Veera Chikka
Senior Data & Applied Scientist
Hyderabad, Telangana, India
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Top SchoolVeera Chikka is a Senior Data & Applied Scientist with 11 years of industry experience and a PhD, specializing in NLP, generative AI, and deep learning across telecom and healthcare domains. She has led cross-functional teams to deploy production AI systems—such as SmartRFP for contract analysis and RAG-based Q&A chatbots—and built novel models including LSTM classifiers and graph neural networks for cell mobility and issue prediction. A published researcher with 10+ peer-reviewed papers and two US patents, she blends rigorous academic research with pragmatic product delivery and mentoring. Now at Microsoft after a senior data scientist role at Ericsson, she’s known for translating complex network and clinical signals into actionable ML solutions and for architecting heterogeneous graph representations to solve real-world problems.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, Data Mining, 8.24, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, Data Mining, 8.24 at International Institute of Information TechnologyBachelor of Technology - BTech, Computer Science, Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Computer Science at BV Raju Institute of Technology (BVRIT)
English, Hindi
Github Skills (6)
machine-learning1
nlp1
deep-learning1
tensorflow1
natural-language-processing1
language-processing1
Github contributions (5)
veerarc/RelationExtraction_keras
May 2018 - Mar 2021
Contributions:13 commits, 12 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 10 months
veerarc/BMNER_pytorch
May 2018 - Mar 2021
Contributions:10 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 10 months
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