Rudra Murthy is a Staff Research Scientist at IBM in Bengaluru with a decade of experience specializing in NLP for Indic languages, driving support for both large and smaller language models. He holds a PhD in Natural Language Processing from IIT Bombay and a master’s in Data Mining from IISc, blending deep academic rigor with practical research impact. At IBM he progressed from research intern to staff scientist, and has complementary research experience from a Microsoft internship, reflecting strong collaboration across industry labs. Rudra’s work focuses on making LLMs and SLMs usable for underrepresented languages, an effort that couples model engineering with dataset and evaluation design—skills that often go unnoticed but are critical for real-world language inclusivity.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Data Mining, Master's degree, Data Mining at Indian Institute of Science (IISc)
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