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e-mail: mail@maxgubin.com
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I am interested in a Senior Researcher or System Architect position where I can use my skills and experience in the areas of Information Retrieval, Natural Language Processing, and Machine Learning.
Over 20 Years of experience as a software developer/engineer and researcher; more than 15 Years of experience as a software development team leader and architect.
Areas of Interest and Expertise:
Information retrieval
Natural language processing
Database engines design
Machine Learning
Ph.D.
in Computer Science (2005) Information Retrieval
St.Petersburg
State University
M.SC in Electronics
(1995)
St.Petesburg State University of Aerospace
Instrumentation, Major: Digital Signal Processing
Location: Oakland,
California, USA
Position: Senior Researcher, Manager of Core
R&D Vertical Search Group
Primary responsibilities
include:
Development of Information Retrieval, Information Extraction, Datamining, and Machine Learning algorithms:
developed algorithms of extraction, aggregation and classification information about people from internet pages and social network profiles;
developed algorithm of search query suggestions based on probabilistic algorithm and query logs analysis;
improved proprietary algorithm of user query analysis (Smart Answers), increased its precision and recall.
Development of scalable systems which process huge amounts of Internet data:
Developed a scalable architecture of parallel information extraction and aggregation from billions of HTML pages;
Wrote optimized, high-performance code for the online query analysis system;
Proposed and implemented a number of solutions that improved stability and performance of the search engine.
Technical leader of development for projects with teams of from 5 to 15 members.
C/C++, Java, Perl, Python, JavaScript, SQL
HTML,XML
Linux, Windows
Location: St.Petersburg, Russia
Position: 1994-2004
Chief of Programming Department, 2004-2006 Director of
Department of Development
Co-founder and CTO with more than 30 direct subordinates. Main responsibilities were project management, analysis, design, research and development of a document processing system, which includes modules for document storage, document indexing/searching, automatic document clustering, formatting and text structure analysis. The system was ported to many hardware and software environments and is used in the popular Russian legal information system "Kodeks" (more then 25 000 users), document management system for government of St. Petersburg and in a number of other systems.
In addition, led teams that developed such projects as: the Digital Corporate Library for the Gazprom Corporation (1999); the Document Processing System for the Government of St. Petersburg (2000-2001); the Legal Information System for the Scientific Center of Russian Ministry of Justice (2002-2003); the digital Encyclopedia of Occupation Health and Safety for the International Labor Organization (2005); the Legal Information system for Russian State Parliament (2006); as well as many others.
C/C++; JavaScript; SQL
XML, xslt HTML, CSS
http, SOAP, WSDL, BPEL, UDDI
SQL, ODBC
Windows, FreeBSD, Linux, Novell Netware
Location: St.Petersburg
Russia
Position: developer, team leader
Took part in a
number of offshore software development projects for US market.
Projects included porting games from Mac to Windows and vice-versa,
development of a custom TCP-IP protocol for Windows. Main
responsibilities were code development, management of development
teams (up to 3 people), contacts with overseas managers and
customers.
C/C++
Windows, Mac OS, MS DOS
Location: St.Petersburg,
Russia
Position: developer
1. Developed a number of accounting and bookkeeping systems.
C/C++
FoxPro, dBase, Clipper
MS-DOS
2. Developed Realtor Support System based on an original high-performance DBMS. Originally developed on PDP-11 and then ported to MS-DOS. It supported parallel work of up to 10 operators on one IBM XT computer using remote terminals.
DEC c-compiler
Borland C
RSX-11M
MS-DOS
Location: St.Petersburg
Russia
Position: developer, researcher
Developed signal
processing and visualization software for custom hardware of a
military project. Studied algorithms of signal processing for
synthetic aperture radar. System received an award at the Exhibition
of Soviet Achievement in Moscow in 1990.
More than 20 publications, including:
Maxim Gubin, Kodeks at ROMIP 2006. B+Trees based inverted file. In processing ROMIP'2006 pages 30-39, 2006 (in Russian)
Maxim Gubin, Alexandr Morozov, Effect of Morphological Analysis on Quality of Information Retrieval.. In processing RCDL-2006, pages 224-228, 2006 (in Russian)
Maxim Gubin, Information Retrieval in a Heterogeneous Document Collection. In Proceedings of RCDL2005, 2005 (in Russian) (in Russian)
Maxim Gubin, Andrey Merkulov, Effective document snippets generation. In proceeding DIALOG 2005 conference, 2005 (in Russian)
Maxim Gubin, Digital library of multiversion documents. In Proceedings of RCDL2004
Maxim Gubin, Andrey Merkulov, Automatic hypertext linking of textual documents. In Proceeding DIALOG 2004 conference, 2004 (in Russian)
Maxim Gubin, Studying Search Quality of Word-pair Approach in Informational Retrieval. In Proceedings of RCDL2003, 2003 (in Russian)
Maxim Gubin, Selection of an Inverted File Compression Algorithm using Statistics of Word Occurrence and Word Pairs. Proceeding RCDL2002, 2002 (in Russian)
Medal of honor “300-year anniversary of St. Petersburg” awarded on behalf of the President of Russia on June 6, 2005 for role in development and support of computer information systems for St. Petersburg City government.
Employee of the year award at Kodeks Consortium 2001 and 2006.
Chairman of organization committee of Russian Information Retrieval Evaluation Seminar. (http://romip.ru).
Member of program committee of 9th European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries (ECDL 2005)
Judge for National Contest “Class”, an open contest of educational courses on information search. (http://company.yandex.ru/class )
Member of the organizational committee of Russian Information Retrieval Summer School 2007 and 2008.
Member of program committee of RCDL-2007 conference (http://rcdl2007.pereslavl.ru/en/news.shtml )
ACM and SIGIR member.
References are available upon request.