Vamshi Ambati

Vamshi Ambati has a Ph.D from School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University specializing in machine learning, crowdsourcing and language translation. His thesis work also led to a startup building recommender systems for the crowdsourcing space which Vamshi founded and ran for more than a year. Prior to joining the PhD program in 2007, Vamshi served as a faculty at IIIT-Hyderabad between (2005-2007), where he taught a software engineering masters program. During this period he initiated several research projects including a research grant from the Government of India for digitizing and hosting books in the public domain.

Vamshi also holds a Masters in Software Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University (2003-2005). He graduated with an honors in Artificial Intelligence/NLP from the International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad in 2003. Vamshi has published extensively in the areas of NLP, machine learning, machine translation, information retrieval and digital libraries.

Specialties: Data Science, Text Mining, Machine Learning, Personalization, Crowdsourcing, Machine Translation, Information Retrieval, Digital Libraries, Software Engineering