Summary
Nikhil Pattisapu is an Applied Scientist at Amazon with 11 years of experience and a PhD in Computer Science from IIIT Hyderabad, specializing at the intersection of NLP, formal ontologies, and machine learning. His research background includes argumentation mining and deep learning from a stint at TU Darmstadt’s UKP Lab and building language-focused IR systems and focused crawlers during an MS by Research. At Amazon he applies academic rigor to production problems, bridging formal knowledge representations with statistical models to tackle real-world language understanding tasks. Comfortable moving between research and engineering, he combines publication-grade methods with hands-on system-building for Indian language and large-scale applications. An understated strength is his cross-cultural research experience in India and Germany, which informs pragmatic, collaborative solutions in diverse teams.
11 years of coding experience
MS By Research, Computer Science and Engineering, MS By Research, Computer Science and Engineering at IIIT Hyderabad
English, Telugu, Hindi, Marathi