About Me

Summary

Hi there! My name is Pravin Paratey and I graduated in Computer Science from the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay.

Following that, I worked at a number of startups building massively scalable systems to extract information from structured as well as unstructured text.

Some of the things I built are,

• Web scale systems – Ad Tracking, Behavioural and Contextual targeting, Ad Delivery, Content delivery.
• Natural Language Processing - Custom parsers, custom rules engines and grammars.
• Parsers - Deterministic & Non-deterministic finite state automata based parsers for HTML & XML. Also built an elementary javascript parser for evaluating a very limited subset of javascript.
• Search Engines - both vertical and organic.
• Crawlers - both open and closed crawlers.

Currently

I am currently an Engineering Manager at Facebook, helping with the brand advertising strategy here.

Research & Teaching

My research interests are in the domain of Natural Language Processing and Information Extraction. Lately, I have started working in Graph Theory.

I enjoy teaching and I have taken guest lectures on Linux, Natural Language Processing and Probability theory. I have also taught elementary math to school children.

Talks

• Feb 3, 2015 - Building and growing a Tech Business - A talk I did at Makers Academy
• May 07, 2014 - Extracting Signals from Noise - A talk during Big Data Week 2014
• Feb 28, 2014 - Linked Data @ Affectv - A talk at Kings College London

In the Press

Contact

Feel free to email me at pravinp@gmail.com

Or, you can use the links here to reach me on social networks.