Applications of Cognitive Computing Systems and IBM Watson

Danish Contractor is a research scientist at IBM Research India where he develops innovative research solutions with real-world applications using machine learning and natural language processing in the areas of education, tourism, social media & customer relationship management, information management & noisy data cleansing. He has over nine years of experience in various aspects of software development and research. He has published fifteen papers in top-ranked analytics conferences and has ten US patents for his work. Danish holds a B.E. (Computer Engineering) from the Netaji Subhas Institute of Technology, New Delhi, India and an M.Phil (Advanced Computer Science) from the University of Cambridge, United Kingdom. Aditya Telang has been a researcher at IBM Research India’s Information & Analytics Department since 2011. He has worked in the area of spatio-temporal, social-media and data analytics over large datasets in domains ranging from banking to telco, and from social media to intelligence & law enforcement agencies. His expertise is primarily in the area of databases, data mining, ranking and analytics over large-scale data. Prior to joining IBM, he completed his PhD at the University of Texas at Arlington, USA and his master’s at the University of Buffalo (SUNY), New York, USA.

Chapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. Research Papers.- Chapter 3. Hackathon Applictions.- Chapter 4. Watson Cognitive Challenge Applications.- Chapter 5. Conclusion.