Riyaz Bhat
Staff Research Scientist at IBM
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
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Top SchoolRiyaz Bhat is a Staff Research Scientist at IBM with over a decade of R&D experience specializing in conversational AI, document understanding, and information extraction. He holds a PhD in NLP from IIIT Hyderabad and completed postdoctoral work at University of Colorado Boulder, blending deep academic rigor with product-focused ML/Deep Learning engineering. Riyaz has driven end-to-end ML solutions from research to deployment across enterprises like Verisk, KPMG, and Interactions, and has authored 30 publications plus a US patent. His current work spans VQA, DocNLI, NLI and broader NLU problems, with a practical knack for turning complex inference tasks into scalable business features. Based in Bengaluru, he brings both hands-on modeling expertise and project leadership, often bridging research insights with tangible production impact.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Bachelor of Science - BS at SP College Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir.Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Natural Language Processing, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Natural Language Processing at IIIT HyderabadPost Doctoral Fellow, Post Doctoral Fellow at University of Colorado Boulder
Github Skills (38)
transfer-learning10
multilingual9
squad9
python9
question-answering9
nlp9
research-and-development9
natural-language-processing8
ai8
machine-learning8
semantic-search8
pytorch8
neural-search8
expressions7
google7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
ltrc/SSF-to-CONLL-Convertor
Jul 2014 - Aug 2016
Contributions:68 commits, 35 pushes in 2 years 1 month
ltrc/Shift-Reduce-Chunk-Expander
Jun 2015 - Jul 2017
Contributions:34 commits, 30 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 2 months
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