Varsha Kishore
Graduate Research Assistant
City of Ithaca, New York, United States
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Top SchoolVarsha Kishore is a machine learning researcher and PhD candidate at Cornell with 10 years of software and research experience across academia and industry. She has applied ML to diverse domains—from surgical gesture classification and storage systems to text diffusion and distantly supervised relation extraction—through internships at Google, Microsoft Research, ASAPP and projects with Intuitive Surgical and Harvard. At Cornell she leads applied ML projects as a Graduate Research Assistant, and her summer at Google focused on text diffusion research that complements her broader interest in language and representation learning. Varsha pairs strong engineering skills (including mobile and systems work from earlier internships) with a rigorous theoretical background from Harvey Mudd and Cornell. Colleagues describe her as someone who moves fluidly between prototyping practical systems and exploring novel research directions. Based in Ithaca, she brings uncommon breadth—bridging low-level systems work and cutting-edge ML research—into each project.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at Cornell UniversityBachelor's Degree, Mathematics and Computer Science, Bachelor's Degree, Mathematics and Computer Science at Harvey Mudd CollegeHigh School, International Baccalaureate, High School, International Baccalaureate at The International School of Bangalore
English, Hindi, Spanish, Telugu
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (37)
distilbert10
sentence-transformers9
transfer-learning9
nlp8
natural-language-processing8
machine-learning8
squad8
text-generation8
transformer6
csv6
rows6
arxiv6
bert6
rename6
python6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
varshakishore/FaceDetection
Dec 2020 - Jun 2021
Contributions:46 commits, 40 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
varshakishore/dsi
Oct 2022 - Mar 2023
Contributions:57 commits, 45 pushes, 5 branches in 5 months
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