of Artificial Intelligence. His research focuses on understanding and advancing AI reasoning capabilities and computational modeling of human cognition. This research transforms personalization technologies across multiple fields, with education being a critical domain where these systems can identify knowledge gaps and deliver contextually appropriate guidance to learners at scale.

Experience

University of central florida

Assistant Professor

Aug 2025 – Present · 7 mos

Media.net

Software Developer

Jun 2013 – Jun 2017 · 4 yrs · India

1. Crawling infrastructure which scales for millions of calls per day using Netty
2. Background data storage using Hbase
3. Data Mining for finding DOM patterns within publisher domains for effective ad targetting
4. Finding relevant ad keywords to display on webpages using its crawled content using NLP techniques.

NettyHBaseData MiningNLP