Summary
Esrat Maria is an NLP specialist with 8 years of experience building AI systems that measurably improve learning outcomes—helping 130,000+ students learn 27% faster—now developing Syntea GenAI at IU to personalize education via Microsoft 365 Copilot. She has a strong engineering background in productionizing conversational AI and retrieval pipelines, having built chat engines, fine-tuned transformers, FAISS-backed search, and automated training workflows on AWS with Django/Celery. Her research foundation in reinforcement learning and cloud-edge optimization (award-winning work) complements hands-on skills across NLP preprocessing, data augmentation, and deployment. Based in Munich, she combines rigorous academic training (MS in Computer Science from Sogang University) with a pragmatic, always-learning approach to make AI systems both effective and scalable.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer Science, 3.66/4.3 (Percentage Equivalent 94/100), Master's degree, Computer Science, 3.66/4.3 (Percentage Equivalent 94/100) at Sogang University
Secondary School Certificate, Science, GPA - 5.00, Secondary School Certificate, Science, GPA - 5.00 at YWCA Higher Secondary Girls School
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, CGPA - 3.582, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, CGPA - 3.582 at Ahsanullah University of Science and Technology
Higher Secondary School Certificate, Science, GPA - 5.00, Higher Secondary School Certificate, Science, GPA - 5.00 at Bir Shreshtha Noor Mohammad Public College
Bengali, English, Korean