About

Soumya Batra is a highly skilled and experienced professional in the field of Natural Language Processing (NLP), with over 6 years of experience in the industry. She has a Master's degree in Language Technologies Institute and Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University, where she graduated in 2015. Soumya is currently working as a Tech Lead and Applied Research Scientist at Facebook, where she is responsible for natural language generation. Before joining Facebook, Soumya worked at Microsoft as a Software Engineer II in AI&R, where she worked on natural language understanding (NLU) that made various products such as Cortana, Bing, and Cognitive Services smarter. She also ideated a side-project that was widely well-received and was promoted to a feature in Cortana, with a patent pending. At Microsoft, she also worked as a Software Engineer in Office Customer Voice, where she used Machine Learning to improve Customer Experience for Office users. She built a scalable generalized framework for deploying classification models, along with supporting ensembling of any number of such models, and built Classification and real-time Clustering models along with a rich NLP suite for the enormous and diverse Office customer feedback data. Soumya is driven by understanding the mathematics behind the models and why they behave the way they behave. She has a strong understanding of NLP, AI, NLU, and Machine Learning. Soumya's educational background includes a Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) in Information Technology from Vellore Institute of Technology, and a Master of Business Administration (MBA) from Quantic School of Business and Technology. With her extensive experience and expertise, Soumya is a Research Scientist and Senior Software Engineer with a proven track record of delivering high-quality results. She has a strong tech stack that includes NLP, AI, NLU, and Machine Learning, and has relevant experience of 5.04 years.