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Taher Haveliwala

Software Engineer | Investor

Los Angeles, California

Invests in

Stages:

  • Min Investment:

    $0.00
  • Max Investment:

    $0.00
  • Target Investment:

    $0.00

Skills

Machine Learning
Information Retrieval
Data Mining
Personalization
Scalability
Distributed Systems
Python
Algorithms
C++
Software Engineering
Computer Science
Search
Big Data
Start-ups

Education

Work Experience

QForge Ventures

2010

  • Investor | Advisor | Mentor

    2010

    Helping startups start up.

Scalar Labs

2016 - 2020

  • Co-Founder

    2016 - 2020

    Scalar Labs invests in and partners with early stage startups and entrepreneurs, helping develop their initial prototypes and technology platforms, focusing on areas related to search and machine learning.

2010 - 2014

  • Engineering Consultant

    2010 - 2014

    First hotel room-level search engine that tells you the best rooms to request before checking in. Includes interactive floor plans, simulated room views from each window, and other room-level details. Worked with CTO to build up engineering team and technology platform. Technology and engineering division acquired by Google in 2014

2003 - 2008

  • Staff Software Engineer

    2003 - 2008

    Member of Search Rankings team; research and development of novel web search ranking algorithms, including personalized and context-sensitive search. Inventor on over 20 patents.

2003 - 2003

  • Co-Founder (Acquired by Google Inc.)

    2003 - 2003

    Co-founded startup (acquired by Google in 2003) that researched, developed, and commercialized a web-scale personalized search engine.

2000 - 2000

  • Research Intern

    2000 - 2000

    Developed term-clustering algorithms based on web-scale data mining. Mentor: Director of Google Research, Monika Henzinger

1998 - 1998

  • Research Intern

    1998 - 1998

    Worked with Aspect Oriented Programming team on developing tool to analyze source code to find cross-cutting aspects. Co-Inventor on patent "Aspect-Oriented System Monitoring and Tracing" Mentor: Gregor Kiczales

1997 - 1997

  • Research Intern

    1997 - 1997

    Developed cellular automata based tool for modeling Smart Matter. Mentor: Roy Want