Summary
Purva Chiniya is an applied scientist with eight years of experience building responsible, production-ready AI systems, currently focused on defenses against indirect prompt injections for Alexa+ at Amazon. She blends a strong academic foundation—a MS in Computer Science from University of Maryland and a B.Tech from IIT Roorkee—with hands-on research in hyperparameter optimization, fine-tuning pipelines, and deep search agents. Her background spans industry roles at Cisco and internships at top research labs, where she translated deep learning research into practical tooling and scalable pipelines. Known for partnering across product, safety, and engineering teams, she emphasizes ethical and inclusive NLP solutions that serve diverse global users. Beyond core modeling, she brings practical systems experience from networking and XR work, which helps her bridge low-level engineering constraints with high-level ML research.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee
Masters, Computer Science, Masters, Computer Science at University of Maryland
High School, 10.0, High School, 10.0 at Sophia Senior Secondary School - India