Nigel Fernandez
Research Assistant at University of Massachusetts Amherst
United States
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Top SchoolNigel Fernandez is a CS PhD student and research assistant at UMass Amherst with nine years of experience applying NLP, program synthesis, and ML for education across academia and industry. His work bridges theory and practice, from program synthesis internships at IBM and research fellowships at Max Planck to applied NLP residencies at NAVER and Adobe. Nigel has repeatedly focused on educational AI and program synthesis, contributing to projects that translate research prototypes into real-world assessment and tutoring tools. He also brings hands-on systems experience dating back to a GSoC project extending YOLO with depth inputs and a Microsoft-funded cryptology internship on blockchain de-anonymization. Comfortable in both research and engineering roles, he blends rigorous academic training with pragmatic implementation skills. Based in the United States, he continues to publish and mentor while pursuing his PhD.
9 years of coding experience
International Institute of Information Technology BangaloreDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at University of Massachusetts Amherst
English, Hindi, German
Github Skills (58)
file-format9
single-file9
bitmap9
information-theory9
self-organizing-map9
wordnet8
convolutional-neural-networks8
artificial-intelligence7
orange7
word-segmentation7
mining7
machine-learning7
reinforcement-learning7
sentiment-analysis7
tokenizer7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
ni9elf/3HAN
Jul 2017 - Jun 2018
Contributions:20 commits, 18 pushes, 2 branches in 11 months
ni9elf/QANet
Jun 2018 - Jun 2018
Contributions:26 commits, 24 pushes, 1 comment in 1 day
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