HEMANT JOSHI

2 Bangor Court                                                                                                                     Phone:    (501)-569-8141 (work)

Little Rock AR 72223                                                                                                                           (501)-221-4333 (home)

E-mail:  hmjoshi@ualr.edu    or   hemantmjoshi@gmail.com                                                         (501)-944-5916 (cell)

URL:  http://bayrak.ualr.edu/symsel/hemant                                                                   Fax:         (501)-569-8144 (work)

 

OBJECTIVE

Seeking a challenging research career that bridges multi-disciplinary research issues with the real-world practice.

EDUCATION

·         Currently pursuing Ph.D. at, University of Arkansas at Little Rock; Little Rock, Arkansas.

      Dissertation Topic: Evolutionary Behavior of Textual Semantics

      Expected Graduation: May 2007

·         Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science in, 1998, Mumbai University; Mumbai, India.

SCHOLARSHIPS, AWARDS AND SERVICES

Scholarships

·         2003-present Graduate Assistantship in Graduate Institute of Technology (GIT), Comp. Sci. Department, UALR.

·         2005-Summer School Scholarship from the International Center for Computational Logic (ICCL) Technische

      Universitat Dresden, Germany

Awards

·         First place award recipient of Graduate Student Research Forum competition, Graduate School, UALR, Feb 2004.

·         Outstanding First Year Achievement Award, Applied Science Department, UALR 2004

·         Outstanding doctoral student award, Department of Computer Science, UALR, May 2006.

·         Overall 4.0 GPA award, Applied Science Department, UALR  for years 2004, 2005 and 2006

·         M. K. Testerman award for excellence in research, UALR, May 2006.

Services

·         Review coordinator and Reviewer for the 20th International Conference on Industrial, Engineering & Other Applications of Applied Intelligent Systems (IEA / AIE) 2007 conference.

·         Reviewer for the International joint conferences on Computer, Information and Systems Sciences, and Engineering (CISSE) 2006

·         Founding Member of the Special Interest Group in Machine Learning (SIGML) UALR  Computer Science Department chapter

·        Vice President of Indian Student Association at UALR for the Year 2003-2004

EMPLOYMENT EXPERIENCE

[01/2003-present]  Graduate Student, Department of Computer Science, UALR, Arkansas. – Introduction to Computer Science Lab Instructor since 2003-present

[03/2001-12/2002] Senior Analyst and architect for zionsbank.com – Member of team to study and develop online banking functionality. Specifically worked on money transfer module.

[08/2000-02/2001] Consultant analyst for freecomcorp.com – Developed a prototype synchronization client for the Intellisync server.

[03/2000-07/2000] Senior developer for client Medschool.com – Member of team that developed online course content development and rendering with integrated streaming media.

[07/1999-02/2000] Lead developer for client qool.com –Lead developer to implement backend J2EE infrastructure for the qool client communication.

HEMANT JOSHI

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E-mail:  hmjoshi@ualr.edu    or   hemantmjoshi@gmail.com                         (501)-221-4333 (home)          (501)-944-5916 (cell)

URL:  http://bayrak.ualr.edu/symsel/hemant                                   Fax:         (501)-569-8144 (work)

SKILLS

·   DBMS                                MySQL,  Oracle 8/9i

·   Programming Languages     Java, C, C++, PHP, Perl, Python

·   OS                                     Linux, Windows           

·   Other                                  Matlab, CVS, Maple, Weka, libSVM, Protégé, Terrier, OpinionFinder,

                                                Lemur, Indri, autoslog-TS, MG4J

Work In progress

·   H. Joshi, J. Bian, R. Madireddy, and C. Bayrak, Non-Subjective User Session Creation and Analysis.

·   H. Joshi, C. Zhang, C. Bayrak, DNA sequence analysis of User Query Data.

·   H. Joshi, R. Seker, C. Bayrak, Disaster Ontology Management.

·   H. Joshi, C. Zhang, S. Ramaswamy, and C. Bayrak, Recency Weighting Algorithm for Bug Prediction.

·   H. Joshi, C. Zhang, S. Ramaswamy, and C. Bayrak, Experiments with Bug Prediction of Eclipse Data.

Publications

·   H. Joshi, S. Ito, S. Kanala, S. Hebbar and C. Bayrak, Concept Set Extraction with User Session Context, to appear in The 45th ACM Southeast Conference, Winston-Salem, NC March, 2007

·   H. Joshi, C. Bayrak, Automatic Dissemination of Text Information using the EBOTS system, International joint conferences on Computer, Information and Systems Sciences, and Engineering (CISSE) 2006

·   H. Joshi, C. Bayrak, X. Xu, UALR at blog Track, TREC 15th Text Retrieval Conference proceedings, NIST, 2006

·   James D. Jones, Hemant Joshi, Umit Topaloglu, Eric Nelson: Who Stole the Bat?  Deception Detection on the Basis of Actions, IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC 2006), Taipei, Taiwan

·   James D. Jones, Hemant Joshi, Umit Topaloglu, Eric Nelson: A Child's Story to Illustrate Automated Reasoning Systems Using Opportunity and History. IEEE International conference on Intelligence and Security Informatics ISI 2006 San Diego, CA USA Vol 3975 pp 668-670

·   H. Joshi and C. Bayrak, Learning Contextual Behavior of Text Data, IEEE International Conference on Machine Learning and Application (ICMLA), Dec. 15-17, 2005, Los Angeles, CA

·   C. Bayrak and H. Joshi, Semantic Information Evolution, Proceedings of ANNIE 2002, Vol. 14, November  7-10, 2004, St. Louis, Missouri, pp. 519-525

Invited Talks

·   H. Joshi, Computational and Representational Models of Information Seeking Behavior, Computational Linguistics and Information Processing (CLIP) colloquium series at University of Maryland, College Park on February 14, 2007 (to be presented)

·   H. Joshi, Using Machine Learning Methods for Supervised Learning, Office of Science and Laboratories at U.S. Dept of Health and Human Services, Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Center for Devices and Radiological Health, on Nov. 15, 2006

·   H. Joshi, Introduction to concepts in Machine Learning, at the inaugural meeting of Special Interest Group on Machine Learning (SIGML), UALR chapter on Oct 17, 2006

Technical Papers

·   H. Joshi, C. Bayrak, X. Xu, Matrix Dimensionality Reduction for LSI using Spherical K-means, # UALR05-01

·   H. Joshi, X. Xu, Using Active Learning with Integrated Feature Selection, # UALR06-02