Kartik Perisetla
Applied ML Scientist at Apple
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKartik Perisetla is an Applied ML Scientist with 13 years of experience designing and shipping production-grade NLP and retrieval-augmented language systems at Apple and Microsoft. He leads cross-functional teams to improve open-domain question answering, long-context retrieval, and text generation for consumer products like Siri and Smart Compose, combining research (EMNLP publications) with hands-on engineering. His work spans search relevance, neural language modeling, and document semantic understanding, and he regularly mentors PhD interns and conducts technical hiring. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area and grounded in an MS from Carnegie Mellon in NLP/ML, he brings a rare blend of academic rigor and product-focused delivery—often tackling hard problems like balancing parametric versus retrieved knowledge to reduce hallucinations in LLMs.
13 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science(MS), Natural Language Processing(NLP), Machine Learning(ML), Master of Science(MS), Natural Language Processing(NLP), Machine Learning(ML) at Carnegie Mellon University
English, Hindi
Github Skills (41)
chronological10
dialogue-systems9
nlp8
sentence-similarity8
deep-learning8
typescript8
datasets8
entity7
microsoft7
electron7
vscode-extension7
vscode7
bart7
editor7
natural-language-processing7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
kartikperisetla/kartikperisetla.github.io
Jan 2019 - Apr 2022
Contributions:203 commits, 563 pushes in 3 years 3 months
kartikperisetla/glossextractionengine
Jan 2015 - Aug 2018
Contributions:221 commits, 1 push, 1 branch in 3 years 7 months
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