Lincy Pattanaik

Lincy Pattanaik

Student

UMass Amherst

Biography

Hi there! I am a MS CS student in CICS school at UMass Amherst. Previously I was a Research Fellow at Microsoft Research Lab, Bangalore having worked with Suresh Parthasarathy, Arun Iyer and Arjun Radhakrishna on robust text extraction on heterogenous documents.
Prior to this I worked as Data Scientist in the STCI (Search Technology Center India) team at Microsoft after completing my B.Tech from IIIT, Hyderabad.

Interests
  • Information Retrieval and Extraction
  • Program Synthesis
  • Machine Learning
Education
  • B.Tech in Electronics and Communication Engineering, 2018

    International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad

Experience

 
 
 
 
 
Microsoft Research
Research Fellow
Microsoft Research
Nov 2020 – Jul 2022 India

Worked on text extraction from semi-structured documents which is robust to changing document templates.

  • Developed a novel algorithm LRSyn using program synthesis based on concept of local extraction containing keywords.

  • Engagements with different product teams within Microsoft - finance, Bing Ads

 
 
 
 
 
Microsoft IDC
Data Scientist
Microsoft IDC
Jun 2018 – Oct 2020 India

Bing’s local experience:

  • Boosted precision of query classifier by 40% by adding clustering based signals from index data.

Microsoft enterprise search in Bing:

  • Added new probabilistic query understanding models for acronym feature in enterprise search.
  • As part of enterprise autosuggestion team, designed clicked history based pipeline for user specific suggestion.
  • Scaled enterprise suggestion promotion model to non-English markets.
 
 
 
 
 
IIIT-Hyderabad
Teaching Assistant
IIIT-Hyderabad
Jan 2017 – Apr 2018 India
  • IMA304 - Linear Algebra - Spring 2018
  • IMA303 - Differential Equations - Monsoon 2017
  • ECE339 - ECE Lab - Spring 2017