Syeda Akter
Research Intern at Carnegie Mellon University - School of Computer Science - Language Technologies Institute
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
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Top SchoolSyeda Akter is a PhD student and research engineer at Carnegie Mellon’s Language Technologies Institute with eight years of experience advancing machine reasoning and language technologies. She has held multiple research internships at NVIDIA and sustained collaborations at CMU as a Graduate Research Assistant and summer researcher, blending academic rigor with industry-scale ML research. Her work focuses on improving reasoning capabilities in models, and she repeatedly secures competitive research roles that bridge theory and applied systems. Based in Pittsburgh, she brings a strong engineering foundation from BUET and a master’s in Language Technologies from CMU. Beyond publications and internships, she demonstrates an aptitude for transitioning research prototypes toward production-relevant settings at leading AI labs. Her trajectory suggests a practical researcher who thrives at the intersection of cutting-edge NLP research and real-world ML engineering.
8 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Language Technologies, Computer Science, Master of Language Technologies, Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University School of Computer ScienceBachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at Bangladesh University of Engineering and TechnologyScience, Science at Holy Cross college
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Github Skills (68)
nlp9
python9
pytorch9
machine-learning9
speech-recognition9
natural-language-processing9
transformer8
deep-learning8
transformers8
bert8
tensorflow8
summarization8
squad7
jax7
language-model7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
ThirdspaceUofT/topic-modeling
Aug 2020 - Nov 2020
Contributions:16 commits, 12 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
snat1505027/snat1505027.github.io
Aug 2020 - Feb 2023
Homepage
Contributions:178 pushes in 2 years 7 months
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