Rhitabrat Pokharel
Graduate Research Assistant - Natural Language Processing
United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRhitabrat Pokharel is a PhD candidate and NLP researcher with eight years of experience applying machine learning to spoken and low-resource languages, currently advancing multilingual and generalization studies in large language models at Portland State University. He brings hands-on industry experience building production ML tools—from MT post-editing and quality estimation at LanguageLine to RAG and symbolic reasoning in healthcare at Optum—and has interned on RL and data augmentation projects at Intel. A seasoned educator, he has taught multiple NLP and algorithms courses and reviews submissions for top NLP conferences (ACL/EMNLP/COLING), which informs his rigorous, reproducible research practice. His work blends empirical scaling analyses and distribution-shift investigations with practical system design, and he has a track record of turning research insights into tooling that improves translation workflows and model decision costs. Notably, he couples academic depth with product-minded engineering, often focusing on measurable improvements in low-resource settings.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at Portland State University
Nepali, English, Hindi, Japanese, French, German, Urdu
Github Skills (74)
transformers10
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python10
deep-learning10
transformer10
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jax10
tensorflow10
natural-language-processing10
google-colaboratory10
pytorch10
machine-learning10
bert10
speech-recognition10
javascript9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
Rhitabrat/youtube-comments-categorization
Feb 2021 - Nov 2022
Categorizing comments on YouTube into different categories.
Contributions:22 commits, 12 PRs, 24 pushes in 1 year 9 months
commentsyoutube
Rhitabrat/rhitabrat
Sep 2020 - Feb 2023
Contributions:17 pushes in 2 years 4 months
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