Summary
Piush Aggarwal is a Senior Researcher with eight years of experience applying NLP and machine learning to real-world problems, currently leading research efforts at Dynatrace after a series of academic and industry roles. He holds a PhD candidacy in Natural Language Processing from the University of Duisburg-Essen and has contributed to projects spanning multimodal robustness, meme explanation datasets, and the dkpro NLP toolkit. His background blends deep research—visiting positions at IIT Delhi and Kharagpur—with production-focused engineering experience at eBay and financial institutions, enabling him to take models from prototype to deployed systems. Skilled at translating complex technical ideas for non-technical stakeholders, he thrives in multidisciplinary teams and iterates rapidly on experimental pipelines. A detail that sets him apart is his trajectory from BI and data-warehouse engineering into advanced NLP research, giving him a pragmatic edge in building scalable, production-ready ML solutions.
8 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Natural Language Processing, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Natural Language Processing at University of Duisburg-Essen