Vijay Viswanathan
PhD Candidate
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolVijay Viswanathan is a PhD candidate at Carnegie Mellon University’s School of Computer Science with a decade of experience building production-ready ML systems and publishing in top venues. His background spans industry and research roles—from behavior prediction at Uber ATG and scalable experimentation at a startup to biomedical relation extraction at AI2—blending practical engineering with deep language-tech expertise. He co-created the open-source Prompt2Model project, signaling active engagement in prompt-to-model tooling and community-driven research. With a strong academic record (MS with a 4.06 GPA) and early foundations in mathematics and language technologies, he brings rigorous analytical thinking to applied NLP and inference problems. Notably, his career shows a pattern of shipping end-to-end systems that bridge research insights and real-world impact.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Upper St. Clair High SchoolBachelor of Science (B.S.), Mathematics, with minors in Computer Science and Language Technologies, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Mathematics, with minors in Computer Science and Language Technologies at Carnegie Mellon University
Github Skills (76)
classifier10
pre-trained-model9
lime9
language-understanding9
gateway9
spoken-language9
nlp8
multimodal8
representation-learning8
foundation-models8
contrastive-learning8
vision-and-language8
openai8
langchain8
azure-openai8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
viswavi/CitationIE
Dec 2020 - Jun 2021
Contributions:51 commits, 4 PRs, 41 pushes in 6 months
viswavi/datafinder
Mar 2021 - Dec 2024
Contributions:2 PRs, 89 pushes, 6 branches in 3 years 9 months
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