Aishwarya Padmakumar
Senior Dialogue Scientist at NVIDIA
Sunnyvale, California, United States
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Top SchoolAishwarya Padmakumar is a Senior Dialogue Scientist with a decade of experience building conversational and grounded language understanding systems, currently driving dialogue research at NVIDIA after recent roles at Amazon Alexa. She holds a PhD in Computer Science from UT Austin where her thesis with Prof. Ray Mooney focused on lifelong learning for human-robot dialog, bridging robotics and language. Her background includes internships at Google, Facebook, and Adobe Research, where she developed end-to-end navigation instruction models and evaluated task-oriented dialog systems. Known for translating research into product-facing solutions, she combines deep academic rigor with hands-on applied ML experience in voice assistants and embodied AI. Based in Sunnyvale, she brings both cross-industry perspective and a sustained focus on continual learning in conversational agents.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Indian Institute of Technology MadrasDoctor of Philosophy (PhD) Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Computer Science at The University of Texas at AustinNational Public School, Indiranagar, Bangalore
Github Skills (52)
pytorch10
python10
predict10
machine-learning10
deep-learning10
natural-language-processing10
interaction10
nlp10
transformers9
physics-engine9
language-model9
bert9
tensorflow9
speech-recognition9
transformer9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
aishwaryap/dataset_preprocessing
Sep 2018 - Dec 2019
Contributions:36 pushes in 1 year 3 months
aishwaryap/NeMo-Guardrails
Mar 2024 - Apr 2024
NeMo Guardrails is an open-source toolkit for easily adding programmable guardrails to LLM-based conversational systems.
Contributions:7 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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