Prashanth Vijayaraghavan
Research Staff Member at IBM Research
Fremont, California, United States
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Top SchoolPrashanth Vijayaraghavan is a Research Staff Member at IBM Research and a PhD student at the MIT Media Lab, where he investigates intersections of NLP and Computational Social Science under Deb Roy. With 11 years of experience spanning industry R&D and applied research, he builds and evaluates learning techniques that enable AI to model and reason about human behavior. His background includes internships and engineering roles at Twitter, Groupon, Media.Net, and MindTree, giving him practical expertise in large-scale document representation, contextual analysis, and automated data extraction. He combines deep learning, network analysis, and ML systems thinking to move ideas from prototypes to research-grade implementations. Based in Fremont, CA, Prashanth blends academic rigor with production-focused engineering—often surfacing subtle behavior signals in language that improve downstream understanding and summarization.
11 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Jawahar Vidyalaya Senior Secondary SchoolAnna University, Chennai
Tamil, Hindi, English
Github Skills (8)
pytorch10
python10
data-science9
tensorflow9
machine-learning9
deep-learning9
jax8
neural-network7
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
pralav/emnlp_personas
Aug 2018 - Jan 2021
Contributions:18 pushes in 2 years 5 months
pralav/Video-SemNet
Jul 2018 - Jan 2021
Contributions:13 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 7 months
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