Experience

MICROSOFT RESEARCH LAB by zaher nourredine

• India
• Hospitals and Health Care
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Research Fellow

  • Sep 2020 - Present

  • Working with Manik Verma and Purushottam Kar on building new architectures for personalizing recommendation systems. • Working closely with Bing Ads team to deploy these new algorithms into current production systems. Improved CTR by 4% over production systems. • Working with Soumen Chakrabarti from IITB on using GNN architectures to use graphical meta data in eXtreme Classification models • Working with Manik Verma and Purushottam Kar on building new architectures for personalizing recommendation systems. • Working closely with Bing Ads team to deploy these new algorithms into current production systems. Improved CTR by 4% over production systems. • Working with Soumen Chakrabarti from IITB on using GNN architectures to use graphical meta data in eXtreme Classification models



MICROSOFT RESEARCH LAB by zaher nourredine

• India
• Hospitals and Health Care
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Research Intern

  • Jan 2020 - Jul 2020

  Worked with Nipun Kwatra, Ramachandran Ramjee and Muthian Sivathanu on video understanding using Transformers/BERT. • Adapted the BERT architecture to multi-modal video data and worked on BERTology for videos. Worked with Nipun Kwatra, Ramachandran Ramjee and Muthian Sivathanu on video understanding using Transformers/BERT. • Adapted the BERT architecture to multi-modal video data and worked on BERTology for videos.



International Institute of Information Technology Hyderabad (IIITH)

• India
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Teaching Assistant

  • Aug 2017 - Jan 2020

  For the course "Game Design and Engineering". Taught basics of Game Design and Game Development platforms like Unity and Unreal Engine.For the course "Science 1" and "Science 2"Taught basics of Scientific Computing and Simulation Softwares like Gromacs and NAMD.

• Undergraduate Researcher

  • Aug 2016 - Dec 2019



Freie Universität Berlin

• Germany
• Research Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Research Intern

  • May 2019 - Aug 2019

  Worked with Dr. Frank Noe to create a Deep CNN model for automatic segmentation and 3D construction of X-ray tomograms. Worked with Dr. Frank Noe to create a Deep CNN model for automatic segmentation and 3D construction of X-ray tomograms.



SmartLiveIn

• Hyderabad Area, India

• Software Development Intern

  • Jul 2017 - Sep 2017

  • Designed and developed an efficient customer notification system for the admins which is scalable using AWS Lambda and nodeJS. • Built a chatbot for handling queries on Messenger using AWS Lex. • Designed and developed an efficient customer notification system for the admins which is scalable using AWS Lambda and nodeJS. • Built a chatbot for handling queries on Messenger using AWS Lex.



Kudupudi Systems

• Hyderabad Area, India

• Software Development Intern

  • Aug 2016 - Nov 2016

  • Built a Job Recommendation Engine from scratch which was both scalable and fast using Apache Solr and MongoDB. • Achieved 30% faster query times compared to the older system on over 100,000 dataset size. • Built a Job Recommendation Engine from scratch which was both scalable and fast using Apache Solr and MongoDB. • Achieved 30% faster query times compared to the older system on over 100,000 dataset size.