Abhijeet	 Thakare	 	
PhD	 (Computer	 Science)	 	
ORCID	 ID:	 http://orcid.org/0000	-0003	-1096	-6418	 	
                     	 	
DOB:	 24th	 May	 1979	 	
181,	 	Jaidurga	 	Society	 	No	 	1, 	
Narendra	 Nagar.	 Nagpur,	 India	 	(+91)	-8055044	195	 	
abhijeetthakarevnit786@gmail.com	 	
www.linkedin.com/in/dr	-abhijeet	-thak	 	
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EXPERIENCE	 	
Total	 Experience:	 19 Years	 	
 
Softclouds	 LLC	 &mdash;	 AI	 Ar	chitect	 (R&amp;D)	 	
September	 2022	 - PRESENT	 	
 
Currently working as a 	 AI Architect in the Research and	 	
Development	 Division	 of Softclouds	 LLC.	 	
 
PROJECTS	 HANDLED	 	
● 	 Work	ed	 on Developing Enhanced Search Engine based on	 Question	-	
Answering	 System	-Keyword	 and	 Semantic	 Search.	 	
 
Technology/Tools:	 	Python	 	3.9,	 	Transformers,	 	BERT,	 	
Sentence	-Transformers,	 Spacy,	 NLTK,	 Dependency	 Parser,	 PyTorch,	 	
Pandas,	 Elasticsearch, OpenSearch	, JSON.	 	
● 	Developed GEN AI and Predicated	 GEN AI Chatbot.	 	
Technology/Tools: 	JSON	,  Retrieval  Augmented 	Generation  (	RAG),  Fine 	
Tuning,  NLP,  LLM&rsquo;s,  Llama  Index,  Semantic  Search  ,  REST  API&rsquo;s,  Vector 
DB, LangChain, Prompt Engineering, NLP	 	
 
 
Shri	 Ramdeobaba	 College	 of	 Engineering	 &amp; Management	 , 	
Nagpur	, &mdash;	 Assistant	 Professor	 	
June	 2009	 - September	 2022	 	
 
PROJECTS	 HANDLED	 	
● 	Executed	 Successfully	 ﬁrst	 research	 software	 consultancy	 in the	 	
Department	 (in	 2011)	 Implementation	 and	 Enhancement	 	/ 	
Tweaking  of  Synchronization  Protocol  1588v2  over  Multi  Protocol	 	
Label	 Switching	 (MPLS)	 Network. 	This  protocol	 enhancement  will	 	
red	uce   data  loss  by  5%,  red	uce  tim	e  lag  by  15%,  and  red	uce  the 	
Synch period by	 50% for	 BSNL.	 	
● 	Developed  and  successfully  deployed	 consultancy  project  &ldquo;  Touch	 	
Screen  Kiosks&rdquo; 	for  one  of  the 	reputed  Hotel	 clients  in  Panchgani,	 	
Maharashtra. 	This  deploy	ment 	has  decreased	 the  efforts  of  Hotel	 	
management  Staff	 in  managing  the  orders  of  customers  by 	100%.(	 	
Technology:Java,	 Duration	 : 1 year)	 	
● 	Developed	 and	 successfully  deployed  an  E	-Commerce  website 	for	 	
one  of  the  startups  in  Nagpur.	 This  has 	increased  their	 business 	in 	
lockdown	 by	 10%	 in one	 month.	 (  Technology:  Java,Duration:  6	 	
months)	 	
● 	Successfully 	 completed	 and	 delivered	 software	 development	 project	 	
 
LANGUAGES	 	
 
Java,	 Python,	 C, C++,	 JSP,	 	
Servlets,	 	Spring	 	Boot,	 	
Spring,J2EE	 	
 
 
SKILLS	 	
 
Machine 	 Learning,	 	Nat	ural	 	
Language	 Processing,	 Deep	 	
Learning	 	Transformers,	 	
Question	-Answering	 System,	 	
Spacy,	 	 Dependency	 	
Parser,	 Generative AI, LLM&rsquo;s, 	
Prompt Engineering, 
Elasticsearch,	 OpenSearch,	 	
JSON,	 Named	 Entity,	 BERT	 	
Aggregated	 Search,	 Hugging	 	
Face 	, Data Structures, Obj	ect	 	
Oriented	 Concepts.	 	
 
 
DATA	BASES	 	
 
Oracle	 , MYSQL,	 WordNet,	 	
Oracle	 Apex.	 	
 
PRODUCTS	 WORKED	 	
 
Ematrix,	 Windchill	 	
 
 
AWARDS	 	
 
 
NPTEL	- Top	 Performing	 	
Mentor Award (	 	
Programming	 in Java)	 in 2021

&ldquo;Development	 of 	Software for Customer Engagement Database 	
&ldquo; for	 the	 client	 &ldquo;Sanstar	 Microsystems,Nagpur&rdquo;.	 Research	 funds	 	
received	 from	 GIZ,	 Germany	 for	 development	 of this	 project.	 	
 
 
RESEARCH	 PROJECTS	 	
1. Project Name:Automatic Extraction of Product Entities and Attributes	 	
from	 World	 Wide	 Web.(	 Status	- Completed)	 	
 
● Development	 of a  Novel  Search  Engine 	which  automatically  extracts	 	
entities	 and	 their	 respective	 attribute	 values	 from	 web	 pages	 and	 	
aggregates	 them	 into	 dynamic	 web	-spreadsheets.	 	
● 100%  time  saving  of  t	he  customer,  as  no  need  to  scroll  results  and	 	
search	 within	 results	 for	 choosing	 the	 right	 product.	 	
● New  features  added  by  the  manufacturer/retailers  are  also  dynamically	 	
captured	 in the	 web	 spreadsheet.	 	
 
Techn	olo	gy/Tool	s:    Python,    NLTK    ,Java    1.7.0_80.,   JSOUP	   1.8.2   API, 	
Stanford POS tagger v.  2.0,  Java wor	dNet Interface  API,  Weka,  Mac	hine	 	
Learning,  J48  Decision  Tree  Classiﬁers,  Natural  Language  Processing,	 	
Search	 Engines,	 Aggregated	 Search,	 Web	 Crawler.	 	
 
 
2. Project  Name:Flexible  Software  Architecture for  Validation  of  Change	 	
Requirements	 . ( Status:	 Completed	) 	
 
● Development  of  Software  Fr	amework	 which  is  ﬂexible  enough  to	 	
adjust	 in the	 scenario	 when	 the	 software	 requirements	 in an	 	
organization	 continuously	 changes.	 	
● Cost  of  implementing  change 	requirements  in  software  code  is 	reduced	 	
by	 50%.	 	
● Saving	 Man	-hours	 for	 writing	 code	 by	 50%.	 	
 
Techno	logy/Tools:	 Java,	 JSP,Servlets,	 MySQL	 	
 
3. Project	 Name:Question	-Answering	 Chatboat	 ( Status:	 Ongoing)	 	
 
● Development  of  closed  domain	 Question	-Answering  Chatboat  on	 	
Entertainment	 Domain.	 	
● Development of  Open  domain Question	-Answering	 Chatboat  for Time	 	
Series	 Data	 using	 LSTM/BERT.	 	
 
Technology/Tools:	 Python,	 Machine	 Learning,	 Natural	 Language	 	
Processing.	 	
 
 
ITC	 InfoTech,	 Bangalore	 &mdash; Associate	 IT Consultant	 	
October	 2008	 - March	 2009	 	
Project	 Name:	 Monitoring	 Windchill	 Services,Client:	 PTC	 India	 Limited	 	
 
● Successfully  h	andled  the  team  of  4  persons  for  conﬁguration  and	 	
enhancement	 of &ldquo;Application	 Manager&rdquo;	 tool	 for	 reading	 different	 	
services	 Log	 Files	 and	 generating	 Statistical	 reports.	 This	 has	 increased	 	
availability	 of different	 services	 of 	
Windchill&rdquo;	 software	 by	 15%.	 	
 
Techn	olo	gy/Tool	s: Java, JSP, Servlets, Or	acle 10g, Apache Tomcat 6.0. 	
 
Geometric	 Limited	 &amp; 3dplmsoftware	 Solutions	 Ltd	 ( R &amp; D 	
Division of	 Dassault	 Systems), 	Pune	&mdash; Software	 Engineer 	 , 	
August 2006 	-October	 2008	 	
 
ITC Infotech Ap	preciation	 	
Award 	from ITC Infotech,	 	
Bangalore	 in 2014	 	
 
Infosys Partner in Success	 	
Bronze	 Award	 from	 Infosys	 in 	
2016	 	
 
PATENTS	 	
 
Indian Patent	 Published	 on	 	
&ldquo;A Real World Object	 	
Interaction Through Eyes: A	 	
Novel Augmented Reality	 	
Concept&rdquo;.	 	
 
CERTIFICATIONS	 	
 
● IBM	 Certiﬁed	 Database	 	
Associate	-DB2	 Universal	 	
Database	 V8.1	 Family	 	
● Brain	 bench	 Certiﬁed	 	
(RDBMS,	 JSP,	 DB2	 	
Programming).	 	
● Ematrix	 Application	 and	 	
Integration	 Certiﬁcation	 	
(Certiﬁed by Geometric	 	
Limited,	 Pune).	 	
●  	MCP	 (Microsoft	 	
Certiﬁed	 Professional).	 	
● ANN	 and	 Deep	 Learning	 	
Certiﬁed 	by MeitY and	 	
IIITDMJ, Jabalpur

Project Name: Enovia Matrix One Product Central, Client: LG Electronics	 	
(South	 Korea)	 	
●  	Successfully  delivered 	the  project  to  the	 client.  Worked  on 	
Complete	 Software	 Lifecycle	 of the	 Project,	 Product	 Develo	pment,	 	
Feature	 Enhancement,	 Bug	 Fixing	 , Unit	 Test	 Plan	 Creation	 and	 	
Debugging.	 	
● Modules 	 delivered 	 by 	 me 	 and 	 my	 team	 have  	 shown	 100%	 e    	 ciency	 	
on the client site	 when tested on	 large data	 sets.	 	
 
Technology/Tools:	 Java,	 Servlets,  JSP,  MQL,  TCL,  ema	trix,  oracle  9i,	 	
oracle 10g, Tomcat 5.5 	
 
Harrier	 Information	 Systems,	 Nagpur	&mdash;System	 Engineer 	 , 	
October	 2005	 -July	 2006	 	
 
Project	 Name:	 Capital	 Market	 5 minutes	 Delayed	 Data,	 Client:	 NSE	 	
(National	 Stock Exchange), CRISIL	 	
 
● Successfully	 developed	 and	 delivere	d a Java	 System	 which	 	
automatically   	 downloads   	 all   	 the   	 market        information        ﬁles        on	 	
real	 time	 from	 NSE&rsquo;s	 production	 server 	 and 	 stores    on    our    local	 	
system.	 	Further	 	the	 	Java	 	System	 	,automatically	 	dumps	 	the	 	
ﬁles(depending  upon  its  structure	 and      type)  into  respective  tabl	es  in	 	
the	 database.	 	
● Development  of  this  project  results  in  100%  availability  of 	market	 	
information	 ﬁles	 and	 its	 future	 data	 on	 our	 local	 system	 for	 future	 	
analysis	 of stocks.	 	 
Technology/Tools: 	Java, Servlets, JSP,  MultiThr	eading, JDBC,  Tomcat  5.5,	 	
Oracle	 9i 	
 
Simsoft	 Technologies,	 Nagpur	&mdash;	System	 Administrator	 	, 	
July	 2001	 -May	 2003	 	
 
Managing	 and	 Handling	 LAN	 &amp; WAN,	 Troubleshooting	 the	 system	 and	 	
the	 network	 	
 
Technology/Tools:	 Java,JSP,Servlets,	 MYSQL,	 Oracle	 11g.	 	
 
 
PUBLICATION	S 	
 
● Authors	 : Abhijeet	 	Ramesh	 	Thakare,	 	Parag	 	S. 	Deshpande	, 	Title:	 	
Comparative	 Search	 of Entities	, Journal:	 International	 Journal	 of Software	 	
Engineering	 	and	 	Knowledge	 	Engine	ering.	 	(SCI	 	Journal)	 	. 	
http://ww	w.worldscientiﬁc.com/doi/abs/10.1142/S0218194017500498	 	
● Authors  :  Abhijeet  Ramesh  Thakare,  Parag  S.  Deshpande, 	Title: 	Automatic	 	
Extraction  of	 Attributes  and  Entities  for  Product  Differentiation	,  Journal:	 	
International	 	Journal	 	of 	Computational	 	Intelligence	 	Systems	 	(SCI	 	
Journal),	https://doi.org/10.2991/ijcis.11.1.23	 	
● Authors  : 	Abhijeet  Th	akare,Nilesh  Korde 	Title:	Patient  Health  Monitoring	 	
System	 Using	 Blue	 Eye	 Technology	 and	 IoT	, Journal:	 Bioscience	 	
Biotechnology	 	Research	 	Communications	 	(WoS	 	(ESCI	 	Journal),	 	
http://dx.doi.org/10.21786	/bbrc/13.14/3	 	
● Authors 	:  Nilesh  Korde,  Abhijeet  Thakare	 Title	:Recognition  of  Letters  and	 	
Letter	 Font	 in Images	 Using	 Deep	 Learning,	 Journal:	 Bioscience	 	
Biotechnology	 	Research	 	Communications	 	(WoS	 	(ESCI	 	Journal),	 	
http://dx.doi.org/10.21786/bbrc/13.14/20	 	
● Authors 	:  Abhijeet  Thakare	 Title	:Intelligent  Automated  Irrigation  system	 	
Based  on  Soil  Sensors  and  Weather  Forecast  Data. 	Journal: 	International	 	
Journal	 of Next	 Generation	 Computing	 (WoS	 ( ESCI	 Jounal	).

https://doi.org/10.47164/ijngc.v12i5.429	 	
● Authors 	: Preeti	-Paranajpe  Voditel, Abhijeet  Ramesh  Thakare, 	Title	:  Use  of	 	
Sampling	 and	 Ant	 Colony	 optimization	 for	 Predicting	 support	 in 	
Recommender  System, 	Conference	:  Science  and  Information  Conference  ,	 	
UK,	 London,	 (Scopus)	, https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/6661794	 ( 	
Scopus	 Indexed)	 	
● Authors : 	Nilesh Korde, Abhijeet Thakare	, Title: 	Smart Shelve Management	 	
System  using  IOT	-A  Novel  approach	,  Con	ference: 	IEEE&rsquo;s  3rd  International	 	
Conference	 	in 	Technology	 	(I2CT),	 	Pune	 	(Scopus	 	Indexed),	 	
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/8529415	 	
● Authors	 : Nilesh	 Korde,	 Abhijeet	 Thaka	re, Title:	Exploration	 of Opinion	 	
from	 	Twitter	 	Data	, 	Journal:	 	International	 	Journal	 	of 	
Recent	 	 Technology	 	and	  	Engineering	 	(Scopus	 	 	Indexed).	 	
https://www	.ijrte.org/wp-co	ntent/uploads/papers/v8i4/B3854078219.pd 	
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● Authors	 : Th a ka re   A. O.	, Thakare A. R., Tembhurne O.W.,Reddy S.N	., Title:	
NoSQL Databases	-Modern Data Systems for Big Data An	alytics	-Features, 	
Categorization and 	Comparison, 	 Journal:	 International Journal of 	
Electrical and Computer Engineering Systems	(WoS	 (ESCI	 Journal) and 	
Scopus	 	 Indexed)	, DOI: 	https://doi.org/10.329	85/ij	eces.14.2.10	 	
● Authors	 : Kha n da r   P,   T ha oke r   C,  	Thakare A	, Title: Decision Tree 	
Algoritm: 	A Survey, 13th International Conference on Advances in 	
Computing, Control, and Telecommunication Technologies, ACT 
2022,	 2022, 8, pp. 985	&ndash;990	(Scopus	 Indexed)	 	
● Authors	 : Th a ka re   A.	, Vodi t e l  P.	, Title: 	Extractive Text Summarization 	
Using LSTM Based Encoder	-Decoder Classification	, ECS Transactions	This 	
link is disabled	., 2022, 107(1), pp. 11665	&ndash;11672	 (Scopus	 Indexed)	 	
 	
 
EDUCATION	 	
Visvesvaraya	 National	 Institute	 of	 Techn	ology	, Nagpur	 &mdash;	 	
PhD	- Computer	 Science &amp; Engineering, 	January	 20 13	 - December	 20 17	 	
Defense	 Seminar	 done	 in October	 2018.	 	
CGPA:	 9.43	 	
Research	 Area	- Natural	 Language	 Processing,	 Web	 Mining,	 Text	 Mining,	 	
Information	 Retrieval	 	
 
Walchand College of Engineering	, Sangl	i&mdash;	 Master of	 	
Engineering	- Computer Science &amp; Engineering, 	August	 2003 	- August	 	
2005	 	
Final	 Project	 Viva	 Done	 in October	 2006	 	
Percentage:	 66.80%	 ( First	 Division)	 	
 
P.C.E	 &amp; A, Nagpur	&mdash;	 Bachelor	 of Engineering	- Computer	 	
Technology,	 August	 1996	 - August	 200	1 	
Per	centage:	 60.00%	 ( First	 Division)	 	
 
A.G.	 Junior	 College,	 Dapoli	&mdash;	 HSSC	 (Maharashtra	 State	 Board)	 	
June 1995	 - March	 1996	 	
 
Percentage:	 71.83%	 ( First	 Division)	 	
 
 
A.G. Highschool, 	Dapoli	&mdash;	 SSC (Maharashtra State Board) 	June	 	
1993	 - March	 1994	 	
 
Percentage:	 78.85%	 ( First	 Division,	 Distinction)