Amar Viswanathan
Machine Learning Engineer at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
New Jersey, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAmar Viswanathan is a Machine Learning Engineer with a PhD in Computer Science from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and nearly a decade of professional and research experience specializing in Semantic Web technologies, Knowledge Graphs, RDF/SPARQL, and query reformulation. He blends deep academic rigor—mentored by Jim Hendler and examined by leaders like Deborah McGuinness—with practical applied ML work in information extraction, entity summarization, and sentiment analysis. Proficient with Apache Jena, Stanford NLP, NLTK, and scikit-learn, he regularly prototypes in Jupyter notebooks to turn research insights into reproducible pipelines. Based in New Jersey, Amar’s work sits at the intersection of symbolic web semantics and statistical ML, enabling more precise question answering and richer knowledge representations. A less obvious strength is his sustained focus on query-level reformulation techniques that bridge user intent and structured graph representations, improving downstream extraction and QA performance.
9 years of coding experience
Anna University, ChennaiMaster’s Degree, Computer Science, 3.9, Master’s Degree, Computer Science, 3.9 at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Hindi, Kannada, English, Tamil
Github Skills (1)
deep-learning9
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
amarviswanathan/amarviswanathan.github.io
Aug 2017 - Jul 2020
Contributions:83 pushes in 2 years 11 months
templategithub-pages-templatemmistakesmistakesjekyll
deepcurator/DCC
Mar 2019 - Dec 2019
Deep Code Curation
Contributions:50 commits, 3 PRs, 64 pushes in 9 months
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