Priya Bapat

Priya Bapat is an experienced linguist and engineer with a strong background in computational linguistics and language technology. Bapat's career includes positions as a Summer Intern at Trooly, where research focused on social media and criminal databases, and as an Engineering Intern, which involved database management and Python programming. Bapat served as an Undergraduate Research Assistant at Mills Laboratory - UC Davis, conducting studies on probiotic bacteria and managing various genomic projects. A Language Engineer at Amazon, Bapat contributed to the development of language artifacts for Alexa, ensuring collaboration with cross-functional teams. Bapat's experience also includes roles as a Linguistic Engineer at Meta, generating machine-learning models and parsing rules, and as a Computational Linguist at Apple, specializing in text-to-speech technology for Indian English Siri. Educational qualifications include a Bachelor of Arts in Linguistics from the University of California, Davis, and a Master of Science in Computational Linguistics from Syracuse University.