Bakhtiyar Syed
Staff Software Engineer, Machine Learning at LinkedIn
Dublin, Ireland
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Top SchoolBakhtiyar Syed is a Staff Software Engineer in Machine Learning with a decade of experience building state-of-the-art NLP systems and shipping ML products at LinkedIn after research and engineering roles at Embark Studios and Adobe. He combines a strong research pedigree—authored papers at AAAI, EMNLP, CIKM and others—with hands-on wins in competitions (SemEval, Google India ML Hackathon) and a unique Google Summer of Code project that produced the first semantic role labeler for Sumerian. His work spans personalized style transfer, affective content analysis and production ML, bridging rigorous academic methods with scalable engineering. Based in Dublin, he mentors teams and drives applied research into consumer-facing features while completing MS research in Computational Linguistics at IIIT Hyderabad. Notably, he has served on program and organizing committees for major conferences, underscoring his community leadership beyond code.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Computational Linguistics, Master of Science - MS Computational Linguistics at International Institute of Information Technology Hyderabad (IIITH)
English
Github Skills (106)
python10
nlp10
information-retrieval10
natural-language-processing10
pytorch10
spellchecker9
labeling9
paper9
transformer9
deep-learning9
dedicated9
machine-learning9
bert9
semantic9
speech-recognition9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
bakszero/MiniWord2Vec
Jan 2018 - Jul 2022
Implementation from scratch of the Skipgram and CBoW (Continuous Bag of Words) model for learning word embeddings from a corpus.
Contributions:43 commits, 1 PR, 16 pushes in 4 years 5 months
nlpword-embeddingsembeddingscorpuscontinuous
cdli-gh/Semantic-Role-Labeler
May 2018 - Dec 2022
A semantic role labeling system for the Sumerian language. A Google Summer of Code '18 initiative.
Contributions:194 commits, 16 PRs, 131 pushes in 4 years 7 months
sumeriannlpsemantic-role-labelinginitiativelabeling
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