Umanga Bista
Senior Applied Scientist, Artificial Intelligence at Oracle
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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Top SchoolUmanga Bista is a Senior Applied Scientist specializing in NLP and conversational AI with 11 years of industry and research experience, currently building healthcare-focused dialogue systems at Oracle Health and AI in Melbourne. He combines deep research credentials—a PhD in Machine Learning from ANU—with production experience deploying transformers, LLMs, and streaming analytics across Oracle Cloud and digital assistant products. His background spans anomaly detection and real-time log analytics at LogPoint to operating 24x7 data collection and indexing pipelines during his research, giving him both systems-level pragmatism and algorithmic depth. Known for bridging research and product, he has taught machine learning and data programming, evidencing clear communication of complex ideas to diverse audiences. Colleagues appreciate that he pairs rigorous experimental thinking from academia with hands-on engineering in large-scale, production environments.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Australian National UniversityUndergrad, Undergrad at Tribhuvan University, Institute of engineering
Nepali, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (26)
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Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
bistaumanga/bistaumanga.github.com
Jun 2017 - Jul 2021
my website and blog
Contributions:17 commits, 34 pushes, 5 branches in 4 years 1 month
bistaumanga/cmLab
Mar 2017 - Jan 2019
website source for the computational media lab
Contributions:4 PRs, 8 pushes in 1 year 10 months
labcomputational
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