Experience

Rice University

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• PHD Graduate Student

  • aug. 2017 - - Prezent

  My research area is Natural Language Processing (NLP). My projects revolve around understanding why deep NLP architectures work (for instance, the role of the attention mechanism). I'm also interested in the applications of NLP tools and techniques for education. Here is the list of my publications - https://sites.google.com/view/shashanksonkar/publications My research area is Natural Language Processing (NLP). My projects revolve around understanding why deep NLP architectures work (for instance, the role of the attention mechanism). I'm also interested in the applications of NLP tools and techniques for education. Here is the list of my publications - https://sites.google.com/view/shashanksonkar/publications



Apple

• United States
• Computers and Electronics Manufacturing
• 700 & Above Employee

• Knowledge Graph Machine Learning Intern

  • mai 2022 - aug. 2022

  Robustness and training of deep mention detection models. Robustness and training of deep mention detection models.



ThirdAI Corp.

• United States
• Software Development
• 1 - 100 Employee

• NLP Research Intern

  • feb. 2022 - mai 2022

  Knowledge Distillation of Transformer models. Knowledge Distillation of Transformer models.



Media.net

• United Arab Emirates
• Technology, Information and Internet
• 700 & Above Employee

• Software Developer

  • iun. 2013 - iun. 2017

  1. Crawling infrastructure which scales for millions of calls per day using Netty2. Background data storage using Hbase3. Data Mining for finding DOM patterns within publisher domains for effective ad targetting4. Finding relevant ad keywords to display on webpages using its crawled content using NLP techniques. 1. Crawling infrastructure which scales for millions of calls per day using Netty2. Background data storage using Hbase3. Data Mining for finding DOM patterns within publisher domains for effective ad targetting4. Finding relevant ad keywords to display on webpages using its crawled content using NLP techniques.



Carnegie Mellon University

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Research And Development Intern

  • mai 2012 - iul. 2012

  Simulated maps for autonomous cars to aid their navigation through the chicago city. Simulated maps for autonomous cars to aid their navigation through the chicago city.



IPsoft

• United States
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 300 - 400 Employee

• Software Engineer Intern

  • mai 2011 - iul. 2011

  Data mining and Computer Architecture. Data mining and Computer Architecture.