Nikhil Pinnaparaju
Machine Learning Engineer at Stability AI
Austin, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolNikhil Pinnaparaju is a machine learning engineer with eight years of experience building state-of-the-art NLP and production ML systems, currently working on language models at Stability AI in Austin. He has a strong research-to-production track record spanning Microsoft (personalized AutoSuggest and low-latency transformer serving), Nuance (voice assistants and name-recognition improvements), and startups where he improved intent classification quality by 20x. A published researcher (PAKDD, WWW, EMNLP) and member of the winning team in EMNLP 2020 LongSumm/LaySum tasks, he blends rigorous academic training from IIIT Hyderabad with hands-on model optimization and ranking expertise. His early contribution to bringing SpaCy/Gensim-like NLP tooling to Pharo during Google Summer of Code shows a long-standing commitment to practical open-source tooling. Comfortable training transformers from scratch and squeezing models into tight latency budgets, he focuses on making research usable in real-world products.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Master of Science - MS at International Institute of Information Technology Hyderabad (IIITH)
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (46)
octave9
evaluation9
evaluation-framework9
nlp8
transformer8
natural-language-processing8
smalltalk7
euler7
nodejs7
pytorch7
large-language-models7
java7
mathematics7
machine-learning7
gleam7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
pharo-ai/Polyglot
May 2019 - Aug 2019
A library for Natural Language Processing
Contributions:62 commits, 12 PRs, 55 pushes in 2 months
nlppharolanguage-processingmachine-learningnatural-language
nikhilpinnaparaju/Pharo-NLtoolkit
Mar 2019 - Apr 2019
Contributions:18 commits, 16 pushes, 1 branch in 28 days
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