Vishwajeet Kumar
Staff Research Scientist at IBM
India
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Top SchoolVishwajeet Kumar is a Staff Research Scientist at IBM Research with eight years of experience specializing in NLP and deep learning, currently focused on retrieval-augmented generation and efficient text embedding models. He holds a PhD in Computer Science from IIT Bombay and has authored 30+ papers across top NLP/ML venues and more than 10 patents, demonstrating both academic rigor and applied innovation. Vishwajeet led the release of the granite family of embedding models and helped open-source PrimeQA, a multilingual QA toolkit, bridging cutting-edge research with practical tooling. Known for work spanning QA, question generation, knowledge graphs, and code-mixed NLP, he blends theoretical insight with production-minded engineering to advance information retrieval at scale.
8 years of coding experience
Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
Github Skills (23)
squad10
pytorch10
multilingual10
neural-search10
python10
machine-learning10
semantic-search10
ai10
question-answering10
natural-language-processing10
research-and-development10
transfer-learning10
nlp10
language-model9
bert9
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
vishwajeetkumar93/GLUECoS
Jul 2021 - Oct 2022
A benchmark for code-switched NLP, ACL 2020
Contributions:2 PRs, 251 pushes in 1 year 3 months
nlpbertbenchmarknatural-language-processingacl
vishwajeetkumar93/vishwajeetkumar93.github.io
Sep 2020 - Sep 2021
Contributions:23 pushes in 1 year
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