Guest: Rajendra Banjade, Ph.D
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Rajendra Banjade has been working in a managerial role in data science at Audible (Amazon company) for more than three years and is based in New Jersey. His focus is on Natural Language Processing (NLP), Machine Learning (ML), and data science in general, and his work at Audible includes supporting business decisions and improving customer experience by analyzing a vast amount of contents, such as texts from books and customer activities and building predictive models.
Rajendra received his MS & Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Memphis, Tennessee. During his graduate study, he did research on NLP with the target application of dialog-based tutoring systems where students learn from the computer (intelligent) tutor through natural language interactions. Rajendra did a bachelor's in computer engineering from IOE, Pulchowk Campus, and before joining the graduate course, he worked as a software engineer at US-based healthcare data analytics and software company called COTIVITI Nepal (formerly known as Verisk, Versand, D2HawkeyeServices).
He likes to play with his daughter in his free time and he has also developed some interest in writing. He grew up in a village in Arghakhanchi and aims to help some underprivileged students in his place to get technical education. But he also likes sharing his knowledge and helping aspiring data scientists whenever possible.
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Connect with Rajendra:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/rbanjade/
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Sanjib Lamichhane
Twitter: @sanjib_la
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Timestamps:
00:46 | How Siri and Alexa work?
02:24 | Natural Language Processing (NLP)
04:03 | History and development of NLP
07:21 | How’s NLP related to Machine Learning?
09:35 | Projects methodology
12:59 | Dealing with sarcasm
14:11 | Challenges of NLP
17:27 | Current research works
19:27 | Background story of Rajendra
24:06 | Dialog-based tutoring system
25:10 | Audible
26:25 | Future tech prediction
31:55 | Academic vs. Professional work expectations
35:10 | Nepali Language’s datasets and interpretability
( Audience’s Question)
39:28 | Why should companies invest in Nepali languages’ research?
42:06 | End goal of NLP
46:29 | Is AI overhyped?
48:48 | Biasness and fake news
50:42 | Job Prospects
53:54 | Why Ph.D.?
57:04 | Academics to Managerial Role
59:17 | giving away
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