]> He was a Masters student at UMBC. Dr. Jack Gwo and Dr. Tim Finin were his advisors. His thesis involved use and application of ontologies and Semantic Web technologies for environmental sciences and engineering domain.

Viral has also worked as a Research Engineer with the Semantic Web group at Hewlett Packard Labs, Bristol. Here he developed an intelligent text search library called OLucene which is an extension of open source Jakarta Lucene.]]> 2005-05-01T00:00:00-05:00 2005-05-06T00:00:00-05:00 2004-06-21T00:00:00-05:00 2004-06-21T00:00:00-05:00