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 SchoolDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Language and Information Technology, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Language and Information Technology at Carnegie Mellon University
Github Skills (72)
classifier10
input-text10
ngram10
pre-trained-model9
foundation-models9
language-understanding9
contrastive-learning9
language-modeling9
gateway9
nvidia9
rust8
azure8
llmops8
vertex-ai8
logging8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
neulab/prompt2model
Mar 2023 - Feb 2025
prompt2model - Generate Deployable Models from Natural Language Instructions
Contributions:5 releases, 71 reviews, 28 PRs in 1 year 10 months
viswavi/CitationIE
Dec 2020 - Jun 2021
Contributions:51 commits, 4 PRs, 41 pushes in 6 months
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