Nikhil Verma
Senior AI Engineer at Roots
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolNikhil Verma is a Senior AI Engineer based in New York with 11 years of experience building generative models and production ML systems across research and industry. He blends academic rigor from NYU Courant with hands-on research at Microsoft Research and IBM Research, contributing to top-tier work on conversational QA, code summarization, and generative image manipulation. Currently at Roots, he focuses on document understanding and LLMs, having previously developed PyTorch frameworks and ensemble models that ranked highly on leaderboards and exposed dataset artifacts published at EMNLP. His background spans speech recognition, offline RL, and GAN-based photorealistic image synthesis for fashion, showing a rare mix of multimodal expertise. Colleagues will find him equally at home prototyping novel architectures and productionizing models for real-world workflows. An underrated strength is his track record of simplifying complex NLP/vision problems into reusable tooling and datasets that accelerate downstream research and engineering.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
BITS Pilani, Birla Institute of Technology and ScienceMaster of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at New York University
English, Hindi
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (200)
tqdm10
visual-studio10
siggraph10
argparse10
progress-bar10
skeleton10
screensaver10
jupyterlab-extension10
utilities10
pytest10
keras10
cms10
python10
meter10
pandas10
Programming languages (23)
Github contributions (5)
nikhilweee/poll-predictor
Apr 2016 - Jun 2020
Contributions:1 PR, 2 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 2 months
nikhilweee/blog-jekyll
Aug 2016 - Feb 2022
Contributions:6 PRs, 51 pushes, 3 branches in 5 years 7 months
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