Kiran Kumar

• Identified individual differences for attention by designing experiments, collecting data, building statistical models, and visualizations resulting in publications and grants • Researched privacy concerns of user activity patterns, estimated through record linkage using 40 GB of data with accuracy 90 times better than random chance • Established metrics and statistics which could signal a change in language pattern of individuals over the longitudinal written material (28 years) of New York Times with 13 million text documents. • Led two research assistants on exploring articles, designing experiment and analysis of data achieving honorable mention at a conference for the presentation of a poster • Organized and moderated cognitive lunch speaker seminar series

• Improved categorization and analysis of data based on electrical usage patterns for generating recommendations through a web module • Reduced network traffic by enabling data transfer between memcached, sql, and S3 • Handled loss of data during downtime by replaying data packets stored through logs achieving higher availability of service for customers