Neeraj Varshney
Senior Applied Scientist at Amazon
Palo Alto, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNeeraj Varshney is an Applied Scientist II at Amazon in Palo Alto with a decade of experience building NLP-powered products and conversational assistants. He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science (NLP) from Arizona State University and has moved research into production across roles at Amazon, Microsoft, and Tencent Americas. His recent work includes developing the Shopping Assistant "Rufus" and research on detecting and mitigating hallucinations in large language models. Neeraj blends deep academic rigor (4.0 GPA PhD) with practical ML engineering—shipping web QA for Alexa and chat recommendation systems at Microsoft. He has a strong foundation from BITS Pilani and a habit of turning research insights into user-facing features. Outside obvious achievements, he often bridges model interpretability and product constraints to reduce real-world failure modes in conversational AI.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
BITS Pilani, Birla Institute of Technology and ScienceDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science (Natural Language Processing), Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science (Natural Language Processing) at Arizona State University10th standard non medical, 10th standard non medical at Delhi Public School, Bhiwani
Stackoverflow
177reputation
11kreached
6answers
4questions
Github Skills (54)
transformers10
pytorch10
python10
machine-learning-models10
machine-learning10
inference10
multimodal10
llm10
audio10
deep-learning10
natural-language-processing10
gemma10
transformer10
speech-recognition10
nlp10
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
nrjvarshney/natural-instructions-expansion
Jul 2021 - Sep 2021
Expanding natural instructions
Contributions:3 PRs, 54 pushes, 14 branches in 2 months
instructionsexpandingnatural
nrjvarshney/nrjvarshney.github.io
Dec 2021 - Jun 2026
Contributions:191 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 7 months
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