Abhishek Purushothama
Graduate Research Assistant
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
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Top SchoolAbhishek Purushothama is a CS PhD student and Graduate Research Assistant at Georgetown University with 10 years of engineering experience bridging enterprise cloud software and natural language processing research. He studies meaning across languages using large language models and diverse data, while drawing on a strong production background designing cloud control planes and capacity management at VMware. His applied research is informed by prior work on knowledge graphs and semantic applications at Siemens and hands-on teaching of programming languages at Colorado and Georgetown. Comfortable shipping scalable systems and experimenting with linguistic algorithms, he brings a pragmatic, systems-first approach to multilingual NLP problems. Notably, he pairs rigorous academic training with real-world software delivery experience, making him effective at translating research ideas into deployable solutions.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at Georgetown UniversityBachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Computer Science and Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Computer Science and Engineering at PES Institute of TechnologyMaster of Science - MS, Computer Science, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science at University of Colorado Boulder
Github Skills (76)
nlp10
natural-language-processing10
python9
computational-linguistics9
phonetics9
deep-learning9
e-mail9
pytorch9
jupyterlab9
jupyter9
data-science9
abstract-meaning-representation9
rest8
acl8
rest-api8
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
Abhishek-P/Abhishek-P.github.io
Nov 2020 - May 2026
Contributions:79 pushes, 2 branches in 5 years 7 months
Abhishek-P/movie-recommend
Sep 2016 - Mar 2018
Contributions:21 commits, 30 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 6 months
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