Tejas Chheda

Tejas Chheda is a Software Engineer specializing in Machine Learning at Meta since June 2022. Previous experience includes serving as a Graduate Teaching Assistant at the Manning College of Information and Computer Sciences, UMass Amherst, where responsibilities involved grading for the course COMPSCI 348: Principles of Data Science and assisting students with career development, including internship and job search strategies. Tejas worked as a Graduate Student Researcher at IBM, focusing on the adversarial robustness of NLP model explanation methods, and at UMass Amherst, contributing to the Box Embeddings library extension to TensorFlow. Tejas also completed a Machine Learning Internship at PayPal, leading to the development of a content moderation system with significant accuracy. Tejas holds a Master of Science in Computer Science from the University of Massachusetts Amherst and a Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Engineering from Bhartiya Vidya Bhavans Sardar Patel Institute of Technology.