Shilad's Career

Here you can find information relevant to my career in the software industry.   For more detailed information, please see my resume or my academic and research interests.

I've been working as a software professional for the last seven (or so) years.   Until a few years ago I was employed by Sourcelight Technologies, a software developer in the entertainment industry.  We create interactive music and movie guides and a recommendation engine for retailers.

I worked as the software manager for Sourcelight from late 1999 until September 2002, when I moved to Boston while my wife got here masters degree from the Kennedy School at Harvard.  When I was in Boston, I telecommuted and served as the Lead Software Engineer for Sourcelight. I continue to work part time for Sourcelight

In the summer of 2005 I worked as a research intern with IBM's Collaborative User Experience Research Group (CUE) in Cambridge, MA. CUE conducts research related to Computer-Supported Cooperative Work. While at CUE, I worked with Werner Geyer to design predictive algorithms and systems infrastucture for collaboratively filtering notifications (e.g. alert bubbles) based on their information value.

During the summer of 2006 I interned with Thomson Legal Research, the research wing of the company who runs Westlaw, the leading legal search database. I helped to improve the legal recommender that recommends caselaw drawn from a corpus of nearly ten million documents.

Last summer I was lucky enough to work for Google building community features for one of their properties. I loved working at Google. Despite all the hype I had heard, it still managed to exceed my expecations.

You can find detailed professional information in my resume.

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