Bhuwan Dhingra
Researcher at Duke University
Durham, North Carolina, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBhuwan Dhingra is an Assistant Professor and researcher with a decade of experience at the intersection of language technologies and mobile systems, currently affiliated with Duke University and working as a Research Scientist at Google. He earned dual B.Tech/M.Tech degrees from IIT Kanpur and completed a PhD in Language Technologies at Carnegie Mellon, focusing on language-independent information extraction and manifold models for unsupervised learning. His early industry work at Qualcomm built context-awareness and activity recognition for mobile platforms, bridging real-world sensing problems with ML-driven solutions. Bhuwan’s academic work combines theoretical interests in latent representations with applied NLP, enabling robust extraction across languages and domains. He brings a rare combination of production systems experience and deep research training, often translating insights from mobile sensing and vision into language-focused models. Based in Durham, NC, he continues to publish and collaborate across industry and academia, emphasizing practical impact and cross-disciplinary methods.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Senior School, Science, Senior School, Science at Springdales SchoolIndian Institute of Technology KanpurDoctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University
English, Hindi
Github Skills (25)
twitter10
dialogue-systems10
natural-language-processing9
python8
deep-learning8
machine-learning8
smooth-inverse-frequency8
tensorflow7
transfer-learning6
neural-network6
question-answering6
encoder6
ai5
deep-neural-networks5
ml5
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
bdhingra/tweet2vec
Jan 2016 - Apr 2017
Twitter hashtag prediction
Contributions:31 commits, 1 PR, 27 pushes in 1 year 3 months
twitter
bdhingra/ga-reader
Nov 2016 - Nov 2017
Gated Attention Reader for Text Comprehension
Contributions:8 commits, 12 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 1 month
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