Paarth Neekhara

Paarth Neekhara is a Research Scientist at NVIDIA, contributing to the Conversational AI team focused on speech and language models since July 2023. Previously, Paarth served as a Technical Lead at Blue Water Trade Winds Pvt. Ltd since May 2015, where responsibilities included software architecture for optimization solutions in the shipping and oil industries. Earlier experiences include multiple internships at NVIDIA, where Paarth developed voice conversion models and adapted speech synthesis models, as well as a position at Facebook AI exploring vulnerabilities in DeepFake detection systems. A software engineering internship at Microsoft involved building data extraction pipelines. Paarth Neekhara earned a PhD in Computer Science from UC San Diego in May 2023 and a Bachelor's degree from the Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee in 2017.