Summary
Ashima Suvarna is a machine learning engineer with eight years of experience focused on building reliable, safe models for NLP and applied ML. She has worked on LLM evaluation, discourse comprehension, and preference acquisition for alignment at UCLA, and has industry experience in search re-ranking at Walmart Global Tech and health risk prediction at Dimagi. A DeepMind Scholar and Mitacs awardee, she blends rigorous research (PhD work at UCLA) with production-oriented engineering using PyTorch and practical tools for low-resource languages. Known for tackling safety-sensitive problems like hate speech detection and alignment, she brings both academic depth and hands-on deployment experience. Based in Los Angeles, she maintains an active personal webpage showcasing her projects and research.
8 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Delhi Technological University (Formerly DCE)
Master's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at University of California, Los Angeles
Bachelor of Technology, Computer Science, 8.9/10, Bachelor of Technology, Computer Science, 8.9/10 at Delhi Technological University
Hindi, English