Sharmila Upadhyaya
PHD Student at GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Science
Saarbrücken, Saarland, Germany
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Top SchoolSharmila Upadhyaya is a PhD student and machine learning enthusiast based in Saarbrücken with eight years of hands-on experience applying NLP and ML to real-world problems. Her background spans industry and research—from building Nepali language NLP tools, speech-to-text and chatbot systems at EKbana to sensor-data analysis for assisted living at DFKI and a master’s thesis at Allianz. She holds advanced training in Language and Communication Technology and NLP from Universität des Saarlandes and Université de Lorraine, pairing multilingual research with practical system implementation. Known for tackling low-resource language challenges and healthcare-focused conversational analytics, she brings a rare mix of academic rigor and product-minded engineering.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelors, Computer Engineering, Bachelors, Computer Engineering at Pulchowk campusMasters, Natural Language Processing, Masters, Natural Language Processing at Universite de LorraineMasters in Language and Communication Technology, Masters in Language and Communication Technology at Universität des Saarlandes
Github Skills (64)
text-generation10
squad10
summarization10
bots10
google-assistant10
information-retrieval10
korean-nlp10
question-answering10
bot-framework10
transfer-learning10
nlp10
conversations10
retrieval9
chatgpt9
conversation9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
sarmilaupadhyaya/Hate-Speech-Detection
Nov 2021 - Feb 2022
Contributions:29 commits, 35 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
sarmilaupadhyaya/Neural-Network-Project
Mar 2021 - Mar 2021
Contributions:61 pushes, 1 branch in 23 days
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