Sweta Karlekar
Graduate Student Researcher
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSweta Karlekar is a PhD student and NDSEG/Provost’s Diversity Fellow at Columbia University with a decade of experience applying machine learning, Bayesian statistics, and causal inference to real-world products and research. She has driven high-impact applied research at Meta—leading generative AI safety work that measurably increased demographic diversity in model outputs—and built Bayesian causal-inference pipelines that unlocked over $500M in annual value. Her background spans production ML, NLP, and computer vision from internships and research roles at Google AI, Yelp, and MITRE, plus hands-on software engineering across startups. Comfortable bridging research and product, she coordinates cross-functional roadmaps and turns probabilistic models into deployable systems. An early STEM organizer who scaled a youth outreach program to 11 chapters, she combines technical depth with a proven talent for building teams and communicating complex results.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
High School Computer Science Computer Engineering Biology Chemistry, High School Computer Science Computer Engineering Biology Chemistry at Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and TechnologyDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science at Columbia UniversityBachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Spanish, Marathi, Hindi, English
Github Skills (20)
language-modeling9
transformer-architecture9
nlp8
reinforcement-learning8
machine-learning7
deep-learning7
transformer6
probabilistic6
statistical-inference6
probabilistic-models5
statsmodels5
language-model5
probabilistic-graphical-models4
probabilistic-programming3
inference3
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
swkarlekar/swkarlekar.github.io
Nov 2017 - Nov 2024
Contributions:18 pushes, 1 branch in 7 years
swkarlekar/summaries
Aug 2018 - Oct 2021
Contributions:16 commits, 14 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 2 months
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