Sayar Ghosh Roy

About Sayar Ghosh Roy

Hello Adventurer!I am Sayar, currently a Machine Learning Engineer at Apple, where I am a part of the Siri and Information Intelligence team.I graduated from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in May 2024. I was a fully funded MS CS student at UIUC, advised by Prof. Jiawei Han at the Data and Information Systems (DAIS) Research Lab. My thesis was on Distantly-Supervised Evidence-grounded Interpretable Local Citation Recommendation. I was a Graduate Teaching Assistant for CS 412 (Introduction to Data Mining).~In July 2022, I graduated top of my class from Hyderabad with a Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science (with Honors) and an MS in Computational Linguistics.At I was a Student Researcher in the Information Retrieval and Extraction Lab (iREL), Language Technologies Research Center (LTRC), advised by Prof. Vasudeva Varma and Dr. Manish Gupta. My thesis was on Proactively Forecasting Sentence-Specific Information Popularity.I also worked part-time as an Applied Research Engineer with Apple from September 2020 to August 2022, primarily designing Machine Learning models to solve specific Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Information Extraction (IE) problems within Apple Maps.~I have diverse interests and a notable appetite for knowledge. I love helping out as much as possible in any way I can.You can check out some of my code here: github.com/sayarghoshroySome of my publicly available work is cataloged here: sayarghoshroy.github.io/workI love Pandas.

Experience

1. Machine Learning Engineer

   Apple

   Jul 2024 — Present · Seattle, WA, US

   Search and Query Resolution, Siri and Information Intelligence

Education

• University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

  Master of Science, Computer Science

• International Institute of Information Technology Hyderabad (IIITH)

  Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science + Master of Science in Computational Linguistics

• St. Mary's School

  Indian Certificate of Secondary Education (ICSE), English Language and Literature, Mathematics, Computer Applications, Science, Humanities, Bengali

  2003 — 2014

• Salt Lake Point School

  Indian School Certificate (ISC), English Language and Literature, Mathematics, Computer Science, Physics, Chemistry, Bengali

  2014 — 2016

Skills

• Photoshop
• Videography
• Historical Linguistics
• Microsoft Office
• Sql
• Linux
• Powerpoint
• Microsoft Excel
• Python
• Mathematical Analysis
• Event Planning
• Algorithms
• Microsoft Word
• Problem Solving
• Html
• Data Structures
• Discrete Mathematics
• Mathematics
• Teamwork
• Event Management
• Linguistic Anthropology
• Public Relations
• Cascading Style Sheets (Css)
• Editing
• Windows Movie Maker
• Linguistics
• C
• Programming
• Strategic Planning
• Research
• Video Editing
• Photography
• Film
• Public Speaking
• Management
• Mathematical Logic
• C++
• Presentations
• Javascript
• Mathematical Statistics