Prerna Chikersal
Senior AI Engineer at Databricks
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
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Top SchoolPrerna Chikersal is a Machine Learning Scientist II based in Pittsburgh with 12 years of experience bridging academic research and product-focused ML at organizations including Carnegie Mellon, Microsoft Research, Snap, and Tripadvisor. She holds advanced degrees in Robotics, HCI, and a PhD in Machine Learning & HCI from CMU, and has translated multimodal sensing, speech, vision, and wearable data into predictive health and collaboration insights used in clinical and consumer settings. Her work spans end-to-end systems: building mobile data-collection apps, real-time monitoring dashboards, novel ML models (from GBMs to multimodal SVMs and causal analyses), and running user studies that informed design and clinical collaboration. Notably, her research uncovered counterintuitive findings about the role of visual cues in remote teamwork that attracted major media attention, demonstrating an ability to combine rigorous experiments with high-impact narratives. She excels at turning complex behavioral and physiological signals into actionable models and product features that improve health outcomes and communication.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
High School, High school, High School, High school at Delhi Public School - R. K. PuramUndergraduate Visiting Student, Computer Science, Undergraduate Visiting Student, Computer Science at Columbia UniversityDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Machine Learning & Health, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Machine Learning & Health at Carnegie Mellon UniversityBachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.), Computer Science at Nanyang Technological University Singapore
English, Hindi, French, Punjabi, Urdu
Github Skills (13)
statistics9
machine-learning8
data-analysis8
data-science8
python8
viewcontroller6
scikit-learn6
messenger5
messaging5
ios5
swift5
chat5
jsqmessagesviewcontroller1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
prernaa/NLPCourseProj
Jan 2015 - Apr 2023
Contributions:3 pushes in 8 years 4 months
prernaa/CIProject
Jan 2021 - Apr 2023
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 3 months
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