Medical Assistant

PARIKSHIT SONDHI

*** **** ***** ****** *** *A abpl61@r.postjobfree.com

Champaign 61820, IL, USA http://sifaka.cs.uiuc.edu/~sondhi1/

Ph No. +1-217-***-****

EDUCATION

PhD candidate in Computer Science 2008 - Present

Department of Computer Science

University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign

Advisor: Dr. ChengXiang Zhai

Computer Science Integrated Dual Degree (BTech + MTech) 2003 2008

Department of Electronics and Computer Engineering

Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee

CGPA: 9.18/10 (Class Rank: 1)

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Information Retrieval, Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning.

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

Research Assistant, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign Aug 2008 Present

Worked on retrieval applications in the biomedical domain. Currently working on retrieval and mining applications on

web forum data.

Research Intern, Microsoft Research, Redmond, WA, USA May Aug 2009

Worked with Raman Chandrasekar on automated generation of vertical search engines using search query logs.

Research Assistant, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, India May 2007 Jun 2008

Worked as a research assistant on development of Internet Doctor: a question answering system for the medical domain.

Extreme Blue Intern, IBM India Software Labs Bangalore, India May - July 2006

The project was to design an adapter for efficient, automated and seamless migration of PHP applications from

MySQL to DB2 database. It was completed successfully and resulted in two pre-patent disclosures:

A query conversion mechanism for on the fly SQL converters especially in web based environments.

An approach for efficient, seamless and automated SQL query conversion.

REFEREED PAPERS

Parikshit Sondhi, Jimeng Sun, ChengXiang Zhai, Robert Sorrentino, Martin S. Kohn, Shahram Ebadollahi and Yanen

Li, 2010. Medical Case-based Retrieval by Leveraging Medical Ontology and Physician Feedback: UIUC-

IBM at ImageCLEF 2010. CLEF (Notebook Papers/LABs/Workshops) 2010.

http://clef2010.org/resources/proceedings/clef2010labs_submission_112.pdf

(Best Performing System in the ImageClef 2010 Medical Case Retrieval Challenge)

Parikshit Sondhi and Raman Chandrasekar, 2010. Domain-specific entity and relationship extraction from query

logs. Proceedings of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 2010, 47: 1 2.

http://www.asis.org/asist2010/proceedings/proceedings/ASIST_AM10/submissions/458_Final_Submission.pdf

Yanen Li, Yu Sun, Parikshit Sondhi, Lui Sha, ChengXiang Zhai, 2010. Reconstructing Missing Signals in Multi-

Parameter Physiologic Data by Mining the Aligned Contextual Information. Proceedings of Computing in

Cardiology Conference 2010, Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom. Sep. 26-29, 2010.

http://cinc.mit.edu/current/preprints/277.pdf

Parikshit Sondhi, Manish Gupta, ChengXiang Zhai and Julia Hockenmaier, 2010. Shallow Information Extraction

from Medical Forum Data. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Computational Linguistics (Beijing,

China, August 23 27, 2010). COLING 2010, pp. 1158 1166. http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/C10-2133

Parikshit Sondhi, Raman Chandrasekar, and Robert Rounthwaite, 2010. Using query context models to construct

topical search engines. In Proceedings of the Third Symposium on information interaction in Context (New

Brunswick, New Jersey, USA, August 18 - 21, 2010). IIiX '10. ACM, New York, NY, 75-84. DOI=

http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1840784.1840797

Parikshit Sondhi, Purushottam Raj, V. Vinod Kumar, and Ankush Mittal, 2007. Question Processing and

Clustering in INDOC: A Biomedical Question Answering System. EURASIP Journal on Bioinformatics and

Systems Biology, vol. 2007, Article ID 28576, 7 pages, 2007. doi:10.1155/2007/28576.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2233811/

PAPERS UNDER REVIEW

Parikshit Sondhi, V.G.Vinod Vydiswaran, ChengXiang Zhai, Reliability Prediction of Webpages in the

Medical Domain.

Kumaresh Pattabiraman, Parikshit Sondhi, ChengXiang Zhai, Exploiting Forum Thread Structures to

Improve Thread Clustering.

NON REFEREED PAPERS & TECH REPORTS

Parikshit Sondhi A Survey on Named Entity Extraction Techniques in the Biomedical Domain. Available

online at http://sifaka.cs.uiuc.edu/~sondhi1/survey1.pdf

Parikshit Sondhi and Chandra Ramachandran A Survey on Vertical Search in the Biomedical Domain. Available

online at http://sifaka.cs.uiuc.edu/~sondhi1/survey2.pdf

Parikshit Sondhi Feature Construction Methods: A Survey. Available online at

http://sifaka.cs.uiuc.edu/~sondhi1/survey3.pdf

HyunDuk Kim, Kavita A. Ganesan, Parikshit Sondhi, and ChengXiang Zhai, A Comprehensive Survey Of Opinion

Summarization. http://hdl.handle.net/2142/18702

PATENTS

Parikshit Sondhi and Raman Chandrasekar. Patent related to Topical Search Engines applied for.

INVITED TALKS

Leveraging Domain Specific Resources to Improve Medical Case Extraction August 2010

IBM T.J. Watson Research Center Hawthorne NY

Patient Pre-Screening in the Medical Device Plug and Play Project Nov 2010

Massachusetts General Hospital Boston

RELEVANT COURSES

Introduction to Natural Language Processing (A), Text Information Systems (A+), Advanced Machine Learning (A),

Theory and Applications of Bayesian models (A), Advanced Information Retrieval (A+)

DEVELOPMENT SKILLS

Languages: C/C++, C#, Java, SQL, PHP, Perl, MATLAB, JavaScript, Shell Script, Cell Processor Programming

Platforms: Linux, Windows, Mac

Toolkits: Lucene, Lemur, MMTX, SVMlite, MALLET

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Teaching Assistant Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee Aug 2007 May 2008

Worked as teaching assistant for the following courses. Tasks involved solving problems, evaluating assignments and

conducting viva-voce:

Operating Systems and Design

Data Structures

HONORS AND AWARDS

IIT-Roorkee Institute Silver Medal for highest CGPA in CS-IDD, 2008

Recipient of the Ministry of Human Resource and Development Fellowship, 2007-2008

Best paper award in Cognizance-06, the second largest intercollegiate technical event in India, 2006

Best project award for the project Face Finder in SRISHTI, the annual technical exhibition of IIT-Roorkee, 2005

Selected among top 2% students of nearly 200,000 in IIT-JEE, 2003.

Third position in Regional Mathematics Olympiad, 2002

CBSE Certificate of Merit for 100% marks in Science, 2001

All India Rank 77 in the Third National Science Olympiad, 2001

Dr. Dhiraj Mehrotra Merit Award for highest marks in class 10, 2001

All India Rank 43 in the Second National Science Olympiad, 2000

MISCELLANEOUS INFORMATION

Citizenship: Canadian

Visa Status: F1

REFERENCES

Available on request.

Contact this candidate