About the Authors

Sowmya Vajjala has been a NLP practitioner and researcher since 2006. She is a PhD in Computational Linguistics from University of Tubingen. She has worked at Microsoft Research and was an Assistant Professor at Iowa State University in the past. She is currently a Senior Data Scientist Scientist at Globe & Mail.

Bodhisattwa Majumder is a PhD student in NLP and ML at UC San Diego. Earlier he studied at IIT Kharagpur where he graduated with Distinction (summa cum laude). He has previously built large scale NLP systems at Walmart Labs and will be joining Google AI Research in the summer of 2019 to work on multilingual NLP for Google Assistant.

Anuj Gupta has built NLP and ML systems and teams at Fortune 100 companies as well as early stage startups. He is an invited speaker and panelist at various industry conference on Machine Learning. He is a graduate of IIT Delhi and IIIT Hyderabad. He is currently a Staff Scientist at Intuit.

Harshit Surana has built and scaled NLP systems at several Silicon Valley startups as a founder and an advisor. He studied computer science at Carnegie Mellon University where he worked with the MIT Media Lab on common sense AI. His publications in NLP have received over 200 citations. He is currently a co-founder at DeepFlux.