Manoj Chinnakotla, Ph.

D, IIT Bombay - Resume

D.No. 6-7-603 (Upstairs), Sripuram Colony, K.T.Road, Tirupati, Andhra Pradesh, India. PIN: 517507. Phone : +91 877 2231468 Mobile: +91 9177509235, +91 8421602286 E-Mail : manoj.chinnakotla@gmail.com URL : http://www.cse.iitb.ac.in/~manoj

Manoj Kumar Chinnakotla

Research Interests

Information Retrieval Natural Language Processing Machine Learning

Academic Background

Doctor of Philosophy (Jan 2004 Aug 2011) Department of Computer Science and Engineering (CSE), IIT Bombay. Thesis: Information Retrieval in Multilingual Resource-Constrained Settings Advisors: Prof. Pushpak Bhattacharyya and Prof. Om P. Damani CPI: 8.86/10 M.Tech, Information Technology (Jul 2000 - Jan 2002) Kanwal Rekhi School of Information Technology, IIT Bombay. Thesis: Video Streaming in Wireless Environments Advisor: Prof. Sridhar Iyer CPI: 9.0/10 B.Tech, Computer Science and Engineering (Jul 1996 - May 2000) Department of CSE, S.V. University College of Engineering, Tirupati. Percentage: 74% (Distinction)

Publications
Manoj K. Chinnakotla, Om P. Damani and Avijit Satoskar, Transliteration for Resource-Scarce Languages, ACM Transactions on Asian Language Information Processing (ACM TALIP Journal), Volume 9, Issue 4, December 2010. Manoj K. Chinnakotla, Karthik Raman, Pushpak Bhattacharyya, Multilingual Pseudo-Relevance Feedback: Performance Study of Assisting Languages, In the Proceedings of 48th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2010), Uppsala, Sweden, July 2010.

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Manoj K. Chinnakotla, Karthik Raman, Pushpak Bhattacharyya, Multilingual PRF: English Lends a Helping Hand, In the Proceedings of 33rd Annual ACM SIGIR Conference (SIGIR 2010), Geneva, Switzerland, July 2010. Vishal Vacchani, Manoj K. Chinnakotla, Mitesh Khapra and Pushpak Bhattacharyya, More Languages, More MAP?: A Study of Multiple Assisting Languages in Multilingual PRF, Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on CLIA, Computational Linguistics Conference (COLING 2010), Beijing, China. Manoj K. Chinnakotla, Vishal Vacchani, Shalini Gupta, Karthik Raman and Pushpak Bhattacharyya, IITB CFILT @ FIRE 2010: Discriminative Approach to IR, Working notes of Forum for Information Retrieval Evaluation (FIRE 2010), Gandhinagar, India. Manoj K. Chinnakotla and Om P. Damani, Character Sequence Modeling for Transliteration, In the Proceedings of 7th International Conference on Natural Language Processing (ICON 2009), Hyderabad, India. Manoj K. Chinnakotla and Pushpak Bhattacharyya, Language Modeling Based Local Set Re-Ranking using Manual Relevance Feedback, In the Proceedings of 7th International Conference on Natural Language Processing (ICON 2009), Hyderabad, India. Manoj K. Chinnakotla and Om P. Damani, Experiences with English-Hindi, English-Tamil and English-Kannada Transliteration Tasks at NEWS 2009, In the Proceedings of ACL-IJCNLP Named Entities Workshop (NEWS 2009), Singapore, 2009. Nilesh Padariya, Manoj K. Chinnakotla, Ajay Nagesh and Om P. Damani, Evaluation of Hindi-English, Marathi-English and English-Hindi CLIR at FIRE 2008, Working notes of Forum for Information Retrieval Evaluation (FIRE 2008), Kolkata, India. Manoj K. Chinnakotla, Sagar Ranadive, Om P. Damani and Pushpak Bhattacharyya, Hindi to English and Marathi to English Cross Language Information Retrieval Evaluation, Advances in Multilingual and Multimodal Information Retrieval (CLEF 2007), Volume 5152, Springer, LNCS, 2008. Manoj K. Chinnakotla and Sunita Sarawagi, "Graphical Models for Multi-labeled Text Classification", KReSIT Technical Report, IITB/KReSIT/2006/November/34. Manoj K. Chinnakotla, Video Streaming in Wireless Environments, M.Tech Thesis, KReSIT, IIT Bombay.

Professional Experience
Designation: Organization: Research Member & Team Lead CLIA Consortium, 11 academic and research institutions funded by Ministry of Communications and IT, Department of Information

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Technology, Government of India Project: Duration: Description: Cross Language Information Access (CLIA) 4 Years (Jan 2007 December 2010), (Part-time along with Ph.D at IIT Bombay) It is a mission mode project to develop a cross language search engine for tourism domain involving the following Indian languages Bengali, Hindi, Marathi, Punjabi, Tamil and Telugu. My role in this project was mainly to: Lead a team of developers across various academic and research institutes which involved managing release cycles, taking designlevel decisions, ensuring proper development, maintenance and testing of modules through regular developer teleconferences. Organizing System Integration Workshops to integrate and test the modules developed by various institutes. Research to improve the accuracies of various system-level modules like transliteration, language and domain identification, page importance calculation etc. The latest system demo can be found online at: http://www.clia.iitb.ac.in:8080/Sandhan/.

Tools/Languages: Nutch, Java, Perl, Lucene, Luke, GIZA++, Moses Designation: Organization: Project(s): Duration: Description: Senior Member of Technical Staff (2 Months), Member of Technical Staff (18 Months) Persistent Systems Pvt. Ltd., Pune, India DigiMine, Netezza Performance Server (NPS) 20 Months (April 2002 December 2003) DigiMine was a startup working in the area of Data Analytics and Data Mining. As part of the DigiMine team at Persistent, I was involved in development and testing of various modules in the crucial click-stream processing pipeline. NPS is a parallel, high-performance database engine, which is being developed by Netezza corporation. It uses specialized hardware to perform fast filtering and scanning of data. As part of this project, I was involved in the design and development of a tool called "Loadgen" in Python which is used for profiling and testing the performance of the database. Besides, I designed and proposed a new scheme to support alter table add column operation efficiently without having to re-organize the entire database. This involved studying the various storage management techniques of Netezza and other open-source database systems like postgres.

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Tools/Languages: C, C++, Python, Perl, SQL, gdb, CScope

Teaching Assistant at IIT Bombay o Advanced Topics in Data Mining o Distributed Systems o Modern Information Systems o Mobile Computing

Relevant Coursework

Probability, Random Variables and Stochastic Processes Introduction to Mathematical Statistics Advanced Topics in Data Mining Hypertext Retrieval and Web Mining Natural Language Processing

Academic Achievements
1. Recipient of Student Travel Award and Donald B. Crouch Travel Grant at SIGIR 2010. 2. Recipient of Infosys Research Fellowship Award for the duration of March 2007- March 2010. 3. Secured the first place for any Indian Language to English Cross Lingual Information Retrieval (CLIR) and fifth place for any language to English CLIR at CLEF 2007 forum. 4. Secured the second place in the NEWS (Named Entities Workshop) 2009 Shared Task on Transliteration held in conjunction with ACL-IJCNLP 2009. 5. Secured a position in the top 0.2% (Rank: 163) amongst 50,000 candidates in the state-level Engineering Entrance Examination 6. Ranked 7th state-wide in the Junior Intermediate Examinations conducted by Board of Intermediate Education, Andhra Pradesh 7. Recipient of National Merit Scholarship for meritorious academic performance in Intermediate Board Examination 8. Recipient of Telugu Vijnana Parithoshikam (a state government sponsored scholarship) for meritorious academic performance in SSC Board Examinations.

Manoj Chinnakotla, Ph.D, IIT Bombay - Resume Professional Activities

Member of Organization Committee of o Forum for Information Retrieval (FIRE), 2010 o First National Symposium on Modeling and Shallow Parsing of Indian Languages (MSPIL 2006), Mumbai, India. Reviewer for o ACM Transactions on Asian Language Information Processing (TALIP) o International Conference on Natural Language Processing (ICON)

References
1. Prof. Pushpak Bhattacharya, Department of CSE, IIT Bombay, Mumbai, India E-Mail: pb@cse.iitb.ac.in 2. Prof. Om P. Damani, Department of CSE, IIT Bombay, Mumbai, India E-Mail: damani@cse.iitb.ac.in

3. Prof. Ganesh Ramakrishnan, Department of CSE, IIT Bombay, Mumbai, India E-Mail: ganesh@cse.iitb.ac.in

4. Prof. Krithi Ramamritham, Department of CSE, IIT Bombay, Mumbai, India E-Mail: krithi@iitb.ac.in