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								<h1>Hi. I'm <strong>Alagappan Ramu</strong>.</h1>
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							<p>I am a <strong>Graduate Student</strong> in Computer Science at the <a href='www.cse.buffalo.edu'>University at Buffalo, New York</a> with strong interests in Python, Django, Web Programming, Scalability, Data Analysis, Data Visualization and in developing robust and elegant Software Applications that solve specific user needs. 
							
							<br/><br/>I have 3+ years of professional software development experience. I have also regularly taught programming. <br/><br/>I am also a long distance runner and an occasional trekker. </p>
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									<p>Machine Learning - Built a linear regression model using MATLAB to predict the relevancy of search results. Used <a href="http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/mslr/">Microsoft's Learning To Rank dataset.</a></p>
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									<h3><a href="http://flypixel.com/generic-smartphone/8949517882265310">Classification of Handwritten Numerals</a></h3>
									<p>Machine Learning - Build two classifier models to classify between handwritten numerals 0-9 and compared results with Neural Network classifier</p>
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									<p>Built a parser on structured Wikipedia documents. Tokenized the contents using numerous rules such as stemming, lemmatizing, etc. Created indexes on the data and built an index analyzer and optimized it.</p>
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									<h3><a href="https://github.com/alagappanr/orangehummer">Q&A System using Apache SOLR</a></h3>
									<p>Built a Question Answer system using data parsed and indexed from Wikipedia Infoboxes using Apache SOLR. The front-end provides an easy interface to interact with the index.</p>
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							<p>I have taught Programming in Python, Basics of Web Application Development and Basics of Shell Scripting to over 10 batches of new employees at Global Analytics over the course of a year. 
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							<p>I had been blogging frequently back in college. And after a brief lull, I have been blogging intermittently since then. I have tried my fair share of blogging platforms from Blogger to Wordpress. For a while I was on Python static site generator <a href="http://blog.alagappan.co.in/tag/pelican/">Pelican</a>. Now I am back to good old Wordpress.
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							I write about a number of topics that include Programming, Travel, Trekking, Running, Music and Movies. You could find a number of posts about my Alma Mater <a href="http://blog.alagappan.co.in/category/nit-trichy/">National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli.</a>
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