Shalendra Chhabra (aka. Shalen) is a Program Manager II in the Content Access
Protection/DRM team at Microsoft Corporation. Previously, he served as the
Program Manager responsible for shipping spam filters in Outlook 2007, Windows
Mail in Vista and Windows Live Mail . He has written book chapters on spam filtering
and previously developed open source spam filter project CRM114 Discriminator
with Bill Yerazunis (aka. Captain Crash of the famous TV show Junk Yard
Wars).
CRM114 is now shipped with Debian Linux and is used by some corporations for
filtering millions of email accounts. He has an Erdos Number of 3, appeared on
Slashdot and danced on TV . He has also presented his work at MIT, Stanford
University and Cisco Systems.
Shalendra has traveled extensively to 15 nations (300+ cities). His hobbies include
Kung Fu, dancing (including but not limited to break dancing),driving his Eclipse,
riding his motorcycle Suzuki GSXR and shooting his movie - "The BackBenchers" .
In his spare time at home, other than thinking about fashion, he likes reading articles
on Reddit, a startup (now acquired by
Condé Nast/Wired) of his friend Alexis.