Rasika Bhalerao
Assistant Teaching Professor at Northeastern University
Oakland, California, United States
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Top SchoolRasika Bhalerao is an Assistant Teaching Professor at Northeastern Khoury College with a decade of experience bridging research and education in machine learning, security, and data science. She earned a PhD in Computer Science from NYU Tandon (advisor Damon McCoy) after a BS from the University of Washington, and has taught graduate courses in NLP, AI, and applied machine learning while co-designing security-analytics curricula. Her industry research internships at Facebook and Spotify focused on content safety and language quality, bringing production-oriented ML experience into the classroom. Based in Oakland, she combines rigorous research skills—analyzing underground forums and content integrity—with hands-on teaching practice, mentoring students for applied, real-world systems.
10 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Applied and Computational Mathematical Sciences (Discrete Math and Algorithms option), Statistics, Bachelor of Science - BS, Applied and Computational Mathematical Sciences (Discrete Math and Algorithms option), Statistics at University of WashingtonDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at New York UniversityHigh school diploma, International Baccalaureate Diploma, High school diploma, International Baccalaureate Diploma at Forest Ridge School of the Sacred HeartElementary school, Elementary school at Cascadia Montessori School
English, Spanish, Marathi, French, Chinese
Github Skills (8)
science7
language-processing7
natural-language-processing7
nlp7
computer-science5
machine-learning5
coreference2
coreference-resolution2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
rasikabh/rasikabh.github.io
Feb 2019 - Feb 2023
I am a PhD student in computer science at NYU working with Professor Damon McCoy. I am interested in cybercrime, natural language processing, machine learning, and teaching.
Contributions:398 commits, 1 PR, 472 pushes in 4 years
sciencelanguage-processingcybercrimeteachingmachine-learning
MIDS-W207/rasikabh
Sep 2021 - Nov 2022
Contributions:67 commits, 57 pushes in 1 year 2 months
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