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Avinesh Polisetty's curriculum vitae.

Contact Information

Name Avinesh P.V.S.
Professional Title Senior Research Scientist
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Professional Summary

Senior Research Scientist at Apple working on Siri’s Natural Language Understanding. PhD in NLP and ML, with research in summarization, recommendation, and personalization.

Experience

  • Sep 2019 - Present

    Cupertino, California

    Apple
    Senior Research Scientist
    Apple
    Working on NLP and machine learning for Siri Understanding (server and on-device).
  • Jun 2018 - Aug 2018

    Cupertino, California

    Apple
    Research Intern
    Apple
    Developed a deep learning (seq2seq) system for international Knowledge Graph Question Answering.
  • Dec 2017 - Jan 2018

    Melbourne, Australia

    RMIT Search Lab
    Research Intern
    RMIT Search Lab
    Research internship on Review Summarization and Recommendation.
  • Sep 2013 - Feb2015

    Bangalore, India

    IBM Watson
    NLP and ML Engineer
    IBM Watson
    Built NLU component for Watson Oncology Expert Advisor.
  • Aug 2010 - Sep 2013

    Remote, India

    Lexical Computing Ltd.
    Research Engineer
    Lexical Computing Ltd.
    Developed Sketch Engine corpus tools for Machine Translation and Language Learners.

Education

  • Oct 2015 - Apr 2019

    Darmstadt, Germany

    Technische Universitat Darmstadt
    PhD
    Technische Universitat Darmstadt
    Computer Science (NLP)
    • Research at UKP Lab/AIPHES on interactive personalized summarization, text compression, and personalized explainable recommendation.
  • Aug 2008 - Aug 2011

    Hyderabad, India

    IIIT Hyderabad
    MS by Research
    IIIT Hyderabad
    Computer Science (NLP)
    • Research at LTRC on NLP and Machine Translation.
  • Aug 2004 - Aug 2008

    Hyderabad, India

    IIIT Hyderabad
    B.Tech
    IIIT Hyderabad
    Computer Science and Engineering
    • Top 15% of the class with research in NLP.

Skills

NLP & Machine Learning (Expert): Natural Language Processing, Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Summarization, Recommendation Systems, Information Retrieval
Programming (Expert): Python, PyTorch, TensorFlow, Java, Scala

Languages

English : Fluent
Telugu : Native speaker
Hindi : Fluent
Spanish : Intermediate