Khushboo Thaker
Applied Research Scientist at Crater Labs
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolKhushboo Thaker is an Applied Research Scientist with 11 years of experience specializing in user knowledge modeling for adaptive recommendation and tutoring systems, currently working at Crater Labs. She blends NLP and information retrieval to infer latent user signals—like reading behavior, reviews, and sharing intent—when explicit feedback is sparse, and has applied these methods to student modeling and within-domain knowledge modeling for ovarian cancer forum users. Her recent work includes faceted abstract summarization, keyphrase extraction and representation, and methods for inferring domain specificity. With a PhD from the University of Pittsburgh and an MTech from DA-IICT, she pairs rigorous academic training with hands-on AI model building and a pragmatic love of coding. A detail that sets her apart is her focus on leveraging subtle behavioral cues (not just clicks or quiz scores) to improve personalized recommendations and student knowledge inference.
11 years of coding experience
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD at University of PittsburghMtech, Mtech at Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology
English, Hindi
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Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
khushsi/RemRec
May 2020 - Apr 2021
Contributions:12 commits, 9 pushes, 1 branch in 11 months
khushsi/ConceptExtractor
Mar 2018 - Oct 2023
Contributions:16 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 7 months
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