Debanjana Kar
Research Engineer II at IBM
Linz-Wels-Steyr Area Austria
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Top SchoolDebanjana Kar is a Research Engineer II with nine years of experience advancing NLP and AI, currently building code automation pipelines and code summarization models at IBM. Her work spans information extraction, machine translation, response generation and document classification using transformers like BERT and GPT-2, with prior research roles at IIT Kharagpur and internships at IBM Research. She has driven practical AIOps solutions for automated log comprehension and contributed to multilingual systems combating COVID misinformation, demonstrating a mix of applied research and production-focused engineering. Pursuing a PhD in Artificial Intelligence, she pairs rigorous academic training with hands-on system automation and pipeline development. Outside tech she is creatively inclined—dancing, composing poems, drawing and singing—which informs a collaborative, multidisciplinary approach to research.
9 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Artificial Intelligence, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Artificial Intelligence at IT:U- Interdisciplinary Transformation University AustriaModern High School For GirlsNatural Language Processing & Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing & Machine Learning at ACM India Summer SchoolMaster's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at Indian Institute of Technology, KharagpurBachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Computer Science & Engineering, Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Computer Science & Engineering at Institute of Engineering & Management, Kolkata
English, Bengali, Hindi
Github Skills (50)
sentence10
electra10
distilbert10
roberta10
multilingual9
sentence-embeddings9
python9
similarity9
word-embeddings9
word-segmentation9
tokenizer9
sentence-similarity9
nlp8
natural-language-processing8
text-based8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
DebanjanaKar/Covid19_FakeNews_Detection
Jun 2020 - Feb 2021
IBM Hackathon
Contributions:55 commits, 27 pushes, 3 comments in 8 months
pythonibm
DebanjanaKar/GSoC-FrameNetBr
Jun 2019 - Jun 2020
Contributions:32 pushes, 1 branch, 1 comment in 11 months
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