About

Praneeth Gubbala is a Senior Applied Scientist in NLP and ML Tech Lead at Walmart Labs. With over 7 years of relevant experience, he has worked on various projects related to Conversational Commerce and Conversational AI. Currently, he leads a team of 3+ Data Scientists in this domain at Walmart - Sam's Club. Praneeth has a Master's degree in Computer Science from Stony Brook University and a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science and Engineering from Osmania University. He has a strong technical background and is proficient in various technologies such as BERT, GPT, Deep Learning, Text Classification, Tensorflow, Neural Networks, and Sentiment Analysis. In his previous role at Walmart, he was an Applied Scientist III in NLP and worked as a Machine Learning Tech Lead for a few business initiatives. He implemented an Active Learning system to automatically select training examples to improve the text classification system performance by 5-7% in Walmart Scale. He also built intent determination models to predict the utterance skill in Ask Sam English and Spanish Conversational AI. Before joining Walmart, Praneeth worked at Samsung Research Bixby team for two and a half years, where he worked on natural language processing research problems. He enjoys applying ML theory to solve real-life problems related to NLP. Praneeth has also worked as a Graduate Student Researcher at Natural Language Processing Lab at Stony Brook University, where he developed an intelligent privacy system that predicts user personality by entity-based sentiment analysis using their private data under the guidance of Prof. Niranjan Balasubramanian. In summary, Praneeth is a highly skilled Senior Applied Scientist with a strong technical background in NLP and ML. He has worked on various projects related to Conversational Commerce and Conversational AI, and his expertise includes BERT, GPT, Deep Learning, Text Classification, Tensorflow, Neural Networks, and Sentiment Analysis.