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I'm an Applied Science Manager at Qualtrics in Seattle. I lead a team of ML scientists developing AI/NLP techniques  to make the company's experience management platform more intelligent. We develop solutions for a range of NLP tasks including search, conversation modeling, sentiment analysis, and text summarization.

My interests are in ML, NLP, Search, Fact Checking, Recommendation Systems, Personalization, and related domains. Prior to my role at Qualtrics, I was a Senior Applied Scientist and Tech Lead Manager at Amazon, where I developed web-scale information extraction methods to build knowledge bases for Amazon Retail and Alexa.

Before my corporate journey, I earned a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Indiana University Bloomington (IUB). My research was about the design of ML techniques for fact-checking simple claims based on structured knowledge bases such as DBpedia as the background body of knowledge. I was guided by Prof. Fil Menczer, Prof. Alessandro Flammini, and the NaN group at IUB.

Prior to Ph.D., I was as a Programmer Analyst at Transamerica Capital Management in Cedar Rapids IA, and an Application Developer at the University of Iowa. 

More information about my work experience or education can be found here.