Nitin Venkateswaran
Graduate Research And Teaching Assistant
Gainesville, Florida, United States
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Top SchoolNitin Venkateswaran is a computational linguist and software engineer with eight years of experience bridging data science, backend engineering, and NLP research. Currently a PhD student and graduate research/teaching assistant at the University of Florida, he previously accelerated Hebrew NLP pipelines with a multi-task model that cut inference time by 58% and memory use by ~65%. His background spans industry roles from Credit Suisse senior developer to data science positions and academic NLP work at Georgetown, giving him a rare mix of production-grade engineering and corpus-level linguistic expertise. Based in Gainesville, FL, he focuses on efficient, scalable language technologies and has hands-on experience integrating parallel corpora and linguistic annotations into research databases. Notably, he returned to academia to deepen his computational-linguistics specialization after substantial real-world engineering impact.
8 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Computational Linguistics, Master of Science - MS, Computational Linguistics at Georgetown UniversityBachelor’s Degree, Information Systems, Bachelor’s Degree, Information Systems at Singapore Management UniversityMasters Degree, Business Analytics, Masters Degree, Business Analytics at York UniversityDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computational Linguistics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computational Linguistics at University of Florida
English, French, Hindi, Japanese
Github Skills (41)
corpus10
coreference10
annotations10
phonetics10
hebrew10
katakana9
lemmatization9
morphological-analysis9
dialogue-systems9
part-of-speech-tagger9
feincms9
nlp8
prefix8
natural-language-processing8
hindi8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
nitinvwaran/UrbanSound8K-audio-classification-with-ResNet
May 2018 - Jul 2018
Contributions:91 commits, 92 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
nitinvwaran/gum
Aug 2020 - Apr 2022
Repository for the Georgetown University Multilayer Corpus (GUM)
Contributions:60 pushes in 1 year 7 months
gumcorpusmultilayergeorgetown-university
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