Rupak Sarkar
PHD Candidate
College Park, Maryland, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRupak Sarkar is a Computer Science PhD candidate at the University of Maryland (CLIP Lab) specializing in NLP, computational pragmatics, and conversational AI with nine years of experience across academia and industry. He has driven research and applied projects at Microsoft Research and Adobe, and contributed to a CMU course on tracking political sentiment using machine learning, highlighting an interest in language, society, and real-world impact. His internships span deepfake detection, spatio-temporal air quality modeling, and large-scale web performance analysis, indicating a knack for interdisciplinary, data-driven problem solving. Curious about language in general, Rupak blends rigorous doctoral research with hands-on engineering to improve document understanding and conversational agents.
9 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Computer Science, 8.98, Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Computer Science, 8.98 at Kalyani Government Engineering CollegeDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at University of Maryland
Github Skills (18)
natural-language-processing7
python7
jupyter-notebook7
nlp7
deep-learning6
pytorch6
jupyter6
data-science6
notebook5
html3
javascript3
python-scripts3
css3
machine-learning2
slurm2
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
styx97/movie_subs
Nov 2017 - Aug 2018
Contributions:10 commits, 9 pushes, 1 branch in 9 months
styx97/hf-fewshot
Feb 2024 - Jul 2026
A barebones set of utilities that help run few-shot prompting using hf
Contributions:6 PRs, 40 pushes, 3 branches in 2 years 5 months
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