Who Is Shruti Rijhwani? PhD Candidate Working On Natural Language Processing

Shruti Rijhwani, currently based in, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in United States of American is a Ph.D. candidate at Carnegie Mellon University working on Natural Language Processing. Forbes has named her as "2022 Forbes 30 Under 30 in Science" for her prolific work in the area of conservation of endangered language around the world.

Shruti Rijhwani's Career Graph:

Shruti pursued her B.S degree in Computer Science from Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani in 2015. Having interned as a Software Development Intern in Bind Ads for Microsoft, she developed her skills in programming languages such as Python. Later on, she was selected as Research Intern in Applied Science at Microsoft Research India, in 2015, where she developed search software for retrieval and deduplication of misspelled entries.

She joined MIT Media Lab- Google Summer of Code as Software Developer in 2015 itself, where she worked on an open source visual programming environment and grew her skills in Java and JavaScript.

After having an experience as Research Intern, she was selected as Research Fellow in the same company- Microsoft Research, where she worked on a project “Code switched language processing” in India.

She competed the GRE examination and got selected in the prestigious Carnegie Mellon University in USA to pursue her degree for M.S in Language Technology.

The Recognition She Got For Her Work: 

In 2018, she was awarded her with Bloomberg Data Science Ph.D. Fellowship and became face of India on international platform in the field of data science. She was among the five doctoral candidate selected by Bloomberg for the work in field including machine learning, natural language processing and artificial intelligence.

According to UNESCO, around 40% of the 7000 languages around the world are endangered.

With natural language processing task, low-resource languages which were spoken by small population were addressed. Since these languages did not have much social media access, little data was available on these them.

Though entity linking was already prevalent for majority languages, the lesser spoken language was focused on. Through her research- the high resource languages is put to use, for developing NLP for less spoken language.

Currently she is expected to complete her Ph.D. in the natural language processing field in 2022.

Shruti, has been, recognized by Forbes, for her contribution to preserving the text from endangered languages around the world. For this, Shruti has been named by Forbes for “2022 Forbes 30 and Under 30” in science.

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