WORK

  
Goldman Sachs
www.gs.com
   I work as a Software Developer for Goldman Sachs.

  
hakia Inc.
www.hakia.com
   Previously, I used to work for hakia.com, a general purpose Semantic Web Search Engine based in New York.
At hakia, I handled the engineering and product development of many of Hakia's search engine products.


  


  

PROJECTS

  
Getputs
www.getputs.com
   I am the Founder of Getputs. I created Getputs with the aim of building an online personalized news product.
Getputs is a utility to discover, share, and recommend news (or any other type of content including blogs, classifieds, questions/answers)
We are currently building a robust recommendation engine, an innovative bookmarking system, and a powerful alerting/messaging sytem on top of Getputs.
Getputs is named after the legendary Computer Science Functions: get (Get/Read the Data) and put (Put/Write the Data)
Exciting stuff coming ahead!
Stoocker
www.stoocker.com
   Stoocker is a Stock Recommendation Engine.
The basic idea is to come up with a short-term trading and investment strategy based upon the collective recommendations of Users.
It allows users to:
-> Maintain a Portfolio of stocks.
-> Get updated News about the latest happenings in the Stock Market.
-> Predict the movement of the User's favorite stocks.
-> See what the other users Recommend about the stock movement for tomorrow.
The engine backend is designed to efficiently handle daily stock-market and time-series data.
The algorithm uses Expert Ranking, Weighted Majority, Collaborative Filtering and shallow Technical Time-Series Analysis.
Traders as well as hackers with a background in Computer Science and interest in Finance love this Engine.
The stock recommendations do involve human judgement about stocks mixed with my own algorithms.
The more the users, the better the recommendation results.
So be a Stoocker and enjoy the System!

Here is a paper [PDF] I wrote during while at NYU that reports the corresponding research:
[Machine Learning Techniques for Stock Prediction]

I also created a Finance News Aggregator that collects Business/Trading News from some of the major Finance Sites.
Allows searching for News about a particular Symbol.
Useful to Investors/Traders who want to view all the news on a single page.
Currently being used as a part of the Stoocker! Stock Recommendation Engine.

  
Pyramid
[Presentation]
   Pyramid is an Online Music Sharing System with an inbuilt mechanism to eradicate piracy of music.
A team of 3 designed the prototype for this system.
The model we designed can help contributors and artists earn money based on the number of contributions and popularity of the music they produce.


Vatsal H. Shah ©2008