Shailaja Sampat
Member Of Research Staff (Senior Researcher) at Fujitsu Research
Sunnyvale, California, United States
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Top SchoolShailaja Sampat is a Senior Researcher and Member of Research Staff based in Sunnyvale with 11 years of experience at the intersection of NLP, computer vision, knowledge representation, and neuro-symbolic models. She holds a PhD in Computer Science from Arizona State University and brings a blend of academic rigor and applied research from roles at Fujitsu Research, IBM, Philips, and internships spanning machine vision to clinical informatics. As a former graduate teaching associate she has taught programming, theoretical CS, and NLP, demonstrating both deep technical expertise and an ability to communicate complex ideas. Her work habitually bridges symbolic reasoning and learned representations, suggesting a focus on explainable, structured AI rather than purely black-box models. Colleagues would note her cross-disciplinary curiosity—she pairs foundational research with hands-on prototyping and real-world domain experience.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at Arizona State UniversityBachelor of Technology - BTech, Information and Communication Technology (ICT), Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Information and Communication Technology (ICT) at Ahmedabad University
English, Hindi, Gujarati, Japanese, French
Github Skills (11)
question-answering7
convolutional-neural-networks7
darknet4
deep-learning4
tensorflow4
weighted4
neural-network3
large-scale2
knowledge-graph2
graph1
scale1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
shailaja183/clevr_hyp
Mar 2021 - Jan 2023
CLEVR_HYP: A Challenge Dataset and Baselines forVisual Question Answering with Hypothetical Actions over Images
Contributions:22 commits, 19 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 10 months
questionclevrdatasetbaselinesquestion-answering
shailaja183/st_xsum
Aug 2022 - Oct 2022
Contributions:23 commits, 21 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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