Summary
Rijula Kar is an applied researcher with over eight years of experience building and deploying scalable ML and NLP solutions. She is currently an Applied Researcher at eBay, based in Bengaluru, focusing on advancing machine learning models for structured and unstructured data. Her work spans entity linking and entity type prediction, CV parsing, and information extraction, with a track record of turning research into production-grade systems. In prior roles at Flipkart and Naukri.com, she delivered measurable gains—8% improvement in F1 for CV parsing of work-experience timelines and 90% F1 for job-description NER—leveraging CNN/LSTM architectures. She holds an MS in Information Extraction (NLP) from IIT Kharagpur, with an AAAI'18 publication, underscoring a strong research pedigree. Based in India, she combines rigorous academic training with hands-on deployment across e-commerce and tech platforms.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree, Information Extraction(NLP), 9.66/10, Master’s Degree, Information Extraction(NLP), 9.66/10 at Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science And Engineering, 8.2/10, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science And Engineering, 8.2/10 at Bengal Engineering and Science University, Shibpur