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Greater Pittsburgh Area United States
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Ph.D. student at CMU
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Technology / Software / Internet
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www.cs.cmu.edu/~akyrola
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Startup entrepreneur, computer scientist and engineer with 20 years of experience. Strong background in leading and hiring software development teams at two fast growing startups; building scalable distributed systems; algorithms and data structures; machine learning and related plumbing.
Founder of two pioneering startups: Habbo Hotel (2000, web-based virtual world, reached 75m$ annual revenue) and Moves app (2012, fully automatic activity and location tracker for iOS). At CMU, for my Ph.D. thesis invented and developed GraphChi (http://www.graphchi.org), a disk-based large-scale graph computation system which was featured in the MIT Technology Review.
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Organization / Workplace
Greater Pittsburgh Area United States
Occupation
Ph.D. student at CMU
Industry
Technology / Software / Internet
Website
www.cs.cmu.edu/~akyrola
About
Startup entrepreneur, computer scientist and engineer with 20 years of experience. Strong background in leading and hiring software development teams at two fast growing startups; building scalable distributed systems; algorithms and data structures; machine learning and related plumbing.
Founder of two pioneering startups: Habbo Hotel (2000, web-based virtual world, reached 75m$ annual revenue) and Moves app (2012, fully automatic activity and location tracker for iOS). At CMU, for my Ph.D. thesis invented and developed GraphChi (http://www.graphchi.org), a disk-based large-scale graph computation system which was featured in the MIT Technology Review.
Keywords: data-intensive com
Tags
#recsys2013
graph computation
graphs
algorithms
graph databases
big data
#recommendations
#pagerank
#graphchi
#graphlab
#recommendationsystems
#recsys
sulake
lisp
scala
functional programming
programming
oop
clojure
java
standard ml
object oriented programming
programming languages
See more