Michael Salam
Assistant Professor at Indian Institute of Information Technology Senapati, Manipur
Assam, India
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Salam is an Assistant Professor and PhD candidate specializing in Natural Language Processing for low-resource languages, with a decade of experience spanning academia and industry. He has held roles from graduate teaching assistant to postdoctoral fellow at IIT Delhi and research scientist at Crimson AI, blending hands-on NLP research with teaching across programming, OOP, graphics, and NLP. His work focuses on practical solutions for underrepresented languages, informed by sustained research at NIT Silchar and a recent transition to IIIT Senapati, Manipur. Comfortable moving between research and applied development, he brings deep regional expertise in India’s linguistic landscape alongside solid academic credentials (PhD, MTech, BTech). An interesting undercurrent of his profile is the combination of teaching foundational CS courses while driving specialized NLP research, signaling both strong communication skills and technical depth.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Science Stream, Science Stream at Kendriya Vidyalaya No.1 ItanagarDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science at National Institute of Technology SilcharBachelor of Technology - BTech Computer Science and Engineering, Bachelor of Technology - BTech Computer Science and Engineering at National Institute of Technology Arunachal Pradesh
English, Hindi, manipuri, Assamese
Github Skills (25)
pytorch10
artificial-intelligence10
language-model10
neural-machine-translation10
classification10
jekyll10
jekyll-theme10
sequence-to-sequence10
machine-translation9
fasttext9
python9
ai9
deep-learning9
utterances9
typescript6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
masonreznov/CS-332-NLP-LAB
Feb 2022 - Apr 2022
Contributions:31 commits, 26 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
masonreznov/masonreznov
May 2022 - Nov 2023
Contributions:21 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 6 months
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