experience
- Data Scientist @ Indeed (Summer 2024) working on 4M job listings to model sponsorship profitability
- College-level Math/Statistics Tutor (Spring 2024)
- Graduate Researcher @ Fabris Group (Fall 2023, discontinued halfway through)
- Undergraduate Teaching Assistant for Computer Architecture (Spring 2023)
- Undergraduate Research Assistant @ Prof Amartya Sanyal's bioinformatics lab (Spring 2023)
- Machine Learning Intern @ Dell EMC (Fall 2022) reducing device health monitoring error rate
- Undergraduate Research Assistant @ Prof Abhishek Sarkar's robotics lab (Spring 2022) developing EKF-based SLAM for underwater bionic robots
- Machine Learning Intern @ Edutech Learning Solutions (Summer 2021)
research/project inclinations
- Cognitive Science: cognition and language, language grounding
- NLP: language modeling, interpretability, benchmarking
- Linguistics: historical linguistics, morpho/phonological, semantic-pragmatic and etymological analyses AND/WITH multilingual corpora, cross-lingual transfer
- Multimodal Models: interaction between language, perception, and actuation
- Robotics: (more a thing of the past) autonomous systems
stack
- languages (natural): Fluent {English, Telugu, Hindi-Urdu}; Functional {French, Latin, Sanskrit}
- scripts: Latin, Devanagari, Telugu, Brahmi, Perso-Arabic, Futhorc
- languages (programming): Python, R, SQL, C, C++, Bash, MATLAB, LaTeX
on the web
GitHub: bendemonium
X: @bensorcier
Wikipedia: Bendemonium
beli: @betbenatetoday
Discord: @bendemonium
email: ridhi.bandaru@outlook.com