Prashant Shiralkar, Ph.D. Email & Phone Number

United States

Provo, Ut And Seattle, Wa, Us

- Led a team of 5 scientists in the development of GenAI-powered NLP applications for the company's flagship experience management (XM) platform, utilized by over 20k customer brands.- Directed multiple AI-powered projects through collaboration with 4+ cross-functional teams, resulting in the successful launch of 5 new AI experiences within the experience management industry. - Developed prompt and fine-tuned large-language models (LLMs) for summarization of PDF reports, long-form video feedback transcripts, and question answering using retrieval-augmented generation (RAG).

Seattle, Wa, Us

Founded a project to build a web-scale knowledge extraction system for retail and digital products using NLP, Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) and large language models (LLMs). Played a key role in defining research roadmap, ontology, pipeline's architecture, and ensuring data delivery to partners.- Led a team of 3 scientists on information extraction tasks for assembling a retail product graph. Defined scientific roadmap, wrote business review documents, and oversaw data delivery efforts.- Delivered millions of facts to Alexa knowledge base by extracting semi-structured data from 100+ websites across 5 languages at 95+ precision.- Hired 2 full-time scientists, mentored 3 summer interns, promoted 1 Applied Scientist to a senior role, and interviewed 100+ candidates for various tech and non-tech roles at Amazon.

Seattle, Wa, Us

Designed and developed novel, scalable information extraction techniques for semi-structured, detail page oriented websites to extract structured knowledge in the form of (subject, predicate, object) triples, which was then used to assemble a large product knowledge graph for powering various downstream applications including Search, Personalization and Alexa QA.- Led the building of a web-scale knowledge extraction pipeline for constructing Alexa knowledge graph, designing and deploying a range of components: ontology development, website clustering, website filtering, information extraction, RDF data validation and filtering.- Developed domain-agnostic, closed/open information extraction techniques for semi-structured and tabular data, improving web extraction accuracy from 60% in state of the art to 90%+ to support production requirements. Used weak and self supervision for labeling and GNNs & Transformers for better modeling.

Bloomington, Indiana, Us

Thesis: Computational Fact Checking by Mining Knowledge GraphsMinor: StatisticsResearch interests:- Machine Learning: supervised, unsupervised and semi-supervised approaches- Relational learning: graphical models, tensor-based methods- Social Network Analysis- Computational Fact Checking- Semantic Web modeling- Information Extraction

Seattle, Wa, Us

Analyzed Amazon.com’s browse taxonomy and built a ML model to predict the effect of changes to the structure on consumer behavior, improving productivity of ontologists and taxonomists in foreseeing the impact of their changes well before deployment.

Eindhoven, Noord Brabant, Nl

Design and development of search and ranking components of a product search engine.

Champaign, Il, Us

- Successfully completed a Math foundational course and tutorials on Machine Learning and its applications in Natural Language Processing (NLP), Information Retrieval (IR), Knowledge Discovery in Social & Information Networks, and Computer Vision.- Designed and implemented a simple 'event' search engine to search for current controversial events. This project was funded by the U.S Department of Homeland Security. - Won Outstanding Project Award given by Yahoo! at the 2012 DSSI

The Hague, South Holland, Nl

Designed and developed batch and web applications to support IT operations of Transamerica.- Integrated an analytic tool to hedge annuity rider funds worth $22M. Led the proof of concept evaluating Spring Batch framework as a solution.- Performed ETL operations on 5M annuity policies using Spring Batch. Wrote backend code in SQL Server to report statistics of batch loads to actuaries.

Iowa City, Iowa, Us

- Developed and deployed new applications for International Programs office at University of Iowa- Worked on enhancements, integration tasks, maintenance and support for existing systems used by Office of Student Life and International Programs office.

Iowa City, Iowa, Us

- Created web applications for University of Iowa's students and the Office of Student Life coordinators to facilitate on-campus activities' sign-up and tracking.- Developed an online database for University of Iowa Nursing Staff using J2EE, Stripes and Hibernate.- Provided technical support, enhancements and maintenance to different projects.

Architected and developed a prototype bus e-ticketing application for the state of Gujarat, India, which offers convenience, price comparison, and ticket tracking.

Doctor Of Philosophy - Phd, Computer Science

Bachelor Of Technology (B.Tech.), Computer Science & Engineering

Masters, Computer Science