Dr. Paras Mehta

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About Me

Experienced and innovative Software Developer and Data Scientist capable of developing efficient and scalable software systems. Independent problem-solver with an eye for business and product development. Demonstrated experience working in agile teams and with user-centric methods. Creator of India2Germany blog and podcast.

Work Experience

• Sep 2019 - till date: Full-Stack Developer
  Lofino GmbH, Berlin.
• Jun - Sep 2019 & Oct - Dec 2018: Data Scientist
  Motionlogic GmbH (Deutsche Telekom subsidiary), Berlin.
• Jun-Sep 2018: Visiting Researcher
  Mobile Systems group, University of Cambridge.
• 2012-2018: Research Staff Member
  Databases and Information Systems group, FU Berlin.
• 2008 - 2011: Senior Software Engineer & Software Engineer
  Consult Hyperion, Guildford, UK.
• Aug-Sep 2007: Summer Intern
  Indra Sistemas, Madrid, Spain.
• Jan-Mar 2006: Trainee
  Flextronics Software Systems (now Aricent), India.
• Jun-Jul 2005: Summer Intern
  Robotic Intelligence Lab, Jaume-I University, Spain.

Education

• 2019: Design Thinking Basic Track
  Hasso Plattner Institute, Potsdam, Germany
• 2012-2017: Ph.D.
  Databases and Information Systems group, Freie Universitaet Berlin, Germany
  Dissertation: Spatial, textual, and temporal retrieval and analysis of geotagged posts..
• 2006-2008: Master of Science (M.Sc.) in Computer Science joint degree.
  University of Reading (UK), Universidad Carlos III (Spain), and Aristotle University (Greece).
  Dissertation: Study of security mechanisms for mobile commerce through the development of a mobile banking prototype.
• 2002-2006: Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) in Electronics and Communication.
  Delhi College of Engineering (now Delhi Technological University), India.

Side Projects

• Kleen.io: An app for supporting former opioid addicted patients on substitution therapy (1st prize)
  Startupbootcamp Digital Health hackathon 2019
  Tech Stack: React Native, Figma
• Juliet: A smart tampon for supporting incontinence patients (3rd prize)
  Hacking Female Health hackathon 2019
  Tech Stack: Java (Android), Arduino
• QAssist: An app for for digitalization and gamification of clinical trial questionnaires
  HPI Startup Bootcamp 2018
  Techstack: Java (Android) https://github.com/parasmehta/QAssist
• Patronus: An app for preserving privacy of underage people by automatically detecting and blurring their faces in photos
  HackZurich 2018
  Techstack: Java (Android) https://github.com/parasmehta/patronus
• Spatio-Temporal Hotspot Computation on Apache Spark (3rd prize) (Student project)
  GIS Cup competition 2016
  Tech Stack: Spark, Scala https://github.com/parasmehta/giscup2016
• Spatio-temporal visualization of Occupy movement in massive internet archives (1st prize)
  WebScience hackathon 2016.
  Tech Stack: Spark, Python
• LocXplore: a system for profiling urban regions (Student project)
  http://locxplore.herokuapp.com
• μTOP: Detection and Summarization of Locally Trending Topics in Microblog Posts (Student project)
  Demo Video

Professional Development

• Introduction to Cloud DevOps (Part of Cloud DevOps Engineer Nanodegree) on Udacity
• Deep Learning Specialization by deeplearning.ai on Coursera - Statement of Accomplishment
• Introduction to Data Science by University of Washington on Coursera - Statement of Accomplishment
• Machine Learning by Stanford University on Coursera - Statement of Accomplishment
• From GPS and Google Maps to Spatial Computing by University of Minnesota on Coursera - Statement of Accomplishment

Publications

• LocXplore: a system for profiling urban regions.
  András Komáromy, Paras Mehta.
  ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems, 2018 (SIGSPATIAL 2018).
• Selecting Representative and Diverse Spatio-Textual Posts over Sliding Windows.
  Dimitris Sacharidis, Paras Mehta, Dimitrios Skoutas, Kostas Patroumpas, Agnès Voisard.
  International Conference on Scientific and Statistical Database Management, 2018 (SSDBM 2018).
• Spatial, Temporal, and Textual Retrieval and Analysis of Geotagged Posts.
  Paras Mehta
  Ph.D. Thesis, Freie Universität Berlin, 2017.
• Continuous Summarization of Streaming Spatio-Textual Posts.
  Dimitris Sacharidis, Paras Mehta, Dimitrios Skoutas, Kostas Patroumpas, Agnès Voisard.
  ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems, 2017 (SIGSPATIAL 2017).
• Finding Socio-Textual Associations Among Locations.
  Paras Mehta, Dimitris Sacharidis, Dimitrios Skoutas, Agnès Voisard.
  International Conference on Extending Database Technology, March 2017 (EDBT 2017).
• μTOP: Spatio-Temporal Detection and Summarization of Locally Trending Topics in Microblog Posts. (Demo | Video)
  Paras Mehta, Manuel Kotlarski, Dimitrios Skoutas, Dimitris Sacharidis, Kostas Patroumpas, Agnès Voisard.
  International Conference on Extending Database Technology, March 2017 (EDBT 2017).
• Spatio-Temporal Hotspot Computation on Apache Spark (GIS Cup).
  Paras Mehta, Christian Windolf, Agnès Voisard.
  ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems, 2016 (SIGSPATIAL 2016).
• Coverage and Diversity Aware Top-k Query for Spatio-Temporal Posts.
  Paras Mehta, Dimitrios Skoutas, Dimitris Sacharidis, Agnès Voisard.
  ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems, 2016 (SIGSPATIAL 2016).
• Keyword Based Retrieval of Frequent Location Sets in Geotagged Photo Trails.
  Paras Mehta, Dimitris Sacharidis, Dimitrios Skoutas, Agnès Voisard.
  International ACM Web Science Conference, 2016 (WebSci 2016).
• Spatio-Temporal Keyword Queries for Moving Objects.
  Paras Mehta, Dimitrios Skoutas, Agnès Voisard.
  ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems, 2015 (SIGSPATIAL 2015).
• Trajectory Aggregation for a Routable Map.
  Sebastian Müller, Paras Mehta, Agnès Voisard.
  Web and Wireless Geographical Information Systems, 2014 (W2GIS 2014).
• MoveSafe: a framework for transportation mode-based targeted alerting in disaster response.
  Paras Mehta, Sebastian Müller, Agnès Voisard.
  ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on Crowdsourced and Volunteered Geographic Information, 2013.
• Analysis of User Mobility Data Sources for Multi-User Context Modeling.
  Paras Mehta, Agnès Voisard.
  ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on Crowdsourced and Volunteered Geographic Information, 2012.