Research Associate
Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar
Total years of experience :1 years, 7 Months
- Setup & benchmarked 4 state-of-the-art parallel/distributed graph analytics platforms on a 40 node cluster:
- GraphPad (Distributed GraphMat), Graphlab PowerGraph, GraphX (on Spark) and Giraph.
- Deployed Hadoop (v1 & v2), including HDFS, MapReduce, and YARN (for Giraph and GraphX).
- Evaluated several common graph analytics application benchmarks on multiple real world big data graphs:
- incl. Wikipedia (50 million edges), Weibo (250 million edges), Twitter (1.5 billion edges).
- Aided in research on crowd sourced video streaming apps, 360 video players, GearVR apps.
- Developed accelerometer based webpage to display wide pictures using Three.js
- Built rudimentary video player app for the Samsung GearVR using Unity
- Worked with open source Workflow Management Systems (Pinball, Airlfow).
- Visualised ZeroAccesss Botnet Traffic with D3.
- Classified malware based on common domain communication*
- Analyzed a ~50000 node graph containing ~1.2 Million edges to understand graph's false positives*
* using Neo4j's graph database and its graph visualisation tool
- Downloaded/Mined Wikipedia SQL dumps to extract language-language title pairs.
- Wrote scripts to locate, download, extract and combine language-language subtitles.
- Wrote scripts to use BabelNet's API in order to download senses of given words.
- Wrote basic code to extract hardcoded subtitles off video screenshots.
Maintained computer labs and ensured they are ready for use.
Mounted Roaming Accounts for new and visiting professors.
Troubleshot Laptop and office computer problems.
June 2012 June 2013