About

Prakhar Biyani is a highly skilled Staff ML Engineer and Tech Lead at Twitter with a solid background in Machine Learning, Computational Linguistics, Social Media Analysis and Text Analysis. With almost 9 years of relevant experience, he has a proven track record of building machine learning models and applying them on large scale systems. Prakhar is passionate about working on new problems and putting the latest research into practice in the fields of Machine Learning, Computational Linguistics, Social Media Analysis and Text Analysis. Prakhar has a diverse programming skill set including Perl, C/C++, MATLAB, Shell, Java, Pig, and Hadoop. He is experienced in working with various technologies such as ML, Senior Software Engineering, Software Engineering, Research Science, Hadoop, Java, C, NLP, and Search. Prior to his current role at Twitter, Prakhar worked as a Research Scientist at Oath and Yahoo, where he used machine learning and natural language processing to build models for better understanding of internet content aimed at improving Personalization and Search experience for online users. Prakhar holds a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Information Sciences and Technology from the Pennsylvania State University, and a Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee. Overall, Prakhar is a highly skilled and experienced ML Engineer and Tech Lead with a strong background in Machine Learning, Computational Linguistics, Social Media Analysis and Text Analysis. He is passionate about applying the latest research to solve complex problems and is a valuable asset to any team.