About

Meenakshi Madugula is a skilled Data Scientist with a background in the software industry. She is currently employed at IBM Watson AI & Data, where she focuses on developing cutting-edge solutions to existing problems impacting a wide number of users. Meenakshi is passionate about her work and aspires to grow by learning and exploring new technologies. Meenakshi has a strong technical background and is skilled in Python, Java, Algorithms, Machine Learning, and Natural Language Processing. She is interested in roles of software development with a focus on Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing. Her experience includes working as a Cognitive Software Developer and Senior Cognitive Developer Intern at IBM Research - Watson AI and Data - Almaden, where she improved the accuracy of Named Entity Recognition task by 10% using transfer learning from Keyword extraction by fine-tuning state of the art NLP/U BERT model. She also redefined multitask learning using multi-lingual models for sentence and token classification tasks, conserving resources and compute power of the model supporting the NLU service of Watson. Meenakshi holds a Master of Science degree in Computer Science from North Carolina State University, where she completed her education in 2020. She also holds a Bachelor's degree in Information and Communication Technology from Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology, which she completed in 2017. Meenakshi's tech stack includes Data Science, Research Science, NLP, AI, ML, Software Engineering, Python, Java, BERT, and NLU. With 4.11 years of relevant experience, she is a valuable asset to any team in need of a talented Data Scientist.