About
Hello! My name is Priyam. I am a ML Engineer at Adobe, working on the GenStudio platform. My main area of focus is multi-modal information extraction from PDFs and rich web-pages.
Adobe HQ at San Jose CA, Nov 2023.
In 2023 I graduated from Carnegie Mellon University’s Language Technologies Institute, under the School of Computer Science. At CMU, I spent my time between theoretical ML courses, applied NLP courses, graduate research, and playing tennis and the guitar. Here’s a list of the coursework I completed (some links are from previous iterations, since many classes have moved to Piazza for hosting coursework and logistics)
- 10-701 (Intro to ML PhD, ML Department)
- 36-700 (Probabilitiy and Mathematical Statistics, Stats Department)
- 10-725 (Convex Optimization, Stats Department)
- 10-708 (Probabilistic Graphical Models, ML Department)
- 11-711 (Advanced NLP, LTI Department)
- 11-777 (Multimodal ML, LTI Department)
- 11-751 (Speech Recognition and Understanding, LTI Department)
- 11-767 (On-Device Machine Learning, LTI Department)
TCS Hall at CMU Pittsburgh, Sept 2022. That looming tower is the Cathedral of Learning.
My research at CMU was focussed on applied NLP (summarization, multi-modal QA, on-device NLP). Some of my work on analyzing text-summarization datasets was published in ACL 2021 (How Well Do You Know Your Summzarization Datasets?).
Before CMU, I was a ML Scientist at Flipkart.com for more than 4 years. At Flipkart I built models for estimating shipment delivery times for online orders, and internal logistics. I also contributed to different parts of our in-house geocoding platform. Some of this work was published in ACM SIGSPATIAL 2020 (A Geocoding Framework Powered By Delivery Data). At the time, our system was the state-of-the-art, beating Google Maps by a “mile”.
My interest in ML and NLP devloped during my undergraduate studies at VIT University, Vellore. I completed my Bachelor’s in CS in 2016.
Undergraduate commencement at VIT, Sept 2016.
I got into the field in 2014, right when it was taking off after the big-data/Hadoop boom. Besides dumb luck, I attribute this to my advisor V. Vijayarajan, my internships at Flipkart under Mohit Kumar and at IISc under Partha Talukdar, and a visiting research opportunity at Northeastern University under Christo Wilson.
Northeastern plaza in Boston (with Prudential Tower peaking behind the light), July 2016.
I created this website to organise and track my personal projects, many of which are gathering dust in the ye_olde_projectz directory. Some of these are overnight hacks (Monkeys Typing Shakespeare), others are more ambitious which just don’t seem to end (Learning to Transduce).
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