Shikha Bordia
NLP Research Engineer At Verisk
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolShikha Bordia is an NLP research engineer at Verisk with nine years of experience building production-ready ML systems, specializing in multi-hop natural language inference, transfer and representation learning, and active learning. With an academic foundation from NYU (MS in Computer Science) and research roles at NYU Center for Data Science and Courant, she bridges rigorous research with pragmatic engineering to ship models that solve real-world problems. Her early career in finance and e-commerce—where she designed BI systems and optimized structured finance operations—gives her rare cross-domain fluency in modeling, automation, and business impact. Known for translating complex NLP research into deployable components, she also contributes to teaching NLP and computational semantics, reflecting a commitment to mentoring and reproducible science. Based in New York, she combines strong quantitative pedigree with hands-on product delivery, consistently prioritizing measurable improvements in production metrics.
9 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer Science, 3.7/4.0, Master's degree, Computer Science, 3.7/4.0 at New York UniversityB.Tech (Hons.), Ocean Engineering and Naval Architecture, B.Tech (Hons.), Ocean Engineering and Naval Architecture at Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur
English, Hindi, Spanish, Urdu
Github Skills (45)
pytorch10
python10
natural-language-processing10
nlp10
transformers9
machine-learning9
bert9
tensorflow9
deep-learning9
transfer-learning9
speech-recognition9
transformer9
language-model8
jax8
computational-linguistics8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
BordiaS/algorithms
Jan 2019 - Sep 2022
Contributions:8 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 8 months
W4ngatang/sent-bias
Nov 2018 - Mar 2019
Code and test data for "On Measuring Bias in Sentence Encoders", to appear at NAACL 2019.
Contributions:12 commits in 4 months
nlpnaaclsentencetest-datameasuring
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